The Perfect Wife's Perfect Revenge

Chapter 18

Chapter 18

Relying on memory, Victoria scoured the city for her mother's paintings, sparing no expense whenever she found one. Over the years, Stein had been by her side, always reaching out the moment he heard any news.

"No, there must be more out there just waiting to be found," he said.

Victoria's voice was soft but steady. "Thank you, cousin."

Back at Stein's home in Echo City, he led her into the parlor where a small memorial for his late wife stood. Stein handed her three sticks of incense.

"Go on-pay your respects to your cousin-in-law."

Victoria accepted the incense, lit them, and bowed three times, each movement deliberate and sincere. Rising, she looked at Stein.

"Are you really never going to remarry?"

own child. I don't

calm, but his words carried

understood the weight of responsibility, it was Stein. His wife had died in childbirth. Any other man with his means would likely have remarried by now, but Stein had chosen to stay single

strings and got you the approval. It's

his tone that of a

planning to spend your whole life working

Starfall City seemed to know McNeil was married. Some even whispered about a childhood sweetheart he'd kept hidden for years-how they'd had a daughter

and Victoria's, yet the gossip

but there had never been a wedding. The Langfords barely recognized Victoria's relatives, let alone a cousin living in a

in Victoria's dark eyes. "I'm the largest shareholder in the Langford

"The Langfords agreed to that? Did McNeil have a personality transplant

man like McNeil-who'd built his fortune on a secret marriage and treated his wife as a stepping stone-would so generously hand Victoria

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