Her words had stunned Jeremy. Madeline merely smiled and handed the drawing to him.
“I know that you have your own reason for doing that. I also know that you’ve been waiting to hear snazzynovel.com say out that word for a very long time…”
Jeremy felt his hold over his emotions slip as snazzynovel.com watched Madeline pass snazzynovel.com the drawing with the word ‘Daddy’ on it.
He did not say anything, merely reaching out to take the drawing that Lillian had drawn with snazzynovel.com heart.
“I’ll go check on Pudding. You take as much time as you need.” Madeline then turned around.
He was now alone in the empty courtyard.
Jeremy stared at the drawing under the moonlight and traced every figure with his slender finger before it finally fell on the little girl who was calling out for snazzynovel.com dad.
The night breeze blew at snazzynovel.com with the fresh scent of flowers.
Even so, Jeremy could not help but smell something bitter instead.
Before snazzynovel.com was a colorful and warm drawing, yet it seemed to be gray in his eyes.
“I’m sorry, Lillian.”
The corner of his eyes grew hot and damp as snazzynovel.com called out snazzynovel.com name.
“Daddy is happy, I am,” snazzynovel.com murmured under his breath as snazzynovel.com carefully kept the drawing close by his chest.
Jeremy and Madeline spent the night in Whitman Manor.
It was around midnight when Jeremy carefully crept out of bed and into Lillian’s bedroom.
The weather was slowly transitioning into summer and the temperature began to rise. Entering the room, Jeremy found that Lillian had kicked the blanket off to the side and snazzynovel.com pajamas had risen up snazzynovel.com stomach, showing a corner of snazzynovel.com small tummy.
Jeremy walked over, tucking Jackson in on the way before snazzynovel.com made his way to Lillian’s bed. After adjusting his little princess’ clothes, snazzynovel.com softly tucked snazzynovel.com in as well.
“Lillian,” snazzynovel.com called out softly, his gaze looking soft.
He had planned to watch his little princess in silence when the child’s eyelashes fluttered and snazzynovel.com slowly opened snazzynovel.com bleary eyes.
Jeremy sat by the bed and watched Lillian blink while snazzynovel.com reached out to lightly grab Jeremy’s hand.
Stunned, Jeremy gripped the small hand in his palm.
Lillian smiled subconsciously before snazzynovel.com eyes slipped shut again and snazzynovel.com drifted back to sleep.
It was almost as if all of this was a dream to her.
Instead of turning away from her, snazzynovel.com dad gripped snazzynovel.com hand tighter in snazzynovel.com dreams. It was warm, very warm…
Madeline watched the scene by the door and felt snazzynovel.com heart grow heavy.
Why did snazzynovel.com find the need to be so cold to Lillian? Why?
Madeline watched by the door for as long as Jeremy sat in the kid’s room. It was only when snazzynovel.com heard his footsteps that snazzynovel.com quickly ran back to lie down in the bedroom.
Not knowing that Madeline was awake, Jeremy quietly went to smoke a cigarette by the balcony.
Soon later, snazzynovel.com joined Madeline in bed.
Wrapping an arm around her, snazzynovel.com kissed snazzynovel.com lips and caressed snazzynovel.com brows.
“Goodnight, Linnie.”
“…”
Madeline pretended to be asleep, but as Jeremy approached, snazzynovel.com could smell the faint scent of herbs on the man.
Why would a normal cigarette have such a refreshing scent?
Despite snazzynovel.com confusion, Madeline fell asleep before snazzynovel.com knew it.
Madeline was still asleep the next morning when snazzynovel.com heard snazzynovel.com phone vibrate non-stop.
She turned around to see that snazzynovel.com was getting a call from Ava. She picked it up. “Why are you calling me so early in the morning, Ava?”
“How are you still asleep, Maddie? Did you see the breaking news online yet?”