Regretting The Wife He Threw Away

The land in the northern suburbs had been seized, and the project was not only at a standstill, but both the Wentworth Group and the Lockwood Group now faced intense scrutiny from government regulators.

In just three days, Northborough had been turned upside down.

The air in the Wentworth family was thick with tension and finger-pointing. One by one, Fred's uncles and relatives descended on him, demanding answers and insisting that he fix the mess he'd created.

It was only now that Fred realized all of this was Stewart's revenge.

No wonder Stewart had walked away so cleanly back then.

He'd laid the trap long ago—just waiting for Fred to stumble right in.

Fury roiled inside Fred, but in the current situation, he was utterly powerless.

What caught Fred completely off guard was that Ferdinand, acting on his own, called a press conference.

At the conference, Ferdinand publicly confirmed that the leaked reports were all true.

"My mother, Malvina, made many mistakes in her life," Ferdinand said, his voice steady but cold, "but the worst was falling in love with my father, Fred."

He went on to reveal, before the entire room of reporters, how Fred had manipulated Malvina's mind for twenty-five years, gradually turning her into nothing more than a human experiment.

Malvina had not, as Fred claimed, fallen in love with him willingly and wholeheartedly. Back in college, they had indeed been in love, but after Fred cheated on her with Fiona, Malvina broke

had other plans. Fred happened to be on a business trip abroad when he ran into Malvina again. Learning that

nothing to do with him—she just wanted to live quietly

unannounced, claiming he'd cut ties with the Wentworth family and that, from now

did the unthinkable: he took Ferdinand away, using the boy as leverage to force Malvina

to a small town in the countryside. There, by sheer chance, he met Dr. Calloway-a wise and eccentric old physician-who, recognizing the boy's natural talent, took him in

Fred would bring Malvina home once a year around the holidays, so she and Ferdinand could be together. He told

noticed that his mother looked pale and unwell. When he checked her pulse, he

Malvina finally broke

had treated Malvina like a lab rat. For years, the experimental drugs kept her looking young and healthy, and no obvious side effects emerged. But when the

who insisted he was "working on a

out,

keep the research going. With the drugs restored, Malvina would supposedly return to her

thought Fred had lost his mind. He insisted on keeping his mother with

between father and son, and Fred stormed

to Stewart, demanding

Stewart, of course, refused.