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.

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,

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

him—she just wanted to live

with the Wentworth family and that, from now on, he wanted nothing but to be

Ferdinand away, using the boy as leverage to force Malvina into

in, while Ferdinand himself was sent back 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 as his

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

his mother looked pale and unwell. When he checked her pulse, he was shocked to discover that her organs were failing and her body

Malvina finally broke down and told him the

that, all these 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

Fred, who insisted he was "working on

of a solution, it turned out, was to shake

the funds, he could keep the research going. With

He insisted on keeping his mother with him, doing everything he could with traditional medicine to help

between father

went straight to Stewart, demanding

Stewart, of course, refused.