“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.

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

not know

call her name again. He wanted to hold her hand, but he was afraid that she would be repelled by his reaction now that

not want her to

and finally decided to let Madeline

seem to be on him. She

told me Carter’s here. Where

like a basin of cold water

felt even colder than

not come for him, let alone visit him out of

man whom she now

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

his lips softly, as he endured the pain from the gunshot

gaze on Jeremy again. “You seem to be injured, Mr. Whitman. Then I won’t

turned around

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