Chapter 164

When Meredith reached the place, she immediately saw Jeremy sitting next to the window. Even if she had only seen his back, Meredith would never mistaken him for anyone else.

However, Meredith did not see another woman sitting in front of Jeremy. After thinking about it, she figured that the woman could have just gone to the washroom. Meredith did not bother greeting Jeremy and headed straight to the washroom instead.

Looking around, she failed to find anyone who was wearing the same outfit as the woman in the picture she saw.

Meredith cursed in her heart before tidying her appearance and putting on her best smile to go look for Jeremy. However, the moment she headed over, she noticed that Jeremy had disappeared as well.

She hurried down the elevator but only managed to see Jeremy’s white-colored sports car speeding away in front of her, and in the passenger seat was a woman.

Meredith gritted her teeth in anger, immediately calling Jeremy. The phone call went through, but no one answered.

At night, Madeline was earnestly designing some new jewelry on her computer when a little girl ran next to her. She climbed up her leg and into her embrace. It was just like a kitten cozying up to a human.

“Mommy, Mommy, I met another boy today. He gave me a cute lollipop. I really liked it.”

Madeline looked down at the little girl who was cuter than a doll, kissing her tenderly as she said, “Is that so? Then did you give the boy something back?”

“Yes!” Lily nodded earnestly. “I gave the boy the yellow duck you gave me, but he said he didn’t want it.”

“Is that so…”

“I know, I’ll give this to Jackie tomorrow!” Lily suddenly jumped off Madeline and ran toward the coffee table.

Madeline’s expression changed subtly. “Lily, what’s the boy’s name?”

“Jackson Whitman. He has the same surname as I do!”

Madeline was stunned and momentarily speechless. Suddenly, the phone rang, snapping her back to reality.

Looking at the caller, Madeline immediately picked it up. A man’s gentle tone could be heard from the other end. “Are you used to being back in Glendale?”

“Yes.” Madeline nodded, going silent for a few seconds before asking, “When will you be back?”

The man astutely realized something was off. “Did something happen?”

“Lily met Jackson Whitman. She seems to like him, so I’m a little worried.”

“Both of them are just little kids. Don’t overthink it. Nothing will happen, so get some rest.”

Madeline calmed down significantly after listening to his words. She smiled. “You should get some rest as well. Good night.”

Her mind was still active after the call.

If not for that man, she would have died years ago.

Instead, her dreams came through and she was living the life she always wanted. She even had the ability to return to Glendale to seek revenge.

Madeline managed to find some pictures of Jeremy and Meredith’s engagement from the internet.

Remembering how she had gone there to offer her ‘gift’, her expression drastically changed.

Meredith’s birthday as the daughter of the Montgomeries was fast approaching. That day, Madeline would give her a birthday she would never forget.

In the few days that followed, Madeline was very busy preparing for the opening ceremony of her shop on First Crystal Street.

No one knew what she had gone through in the past three years.

Behind everyone’s clueless backs, she knew that she had to make herself even more powerful in order to make the ones she hated pay the price.

In the following days, Meredith noticed that Jeremy had pretty much visited the shop at Crystal Street every day. He never entered and only waited inside his car, but Meredith could clearly see that he was always talking to a woman.

She clearly saw that the woman’s silhouette was the same as the woman she had an incident with at KFC—the same woman who looked incredibly similar to Madeline. After investigating, she found out that the woman was called Vera Quinn.