“Am I right? You want to die with me.”Shirley looked forward indifferently. The cold wind blew over, and she suddenly smiled.“Yeah, I'm tired of living for a while now. If you want to die, take me with you. I really miss my mom and dad, and Addy…”Carter's eyes sank when he heard Shirley's words.His Adam's apple moved slightly; it seemed that it was a sob.“Okay.”He opened his lips and uttered a single word.“Then, let's go to hell together.”He said those words of despair and tightened his hand on Shirley's neck.Indifferent, Shirley allowed Carter's palm to tighten more and more, then she slowly closed her eyes.“Carter, let Shirley go!” Madeline tried to stop Carter, but Fabian held her back.“It’s dangerous! Don't go there! He’s a lunatic.”“But I can't just stand by and watch…”Bang!Before Madeline could finish speaking, she suddenly heard the loud sound of a gunshot.Her eyes were met with a glaring sight of red blood.Carter had been shot.His arm that held
Heartbroken, Shirley called out to Carter, and then with some force, she overturned the wheelchair and fell on Carter's body.Upon seeing this, Madeline ran to Shirley's side immediately, trying to help her up.“Shirley, you should get up first.”“No, I won't get up!” Shirley stubbornly hugged Carter's arm tightly.“His life won’t be in danger, Shirley. You have to take care of your body,” Madeline comforted.However, Shirley still did not let go. She cried and shook her head. The unconscious Carter was the only person she could see right now.“Eveline, we don’t feel about this in the same way. You won’t care even if he dies, but I do.”“I care about it too!” Madeline emphasized.Shirley was stunned when she heard this. She looked at Madeline with suspicion and saw the solemn expression on Madeline's face.“Carter hid Jeremy somewhere and I want to know where Jeremy is. So, just like you, I hope Carter won’t be in danger.”After hearing this, Shirley seemed to be much calmer.
Fabian blurted out all his suspicion.Shirley was momentarily stunned, then a trace of self-blame appeared in her eyes.“You’re right to be suspicious. I used to collude with Carter, and I’d done what he wanted me to do. I was a fool with no self-respect who could not think for myself.” Shirley laughed at herself.Upon hearing Shirley's description of herself, Fabian was surprised and a little embarrassed.Knowing that Shirley helped Madeline rescue Lillian before, Fabian coughed twice and corrected Shirley before thanking her.“Ahem, I, I was just too worried about Lily, so that's why I didn’t think before I spoke. You don't have to take it to heart. I know that you are actually different from Carter. He doesn’t have a heart.”Fabian explained. He did feel that Shirley and Carter were not the same.If Shirley had truly been that nasty, Madeline would not have been able to rescue Lillian.After listening to Fabian's explanation, Shirley just smiled calmly.In fact, she no long
There was a table not far in front of her. Upon seeing the objects placed on it, Madeline was stunned for a few seconds before she rushed toward the table.Jeremy's phone and wedding ring were still clearly visible in the dim light.Madeline picked up the wedding ring and phone, certain that Jeremy must have been here, but Madeline did not know where he went afterward.When she recalled the depth of Carter's hatred for Jeremy, Madeline became more anxious.“Jeremy.” Madeline squeezed the ring and phone in her hand and gently called out Jeremy's name.“No, Eveline, you have to calm down, you must calm down.”Madeline said repeatedly to keep her emotions in check and force herself to calm down.She looked at the red dot on the phone, which indicated that Jeremy’s location was nearby, and then she recalled what happened this morning in her mind.At the time, Fabian brought her here, but not long after she went inside, Carter came out of place. Since Carter had still been here at t
“At the time, he came into my life like a beam of light, illuminating my bleak future. After that, I rediscovered myself and my confidence.”Shirley recounted with a faint smile on her face, but the smile was quickly dissipated in the moonlight.Her eyes gradually lost their light.“But in the end, he took away my confidence…”Shirley laughed bitterly at herself, and Madeline knew what she meant.“I can completely understand your feelings.”Madeline walked slowly to Shirley's side, but a very relieved smile appeared on her small face.“I used to be the same as you. I didn't have any self-respect and self-love in front of the man I love, but then I found out that loving someone blindly like that is like a moth flying into a fire. It’s asking for humiliation.”“Unfortunately, I understood it too late.”Shirley said regretfully, lifting her gaze to look at Madeline.“Even though you blindly loved Jeremy back then, you’re not the same as me. If you were me, you would’ve stopped J
The man looked at the empty hospital bed in astonishment. He could not believe what he was seeing.He immediately ran to the windowsill with a panic expression and saw that the window was open. Moreover, there were a few obvious footprints on the windowsill outside.This was the fifth floor. Carter had actually jumped down from such a height!Panicking, the man immediately called his superiors.Madeline and Shirley shared a look and walked out of the room together.Not long after, Madeline pushed Shirley directly toward below the room from just now.There were indeed traces of someone stepping on the flowerbed. As such, they were basically certain that Carter had climbed down from the fifth floor and escaped.He had been shot twice, and the wounds on his arm and leg were pretty severe, but he was still able to escape like this while under surveillance. Madeline could not help but sigh.“His stamina has always been good, but I didn't expect him to be able to do what he wants und
“Lily, Daddy has something to do. He’ll be back when he’s done. Can you wait a little longer?”Lillian was an obedient and sensible child, so when Madeline said that, she nodded sensibly.Madeline looked at Lillian with gratification and then rolled up Lillian's sleeves to look at her skin.The small red spots on her skin were still very obvious, but those red spots had not increased compared to when they started appearing.It was because Shirley had asked Evan to buy an oral medicine to temporarily keep the disease under control.Shirley truly had not expected Carter to take action on such a young child.He must have given the child the injection at night when she and Lillian were both asleep.Shirley also did not know how many of the half-completed test reagents she previously developed Carter had.Perhaps when he thought it was necessary, he would use this extreme method to achieve his goal.Shirley could not help but fall into contemplation. Suddenly, she felt that she did
At the former address of the Stygian Johnson Gang.In the dark prison underneath, the sound of gurgling water came through the crack of the door at the entrance from time to time.With a squeak, the heavy iron gate was gently pushed open.A faint light beam came in from the crack of the door.Click.Someone turned on the lights.Jeremy, who was trapped in the pool, raised his eyes and saw Carter condescendingly staring at him.However, Jeremy found that Carter looked different and haggard at the moment. Additionally, his face was also very pale. He did not have the look of confidence he had that day.Carter lowered his eyes to Jeremy who was trapped in the pool.The water in the pool was not too deep, probably just above Jeremy's calf, but the pool was very large and deep. It was about two meters high and the walls were covered with tiles. One would not be able to climb up along the wall of the pool unless they knew how to fly.When he saw Jeremy trapped in such an environmen