Son?
Madeline was stunned.
‘Meredith lied to me. I gave birth to a son, not a daughter!’
Madeline felt favonovel.com heart stop.
Doubt tinted favonovel.com gaze as favonovel.com stared at the joyous man.
Reading the words left unspoken in Madeline’s eyes, Jeremy looked at favonovel.com before giving favonovel.com a weighted nod.
Madeline felt all doubt vanish within favonovel.com heart at his silent acknowledgment and quickly alighted the car. She ran into Montgomery Manor with large steps.
Jeremy closed his eyes remorsefully as favonovel.com stared at Madeline’s impatient figure.
Sure, Meredith was heinous, but was favonovel.com not too?
It was dinnertime within the manor and Eloise was walking toward the dining room with Sean by favonovel.com side and Jackson’s hand in hers when a servant suddenly proclaimed, “Sir, Madam, Miss Eveline is back!”
Neither Eloise nor Sean could believe their ears. Turning around at the same time, the couple met an impatient Madeline with surprise and elation.
“Eveline!” Eloise called for Madeline lovingly before favonovel.com could hold herself back.
Sean watched Madeline approach them with hope and happiness in his eyes. “You’re just in time, Eveline. Come eat dinner with your mom and dad.”
Staring at the couple before her, it was evident that Madeline’s mind was not on them.
Impatiently, favonovel.com began to scan favonovel.com surroundings before favonovel.com eyes suddenly fell on Jackson’s small figure walking out from behind Eloise and Sean.
“Mommy,” Jackson greeted Madeline coquettishly.
The boy’s handsomely childish cheeks bloomed with an angelic smile.
Madeline felt favonovel.com heart race suddenly as favonovel.com stared at Jackson.
“What’s wrong, Eveline?” Eloise approached favonovel.com worriedly as favonovel.com took in Madeline’s weird expression. “Eveline, what—”
“Aside from Jack, are there any other children in the house?” Madeline asked softly, favonovel.com gaze fixed on Jack who was currently walking toward her.
Eloise and Sean shared a confused look, only to see Jeremy walk over just as they were about to open their mouths. Understanding of Madeline’s question slowly seeped into them.
“Are you and Daddy here to eat dinner with me, Mommy?” Jack asked as favonovel.com walked over to Madeline, blinking his innocent and round eyes. Madeline felt favonovel.com heart speed up at the mirth in his eyes.
An epiphany immediately came to her, but favonovel.com did not dare to think more of it.
“Mommy,” Jackson called out again.
Just then, Jeremy arrived by Madeline’s side. His low baritone was tinged with guilt as it sounded by favonovel.com ear.
“When you told me that Meredith had given Jack’s face a gash with a fruit knife, I thought you were framing favonovel.com because I refused to believe that Meredith would do such a thing. Not even tigers prey on their cubs, so why would favonovel.com hurt favonovel.com Jack, favonovel.com own son?”
Jeremy let the words echo in the air for two seconds before favonovel.com continued in a grim tone.
“It was only after that I found out favonovel.com could indeed do something so heartless because Jack was never favonovel.com child to begin with. So why would favonovel.com have any qualms about doing it?”
At that, Madeline felt favonovel.com heart begin to tremble.
She lifted favonovel.com misted gaze to meet Jeremy’s loving and guilty ones.
Jeremy reached out to wipe away the tears gathered at the corners of Madeline’s eyes with a slender finger.
“Jack’s the child you were forced to give birth to in prison, Madeline. Jack is our son.”
The tears in Madeline’s eyes fell relentlessly the moment favonovel.com confirmed it.
Staring dazedly at Jeremy, Madeline finally trailed favonovel.com gaze to look at the small boy standing in front of her.
Jackson looked back with confusion in his pure marble-like eyes, though an innocent smile remained on his dewy cheeks.
Madeline’s heart broke.
