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.

after Christina was done taking Madison’s measurements and was about to leave, Madison abruptly said.

her head to look at Madison but did not answer immediately. After a few seconds of silence, she said, “Of course I’ll be there if you’re inviting

agreed to it so

took in

right, you can leave now.” As Madison spoke,

used to Madison’s mood swings, so she did not say anything about that and

of water

a distance away from Madison, Christina still heard the housekeeper say

her brows

Forget it. This

the clothier that the

clothier, the sky had darkened, so she went

by the gates, she looked into the house from the outside. It

A power outage?

was the first thing Christina thought.”

further she went inside, the more she sensed that something was off. There was no one in

already been done with kindergarten. Similarly, Nathaniel would have informed her if

tell her anything, he should have

was empty. Christina’s

and muttered under her breath, “Something can’t have

she said that, she made to call Nathaniel.

Crack!

that rang out beside her ear startled Christina, making her

of the noise, she saw a ball of flame in

birthday to you! Happy birthday

was still racing, froze at the start. In the

pushing a cake cart. Beside the cart were Camila and Lucas.

“Happy birthday, Christina!”

“Happy birthday. Mommy!”

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