Her pain was so great that she could not make any other sound. She could only curl up on the floor, coughing fiercely.Carter walked over and stepped on Ada’s fingers.The pain brought tears to the corners of her eyes and made her bones tremble.However, that was not the extent of Carter’s punishment. He bent down. His dark aura enveloped Ada. His long and thin fingers grabbed Ada’s hair. “Do you know how it feels to be disfigured and have your legs broken? Do you know how it feels to be burned alive?”“… Cough cough. Carter, no, don’t…” Ada looked at Carter in terror. “I didn’t s… set the fire… I have nothing to do with Cathy and Adam’s deaths. It’s Eveline. It’s her. She’s slandering me. I really didn’t…”“Heh…” Carter chuckled coldly, and his eyes darkened further. “Guards!”After summoning the bodyguards, Carter pushed Ada away in disgust, then took out a handkerchief and disdainfully wiped his hands.“Throw her into the kennel in the backyard. Beat her if she struggles.”“
Carter was always a confident and proud man. However, at this moment, looking into Madeline’s eyes suddenly, he was at a loss at what to do.Camille, who seemed to have noticed Carter’s discomfort, walked over.“Mrs. Whitman, you can just ask anything you want.”“I don’t think you’d be able to provide me the answer to my question, Mrs. Gray,” Madeline said before she looked into Carter’s eyes again.“Carter, it wasn’t a coincidence when you saved me at sea the other time, right?”Carter had never expected Madeline to ask this question.He did not know if Madeline had caught on to something, but there was an incisiveness and edge in her gaze that Carter could not hide from.“Carter, you hesitated.”Even though it had only been two or three seconds, these seconds were enough for Madeline to confirm her suspicions.At one side, Camille frowned in confusion. “Mrs. Whitman, you had an accident at sea back then and Carter saved you by chance. Why do you think it wasn’t? Could Carter
The first reason was to expose Ada; the second reason was that she wanted to see Shirley.Madeline followed behind them and arrived at Shirley’s room.Although she did not go in, she saw Carter looking worried as he hurried to the side of Shirley’s bed.He did not look as fierce and ruthless as he had been in front of Ada. He went up to Shirley, who seemed terrified, and pulled her into his arms, gently comforting her.“Shirley, don’t be scared. I’m here,” Carter comforted patiently.One would know that Shirley held an important place in his heart upon seeing his worried expression.“Fire! There’s a fire! Carter, I saw a huge fire! Addy was in the fire and he was burned alive!”Shirley grabbed Carter’s collar as she continued to murmur in terror.“Addy can’t die. I promised mom and dad to take care of him. He can’t die, Addy can’t die…”“He’s not dead, Shirley. Adam’s not dead.” Carter patiently comforted Shirley who was increasingly losing control of her emotions.“He’s dead
After Madeline had gone in, she softly closed the door.Aside from Shirley, who was sleeping on the bed, there was no one else in the room.Shirley, likely to have fallen asleep not long ago, was not yet sound asleep. When she heard Madeline’s footsteps, she suddenly opened her eyes.When she saw Madeline walking over to her, Shirley seemed to pause briefly, then a look of surprise showed on her face, but she did not appear to panic.Since she could not feel her legs, she did not get up; instead, she only laid in the bed.She looked very off-colored. It was clear that it was due to the weakness caused by her illness.That led Madeline to recall the time when she had experienced the flare-up of the fourth stage of the poison. She would have probably looked like this as well.She would have been maniacally blabbering nonsense, and she would have been recalling those painful and dark memories in her head.“Shirley, do you still remember me?” Madeline walked to the side of the bed
Madeline held Shirley’s gaze for a couple of seconds before turning around silently to leave.Carter was busy reassuring Shirley. When her emotions had finally settled down, he noticed that Madeline had already left.Finding this suspicious, Carter retrieved the footage from the security cameras. It was then that he realized Madeline had entered the closet earlier.She had waited until Carter had stepped out before entering Shirley's room. Regardless, the amount of time she spent inside was not long. It had only been the duration he had taken to cook porridge for Shirley.However, he had no way of finding out what had happened in the room. With Shirley's current condition, it would be impossible to obtain any information from her.After leaving Gray Villa, Madeline had gone directly to Whitman Corporation. Jeremy had not been dealing with the corporation's matters for quite some time. There seemed to have been so many incidents happening consecutively around him for the past t
Madeline thought about the expression in Shirley’s eyes. Shirley had not seemed like someone who was delirious. Her gaze had been firm, and it had been evidently signaling for Madeline to leave Gray Villa as soon as possible.In hindsight, Shirley had pretended to be scared at that moment so she could manipulate Carter, creating a smooth exit for Madeline."Jeremy, is it possible that the effects of AXP69's anti-toxoid test reagent differ between when it's ingested and when it's injected?" The question came from the depths of Madeline's heart because she felt that Shirley's symptoms differed from Madeline's during Madeline's flare-up.Jeremy had a faint guess from Madeline's question. "Have you noticed anything wrong, Linnie?"Madeline nodded. "You told me this before. When I went through the final stage of the flare-up, my memories were stuck at my most painful moments, and I could not even remember that we were in love. But Shirley seemed to be different.""How was she behaving?
As he approached her, the man removed his sunglasses and revealed his striking, gallant features.Felipe stared at Cathy's photo with red eyes, not speaking another word for some time. Madeline was not surprised at all to find that Felipe was still alive. She was merely shocked to see Felipe appear at that exact moment. However, when she noticed Jeremy coming through the door, Madeline slowly began to understand. Jeremy had left the house an hour ago, saying he had an important task to handle. It turned out he had gone to bail Felipe.Felipe reflected on what had happened a few months ago. He had lost all hope and accepted the execution by shooting, giving up any chance to appeal. Later, however, he had been finally persuaded by Madeline and Jeremy, and Felipe finally came around.He had decided to appeal. He chose to live rather than die.After that, the matter had been handled discreetly. Apart from Madeline and Jeremy, nobody else knew that Felipe was sentenced to 20
Felipe's voice trembled. Even his hand, which held the candle, began to shake. He tried to hold back his tears, but he could not stop the grief from flooding his heart. He recalled bits and pieces of his memories. If he had been nice to Cathy in even the slightest, perhaps he would not be so pained to the point of having difficulty breathing.He had, however, mostly brought her tears and heartache over those years."Cath, I'll personally raise our children. "I'll remember what you had told me. I'll teach our children to be righteous and be useful members of society." Felipe promised from the bottom of his heart. His tear-filled gaze remained fixed on the photo of Cathy, who was smiling brightly like a blooming flower. "Cath, let's arrange to meet again in our next lives. When that time comes, let me be the one to court you. Let me be the one to love you." Felipe reached out and gently brushed his cold fingertips across the photo. 'Cath, I actually knew. 'The day we pa