Zach had gone to take a call.

Jadie happened to see the person coming back. "Madelyn, I made some gnocchi, do you want to have some?"

Madelyn shook her head and said weakly. "No need, you can have it. I'm going to bed."

She held the handrail and went back to her room. After confirming the door was shut, she untied her shoulder straps and her dress slid down her body as she stepped barefoot on the carpet and walked into the shower.

Half an hour later, she got out of the bathroom, dried her hair, put on her pajamas and threw herself onto her bed. She did not even put away the clothes on the ground and just left them in a messy pile.

All the while, a men's coat was hanging neatly on the hanger.

In the middle of the night, her phone by the bedside table lit up. She was deep asleep, and in her dreams, she saw a silhouette, its eyes deep and cold.

The next morning, Madelyn's biological clock woke her up on time at 7:30 in the morning.

While she was brushing her teeth in the bathroom,