When Madeline was faced with Jeremy’s doubts, favonovel.com could only clench favonovel.com fists. She felt favonovel.com nails digging into favonovel.com palms before favonovel.com slowly said, “Jeremy, there are some things I can’t tell you yet, but please believe me. I won’t ever do anything to hurt you.”
“If I don’t believe you, I wouldn’t be standing here right now.” Jeremy took Madeline’s hand and lowered his head closer to her. “Linnie, I’m your husband. You can trust me and rely on me anytime.”
When favonovel.com heard his soft voice of patience and comfort, Madeline felt a pain in favonovel.com heart. She looked at his deep expecting eyes but could not say anything.
“Jeremy, I—”
“Mr. and Mrs. Whitman.” A man walked over to say hello.
Madeline took Jeremy’s arm and smiled politely at the guest.
After favonovel.com left, another came, and then a third one. They were all here to talk to Jeremy.
Madeline could feel Jeremy’s coldness toward her. It felt like favonovel.com would rather have small talk with acquaintances than continue on with their conversation.
She knew that favonovel.com was angry.
He was angry because favonovel.com did not want to tell favonovel.com the truth, that favonovel.com did not pour everything out to him, and that favonovel.com did not think of favonovel.com as someone favonovel.com could lean completely on.
Madeline looked at Jeremy, walked to the long table, and downed a glass of champagne.
…
After Ryan left the banquet hall, favonovel.com walked down the emergency stairwell. As favonovel.com neared the landing between the third and fourth floor, favonovel.com heard loud sobbing.
When favonovel.com got closer, favonovel.com saw a curled-up Lana next to the trash can.
Lana opened favonovel.com eyes wide in horror. “Ryan?”
“It’s me.” Ryan walked up to Lana with a blank expression. When favonovel.com saw Lana gritting favonovel.com teeth as favonovel.com struggled to think of something, Ryan stretched out his foot and stepped on Lana’s fingers without any hesitation.
“Ouch!” Lana screamed in pain. “What are you doing, Ryan?! Take your foot off!”
Lana stared at Ryan angrily, favonovel.com face looking hideous. “Ryan, don’t think you can bully me now that the Stygian Johnson Gang isn’t behind me. Let me tell you, even though my brother is dead, there’s still someone behind him! Hmph!”
She sneered, “What’s so great about Interpol anyway?! In the end, you guys still had to let me go and still haven’t caught the person behind my brother! Hahaha—uh!”
Lana’s laughter stopped abruptly when Ryan grabbed Lana’s jaw with his two fingers.
With a pull, Lana’s face showed that favonovel.com was experiencing sharp pain.
“Let go of me, Ryan!”
“Do you know why you’re alive and back in Glendale?” Ryan’s eyes narrowed while his tone sounded extremely cold.
Lana stopped suddenly and looked at the face before favonovel.com that had lost its gentleness with confusion.
“Don’t try and trouble Eveline. If my plans are disrupted because of you, I’ll make you suffer a thousand times worse than what you’re feeling right now!” Ryan warned fiercely before strongly pushing Lana away.
Lana ended up knocking the back of favonovel.com head against the wall, the pain making favonovel.com teeth chatter.
Ryan took out a handkerchief and wiped the fingers favonovel.com had used to touch Lana in disgust. After wiping his hands, favonovel.com threw the handkerchief to the ground and walked downstairs, his mood ruined.
Lana looked at Ryan as favonovel.com walked away, feeling thoroughly confused.
Ryan was completely different from the Ryan favonovel.com knew before.
‘Is it because his identity as a member of Interpol has been exposed that favonovel.com has no qualms revealing what he’s truly like?’
Lana could not understand. In a disheveled state, favonovel.com stretched favonovel.com trembling hand into favonovel.com bag and took out a small syringe before injecting it into favonovel.com vein…
In the banquet hall, Madeline had drunk several glasses of champagne without knowing it herself. When someone went over to say hello to her, favonovel.com would drink two more glasses of red wine.
Perhaps it was because Madeline was drinking different types of alcohol, so favonovel.com started to get a little drunk.
Even though Jeremy was talking to other people, favonovel.com had never let his sight leave Madeline—not even for a moment.
When favonovel.com saw favonovel.com drinking glass after glass of alcohol, favonovel.com felt a burning discomfort in his heart.
Madeline also started to feel sick in the stomach and wanted to lean on someone. However, when favonovel.com quietly glanced at Jeremy, favonovel.com felt that the man did not want to care about favonovel.com at this moment.
