The Perfect Wife's Perfect Revenge

Chapter 210

She didn't come across as the scheming, manipulative type. And as for McNeil, there was no way a man like him could have climbed so high without sharp instincts. He wasn't a fool.

Now he wondered if he'd missed something. He needed a reasonable explanation —one that had nothing to do with Victoria.

Restless and unsettled, McNeil picked up his phone almost without thinking and dialed Victoria's number.

Victoria was still at the hospital, getting a physical therapy session from the doctor.

Marcus had been by her side the whole time.

Max, clearly worried, hovered nearby as well—fetching things for the doctor, fussing over Victoria, and generally being far more attentive than usual.

When the doctor prepared to adjust Victoria's ankle, Max couldn't help but keep repeating, "Please be gentle," as if that might somehow protect her.

Marcus found it odd. Max had never shown much concern for anyone, but with Victoria, he was a different person.

X-ray; the bone

any longer, it might have been the end of her dancing

dislocation and a hairline fracture," the doctor reassured her. "Nothing

Victoria's heart. She felt a strange

lived with Violet. Once, when Victoria had smashed her finger, little Gwyneth had crowded

daughter had truly loved

trying to sound brave. "It won't hurt that

once, remember? The doctor set it, and I was

told me that when you broke your leg as a teenager, you cried so loud half the

him a glare sharp enough to cut glass. Max

but stifle a laugh, noticing the tips of Marcus's

nonsense kids make up," he muttered, with a warning look at Max that clearly meant, 'Say another

doctor took hold of Victoria's ankle, his tone both professional and teasing. "Why don't you have your boyfriend and your nephew keep talking to you? Distraction helps-setting a joint does sting a little, but if you chat,

seemed rather pleased at being called her "boyfriend," but Victoria was focused on her foot. When the doctor's hands

her phone blared to life, the sudden ringtone making her jump. The caller