Chapter 728

She lifted her hand to touch her stomach. Then, a pleased smile blossomed on her face.

After Cathy left, Felipe picked up the colorful shell that he had been keeping for years.

“Eveline.”

He called out to Madeline’s name as a cheeky face appeared in his mind.

He would not forget how a ray of light had appeared in his dark life after he met her by the beach.

“I won’t let you go back to Jeremy again. You’re mine.”

He held the shell as a wave of emotions appeared in his eyes.

That day, the reason he said he wanted to bring Madeline to clear her head in the equine park was to prevent her from having any contact with the outside world so that his plan would carry out smoothly.

He knew he could not hide the fact that he had drugged Madeline, so he needed to admit it.

He also knew that Madeline would not want to go back to F Country with him as he could sense that she started to develop feelings for Jeremy again. That was why he planned to create a conflict between Madeline and Jeremy by involving Lillian in an accident.

However, Madeline told him that she would go back to F Country with him out of the blue. This shocked him, but when that happened, it was already too late for him to stop his plan.

He was left with no choice but to let Madeline suffer the pain of losing a child.

From the looks of it now, it was good that he did not stop the plan. Even if Madeline refused to go back with him, at least her relationship with Jeremy was utterly destroyed.

She would not forgive him now.

She would not forgive a man who lost her most treasured child.

…

After Jeremy went home, he locked himself in his room and kept looking at the security footage of the dessert shop.

He suspected that Felipe was the one behind it. Since Lillian was not his daughter, that was why he was able to do it.

Plus, if no one deliberately planned this, how would it be possible that none of the cameras captured Lillian?

The only person who could do this was Felipe.

Jeremy looked at the footage again and again. As he looked at the lively and cheeky child in the video, his vision became blurry again.

His daughter. He did not even get the chance to hear her call him ‘daddy’ before she left him forever.

What hurt him more was that he could not see his daughter for the last time before she was turned into ashes.

Jeremy held a bouquet of sunflowers and came to the cemetery.

The words ‘Lillian Whitman’ on the tombstone stabbed his heart like a knife.

“Lillian.”

His fingers caressed the words on the tombstone. The cold sensation under his fingertips made him remember the time he lost Madeline.

This seemingly familiar pain felt like a net that trapped his heart, making it difficult for him to breathe.

‘Why are you here?”

He heard Madeline’s voice from behind him. He stood up after being taken aback.

He wanted to hide the moisture in his eyes but could not do it flawlessly.

Madeline looked at the flowers he placed down just now and placed the sunflowers she bought in front of the tombstone as well.

“Do you know why I named this child Lillian?”

Madeline smiled softly and looked at Jeremy with a solemn look on her face. Then, tears started pouring from her eyes.

“It’s because you gave me too many dark, cold, and painful experiences. That’s why I didn’t want my daughter to be like her mother. Her name Lily signified rebirth. I wanted her to always receive warmth from the sun. Why did she have to get into an accident when she was under your care and die in such a bitter way?”