Jeremy had never seen Madeline like this.She was trapping him against the wall. At this moment, her eyes were so soft and she looked so enchanting. His rationale was slowly slipping away the more he looked at her beauty.“Linnie,” he called out her name as his Adam’s apple bobbed.Madeline was not thinking clearly and she felt as if a flame was crawling up her body.She was longing for water, longing to soothe this heat inside of her.The person in front of her might be able to help her.She got closer to him and looked into his eyes. Their breaths started intertwining.Jeremy caressed her long hair. His narrow eyes were so soft, looking like pools of water. “Linnie…”“Yeah,” Madeline replied. To Jeremy, this was the best reply he could expect to hear from her.He could not control himself anymore. He grabbed her head and pressed a kiss onto her lips.Madeline closed her eyes without being able to control herself. She allowed this strange feeling to lead her into Jeremy’s ar

‘Did I do it with him?’Madeline felt her ears heat up. Suddenly, she saw a suspicious mark on her neck when she looked into the mirror.After she finished cleaning herself up, she saw a note that Jeremy left. There was only a simple sentence: [Linnie, I’m going to send Jack to school. You can stay here and sleep for a bit.]He did not mention anything about last night and sounded natural.Madeline looked at the note Jeremy left and started spacing out.She looked at his neat handwriting and suddenly, she remembered the confession she saw on the notebook in the restaurant near Glendale University. [Madeline Crawford, I like you.]Now, Madeline realized that Jeremy was the one who left the anonymous note.He had already taken a liking to her when she was in her first year.However, he hid his fondness toward her.When Meredith impersonated her, he could only stop himself from pursuing her because of the promise he made in his childhood.Madeline left the hotel, and when she st

Jeremy was finally at the front of the line. When he was about to order, he noticed that Lillian was missing after he turned around.He looked around the shop but did not see her anywhere. Immediately, Jeremy’s heart started beating erratically.He asked everyone in the shop before a man told him that he saw a pretty little girl running out the door herself just now.That little girl was wearing a light blue dress and her features were stunning.Jeremy was sure that it was Lillian.However, why did she run out on her own?He then ran to check the security footage of the shop. He saw the little girl running out on her own, and it looked like she was running toward something.Unfortunately, the security cameras in the shop could only cover a limited area, so Jeremy could not see what was going on outside the shop.He ran to get all of the footage from the cameras around him, but he still did not find anything.He had lost his daughter when she was under his care and needed to be

Felipe was looking at the time on his watch when he heard Madeline say that to him.He turned around to look at her in disbelief. “Eveline?”Madeline rode her horse closer to him and smiled softly. “It’s decided, then. We’ll go back to F Country next week with Lily so that we can live a happy life with just the three of us.”Felipe was obviously taken aback by Madeline’s answer.She was agreeing to go back to F Country with him.The three of them.That statement went to the deepest part of his heart.However...He watched as she rode away with her horse, and his expression changed. After that, he quickly took out his phone and called a number, but the person on the other end did not pick up.Felipe did not hesitate before calling Cathy.After Cathy received his call, she knew that Felipe wanted her to do something for him. Even though she was curious, she still did it.Madeline rode into the distance with her horse.She recalled the events that happened over the past few da

Madeline felt a sharp pain in her heart when she heard that.Her vision went black and she fell to one side lifelessly.“Linnie!” Jeremy ran over and supported Madeline who had already fainted. At this moment, he was just like Madeline. He was in so much pain that he could not breathe.His baby. His and Madeline’s daughter was dead?Jeremy was holding Madeline, and at that moment, he felt as if he had lost all of his senses. His body was plunged into the cold.“Sir, w-what are you talking about? My granddaughter is showing no signs of life?” Eloise asked in disbelief.The police nodded firmly with regret. “Yes, the little girl is dead.”“No!” Eloise and Sean could not accept this news.On the other hand, this news broke the elegance and calmness on Felipe’s face. “Did you investigate thoroughly? How can my daughter just die like that?”Jeremy looked at Felipe. He did not want to argue about who was Lillian’s real father at this moment.The thing he wanted to know the most rig

