The unwanted wife’s unexpected comeback

Chapter 722:

With trembling fingers, she took out her phone and opened the chat logs from that night. Caden’s eyes followed the screen as she held it out. The messages were there, plain as day—records he hadn’t seen on his own device.

A flicker of realization crossed his face as his phone had been taken away before meeting Dorian. The pieces came together, and Yolanda’s calculated move became clearer.

Alicia saw his serious expression and felt a fresh wave of pain wash over her. Was he thinking that she had fabricated the evidence?

Her voice cracked, raw and broken.

“I’ve guarded myself against everyone, but I trusted you the most. No one else knew I was called Lucky, so when I got that message, I went there without hesitation.”

Tears stung her eyes as she spoke, her throat tight with grief.

wrong,” she

forehead, trying to hide the

then, when Joshua tricked me with that message, I thought I had learned my lesson. I never imagined I’d make the same mistake again after all these years…

get what she longed for? She couldn’t win her father’s approval or love. She couldn’t hold on to her mother, the only one who truly loved her. After a failed marriage, she had been wary of Caden’s affection, reminding herself to tread carefully and not lose herself. But Caden had been too good to her, so good that she had given him her heart, accepted his proposal, and dared to dream of a life with him. Now, those dreams had turned into the sharpest blade, slicing through the

stubbed out his cigarette and

of emotion. He understood now how it had

for who he truly was. They had never faced a challenge like this before. Caden was always in control, always the victor, showing her only his strongest, most confident side. But now, whether she had been tainted by another man hung in the balance, testing his limits. To him, pretending

let’s take a

contracted

swirling beneath the surface. In the past, he would have cared, would have tried to comfort her, to

replied, his voice calm, almost