Chapter 1189

When Jeremy felt her arms wrapped around him, he quickly turned around.

He saw Madeline holding him listlessly while bare-footed. He did not hesitate for a second before picking her up.

Madeline felt really sad, and with all of her remaining strength, she wrapped her arms around the man’s neck tightly as she buried her haggard face between his neck.

“Jeremy, don’t ignore me.”

Madeline’s voice sounded as if she was on the brink of crying, even sounding a little inferior just like how she was last time.

Jeremy felt the pain in his heart growing.

How could he bear to ignore her?

He wanted to comfort her, but all he heard was Madeline apologizing. “I know I was fierce to you just now, but I didn’t mean it.”

Jeremy stopped his steps, lowered his head, and kissed her on the cheek. He pressed his thin lips to her ears. “What nonsense are you talking about? How can I be angry with you? You don’t need to apologize to me. You haven’t done anything wrong.”

His gentle tone that was like a breeze of air washed over Madeline’s injured heart as she closed her eyes and weakly sank deeper into him.

“Then don’t go. Stay with me.”

“Okay, I’m not going anywhere.”

Jeremy promised, wanting to bring Madeline to the bed to sit. However, she only tightened her hug.

“I want you to hold me,” she requested in a coquettish tone that she had never used on him before.

Jeremy did not want to let go of her either, so he sat down on the bed with Madeline in his arms as he gently ran his warm palm and fingers through her long hair.

“Jeremy, I know you have a lot of questions, but you have to trust that no matter what I do, I’ll never hurt you.”

“Yeah, I know.” Jeremy nodded.

“Don’t go anywhere tonight, okay? Just stay with me here.”

Madeline looked up at him with her tear-stained eyes that were like dewdrops on a flower petal.

Jeremy’s heartstrings were tugged at the sight of her at the moment.

He did not give her a reply verbally and only slowly lowered his head to gently kiss her lips as a response.

Madeline closed her eyes and continued to sink into the man’s sweet tenderness…

It was already late into the night.

Madeline woke up on time. She looked at the time and wanted to give Jeremy the reagent.

She tiptoed out of the ward, asked the nurse for a sterile disposable syringe with a random excuse, and returned to the ward.

Since it was a VIP ward, the layout of the room was similar to a standard suite of a hotel.

Madeline saw that Jeremy was fast asleep in another hospital bed.

After Madeline drew the reagent into the syringe, she walked over to Jeremy. She held his arm gently, located his vein, and injected the needle into it without hesitation.

Jeremy was actually still awake.

He could not stop thinking about Madeline as his mind would go back to what the woman in the sunglasses said.

“Stop pretending already, Eveline Montgomery. I saw you. You and Ryan met secretly by the hospital entrance when your daughter was admitted to the hospital. He brought you home and when you two were done, he brought you back to the hospital too. How kind of him.”

‘So Linnie, you went to see Ryan that time.

‘But why did you meet with Ryan?

‘When you went out this afternoon, were you with Ryan too?

‘Is that why Ryan jumped down to save you when you jumped into the river?’

Jeremy half-opened his round eyes and stared at Madeline who was giving him an injection with a serious look on her face.

After Madeline gave him the injection, she discarded the syringe and bottle. Meanwhile, Jeremy continued to pretend to sleep.

After a while, Madeline returned to Jeremy’s bed and traced his eyebrows with her fingers.

When Madeline imagined him suffering from the poison alone, she felt even worse.