Chapter 1734

At Jeremy’s urging, Madeline questioned no further. She quickly retrieved the anti-toxoid test reagent she kept in her pocket and handed it to Jeremy.

Jeremy took it just as Carter walked out from the entryway.

He immediately spotted Jeremy and Madeline, then walked straight over.

He shifted his gaze toward the vial of anti-toxoid test reagent that laid next to Jeremy. Upon seeing the shattered pieces of the vial, Carter’s eyes flashed with delight, then darkened further.

“Jeremy, that was the only available vial of anti-toxoid test reagent that could help Madeline, and now it has been shattered. Now, you can only watch the suffering of your beloved. Unless you release Shirley.

She’ll then have time to develop the anti-toxoid test reagent.”

After listening to Carter’s words, Jeremy calmly stood up.

Madeline got up as well. She lightly patted away the snowflakes on Jeremy’s coat, looking at the shattered vial by Jeremy’s feet with a grave expression.

“Carter, you still dare think so highly of yourself. Since you’ve already thoroughly investigated Linnie and me, you should know that I’d never risk my wife’s safety.”

Jeremy walked up to Carter; Jeremy’s eyes blazed with anger despite the biting cold winter snow.

“Truth be told, I’d never wanted to let Shirley go. That’s not all. I’d even locked her in the basement with neither food nor drink for the entire night.”

Carter furrowed his brows. “Jeremy!”

“That woman has developed such a twisted and damaging thing to harm Linnie and me. Do you think I’d still be kind to her? Even if I’d truly tortured her, she’d only be getting what she’d deserve.”

“You…” Carter’s mouth set into a hard line, and his eyes glowed with rancor.

“I’m not finished,” Jeremy interrupted Carter coldly, Jeremy’s deep, alluring eyes were more imposing than Carter’s. “If it weren’t because of my wife’s urging, I wouldn’t have even let that vile woman sleep in the villa guest room in comfort. A despicable reprobate like her, who only sees the life of others as experiments, is unworthy of any sympathy.”

A vile woman.

A reprobate.

Upon hearing Jeremy’s description of Shirley, Carter’s fists slowly clenched as the raging flame within him was about to erupt at any moment.

However, at the brink of Carter losing control of his overflowing anger, Madeline suddenly spoke.

“I treated Shirley kindly not because I pity Shirley, but because I pity how she’s being manipulated,”

Madeline said while looking into Carter’s eyes, which suddenly had a confused look.

“Shirley is very detestable, and she did many despicable deeds. However, the one who is even more detestable, more despicable, is the one who’s behind her instigating her to commit these deeds.

Wouldn’t you say so, Mr. Gray?”

“…”

Carter immediately fell silent.

He knew very clearly that Madeline was referring to him.

That is correct. Shirley had only been following his orders.

If she was a vile woman and a despicable rat, then he would be even worse.

This thought made Carter chuckle.

The white snowflakes fluttered past his eyes, and in that second, it was as though the snowflakes had turned black.

Carter’s elegant face finally revealed a never-before-seen sinister smile.

“Seems that I wasn’t the only ones who have done a thorough investigation. You guys have investigated me thoroughly as well,” he said provocatively, an abnormal chill in his voice. He shifted his gaze to the shattered vial on the ground, then to Madeline.

“Madeline, for the sake of our relationship, I didn’t initially want to see you in so much pain. However, there are no longer any anti-toxoid test reagents, and you guys seem unwilling to release the one who developed the anti-toxoid test reagent. Further, your husband insisted on making me his enemy. I guess you can only resign yourself to fate now.”