Married by Mistake: Mr. Whitman’s Sinner Wife

Chapter 1150

Her words had stunned Jeremy. Madeline merely smiled and handed the drawing to him.

“I know that you have your own reason for doing that. I also know that you’ve been waiting to hear her say out that word for a very long time…”

Jeremy felt his hold over his emotions slip as he watched Madeline pass him the drawing with the word ‘Daddy’ on it.

He did not say anything, merely reaching out to take the drawing that Lillian had drawn with her heart.

“I’ll go check on Pudding. You take as much time as you need.” Madeline then turned around.

He was now alone in the empty courtyard.

Jeremy stared at the drawing under the moonlight and traced every figure with his slender finger before it finally fell on the little girl who was calling out for her dad.

The night breeze blew at him with the fresh scent of flowers.

Even so, Jeremy could not help but smell something bitter instead.

yet it seemed to be gray in

“I’m sorry, Lillian.”

and damp

is happy, I am,” he murmured under his breath as

the night in Whitman

carefully crept out of

the temperature began to rise. Entering the room, Jeremy found that Lillian had kicked the blanket off to the side and her pajamas had risen up her stomach, showing

over, tucking Jackson in on the way before he made his way to Lillian’s bed. After adjusting his little princess’ clothes,

softly, his

in silence when the child’s eyelashes fluttered and

blink while she reached out

gripped the small

eyes slipped shut again and she drifted back to

was almost as if all of

her dad gripped her

the door and

he find the need to be so cold

was only when she heard