Chapter 1145

Dazed, Madeline stared at the dark red spots of blood on the tissue. Oxygen suddenly felt scarce, and her vision darkened. She could not see anything at all. Before her was endless darkness and she felt it slowly suffocating her, numbing her senses.

He had not recovered yet. There was still poison in his body.

He lied to her.

“Linnie.”

Jeremy’s voice sounded from outside, snapping Madeline back to reality.

She stood up, her hands and feet feeling cold. She stuffed the tissue into her pocket. Wiping the tears off the corner of her eyes, she forced herself to smile and walk down the stairs.

Meeting her was Jeremy in the white T-shirt she had chosen for him. It fitted perfectly on the man’s body.

He walked toward her and curled the corner of his lips. “How is it? Do I look okay?”

Madeline stared deeply at the man in front of her. The faint smile he was wearing brought her back to years ago when they first knocked into each other on campus.

It had been years, yet hints of the man’s youth remained on his features.

The corners of Madeline’s eyes burned as she threw herself into Jeremy’s arms, hers looping around his waist.

Jeremy had no idea what prompted this but raised his arms to hold her back instinctively.

“What’s wrong, hmm?”

“Don’t leave me,” Madeline whispered, holding her emotions back by a single thread.

Jeremy was stunned for a moment as he felt the intensity of Madeline’s love and reluctance to leave him. The man smiled and raised his hand to caress the back of her head.

“I won’t leave you,” he promised, but his gaze grew lonely. “No matter what happens, I’ll always be with you.”

‘Even if my clock begins to tick, I will never let you go again.’

Jeremy kept the last sentence in his heart.

…

Madeline secretly went to a lab and looked for the chemist there.

Mr. Gordon could not help being curious upon seeing Madeline coming in with another ball of tissue to be tested when she had done the same half a year ago.

However, there was client confidentiality in place. He quickly went to do tests on the dried clot of blood.

Madeline walked out of the lab feeling uneasy.

The results may not be out yet, but she could already guess what they would be.

She did not want to question Jeremy for he was only hiding it from her so that she would not need to worry about him.

She was the reason why he hid from her at all.

Madeline returned to the office dazedly, not in the mood to work at all.

It had only been a moment since she sat down when she suddenly received a call from Ryan. “Are we still meeting today, Eveline?”

Hearing him, Madeline remembered that today was Ryan’s birthday.

She reined her thoughts back and spoke softly, “Yeah. Happy birthday.”

“Thank you. See you tonight.”

“Alright.” Madeline agreed.

Hanging up the phone, she exhaled a long breath of relief.

Her union with Ryan was about to be annulled.

She would soon be able to openly be the wife of the man she loved.

Still…

The mere thought of Jeremy’s physical condition unsettled Madeline.

The lab results would only come out tomorrow. Everything she was thinking about now was merely a suspicion.

Not knowing what to buy Ryan, Madeline finally decided on making him a cake from scratch.

Jeremy stood by her side while she made the cake, handing her things from time to time.

Evening came, and Jeremy then took it upon himself to send her off, all the way to where she and Ryan had decided to meet.