Chapter 215

Seeing Tanner charge over, Madeline thought of the atrocities he had done to her.

After a flash of a moment, when she had finally reacted to counterattack, a gust of wind roared from behind her all of a sudden.

Jeremy’s warm palms held onto her shoulders tightly, bringing her to the side.

Madeline was instantly surrounded by a familiar yet unfamiliar warm breath. Before she could see clearly, she saw Tanner swiping the air before hitting the tree. It was followed by Jeremy’s right hand twisting him around.

Tanner suddenly screamed, “Ow, ow!” However, Jeremy did not let up. He lifted his foot to Tanner’s knee and kicked him viciously, forcing Tanner to kneel down before kicking him away.

Madeline thought that Jeremy wanted to continue to teach Tanner a lesson, but he suddenly hugged her tightly, worried.

“Don’t be afraid, I’m here. I won’t let anyone bully you again.”

His gentle voice slipped into her ears like water in the night. It was so unbelievably gentle, carrying a trace of tension and worry as if he was really worried that she would be hurt.

Madeline opened her eyes blankly, feeling Jeremy’s embrace increasingly tighten.

Fine beads of rain fell from the sky, then densely. It was accompanied by the late summer breeze. It was so cold.

Yet the heat from his chest, which was pressed close to her and penetrated into her skin through their clothes, was so hot.

At such a close distance, she could hardly tell if it was her own heartbeat or Jeremy’s heartbeat that was disturbing her thoughts at the moment.

When she was almost lost in a daze, the pain from her invisible wounds made Madeline sober. “Mr.

Whitman, if you continue doing this, I’ll get angry,” she spoke softly, and the meaning of refusal was obvious.

Jeremy’s eyes froze as if he had just walked back from a beautiful dream.

“Sorry,” he whispered softly in her ear, then let go of his embrace.

He grabbed Tanner, who had wanted to run, and pushed him to the tree. His deep black eyes pierced Tanner like a poisonous sword.

“Listen, I’ll only give you one chance.” Jeremy’s thin lips parted open a little and his tone was cold. “The kidnapping of my son. Who did it and what did they mean by it?”

Tanner tilted his swollen mouth and stretched his trembling finger out to Madeline.

“Yes, it’s her! It’s Madeline! It was Madeline who contacted me and asked me to kidnap your son!” He was completely denying what he said at the dinner party last night.

Obviously, such a sudden change was definitely bought.

Jeremy furrowed his eyebrows and pressed his strong arm against Tanner’s neck. “So, are you asking for money or life?”

Upon hearing this, Tanner’s pupils shrank. As he looked at Jeremy’s sharp black eyes, he could not help but shudder. “Whi… Mr. Whitman, it really is Madeline! I’m not lying!” He pointed at the silent Madeline. “Madeline, don’t think just because you’ve become a ghost that I’m afraid of you! A sinister and vicious woman like you who can sleep around for money deserved to die, you—”

Crack!

Before he could speak anymore, he got another punch in the face.

Jeremy seemed to have been rubbed the wrong way and his eyes were dark like he was Satan from hell. He raised his fist and slammed it on Tanner’s body.

Tanner screamed with pain and kept bleeding from his mouth.

At the end of his screams, Tanner was almost dying.

Madeline was quite happy watching Tanner suffer, but if he was killed in this way, Meredith would still be at large.

She walked over and grabbed Jeremy, who was squeezing his fists and still trying to beat Tanner. “If you hit him again, you’ll kill him.”

Jeremy’s fist stopped mid-air. His expression was gloomy and his eyes were red as if he was about to swallow the whole world. It was terrifying.

His right hand was also covered with blood, but he could not tell whether it was his or Tanner’s.

If it was not for Madeline’s prevention, he would have really killed Tanner.

Jeremy drove Madeline back to the apartment. He did not say a word on the way back and the atmosphere was very strange.

They were originally supposed to go find Tanner so that he could learn the truth about Jackson’s kidnapping back then, but someone had obviously found him before them.