The Perfect Wife's Perfect Revenge

Chapter 329

Mrs. Nelson was so startled by what she'd just heard that her fork slipped from

her hand and clattered onto her plate. Even though she hadn't caught most of the conversation, the phrase "seducing your sister-in-law" rang out loud and clear.

Madonna caught it, too. She slapped her palm on the table, stood up abruptly, and glared daggers at Victoria.

"Victoria, what's your problem? Wasn't it enough that you messed with McNeil? Now that your own husband doesn't want you, you're after our Paul?”

Victoria's face froze for a second; she was clearly annoyed at being accused of something so ridiculous.

She picked up a napkin and, with deliberate calm, dabbed at her fingertips. "And who's seducing whom, exactly?"

Paul's face flushed a deep red-assuming she was talking to him, he blurted out a confession.

"It was me. I tried to seduce her."

"Nobody asked you."

Madonna, and McNeil snapped in

half-risen from his seat in his eagerness to confess, immediately sank back down, looking like a guilty defendant in a trial-only, this time, it seemed the

cool.

just wanted you to meet the family,

Victoria was your wife? You never introduced

Nelson kicked her

were presentable, maybe

was no point in arguing. She wasn't here to prove she

set up an engineering position for you at Quantum Core Technologies. You'll have your own office,

this for her,

snide comment she'd been about to make, she swallowed

added, "And I'll

sip of water and immediately sprayed it across the table. "Cousin, do you have to

handling Paul, she wouldn't have to play caretaker or indulge

Nelson and Madonna seemed to understand what was going on. Mrs. Nelson, who'd been anxious about what to do with Paul, was all too eager to

your cousin.

some company to teach Victoria? Gwyn's still so young- she needs her mother. If Victoria's