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?"

remarried, a new wife would almost certainly want her own child. I don't want Jimmy to

his words

with his means would

that land you mentioned last time I pulled some strings and

conversation, his tone that of a protective

to spend your

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 together, a girl who called McNeil's supposed lover

That child was McNeil and Victoria's, yet the

there had never been a wedding. The Langfords barely recognized Victoria's relatives,

flickered in Victoria's dark eyes. "I'm the largest shareholder in the Langford Group now. I'm no one's pawn

Langfords agreed to that? Did McNeil have a personality transplant or

McNeil-who'd built his fortune on a secret marriage and treated his wife as a

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