Beneath His Ugly Wife’s Mask: Her revenge was her brilliance

Chapter 428:

Surprise flickered across Cole’s face. After their wedding, he had made sure to look into everything about Elliana’s past. His research showed that her mother kept to herself, and most people thought she was just a regular woman who did not measure up to Darin. That belief made sense since Darin later had an affair with Kiara. Yet, hearing Elliana claim that her mother was running from someone did not add up. Most people never found themselves in that kind of danger. Maybe her mother, just like his own, had secrets no one ever saw.

Elliana continued, “People always say my father created Jones Pharmaceuticals, and my mother was just a quiet wife. That is not true. Every bit of his success came from my mother’s medical work and her knowledge. She built the foundation of Jones Pharmaceuticals.”

“Now it makes sense why the company has struggled since she vanished,” Cole commented thoughtfully.

Elliana nodded. “Yes, exactly. The Jones family has been coasting on her legacy. I doubt they can keep it going much longer.”

After a pause, she added, “I know nothing about my mother’s past either. She was truly remarkable. I have been searching for her all these years.”

Cole gently reached over and pulled her into his embrace. “It’s strange to realize how much our stories overlap.”

Neither said anything after that. Both still carried secrets they were not yet willing to reveal.

Elliana left out any mention of “The Medical Codex.”

Cole kept quiet about the schizophrenia gene that came from his mother. Very few people in the world even knew about it, a rare genetic disorder set off by a particular toxin, causing terrifying symptoms whenever it flared up.

Back when Cole was only three years old, his mother had an episode that nearly tore their home apart and left his father with serious injuries. If his grandfather and a team of bodyguards had not shown up when they did, she might have taken her husband’s life. Thankfully, her lucidity returned after that, and she never had another episode until she disappeared years later.

Still, the Evans family would never fully recover from what had happened that night. Charlie had run every test and eventually confirmed that Cole had the Psychephrenia gene.noveldrama

gⲁ𝗅𝗇𝗈ν𝖊𝗅𝘀.𝗰𝗈𝗺 – 𝖁𝖆𝖑𝖎𝖉 𝖊𝖉𝖎𝖙 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶

The knowledge felt like a hidden time bomb, something Cole could never stop dreading. If he were on his own, he might have faced the illness without a second thought, perhaps even daring it to happen. However, his mother was still missing, and his father’s health had become fragile. He knew he could not risk losing himself to the disorder. And with Elliana, the woman he loved, in his life, he couldn’t bear the notion of himself having an episode. The weight of it all was crushing. He held Elliana tightly, almost desperately, as if trying to meld their bodies together.

He knew that, logically speaking, he shouldn’t have married with such a genetic predisposition, but Elliana had burst into his life, and he’d fallen hopelessly in love with her. He knew he’d been selfish in love. He could not let her go. The idea of Elliana ever belonging to another man was more than he could stand.

In the days that followed, Elliana found a sense of peace she hadn’t known in a long time.

After threatening to expel Elliana from the Evans family, Jason chose to retreat in silence, taking refuge in a private villa where he could nurse his injuries.

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