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.

and wholeheartedly. Back in college, they had indeed been in love, but after Fred

few months after moving abroad, Malvina discovered she was pregnant. Determined to raise her child on her own, she settled overseas. Fate, however, had other plans. Fred

just wanted to live quietly with Ferdinand. But Fred wouldn't

Fred showed up unannounced, claiming he'd cut ties with the Wentworth family and that, from

away, using the

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 as his

could be together. He told Ferdinand that he and Malvina were

he checked her pulse, he was shocked to discover that

son, Malvina finally broke down and told him the

years, Fred 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 funding ran out and the treatments

who insisted he was

of a solution, it turned out, was to shake Stewart

the funds, he could keep the research going. With the drugs restored, Malvina would supposedly return to her beautiful,

on keeping his mother with him, doing everything

father

Stewart, demanding

Stewart, of course, refused.