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The Neglected Wife Is A Hidden Genius

Chapter 7 

Word Count: 353    |    Released on: 08/05/2026

The room smelled of turpentine and rabbit-skin glue.

op layer of the Dutch landscape. Beneath the dull greens and br

She scraped away anot

ir and sorrowful eyes. The brushwork was unmistak

. An early, undocu

g slightly. This painting was wor

file to a secure server, then sent a message to her contact, Mr. Collier, with a single line of code-a specific reference to a lost 19th-century pigm

dio, her muscles stiff, paint smud

sofa, a glass of whiskey in his hand. He looked up, his e

ounts," he said flatly

," Iona

credit card. He placed it on the coffee table. "No limit. I

represented total dependence

is eyes. "No, thank you.

shocked for the first time since she had met him. A woman wi

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The Neglected Wife Is A Hidden Genius
The Neglected Wife Is A Hidden Genius
“I woke up in the ICU, my lungs still burning from the freezing river water. Just outside the cracked door, I heard my adoptive family talking. That's when the horrifying realization hit me: my drowning wasn't an accident. My adoptive mother had deliberately pried my fingers off the slippery rocks and pushed me in. "When is she going to wake up? This Rust Belt trash always finds a way to ruin our important moments." "If she's mentally unstable, we should just send her to that facility in the Hamptons and have her sign the inheritance waiver." My father and brothers coldly plotted my removal, while my fiancé, Eric, laughed flirtatiously with my younger sister. He had his arm around her waist, completely unbothered by the fact that I was fighting for my life after he had just scammed me out of half a million dollars. For ten years, I had smiled, obeyed, and shrunk myself to fit into their gilded cage, desperate for a sliver of their love. I couldn't understand how a decade of absolute devotion was met with calculated murder and such casual, cruel betrayal. But the pathetic, desperate Iona died in that icy water. As the suppressed memories of my true identity-"Silas", a master art restorer possessing centuries of dangerous, hidden knowledge-flooded my mind, my tears stopped. I picked up the phone, secured a marriage of convenience with the most powerful man in New York, and began my counterattack.”