Coco hasten over to open the door and saw Jeremy with a hurried look on his face.

“Mr. Whitman.”

“Where’s Linnie?” Jeremy rushed into the room, but after looking all over the room, he did not see Madeline.

“Isn’t Linnie with you? Where is she?” Jeremy’s heartbeat started to beat frantically.

Coco looked at Jeremy with a confused and nervous look on her face, then explained.

“At the time, Ms. Montgomery said that there was a document left in the car and asked me to go down with her to get it, but as soon as I reached the entrance, I felt unwell, and then I didn’t know what happened next. When I woke up, I was on the bed… I think Ms. Montgomery might be the one who helped me to the bed…”

Jeremy listened to what Coco said but his eyes were firmly fixed on the two glasses of lemonade on the coffee table in the living room.

“Did you drink this?” he asked.

Coco nodded. “I only had a couple of sips.”

“What about Linnie? Did she drink it?”

Ms. Montgomery said that she wanted to head down and get the documents with

touched her head and tried to recall. “Now that I think about it, Ms. Montgomery seemed

pounded rapidly upon hearing

need for guesswork, he was certain that Madeline must be in some sort of

door of the room. When he reached the hallway, he suddenly stopped and subconsciously looked

suddenly kneeling as if to pick something up

a look, then she could not

tightly; his eyes were

This was Madeline’s ring.

never taken off the ring ever since they

was clearly a hint from Madeline to

was indeed

and immediately send me the information on the man and woman

commanded as he kept his

walked out of the room, she realized that

for two or three hours without

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