Addicted To The Genius Lady With A Thousand Faces

Chapter 962:

Derek trembled with fear, his entire body shaking.

“Y-yes, Aelfric. You’re right.”

He wiped the sweat from his brow, his voice shaky as he hurried to explain, “Marissa and I were engaged before, but nothing ever happened between us.”

“I never liked her at all, and I cut her out of my life when I returned to the Daniels family.”

Then, turning to Melinda, Derek grabbed her hand, his voice desperate.

“Melinda, you have to believe me,” he pleaded.

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“Marissa and I were over a long time ago. I never betrayed you.”

Melinda was too stunned to respond. She could hardly process what she had just heard. The woman she despised most in the world turned out to be her boyfriend’s former fiancée. In a way, she had ended up with Marissa’s sloppy seconds.

Enraged, Melinda pulled her hand away from Derek’s grasp.

“You expect me to believe that nothing ever happened between the two of you? You say you’ve cut her out of your life? Why do I find that hard to believe? Why do I have to be with a guy who was once engaged to a village girl?”

Derek’s greatest fear was that Melinda would lose trust in him and their engagement would be called off. So, when Melinda got angry, his anxiety only grew.

Disregarding his pride, he quickly grabbed her hand and pleaded, “Melinda, please believe me. Nothing ever happened between me and Marissa.”

Seeing that Melinda still doubted him, Derek added urgently, “If you don’t believe me, send someone to Adagend to look into it. My engagement with Marissa was entirely my grandmother’s doing—she arranged it. I never wanted it. I’ve never liked Marissa, and I avoided her like the plague whenever she was around. Her reputation is awful. She’s been with so many men since she was young. People called her my fiancée, but honestly, I was embarrassed by that label. She left the village at fifteen, wandering around for years. The villagers whisper that she made her money by sleeping around. I despised her for making me the village joke. How could I ever fall for someone like that? Just seeing her makes me sick. There’s no way I’d ever touch her. Every time she came back to the village, I stayed far away. She never even had a chance to be near me.”

Derek’s harsh words about Marissa seemed to soothe Melinda’s doubts.

“Is everything you’re saying true?”

“Yes!” Derek answered without hesitation.

“If you don’t believe me, send someone to investigate her in Adagend. You’ll hear the same. She’s despised and mocked by everyone there.”

Melinda, who already despised Marissa, found Derek’s words deeply satisfying. His harsh criticism struck just the right chord, and Melinda began to relax.

As she calmed down, she asked, “If you knew the current Tiffany was actually Marissa, why didn’t you expose her or tell us the truth?”

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