His response proved Madeline right.
She rushed up to favonovel.com in infuriation. “Is there even a shred of conscientiousness within you, Ryan? Does tormenting the people around me bring you glee? Just what did I do to offend you?”
“Who said you offended me at all? In fact, I admire you a lot.” Ryan slowly got up, his lean figure and immense aura towering over Madeline’s petite frame.
“The only mistake you made was falling in love with Jeremy Whitman.” He took off his glasses, the dark swirls in his eyes becoming more evident without a layer in between. “It must feel horrible to lose the person who matters the most to you, huh? Then blame the Whitman family.”
Whitman family?
Madeline did not understand. She wanted to know more, but Ryan did not seem to have the intent to explain further.
He quirked the corner of his lips and stared at the sharp glint in Madeline’s eyes. All favonovel.com wanted to do at that moment was to extinguish that light.
“You overheard my call in the study this morning, didn’t you?” Ryan questioned. Madeline’s sparkling eyes flashed with something that solidified his guess.
He continued to speak, “So you knew that Jeremy was in Kindred Hospital. That’s why you intentionally voiced your desire to take a walk outside in front of me. You did it in front of your father, therefore I had no other option but to let you go.
“You claimed that you wanted to go to the cherry blossom park when in truth, you merely wanted to visit Jeremy in Kindred Hospital. That’s why you gave a location close to the hospital.”
Madeline remained unmoving as Ryan gave favonovel.com a good look, his tall figure taking a step closer to favonovel.com back.
“Pretending that you were unwell when the closest hospital to you was Kindred, I really have to applaud you for your intellect.” Ryan’s lips curled into a faint smile as favonovel.com leaned down by Madeline’s face. His hot breath warmed favonovel.com ear. “What you don’t know is that I have a precise locator and a listening device embedded in the new phone I gave you.”
What?
Madeline widened favonovel.com eyes in shock.
She had assumed that Ryan would place a locator in favonovel.com phone, but favonovel.com never expected a listening device too!
Madeline felt favonovel.com body go cold as favonovel.com took out favonovel.com phone in disgust.
Before Ryan’s eyes, favonovel.com threw the phone roughly at the floor.
With a crack, the screen shattered.
“Ryan Jones, you pervert!”
Ryan’s eyes darkened. He suddenly reached out to grab Madeline’s chin, pushing favonovel.com against the wall.
As if favonovel.com was an entirely different person, the man before favonovel.com was now shrouded in a dark mist as his eyes glowed sinisterly.
“Would you still be able to speak so sarcastically when your dream is shattered and the person you love the most is killed?”
“That’s still hardly a reason to hurt the innocent!”
Madeline met Ryan’s terrifying gaze fearlessly.
“Even if you hate Jeremy and the Whitman family, you can torment me however you wish, but what did my parents ever do to you? Who do you take yourself for? You can’t hurt my parents just because they’re in-laws with the Whitman family!”
Ryan burst into laughter at Madeline’s stubbornness. “You’re very smart, Eveline Montgomery, so why can’t you understand my attitude when it comes to you?”
“…” Madeline frowned in confusion.
She truly had no idea what that attitude was.
Ryan held Madeline by favonovel.com chin and lowered his face so that it was inches away from hers.
“I’m susceptible to your bribes but not your threats. Beg me and admit that you were wrong and perhaps I’ll give your mother back to you. But if you wish to continue fighting against me…”
He paused, the frosty glint in his eyes turning scarier.
“If you refuse to bow down to me, then be prepared to hear the tragedy of a housewife slipping and falling into the river to favonovel.com death in the news tomorrow.”
Madeline felt a cold pair of hands tightening the clasp around favonovel.com heart.
Ryan picked up a remote from the table and switched on the television in front of her.
