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

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

rapidly upon

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

of the room. When he reached the

who did not know what Jeremy had seen, only saw him suddenly

over for a look, then she could not help but exclaimed in surprise, “Isn’t

furrowed his thin eyebrows tightly; his eyes were

This was Madeline’s ring.

never taken off the

was clearly a hint

was indeed in

send me the information on the

as he kept his

out of the room, she realized that

had actually slept in this room for two or three hours

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