Carter looked at Madeline with a faint smile. “You got it all right. In fact, you’ve already noticed something and suspected that something was wrong with the drink, isn’t that right? That was still very smart of you, Eveline, but it's too late.”Madeline looked warily at Carter who had a sly smile on his face. She tried to use her cell phone to call Jeremy inconspicuously, but the bodyguard on the side suddenly came over and snatched Madeline's cell phone away.“Give that back!” Madeline reached out to grab it.However, Carter took a step toward her suddenly.Carter was tall. Although Madeline was not short, there was still a height difference between them when she was standing in front of the man.Carter's figure oppressed her.Madeline wanted to escape, but Carter suddenly grabbed her wrist and cornered Madeline between the wall and himself.Madeline frowned. She raised her eyes and looked into Carter's deep eyes.“Now, Eveline, look into my eyes. What do you see?” Carter as
Carter, who had always admired Madeline's boldness the most, let go of Madeline's hand.Madeline promptly took off her coat and put on the new coat and glasses as per Carter's instructions.Carter, very satisfied when he looked at Madeline's current outfit, then gave the bodyguard another look.Madeline thought Carter was going to just let her follow him, but in the next second, she heard the fire alarm.After a while, the people in every hotel room ran out one after another. Since they did not know where the fire started, everyone was running toward the fire escape stairs. The scene was very chaotic.Carter then smiled at Madeline unhurriedly. “It's time to go.”Madeline glanced at Carter. The man was beyond devious.In such a chaotic situation, even if Jeremy were to ask for the security footage, it might still be difficult to locate her.The monitoring system on this floor might have already been destroyed by Carter.After the morning meeting, Jeremy habitually went to the
Coco hasten over to open the door and saw Jeremy with a hurried look on his face.“Mr. Whitman.”“Where’s Linnie?” Jeremy rushed into the room, but after looking all over the room, he did not see Madeline.“Isn't Linnie with you? Where is she?”Jeremy's heartbeat started to beat frantically.Coco looked at Jeremy with a confused and nervous look on her face, then explained.“At the time, Ms. Montgomery said that there was a document left in the car and asked me to go down with her to get it, but as soon as I reached the entrance, I felt unwell, and then I didn’t know what happened next. When I woke up, I was on the bed… I think Ms. Montgomery might be the one who helped me to the bed…”Jeremy listened to what Coco said but his eyes were firmly fixed on the two glasses of lemonade on the coffee table in the living room.“Did you drink this?” he asked.Coco nodded. “I only had a couple of sips.”“What about Linnie? Did she drink it?”“No,” Coco replied affirmatively. “After I
Jeremy took the tablet from Ken and saw a video on the screen.Even though the person in the video was wearing sunglasses, Carter’s features were still fairly recognizable.“He has indeed returned to Glendale.”Jeremy said in confirmation. He believed that Carter had spread the news of him going back to St. Piaf and then returned in secret, and his purpose of doing that was to make a move against Madeline.Frustrated, Jeremy tossed the tablet and frowned, then got up and walked to the French window.He looked at the nooks and crannies of the bustling city under the sun. His heart, however, was dark.He had blundered. He had miscalculated.All along, Carter’s target had been Madeline, not their children.Carter stubbornly believed that Shirley gave up on his child and then tried to kill herself because Jeremy had injected Shirley with AXP69.That was why Carter wanted to seek revenge on Jeremy.The person Jeremy cared about the most in this world was none other than Madeline.
“Isn’t it obvious what I want to do? I want to let you experience what it's like to lose someone you love, forever.”“...”“Carter! Carter!”Beep—When Jeremy was about to stop him, he heard the busy tone on the other side of the phone.Carter hung up the phone, and the plane took off ten minutes later.Jeremy immediately and decisively booked a plane ticket to St. Piaf online. When he was about to head home to pack his bags, he received a sudden call from the schoolteacher.On the other end of the line, Jackson’s teacher sobbed and said inaudibly, “Mr. Whitman, the school was on fire just now. We had been in such a hurry in putting out the fire, and Jackson and another kid in the class disappeared after we’ve put out the fire. We’ve checked the security footage, and we saw two men forcefully taking them away during the fire.”After learning about this, Jeremy immediately went to the school to look at the footage.When he saw the two men in black who came to the school with a
Carter abruptly stopped what he was doing. He lifted his head to look at the door of the study and, to his surprise, he saw Shirley coming in while pushing herself in the wheelchair.“You really did make a move against her.”Operating her wheelchair, Shirley came into the room and glanced at the currently unconscious Madeline.“Let her go.”“I won’t let her go back now.” Carter gave Shirley a firm answer without hesitation. “Shirley, you didn’t care about the child, but I did. I won’t let my child just die like that in Jeremy’s hands. I want to avenge our child.”As Carter expressed his determination to Shirley, his eyes were filled with sparks of hatred.“Carter, how many times do I have to repeat myself so that you’ll understand? That child’s death had nothing to do with Jeremy, and it also has nothing to do with Madeline.”“Shirley, you’re the one who has yet to understand.” Carter walked up to Shirley. “If Jeremy hadn’t injected you with AXP69, our child wouldn’t have died!”
“Eveline, it’s me.”Shirley lifted her hand to pat Madeline’s arm softly.Madeline turned her head to look, and surprise flashed in her eyes. “Shirley?”“It’s me.” Shirley nodded. “Madeline, this is St. Piaf,” Shirley then said.“St. Piaf?” Madeline frowned, gradually recalling all that had happened before falling unconscious.It was clear to her now. She had been Carter’s initial main target in his revenge plan.As Madeline collected her thoughts, she heard Shirley’s kind reminder drifted into her ear.“Eveline, it’s hard for you to leave this place now, but I believe that Jeremy has ways to find you. Though I want to remind you that this is St. Piaf. Carter’s status isn’t ordinary here. In the past, Jeremy could sneak in with a crowd, but he might not be able to this time.”After hearing what Shirley said, Madeline started to feel worried.She was worried not for herself but for Jeremy.“Shirley, do you have a phone? I want to call Jeremy.”Shirley shook her head softly. “
Shirley looked into Madeline’s eyes as she started to become anxious. She was worried that Carter would suddenly return at this moment. If that were the case, she would be unable to help Madeline.Madeline looked around the study vigilantly. She felt that Carter would have installed security cameras in the study.Carter might even be watching her and Shirley’s every move right now.As per Madeline's expectation, Carter, phone in hand, was indeed watching everything that was happening in the study right now.At this moment, he saw Madeline got up, walked to the desk, took a piece of paper from the desk, then picked up a pen and wrote something on the paper.Carter moved the camera to the paper and zoomed in.He could see what Madeline wrote on the paper. “If Carter really performed advanced hypnosis on me, please find a way to hand this paper to Jeremy for me.”Carter furrowed his sharp eyebrows when he saw what was written on the paper. He could not understand why Madeline wrote