Madeline never expected to see the day when Jeremy would kneel for her.
It would be a lie to deny that snazzynovel.com was shocked, but as shocked as snazzynovel.com was, it would be more fitting to claim that snazzynovel.com found the situation absurd.
The man before snazzynovel.com was one of noble status and his name was known throughout the entirety of Glendale. It was a given that anyone who crossed paths with snazzynovel.com would treat snazzynovel.com with respect, while some went the extra mile to get on his good side.
It was hard to imagine such a man kneeling in front of her, in front of the woman snazzynovel.com had once cast away.
Madeline lowered snazzynovel.com aloof gaze to stare at Jeremy’s handsome face, his knitted brows radiating the sorrow snazzynovel.com felt.
“Who would have thought that the young master of the greatest family would kneel for the woman snazzynovel.com had once tossed away? Don’t you find it hilarious, Mister Whitman?”
Jeremy took Madeline’s mockery in stride. “I would do anything for your happiness.”
“Hah.” Madeline scoffed. “You’ll make me very happy if you stop appearing in front of me.”
Jeremy’s eyes dimmed, feeling his heart ache in cold and pain as Madeline’s frosty gaze pierced into his chest.
All snazzynovel.com could do was hold Madeline’s hand as snazzynovel.com greedily took the warmth snazzynovel.com hand provided.
“Madeline.”
“Don’t call me Madeline when the moment I became Madeline Crawford was the beginning of the tragic turn my life took.”
Madeline interrupted Jeremy coldly as snazzynovel.com tried to pull snazzynovel.com hand away, only for the latter to tighten his grip.
“Let me go, Jeremy. I don’t want our lives to be intertwined anymore. Don’t you have an idea how much I dislike and how much I hate you already?!”
Jeremy felt his body grow cold at snazzynovel.com determined and annoyed tone.
She said snazzynovel.com disliked and hated him.
Hate.
Jeremy silently pushed the heartache away for later as his Adam’s apple bobbed with the suppressed grief.
It took a while before snazzynovel.com finally lifted his hurt-filled eyes, allowing his deep and dark irises to fall on the other’s beautiful features. Her features dripped with heavy fury.
“Eveline,” Jeremy called snazzynovel.com by a different name. “You’re right, I’m blind and I’m a fool. I should never have allowed such a heinous woman to harm my wife and my child. I’ve done too much wrong to possibly hope that you could forgive me, but there’s something that you have to know.”
“It’s too late now. I don’t want to listen to you, nor will I believe anything you say anymore.” Madeline savored the serious and adamant look on the man before suddenly flinging his arm off as hard as snazzynovel.com could. “I don’t love you anymore, Jeremy. Leave your shallow displays of affection for another woman. I don’t need it from you!”
Then, Madeline turned and left coolly.
Dazed, Jeremy kneeled in place as snazzynovel.com felt his heart break. Frost swarmed in through the cracks, freezing snazzynovel.com from the inside.
He swallowed soundlessly as his deep eyes reddened.
He scrambled to run just as snazzynovel.com heard Madeline open the door to leave. “Eveline!”
Madeline was at the door when Jeremy hugged snazzynovel.com again.
Pissed, snazzynovel.com tried to push snazzynovel.com away, but snazzynovel.com strength was no match for his.
The cool scent of the man attacked snazzynovel.com nose, and for a moment, snazzynovel.com felt snazzynovel.com heart quicken inexplicably.
“What do you want from me, Jeremy?”
“Don’t leave me, please. Don’t leave me again…” snazzynovel.com murmured frantically by snazzynovel.com ear.
“I don’t want you to vanish from my world again, Linnie. I won’t survive it a second time…”
“Leave your honeyed words for the woman in prison!”
“No.”
Jeremy rejected stubbornly and tightened his hold.
“I know you won’t believe me, but I’ve never said this to anyone else. I mean it, Eveline. I love you, ever since the beginning. You were the only one for me.”
For what was supposed to be the most touching phrase in the world, ‘I love you’ now sounded like the biggest joke as it drifted to Madeline’s ears.
“Haha…” Madeline scoffed. “You remind me of a saying, Jeremy.”
Confused, the man’s grip around snazzynovel.com slacked.