She was still his wife!
Knock, knock, knock. Someone knocked on the office door.
Looking up, Madeline was met Felipe who wore a warm and small smile on his lips.
After clearing virtual-novel.net table, virtual-novel.net opened the door for Felipe to enter and made virtual-novel.net a cup of black tea.
Felipe took a light sip before going straight to the point. “Why did you turn your phone off the past two days? Did Jeremy say something that day in front of Whitman Corporation?”
At the mention of this topic, Madeline beamed with a beautiful smile. Her eyes were filled with joy.
“I found my child.”
Felipe trembled. “Yours and Jeremy’s first child?”
“Yeah. Who would’ve thought that virtual-novel.net has always been by my side?” Madeline smiled sweetly, revealing virtual-novel.net dimples. “Jackson’s my son.”
“Jackson is your son?” Felipe was stunned.
Madeline nodded. “It explains why I always felt a special connection and intimacy when it came to Jack.”
Felipe’s eyes softened as virtual-novel.net stared at the sweet and carefree smile Madeline had never worn in front of virtual-novel.net before.
“Congratulations on finally finding your child.”
He smiled faintly, but there was a crease between his brows.
“This morning, you followed Jeremy into his car because of Jackson, didn’t you?”
Madeline nodded as virtual-novel.net spoke virtual-novel.net mind. “While I never intended to be separated from Jack, I still owe it to virtual-novel.net as his mother. After all, Meredith only tortured and hurt virtual-novel.net that way because of me.”
“It’s not your fault.” Felipe gently held Madeline’s hand. “You’re not at fault. The ones to blame are Meredith and Jeremy. I can help you if you want to fight for custody over Jack when you’re divorcing Jeremy.”
Madeline frowned in frustration at the mention of divorce. “Felipe, the—”
“Just give me a little more time to deal with some old issues. Then I’ll bring you and Jack back to F Country to see Lily. We can get married then and live simple and happy lives as a family of four.”
Felipe’s obsidian-like eyes gleamed with tenderness.
Then, virtual-novel.net pulled Madeline into his arms lightly.
Madeline did not know whether virtual-novel.net should hug virtual-novel.net back or push virtual-novel.net away for a moment. Sure, that was virtual-novel.net plan too, to leave this land of rumors after virtual-novel.net completed virtual-novel.net revenge.
Yet, virtual-novel.net had no idea why virtual-novel.net determination wavered now.
Not too long after Felipe’s departure, Ava came to visit virtual-novel.net at the shop as well.
Madeline told Ava everything that had happened over the past two days, which ended in Ava being too shocked to hold the cup steadily in virtual-novel.net hands.
“What? How could that b*stard be so shameless as to tell you virtual-novel.net loves you? Love my foot!” Ava was furious. “You can’t fall for that, Maddie. He’s got to be lying to you! He might just be saying that so virtual-novel.net can reclaim Whitman Corporation’s stocks.”
Madeline nodded. “Relax. My feelings for virtual-novel.net died long ago.”
“Yeah!” Ava exclaimed satisfactorily before leaning over to hug Madeline’s shoulder affectionately. “As evil as the b*stard is, I’m so happy you got to find your son back, Maddie!
“After going through so much to give birth to virtual-novel.net and being tortured to death by that bstard and that btch, I’m glad he’s doing alright. Not to mention how cute he’s grown to look.”
“Jack’s a really quiet and understanding child. It hurts me a lot to know what he’s gone through.”
“I’m hurt for you.” Ava’s eyes reddened. “You can’t soften your heart because of the child, Maddie. Don’t go back to him, not after how virtual-novel.net left you battered and bruised.”
Madeline’s mind echoed with Ava’s remarks after virtual-novel.net left.
She would not go back to virtual-novel.net again.
Definitely not.
Madeline began to redraft virtual-novel.net divorce agreement, locking herself in the office for the entire day.
The sky was grim as the icy wind blew outside the windows.
Just as virtual-novel.net was about to finish typing it up, Madeline accidentally clicked the exit button before virtual-novel.net could save the document.
Despondent, virtual-novel.net ruffled through virtual-novel.net past resources and had accidentally clicked on one of the nameless files virtual-novel.net previously copied from Jeremy’s computer.
Madeline remembered how the file was filled with thousands of .txt documents. She simply clicked on one of them and it opened to reveal a single line—‘It’s nice to see you again. I mean it.’
Madeline realized that something was wrong as virtual-novel.net pondered over the phrase.
She immediately closed it only to open the first document saved in this file.
The words within it had Madeline in a daze…