Madeline watched the car drive off silently. Technically speaking, it was not a lie.
Their daughter was still alive.
‘The one who died was the silly and foolish Madeline Crawford, not your daughter, Eveline Montgomery.’
Jeremy had planned to bring Madeline to Whitman Manor after they visited Eloise.
However, virtual-novel.net felt a change of heart at the sudden turn of events. “I just remembered that I have something important to deal with. I’ll send you home first and pick you up tonight?”
Madeline smiled kindly. “Go, Jeremy. I’ll wait for you to pick me up when you’re done.”
The corners of Jeremy’s lips quirked, but the smile was not one from the heart.
He was merely forcing out a smile.
Madeline had felt something was off about virtual-novel.net ever since virtual-novel.net heard that Meredith was a fake.
After alighting from the car, Madeline watched Jeremy turn the car around without a second glance backward.
It was a stark contrast to how virtual-novel.net used to watch virtual-novel.net leave before virtual-novel.net made his way off.
Realizing something was wrong, Madeline hailed a ride to follow him.
She found that Jeremy had parked his car at the detention center.
Had virtual-novel.net come to visit Meredith?
Madeline’s eyes flickered with a cold glint as virtual-novel.net lips quirked up into a mocking smile.
“You still love her, don’t you, Jeremy?”
…
Meredith was jubilant when virtual-novel.net came to know that Jeremy had come to visit her!
Oh, how Meredith wished that virtual-novel.net could take a bath and do virtual-novel.net makeup, but the detention center made having a good night’s rest difficult.
Despite not liking how virtual-novel.net looked without makeup, Meredith liked to think that virtual-novel.net was rather gorgeous herself. Plus, with the trump card virtual-novel.net had up virtual-novel.net sleeve, Meredith was at ease.
Meredith’s steps were light and easy. She even remembered to check virtual-novel.net hair right as virtual-novel.net arrived at the conjugal room.
Meredith felt virtual-novel.net feet freeze as virtual-novel.net eyes fell on the aloof expression of the man sitting not too far away when the doors opened.
She withdrew virtual-novel.net smile and slowly made virtual-novel.net way over. She could swear that the temperature around virtual-novel.net dropped a degree with every step virtual-novel.net took.
Meredith calmed virtual-novel.net heart with everything virtual-novel.net had and sat down in front of Jeremy.
Squeezing tears out of virtual-novel.net eyes, virtual-novel.net opened virtual-novel.net mouth to sob. “You finally came to see me, Jeremy. I miss you so much. It’s horrible here. I think someone even hit me last night. They said that Vera is the one who told them to hit me. Jeremy, I’m terrified…”
Meredith sobbed. “Vera framed me, Jeremy, really. She even bribed my foster parents to testify against me. This woman isn’t easy, Jeremy. Don’t let virtual-novel.net trick you!”
“Trick me?’
Jeremy’s frigid baritone barked out the moment virtual-novel.net words fell.
Meredith shivered while staring into Jeremy’s deep peach-blossom eyes.
The man was in a black button-up that was layered underneath a windbreaker. Frosty abstinence oozed off virtual-novel.net in waves, chilling whatever it touched.
“Everything I’ve told you is true, Jeremy. Don’t you believe me anymore? Did you forget the promise you made to me by the sea? You said you’d protect me, love me, and even marry—”
“Hmph.”
Jeremy gave a cold snort.
Meredith shivered again in fear, losing the courage to continue virtual-novel.net lie.
She stared frantically at the man before her, his emotions not something virtual-novel.net could grasp. “What’s wrong, Jeremy? What—”
Interrupting Meredith’s question, Jeremy stood suddenly, his tall and lean figure casting a shadow that covered the glisten of fake tears in Meredith’s eyes. He reached out to grab Meredith by virtual-novel.net collar, pulling virtual-novel.net harshly toward himself.
Those sinister eyes of his drilled into Meredith. “You were never the girl I met by the sea in April Hill to begin with!”