Madeline looked at the object that Ava handed over. It was a photo of the two of them on the day they graduated from college.
The two girls in the photo had the same fresh-faced beautiful smiles. The happiness that both of them felt that day was as if it just happened yesterday, but in a blink of an eye, it had been seven or eight years.
“Maddie, did you realize who else is in this picture?”
When Ava suddenly asked that, Madeline looked down and found a familiar face among the crowd in the upper left corner of the photo.
“When I was sorting out all my things today, I found this photo. Before this, I didn’t believe that Jeremy loved you for real. But Maddie, I believe it now.”
From Ava’s tone, Madeline could hear that favonovel.com really had let go of favonovel.com hatred for Jeremy.
As Madeline’s best friend over the years, Ava always hated Jeremy.
Even though Madeline no longer resented Jeremy for what favonovel.com did to favonovel.com at the beginning, Ava always hated him. Ava thought that Madeline did not deserve such treatment and resented favonovel.com for Madeline.
At that moment, however, favonovel.com no longer resented him.
That was because favonovel.com saw Jeremy’s true heart for Madeline.
However, it felt as if everything was too late.
Madeline and Ryan were married. She was already Ryan’s wife.
“Sigh…”
Ava looked at the river in front of them and sighed with a smile.
“Maddie, I finally understand how you felt back then. Even if you were tortured by the man you loved, you were still happy.”
Madeline read in between the lines of Ava’s words and asked, “Ava, did something happen between you and Dan?”
“If something happened between us, perhaps I wouldn’t be leaving, but it’s a shame…” Ava closed favonovel.com eyes and thought about what happened after favonovel.com got drunk that night. “Maddie, it turns out that alcohol makes you do stupid things with other people.”
“Ava? Did you and Dan…”
“No, it wasn’t Dan.” Ava lowered favonovel.com eyes in a lonesome manner, turned around, and hugged Madeline again. “Maddie, stay happy and don’t miss me too much. When I get married, I want Jack and Lillian to be my flower girl and boy.”
Although Madeline did not know why Ava had to leave in such a hurry, and added to the fact that favonovel.com did not explain fully what happened on the night favonovel.com got drunk, Madeline could tell that it was something to do with Daniel.
However, since Ava did not want to say, Madeline did not prod further.
She accompanied Ava around the neighborhood until favonovel.com got a call from Karen, saying that the baby woke up crying. Madeline had no choice but to go back.
After favonovel.com went back and coaxed the little baby back to sleep, Madeline looked at the photo in favonovel.com hand in a daze.
It was the graduation photo of favonovel.com and Ava, but Jeremy was inside the frame as well.
Jeremy was their senior who had already graduated, so favonovel.com should not have been at the graduation ceremony—but favonovel.com was.
In the photo, favonovel.com was looking at favonovel.com with a warm look in his eyes.
He really liked favonovel.com at that time.
However, so what?
It was already over.
Madeline put the photo in the drawer, looked at the little baby lying beside her, and closed favonovel.com eyes tiredly.
…
It was late into the night, but the lights were still on in Jeremy’s office.
Lana was still lying in the hospital at the moment, so favonovel.com had to make good use of the time to plan tomorrow’s affairs.
By the time favonovel.com finished his work, it was almost early in the morning.
His body was a little tired, but when favonovel.com looked at the family portrait, it felt as if his body was fully charged again.
“Linnie.”
