Let Me Stay The Night

A laugh escaped Christina at that. “All right, tidy up and prep for work.”

After entering the office, Christina took out a blank piece of paper. From that day onward, she had to start designing Madison’s dress for her engagement.

She would have to deal with Anya’s case after designing the dress.

Initially, Christina had designed the dress based on Madison’s preferred style of dressing, ready to face Madison picking a bone with her design.

To her surprise, Madison never appeared after the day she met her by the gates.

It was as if Madison had forgotten about the matter.

Since Madison seemed unbothered by the design, Christina dropped her reservations and started exploring other styles, hoping to make Madison the most eye-catching presence at her engagement.

After all, a wedding is a major event for a woman. She was not going to let her feelings get in the way of the design and nor was she going to embarrass herself with a mediocre design.

For the following two weeks, Christina made three drafts of dresses in varying styles.

One was a traditional sleeveless gown, another was an off-shoulder fitting gown, and the third was a pale purple satin mermaid gown.

Every one of the gowns was capable of accentuating the best parts of Madison’s figure.

Soon, Christina brought those three design drawings to the Taggart residence where Madison was.

Madison was delighted to see those designs.

All women in the world like pretty clothes, and Madison was no exception.

Even though she despised Christina, she could not help but think about how Nathaniel was going to be stunned by her beauty in those gowns.

“Okay, these three will do,” Madison said as she pretended to force herself to accept the designs.

Christina was unbothered by her response, however, for she had mentally prepared herself to hear an onslaught of sarcastic comments from Madison.

It came as a surprise to Christina that there were none of that from Madison.

taking Madison’s measurements and was about to leave, Madison abruptly said. “By

but did not answer immediately. After a few seconds of silence, she said, “Of

to it so easily

turn to be taken aback. As she took

right, you can leave now.” As

to Madison’s mood swings, so she did

holding a glass of water and

still heard the housekeeper say to Madison.

her brows at that.

sick? Forget it. This

Taggart residence, Christina called the clothier that

the fabric she needed from the clothier, the

the gates, she looked into the

A power outage?

first thing Christina thought.”

more she sensed that something was off. There was no one in the house. Even if there was a power outage, the people inside

Lucas? Camila?” Christina called out. By this time, Camila and Lucas would have already been done with kindergarten. Similarly, Nathaniel would have informed

anything,

empty. Christina’s heart

surroundings and

she

Crack!

ear startled Christina, making her hand shudder and

the noise, she saw a ball of flame in the dark. Then, the birthday

to you! Happy birthday to you!”

racing, froze at the start.

a cake cart.

“Happy birthday, Christina!”

“Happy birthday. Mommy!”

When the dim lights of the house were switched on, Christina finally saw that Charlie, Julia, Sharon,