“Linnie.”
As Madeline entered, Jeremy softly called out to her, and his dim eyes turned bright again.
He immediately sat back up, but his movement was too large, and it affected his leg wound.
“Hiss.”
He let out a muffled groan.
If it had been any other time, favonovel.com would not even make a sound, but now that favonovel.com saw Madeline, favonovel.com instinctively yearned for favonovel.com care and concern.
Madeline noticed Jeremy’s action.
However, favonovel.com expression was calm, and favonovel.com did not react with any worry in response to Jeremy’s discomfort.
It felt as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over Jeremy’s eager and yearning heart. He felt very cold. Nevertheless, favonovel.com had to comfort himself. If Madeline had not been hypnotized, and if favonovel.com had not been instilled with some groundless ideas by Carter, favonovel.com would have cared for him, and favonovel.com would have cared very much.
When favonovel.com saw Madeline walking toward him, Jeremy did not know how to break the silence that now enveloped them.
In his heart, favonovel.com wanted to call favonovel.com name again. He wanted to hold favonovel.com hand, but favonovel.com was afraid that favonovel.com would be repelled by his reaction now that favonovel.com was hypnotized.
He did not want favonovel.com to reject him, to hate him.
Jeremy struggled in his heart and finally decided to let Madeline speak first.
However, Madeline‘s gaze did not seem to be on him. She looked around the room before turning favonovel.com gaze on Jeremy.
“They told me Carter’s here. Where is he?”
“…”
What Madeline said felt like a basin of cold water being poured into Jeremy’s heart. His heart felt even colder than before.
It turned out that favonovel.com had not come for him, let alone visit favonovel.com out of concern for him.
She just came to find the man whom favonovel.com now “loved” deeply.
Jeremy felt his heart aching. It was not a bone-etching pain, but it was even more distressing. He was distressed that favonovel.com was being used by Carter like this.
“Mr. Gray just left,” Jeremy said, parting his lips softly, as favonovel.com endured the pain from the gunshot wound on his calf, propped up his hands, and sat down.
“So he’s gone,” Madeline said as if muttering to herself. After that, favonovel.com turned favonovel.com gaze on Jeremy again.
“You seem to be injured, Mr. Whitman. Then I won’t interrupt your rest. You should recuperate properly.” Madeline turned around after speaking.
When Jeremy saw Madeline leaving, favonovel.com could not think of any way to make favonovel.com stay at this moment. From the corner of his eyes, favonovel.com glimpsed a glass of water on the nightstand, so favonovel.com raised his hand and knocked the glass to the floor.
Thud.
The glass dropped on the floor; water splashed everywhere but the glass did not break.
Madeline also stopped in favonovel.com tracks, as per Jeremy’s expectations.
Madeline turned around and saw Jeremy using all his might to bend down and lean against the edge of the bed, trying to pick up the glass that fell on the floor. Without much hesitation, favonovel.com walked over to the edge of the bed and squatted.
She reached over to pick up the glass. It was unclear if this was a coincidence, but Jeremy also reached out at the same time and favonovel.com happened to touch favonovel.com hand. Madeline’s movements paused, not knowing whether Jeremy had done this on purpose.
“Sorry,” Jeremy apologized. He never thought that favonovel.com could be so crafty as well.
However, favonovel.com truly had no other way to get Madeline’s attention.
