The Perfect Wife's Perfect Revenge

Chapter 428

"McNeil, don't forget-you still need Violet. If she's locked up for a month,

someone's going to lose their life. And those secrets you and your father have been hiding all these years? I'll make sure the world knows. Are you really willing to sacrifice Victoria just to save that person?"

Yulia's voice was frantic on the other end of the line. Instantly, McNeil's dark eyes turned cold, a storm brewing where moments before there had only been calm.

He gripped his phone, his words slow and deliberate. "You're threatening me?" Yulia realized she'd gone too far; her tone softened at once.

"No, of course not. I wouldn't threaten you. I just... I just want you to help Violet. She's been taken to the station-they won't even allow bail. I don't know what else to do."

McNeil's reply was icy. "Figure it out yourselves."

He hung up without another word.

Victoria was fast asleep in the bedroom. McNeil cast one last glance at her half- closed door, then left the apartment.

up at Victoria's

lying comfortably, and she immediately guessed who had

up quickly after being ignored and shut out, but to her surprise, he

only when absolutely necessary, living as if she were still new to Evermore City-relaxed, content, and treating McNeil as though he were invisible. Yet, despite her coldness, McNeil never lost patience

dinner, McNeil brought her a

having Gwyn

paused, startled, then

in a few months, I'll be giving birth -I simply

didn't want Gwyneth. The little girl could talk her ear off with stories, and Victoria had always indulged her. But now, she needed all the rest she

to Evermore City, there'd be school runs and routines. Even if McNeil didn't expect her

staying with me. You won't

I'll do everything a mother should for Gwyneth. But if you're trying to use her to stir up my maternal instincts, hoping we'll go back to being a happy little family- forget it. I

the glass down. "The door's right there. Leave. I don't want to

In the past, whenever he brought up Gwyn, Victoria would always relent-she'd put his wishes