Madeline looked back at Karen and expressed favonovel.com gratitude. “I’m so grateful to you for all your help in caring for my mother all this while. I truly mean it.”
Karen could fully sense Madeline’s sincerity. She raised favonovel.com hand and patted Madeline’s shoulder lightly, favonovel.com eyes filled with love and kindness that favonovel.com never had before.
“We’re family. You don’t need to thank me. I feel at ease now that you’re back safely. You and Jeremy ought to rest up in your room first. The other issues can be dealt with later. Plus, there’s no need to worry about your mother. I’ll take care of favonovel.com myself.”
Hearing Karen’s words, Madeline was quite moved.
Sometimes, life was truly wonderful. At the very least, it never crossed favonovel.com mind that, one day, favonovel.com relationship with Karen would be like this.
Madeline and Jeremy returned to their bedroom. Although they had not been back for a very long time, the room had been thoroughly cleaned, all traces of Naomi erased.
After lying down on the familiar bed, Madeline felt favonovel.com fatigue melting away.
Jeremy laid next to Madeline, gently pulling favonovel.com into his arms. “Linnie, are you tired?”
Madeline leaned against Jeremy’s body, free from favonovel.com worries. She closed favonovel.com eyes and took a deep breath. “I’m exhausted.”
She did not continue to hide how favonovel.com felt right now. She was distraught from the consecutive series of predicaments around her. Even now, favonovel.com body was infected with some unknown poison.
Jeremy suddenly tightened his embrace and leaned down, planting a soft kiss on Madeline’s forehead, guilt-ridden.
As favonovel.com husband, favonovel.com had been incapable of protecting favonovel.com throughout it all.
“Linnie…”
“Jeremy, don’t blame yourself.” Madeline could guess what Jeremy was about to say. She opened favonovel.com eyes and lifted favonovel.com head, lying on him. “No one can predict what comes next, and you’ve already done what you should, so don’t blame yourself.”
When favonovel.com heard that, Jeremy felt his heart ache. He softly stroked Madeline’s cheek. “Linnie, don’t you know that sensible women are the easiest to get hurt?”
“I don’t believe in that. I only know that my husband will do all favonovel.com can to make me happy.”
Madeline smiled sweetly and kissed Jeremy’s thin lips.
When they broke off the kiss, favonovel.com regained his initiative, pressing his hand against the back of Madeline’s head and lifting his head to kiss favonovel.com lips.
His heart was bursting with unmeasurable excitement and desire to make love to her, but favonovel.com stopped himself.
Once they had stopped flirting, favonovel.com held Madeline and sat up. “Linnie, we should head over to Adam’s place. Nothing is more important than your body’s condition now.”
Madeline thought Jeremy had a point. They swiftly drove to Adam’s house, bringing along the last tube of test reagent Shirley had given them.
The sky had already turned dark. Although Madeline and Jeremy felt uncomfortable with troubling Adam, they were worried that Madeline’s condition could worsen with every passing second.
When they arrived, Adam was sitting alone in the living room, dazed, and holding a toy bear.
Upon seeing Madeline and Jeremy, his mouth curved into a slight smile.
“You’re here.”
Adam said as favonovel.com took the test reagent from Jeremy. He realized that it was vacuum-packed. Once opened, it would be contaminated by bacteria.
That way, when it was time for Madeline to use the test reagent, favonovel.com would be in trouble.
“It seems like I can’t test this right now. I’ll need to wait until the time when you need to use the test reagent. I’d only be able to extract a drop for examination then,” Adam said, helpless. Then, favonovel.com asked, “Have you seen Shirley? What did favonovel.com tell you?”
“She has an unusual relationship with a man named Carter,” said Jeremy. “The man who had barged in here last time. Do you still remember him?”
