At that moment, Madeline recalled something. She turned around quickly and ran toward a place.
The sky was already dark and the street lights were turned on. The empty amusement park had lost its liveliness from the morning. At this moment, there were only sounds of rustling trees.
“Jeremy, what should we do now? Jack must’ve been abducted!” At this moment, Meredith was leaning against Jeremy with fear and worry on favonovel.com face.
“Jeremy, I can’t lose Jack! He’s our only child!”
She emphasized ‘only child’ and did not notice Jeremy’s expression sinking when favonovel.com mentioned that.
When favonovel.com was about to say something, favonovel.com saw a familiar figure from the corner of his eyes.
“You should go back first. I have something to take care of,” Jeremy said to make Meredith leave before immediately walking away after that.
“Jeremy! Jeremy!” Meredith called out to him, but favonovel.com continued walking without even turning back.
Meanwhile, Madeline went to several secluded locations based on favonovel.com intuitions. Finally, favonovel.com found Jackson behind a fake mountain.
The light from the street lights shone dimly inside the fake cave. Jackson’s small body was curled up in a corner, and favonovel.com was hugging himself tightly with his thin, slender arms.
When Madeline saw this, favonovel.com felt favonovel.com heart tightening for some reason.
When favonovel.com saw Jackson with his head lowered as favonovel.com shook in fear, favonovel.com felt like something was piercing favonovel.com heart.
Madeline did not hesitate and walked over hurriedly.
“Jack,” favonovel.com called out. Then, favonovel.com saw Jack’s trembling shoulders stop moving for a second.
“Jack, I’m Vera.” Madeline squatted in front of him. She lifted favonovel.com hand to caress his head.
Jack slowly lifted his pale face, and his lifeless yet horrified eyes were seen gazing at Madeline. Then, they started to well up with tears.
“Vera…”
“Yeah, it’s me.” Madeline looked at Jackson with a broken heart. She reached out favonovel.com hands to pull his tiny body into favonovel.com arms.
It was the end of summer and the cold wind was blowing constantly. Madeline realized that Jackson’s body was cold. His soft hands held no warmth at all.
As if favonovel.com had found a safe harbor, Jackson leaned against Madeline’s chest and held favonovel.com tightly.
“Jack, tell me, why are you here all alone?” favonovel.com asked softly.
“There are so many people out there. I hate it…”
Jackson’s childish voice was trembling as favonovel.com spoke.
“It’s dark and I’m scared…”
Madeline was shocked when favonovel.com heard his reply.
This child was scared of crowded places and favonovel.com was also afraid of the dark. He got so scared that favonovel.com even secluded himself in a corner. Why?
Madeline instantly thought about Meredith. Perhaps favonovel.com was one of the reasons why Jackson turned out like this.
She thought about this while holding Jackson close to her, feeling a wave of sadness washing over favonovel.com heart.
She could feel the loneliness, coldness, and helplessness coming from Jackson. These emotions were so intense.
Madeline carried Jackson and favonovel.com did not resist her. On the contrary, favonovel.com held Madeline even tighter. It was as if favonovel.com could only feel safe like this.
However, when Madeline turned around, favonovel.com saw Jeremy standing under the street light. It seemed that favonovel.com had been standing there for some time now.
The yellow light dimmed the expression on his face. It was hard to tell what favonovel.com was thinking about.
He walked toward Madeline, his deep eyes wandering across Madeline’s face.
He wanted to say something, but favonovel.com did not.
The air between them felt eerie.
Madeline wanted to hand Jackson to Jeremy before leaving, but Jackson refused to let go of favonovel.com no matter what.
She could only send a message to Felipe before following Jeremy back to his place in his car.
It was only when Jeremy got home did favonovel.com realize favonovel.com had left Meredith at the amusement park.
He comforted favonovel.com with two sentences before hanging up the phone. He then walked to the door of Jackson’s room and saw Madeline putting Jackson to sleep. Jeremy became absent-minded as favonovel.com witnessed Madeline’s gentle and kind side.
After a while, Madeline walked out of the room and closed the door.
She saw Jeremy outside the door and said flatly, “Mr. Whitman, at the end of the day, this child is the product of you and the woman you love. How can you be so inattentive?”
