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. “By the way,

a few seconds of silence, she said, “Of course I’ll be there if you’re inviting

it

taken aback. As she took in Christina’s smile, she narrowed

leave now.” As Madison spoke,

so she did not say anything

housekeeper holding a glass of water and a pill bottle walked past

was already a distance away from Madison, Christina still heard the housekeeper say to Madison. “Ms. Christina,

furrowed her brows at that.

sick? Forget it. This

Taggart residence, Christina called the clothier that the studio

the sky had darkened, so she went straight back to Scenic Garden Manor.

stopped by the gates, she looked into the

A power outage?

first

off. There was no one in the house. Even if there was a power outage,

would have already been done with kindergarten. Similarly,

not tell her anything,

house was empty. Christina’s heart was in her

on her phone torch, she scanned her surroundings and muttered under

said that, she made to call Nathaniel.

Crack!

out beside her ear startled Christina, making her hand

head toward the source of the noise, she saw a ball of flame

Happy

at the start. In the

a cake cart. Beside the cart were

“Happy birthday, Christina!”

“Happy birthday. Mommy!”

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