Felipe’s eyes glinted, and when he was about to say something, Madeline quickly walked over from behind him.Jeremy looked at Madeline. “Linnie…”Slap!Madeline slapped Jeremy heavily across the face.Jeremy’s face was turned to the side from the slap and the excruciating pain crept into his heart.Madeline glared at Jeremy with tears in her eyes. She was biting her lip tightly. “Even if you didn’t want to kill Lily, she still went missing under your care. You won’t be able to get away from this responsibility no matter what you say!”Her eyes looked pained. “Jeremy, why do you have to make me hate you?” Madeline said before turning around. Then, Felipe chased behind her.Jeremy did not even get to see Lilian for the last time before she was brought into the car.After a while, everything around him plunged into silence. Jeremy stood there alone while stuck in a daze.He had not protected the woman he loved back then and caused her to die in his arms. Today, he made the same f

Jeremy took out his phone hurriedly and opened the electronic copy of the paternity test result that he saved.“Linnie, look. This is the paternity test I did with Lily. Lily is our daughter.” He held the phone in front of Madeline to prove that he was telling the truth.Madeline lowered her eyes, her vision quickly blurred by tears.“Linnie, do you see it?” Jeremy asked carefully.However, the moment he finished asking, Madeline lifted her hand and pushed his hand away.The phone fell to the wet floor with a loud smack. Then, the screen smashed into a million pieces.Jeremy felt his heart getting smashed at the same time as well.Madeline looked at him frigidly. “I don’t want to see you again.”Her tone was firm, and she walked away without turning back.Jeremy stood in place dispiritedly. As he looked at her cold back, tears escaped from the corners of his eyes.On the smashed screen, that beautiful smile invaded his vision and pained Jeremy’s eyes.“Lily…”‘I’m sorry, Li

She lifted her hand to touch her stomach. Then, a pleased smile blossomed on her face.After Cathy left, Felipe picked up the colorful shell that he had been keeping for years.“Eveline.”He called out to Madeline’s name as a cheeky face appeared in his mind.He would not forget how a ray of light had appeared in his dark life after he met her by the beach.“I won’t let you go back to Jeremy again. You’re mine.”He held the shell as a wave of emotions appeared in his eyes.That day, the reason he said he wanted to bring Madeline to clear her head in the equine park was to prevent her from having any contact with the outside world so that his plan would carry out smoothly.He knew he could not hide the fact that he had drugged Madeline, so he needed to admit it.He also knew that Madeline would not want to go back to F Country with him as he could sense that she started to develop feelings for Jeremy again. That was why he planned to create a conflict between Madeline and Jerem

Jeremy’s tears fell along with Madeline’s after he heard what she said.The unbearable memories appeared in his head as his bloody past appeared right in front of his eyes. He could not get away from them.“You should go.”Madeline said those three words flatly. Then, she turned around so that she would not look at him.“When Lily was trapped in the burning car and was almost burnt alive, I could tell that you genuinely wanted to save her. However, it still can’t change the fact that she died because of your negligence.“Jeremy, I can’t forgive you and I don’t want to see you again.”Jeremy looked at Madeline’s back and stood there for a very long time. Finally, he turned around while bearing the blame.A gust of cold wind blew over, going straight into his heart. Then, more tears started to fall from his eyes.Madeline stood in front of Lillian’s grave and heard Jeremy’s footsteps as he walked away.Her eyes were red as she looked at the words on the tombstone. Then, she swal

Time passed and the sky started to turn grey. Then, it started drizzling.Jeremy could not wait. He got out of the car and was about to barge in when he saw Cathy walking toward him with an umbrella.Jeremy remembered Cathy because she was the one who had shown him directions the last time.His instinct told him that Cathy was someone he could trust.Cathy walked in front of him and advised him, saying, “Mr. Whitman, you should go. Evie doesn’t want to see you.”“I have to see her. I have something important to tell her.” Jeremy insisted, his gaze unflinching. “Tell her that I’ll wait for her here until she wants to see me.”Cathy frowned as she found this difficult to manage. When she saw the resolution in Jeremy’s eyes, she felt so envious and heartbroken at the same time.“Mr. Whitman, Evie really doesn’t want to see you. She won’t want to see you even if you wait here until nightfall.”“Then I shall wait until nightfall.” Jeremy insisted. He lifted his head to look at the l