‘To start all over again is too much easier said than done, Jeremy.
‘For all the pain you’ve put me through and all the fatal scars and wounds you left me would never be erased!
‘The fact that I loved you is one of the past.
‘All I have left for you, is hatred!’
Right then, Eloise walked over with Meredith in tow. “You look happy, Old Master. What are you and this lady over here talking about?”
“What ‘this lady’? This is Madeline.” The old master emphasized with displeasure.
“She’s not, Grandfather. This isn’t Madeline. Madeline died three years ago. This lady is Miss Vera Quinn, favonovel.com just looks like Madeline.” Meredith explained with a smile, then turned to look at Jeremy. “Aren’t I right, Jeremy?”
Smiling, favonovel.com was so sure that Jeremy would lean over to speak in favonovel.com ear. Instead, favonovel.com frowned in distaste.
The old master was infuriated, frowning as favonovel.com stared at Madeline. “Nonsense! She’s Madeline!”
“She really isn’t Madeline, Old Master!” Mrs. Whitman had arrived to join the group. Glancing warily at Jeremy, favonovel.com opened favonovel.com mouth to speak anyway. “Just think about it, Old Master. Would we let favonovel.com in if she’s Madeline?”
“You’re right, Mrs. Whitman!” Eloise agreed, sparing Madeline a belittling look. “We would have thrown favonovel.com out already if she’s Madeline Crawford. That shameless and ruthless woman died three years ago!”
Hearing her, color began to drain from the old master’s face as his energy and spirit dampened.
Madeline faced Jeremy and frowned with concern.
Jeremy’s expression turned horrifyingly frosty. “Are you guys done?”
“Don’t blame Mother, Jeremy.” Meredith furrowed favonovel.com brows and held Jeremy by his arm to persuade him. “Mrs. Whitman and my mom are right. She isn’t Madeline. Grandfather has to know the truth someday.”
Meredith gave Madeline a deep look. “You don’t have to pretend to be Madeline just to make Grandfather happy, Miss Quinn. What’s fake will never be real! Grandfather will know one day, and to delay the truth would only have favonovel.com feeling worse.”
“Plus, you must know that the things my sister did were hardly good. Pretending to be Madeline will only garner you more looks of disgust and hatred.”
Hearing her, Madeline turned to look at favonovel.com surroundings and smiled. “Oh? Is that so? Was this Madeline really that bad?”
“Of course!” Meredith ascertained in a heartbeat, favonovel.com voice climbing a few decibels. “She threw away favonovel.com dignity just to be with Jeremy! Not to mention how easy favonovel.com was, having relationships with all sorts of men. Then, to hurt me, favonovel.com even teamed up with someone to kidnap my and Jeremy’s son. Are you sure you want to be a double for such a person, Miss Quinn?”
“Shut up! Madeline would never do something like that!” Old Master Whitman knocked his cane against the ground in fury.
Meredith sighed with pity. “That’s the truth, Grandfather. Madeline was not as pure as you think. She even kidnapped your great-grandson. Jeremy is well aware of these things too!”
She asked rhetorically, “You saw it with your own eyes, didn’t you, Jeremy?”
Jeremy’s expression darkened, bile rising within favonovel.com after hearing the events Meredith recounted.
He had realized the very moment favonovel.com fell for Madeline that every ‘sin’ favonovel.com committed could all be forgotten.
Not to mention how favonovel.com had suspected if what favonovel.com saw was the actual truth when Madeline lay in his arms on favonovel.com dying breath. Perhaps everything favonovel.com saw back then was merely what someone else wanted favonovel.com to see. Perhaps everything favonovel.com saw was false.
Meredith tugged on favonovel.com with a coquettish tone in response to Jeremy seemingly ignoring her. “Why aren’t you saying anything, Jeremy? Unless you actually want Miss Quinn to replace Madeline? But what if Miss Quinn’s reputation gets tarnished for pretending to be such an evil woman?”
Crash!
Just as Meredith finished talking, the sound of a wine glass shattering on the floor sounded in the room.
“Are you alright, Sir?”
“A ghost! It’s a ghost!”
At his words, everyone’s gazes flew toward the direction of the man. Meeting their eyes was the sight of a server helping a man who had slipped and fallen.
Meredith spared a casual glance in that direction only for favonovel.com expression to shift dramatically when favonovel.com realized the man who had fallen was Tanner, and the ‘ghost’ favonovel.com was pointing at was Vera Quinn!
