The Perfect Wife's Perfect Revenge

Chapter 394

Violet had been fighting hard for what she wanted these days.

Her marriage to McNeil still gnawed at her like an old wound. Victoria had clung to McNeil for years, desperate for the world's recognition, for that one title she thought would make everything real.

But Violet had made up her mind: everything Victoria ever dreamed of, everything she'd longed for, Violet would take for herself.

And even what Victoria could never have-Violet wanted that too. Only she, Violet, was worthy of McNeil.

She envisioned a grand wedding, the kind that would have all of Starfall City talking for years.

Victoria, that fool, had hovered at McNeil's side for six years and never once earned the right to call herself his wife. And yet she still dared to compete with Violet.

Lately, McNeil had grown thinner with each passing day. Violet's heart ached for him, convinced it was her own suicide attempt and hospital stay that had left him so drained, so hollowed out.

Still, even as she felt sorry for him, she couldn't help but push him.

"McNeil, I know I'm asking too much. But the doctors say my stomach cancer might be coming back. I don't know how much time I have left. It could be tomorrow, or even the next minute. My only wish is to be your bride. I was young and foolish back then-if I hadn't left, you wouldn't have married Victoria."

Violet whispered the words over and over again in McNeil's ear.

Her voice trembled, but she fought back tears; she wanted McNeil to see her pain, her strength, her willingness to endure it all for him.

wanted him to know that, all these years, it was she who'd made the

at least had a marriage certificate, and even a

did Violet have? Nothing. The jealousy burned

eyes were sunken now. The confident, sharp-eyed CEO was gone, replaced with someone hollow, his reassurances

think like that. You're not going

done, was McNeil still unwilling to promise her

Victoria. What was he still holding on

if you marry me. He took away my chance to have children-I'll never be a threat to the Langford family now. I can't

expression unchanged,

want to be with you. It's the one thing I want most in this life. I can be like Victoria, I swear-I don't need a marriage certificate. All I'm asking for is a wedding. Just stand before everyone in Starfall City and promise you'll marry me. Let me die with somewhere to belong, so

he just sat there, silent and vacant, as if

answered it at once, deliberately

crushed, but she refused

when she was by McNeil's side. Now that Victoria was gone, Violet had all the time in

he spoke:

low, cautious. "Mr. Langford, there's still no

you checked with border control? Every flight, every ship-search every possible way out of the country. I don't believe she just vanished into

long silence on the other end. The

the reply came, cold and final. "If she left on a private jet or something similar,