“Linnie.”

As Madeline entered, Jeremy softly called out to her, and his dim eyes turned bright again.

He immediately sat back up, but his movement was too large, and it affected his leg wound.

“Hiss.”

He let out a muffled groan.

If it had been any other time, he would not even make a sound, but now that he saw Madeline, he instinctively yearned for her care and concern.

Madeline noticed Jeremy’s action.

However, her expression was calm, and she did not react with any worry in response to Jeremy’s discomfort.

It felt as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over Jeremy’s eager and yearning heart. He felt very cold.

hypnotized, and if she had not been instilled with some groundless ideas by Carter, she would have cared for him, and she would have cared very

not know

but he was afraid that she

not want her to reject him, to hate

struggled in his heart and finally decided to let Madeline speak

gaze did not seem to be on him. She looked around the

me Carter’s here.

like a basin of cold water being poured into Jeremy’s

felt even colder than

that she had not come for him,

came to find the man whom she now “ loved”

was not a bone- etching pain, but it was even more distressing. He was

as he endured the pain from

gaze on Jeremy again. “You seem to be injured, Mr. Whitman. Then I won’t interrupt your rest. You should recuperate

turned around after

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