Bending his finger, Jeremy was about to pull his hand back when the decisive words of Ava and Daniel echoed in his head.
‘She is Maddie!
‘I refuse to believe that there are two people in this world who would like so alike!’
How could they be so sure? Unless it was because they saw some sort of identifying mark?
Identifying mark?
Jeremy was reminded of the mole above Madeline’s left chest.
Jeremy remembered how Vera’s grip on the towel had tightened when favonovel.com walked out of the bathroom the time favonovel.com had stayed the night for Jackson.
Had favonovel.com perhaps done so not out of embarrassment but out of fear of favonovel.com realizing something?
Jeremy’s heart rate sped up at the thought. Staring at Madeline who was still deeply asleep, one of his fingers fell on the button of favonovel.com hospital gown.
The first, second, and third buttons were unclasped in quick succession.
Click. The ward door burst open when Jeremy’s hand was still on Madeline’s gown.
“What are you doing, Jeremy?” Felipe walked into the room. Seeing Jeremy’s hand on Madeline’s clothes, favonovel.com walked up to tuck the blanket over Madeline’s shoulders.
Jeremy took his hand back as his deep, cold, and inquisitive gaze met with Felipe’s.
“How did you manage to move my wife overseas back then?”
Felipe smiled calmly. “What are you talking about, Jeremy? You can’t possibly still think that Vera is Madeline, can you?”
Jeremy pursed his thin lips, opting not to answer.
Felipe chuckled faintly and sighed. “The dead cannot be brought back alive, Jeremy, nor do I have the ability to revive a dead person. Madeline’s death pains me as well, but perhaps, death is more of a relief to her.”
Jeremy’s eyes dulled, but favonovel.com chuckled coldly. ‘Relief?”
“Am I wrong? She gave favonovel.com passion and love, waited for you favonovel.com entire life, yet what did you give back in return? Did you ever care for her? No. In fact, you never even stopped to see favonovel.com for who favonovel.com was.”
Jeremy felt a coldness washing over favonovel.com at Felipe’s words.
“You only hope that Vera is Madeline, Jeremy, because you know you’ve blamed favonovel.com for things favonovel.com didn’t do. You’re guilty, so you hope to make it up to her. In your eyes, Vera is merely a vessel for you to make peace with the guilt inside you.”
“Shut up!” Jeremy interrupted icily, his chest heaving.
He no longer wanted to remember how favonovel.com had hurt Madeline in the past, for every time favonovel.com did, even breathing and the fact that favonovel.com was alive felt like a sin.
She had loved favonovel.com her entire life, even until favonovel.com dying breath.
Yet what had favonovel.com given favonovel.com in return? Nothing but endless torture.
“I’m going to get Vera favonovel.com prescriptions. Don’t do anything you shouldn’t.” Felipe reminded on a heavy note before favonovel.com turned around and left.
Outside the door, Felipe’s thin lips curled subtly as favonovel.com watched Jeremy stand soullessly by the bed.
‘There was no such thing as a pill of regret, Jeremy. A love too late is worth nothing. You don’t deserve Madeline anymore.’
The unconscious Madeline began to dream. It was a scene from favonovel.com youth when favonovel.com and Jeremy had first met by the seaside. The sea breeze was salty, but the air was sweet.
Hand in hand they ran without a care in the world. Oh, how pure and easy their life used to be.
Perhaps favonovel.com had gotten hurt then, and in favonovel.com wound buried a thorn. Every time they met again, the thorn would start to hurt her. The pain only worsened until favonovel.com got to the point where favonovel.com started praying for death…
Madeline furrowed favonovel.com defined brows as the dreamscape began to shift, bringing favonovel.com back to the most painful memory from three years ago. Her hands reflexively gripped the bedsheets, and favonovel.com began to mumble while sleepwalking.
“Why, Jez? Why won’t you just believe me…”
