Carter, who had suddenly appeared, immediately turned around after speaking.

Madeline and Jeremy exchanged glances and, with tacit understanding, strode forward.

Shortly after, Carter arrived in front of the house that had caught fire the previous night.

Before the accident, he had indeed restricted Cathy and Adam’s movements, enforcing them to remain in this house.

It had never occurred to him that something like this would happen last night, but he felt that it was a human act.

Staring at the burnt ruins before her, Madeline could not help thinking about the fire that had taken place at Montgomery Manor.

During that time, the most painful part of the situation had been her believing Jeremy to be the one who set the fire. Of course, it was equally painful when she had thought that her biological parents were killed in that fire.

Fortunately, though, it was all just a scheme.

Madeline felt a painful tug in her heart as she thought about Adam and Cathy dying here last night.

hoped that Adam and Cathy’s accident was also only a scheme, that they were, in fact, safe and

preventing them from leaving?” Jeremy’s interrogative tone pulled

questioning glance

scrutiny and skeptical

they were useful to me. Thus, I had no reason to burn them

you think that saying that would exempt you of your relation to this?” The expression on Madeline’s face grew a few shades darker. “Two human lives were lost because

just two simple sentences?”

me in

“Carter.”

a piercing stare shot out of Jeremy’s cold

friends die without a

for a while, then

get to the bottom of this and figure out who had

eyes had no trace of warmth or

but to Carter, their deaths seemed to be nothing more than the withering of flowers and plants. Their deaths were not worth

he could accomplish his goals, all humans, matters, and objects

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