Chapter 1220

However, when Jeremy woke up and touched the empty half of the bed, his heart sank.

“Linnie?”

He tried to look for Madeline in the small room but could see the entire room in just one glance. She was not here.

Jeremy cleaned himself up hastily and went downstairs. When he was about to ask the receptionist, the boss gave Jeremy a note.

“You’re awake, hot stuff. Your girlfriend said she needed to leave in the middle of the night and left you a note.”

She left in the middle of the night?

Jeremy’s sunken heart felt extremely cold.

He took the note and when he opened it, he saw four words. ‘Jeremy, I love you.’

Jeremy looked at Madeline’s neat handwriting. Those four words were reflected in his eyes and had already tattooed themselves onto his heart.

He remembered what Madeline told him last night almost immediately. “Jeremy, I have a plan to make Ryan admit that he’s the one who killed Lana.”

‘Linnie, you dummy, you went ahead and looked for Ryan in order to prove my innocence and for my life is going to end soon?’

He guessed it immediately and felt his heart sinking painfully.

‘Linnie, why are you so stupid?

‘I don’t deserve this.’

Jeremy called Madeline immediately. At the same time, he put on a face mask and sunglasses to prevent people from recognizing him.

However, when he called her number, the line was busy.

Jeremy figured she might have blocked his number, so he felt extremely worried for her.

He knew Madeline was approaching Ryan with a plan and she was smart, so she knew how to protect herself. However, the person she was facing was Ryan. He was a cold-blooded and vicious tyrant who would do anything to reach his goals.

Jeremy decided to go look for Ryan. However, when he passed the entrance of a mall, he suddenly heard someone mentioning Madeline’s name.

“Isn’t that Eveline Montgomery? Why is she with Ryan Jones?”

Jeremy stopped in his tracks abruptly and looked over to where everyone was looking.

The real-time news was playing on the LED screen in front of him.

Madeline was wearing a seductive and mature dress as she walked excitedly and feeling complacent next to Ryan. She had a pair of sunglasses on her face.

The journalist chased after her and asked, “Mrs. Whitman, Mr. Whitman was involved in a murder and has become a fugitive now. I heard you were involved with his escape, but why are you with Mr. Jones now?”

“What are your comments on Mr. Whitman’s murder?” the journalists asked.

In the camera, Madeline stopped walking in annoyance. “Please don’t speak without thinking. When did I help Jeremy escape? I’ve been with Mr. Jones this entire time. I don’t know where Jeremy is.”

The journalists were shocked when Madeline said that.

“Mrs. Whitman, are you saying you’ve always been with Mr. Jones this whole time after what happened to Mr. Whitman? So, about Mr. Whitman’s murder…”

“He’s the one who murdered someone. What does it have to do with me? Stop interviewing me. I don’t have time,” Madeline answered in annoyance. Then, she took off her sunglasses and displayed her charming eyes.

“Also, stop calling me Mrs. Whitman. I, Eveline Montgomery, don’t have a murderer as a husband.”

“…” The journalists were dumbfounded.

After Madeline said that, she put her sunglasses back on and smiled before walking back to Ryan.

Then, the two of them got into a car and drove away.

After Jeremy watched the interview, he could not explain what he was feeling right now.

When he was about to leave, he heard all kinds of criticisms from people around him.

“Damn! Eveline Montgomery is so heinous!”

“Why does such a woman exist? Her husband is going to be the suspect of a murder case. It’s fine that she didn’t hire a lawyer to help him, but she even ran into another man’s arms so quickly. How disgusting!”

“I heard it’s because Mr. Whitman affected the stocks of Montgomery Enterprise, so she cut all ties with Mr. Whitman for the sake of money.”

“Tsk, how disgusting! Mr. Whitman is so blind. He married a woman who’s only after him for his riches and ran away now that he’s in trouble! Karma will get Eveline Montgomery soon enough.”

When he heard others berating and criticizing Madeline, Jeremy wanted to stand up for Madeline, but in the end, he held it in.

The news spread across the internet very quickly, and immediately, Madeline became everyone’s enemy.

They were saying she was easily swayed and had forsaken her partner after having dallied with him.

Plus, they even said she sold her soul for gains and was a fickle woman. Even the employees in her company started looking at her with disdain in their eyes.

Madeline endured all these without saying a word. She sat in her office all alone from morning till night.

She only left the office when she received Ryan’s call telling her that he would come to pick her up.

The sky looked darker than usual as lightning flashed across the night sky. Thunderstorms in the summer would come whenever they pleased.

Madeline took the elevator down. The moment the doors opened and she was about to get out, a black figure barged in all of a sudden, forcing her to the corner.