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Married by Mistake Mr. Whitman’s Sinner Wife [Sixteenth Child] Chapter 1131

Jeremy paused when he heard Madeline’s queries.

He raised his long, almond-shaped eyes slowly. A cold, hard glint was reflected in his amber eyes.

The look in his eyes did not seem right.

Madeline felt extremely curious. She walked over to him to take a glance at what he was looking at.

However, Jeremy quickly kept the photos and put them inside an envelope. He then raised his eyes and smiled faintly at her.

“They’re just some photos from our collaborator. There’s nothing much to see,” he said. He threw the file into his drawer and locked it. “Why did you come over all of a sudden? Did you miss me?” he asked.

Madeline’s eyes crinkled in a smile. “I was passing by after sending the kids to kindergarten,” she replied.

“So you’re here just because you were nearby?” he asked.

“Yeah, just because I was nearby.” She chuckled coquettishly. The truth was, she did not come over just because she was nearby. She missed him.

Raising her eyes, she noticed that the button at Jeremy’s collar was unbuttoned. Madeline raised her hand to button it up. However, just as she touched his collar, he moved back and turned to take some documents from the table.

Madeline’s hand remained suspended in mid-air.

“Jeremy?” she asked.

“I need to get ready for the meeting,” he replied. However, it seemed like he was intentionally explaining himself to her. “You haven’t been visiting Ryan these few days?” he asked.

Madeline was still in the midst of wondering why he was avoiding her. Upon hearing him bringing up Ryan, her gaze shone.

“I’ll just be causing more distress to him if I go there. That’s why I’d rather not go,” she explained.

“You’re so considerate toward him.”

Madeline detected a sense of jealousy from the way he worded this sentence.

However, it seemed like he was afraid that she would get the wrong idea. Jeremy smiled faintly at her. “If you’re worried about his condition, you can go visit him. I trust you,” he said.

Madeline looked at him in disbelief. “Jeremy, you really don’t mind me visiting Ryan?” she asked.

“I mind it,” he replied curtly, “But if that’s something you want to do, I won’t stop you from doing so.”

His words touched Madeline’s heart. Nevertheless, the image of the incident that occurred that day in the hotel floated into her mind.

Although it was part of someone’s scheme, she could not help but feel that she had done something to betray Jeremy.

Since Jeremy would be attending a meeting, she did not stay for long either.

The moment she stepped out of the office, Jeremy took out the envelope he had thrown into the drawer just now.

He picked one of the photos and took a glance at it. A cloud of darkness seeped into his eyes.

He did not attend any meetings. Instead, he drove over to Ryan’s house.

The servants, who were cleaning up the courtyard, could not stop him in time. Jeremy rushed into the house like a whirlwind.

Ryan had just come back from the hospital after changing the dressings on his wound. Before he could take a seat, Jeremy appeared before him.

Mrs. Jones recognized Jeremy at first sight. She had not forgotten how he almost snapped her wrist in half just to protect Eveline Montgomery that day.

“It’s you? Why are you here? How dare you enter our house?”

Braving herself against him, Mrs. Jones questioned him cynically.

“I know you’re from the Whitman family. You’ve been given the title of the prince of the wealthiest family in Glendale. Hmph! A person like you going around snatching someone else’s wife, don’t you have any shame?” she asked.

Once she stopped talking, she sensed a gust of chilly air blowing against her.

Jeremy stared at Mrs. Jones coldly. His gaze then fell on Ryan. “If you don’t want your family to get involved, stay as far from her as possible.”

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Once Mrs. Jones heard what he said, she knew that he was referring to her.

She wanted to say something, but Ryan stopped her at once. “Mom, go back to your room,” he said.

“Rye, don’t forget that you’re Eveline’s husband!” Mrs. Jones reminded him. “Don’t give a damn about the son of Glendale’s wealthiest family. Do you think the Jones family is afraid of him?” she asked.

Jeremy gazed at her coldly. “It’d be best if you aren’t afraid,” he said.

“…” His harsh gaze frightened her, and she did not dare to say anything else.

“Go to your room at once,” Ryan told her.

Mrs. Jones did not say anything more. She turned around and made her way upstairs immediately.

However, she detected a sense of aggressiveness in Jeremy. It seemed like he was here to find trouble with Ryan. She walked to the stairwell of the second floor and watched the events unfolding in the living room.

Once she turned around, Jeremy threw an envelope at Ryan.

About ten photographs fell out of the envelope. They fluttered in the air before scattering on the ground.

“Ryan, have a good look at your masterpiece,” he announced.

The tone of Jeremy’s voice was beyond frigid. He raised his slender brows, a hateful gaze in his eyes.

“Are you going to tell me that this is just a misunderstanding?” he asked.

Ryan looked at the photographs scattered by his feet. He picked up one of the photographs and lowered his eyes to take a look at it.

Madeline’s shoulders were bare in the photograph. She appeared to be passed out and lying on the same bed as Ryan.

After looking at the photographs, Ryan frowned. “I should’ve guessed that someone would’ve taken photos like this and given them to you. Jeremy, don’t blame Eveline. She doesn’t know anything,” he said.

After listening to Ryan’s nonchalant words, Jeremy rushed in front of him and grabbed his collar in a fit of rage.

“Ryan, don’t put up an act in front of me. Linnie may not know, but I do.” He growled. His stare was harsh and icy, piercing through the calm expression on Ryan’s face. “What did you do to her?” he asked.

Ryan sighed lightly in exasperation. “You’ve seen the photos. Anything that shouldn’t have happened has already happened,” he said.

Upon listening to his response, Jeremy’s eyes were set ablaze in rage. Unable to control himself, he threw a punch at Ryan’s face.

Ryan did not avoid the blow, and a stream of blood flowed down the corner of his mouth.

Upon catching sight of the scene unfolding before her, Mrs. Jones came down the stairs at once. “Jeremy Whitman, what are you doing?! Why did you hit him?!” she yelled.

She rushed to Ryan’s side in a hurry. Catching sight of photographs scattered on the ground, she picked up a few of them and took a glance. She instantly understood the reason why Jeremy was in a fit of rage.

Mrs. Jones continued reprimanding him in a steady tone, “Jeremy Whitman, what are your intentions for bringing these photographs over here? Rye and Eveline are a married couple. They can do whatever they want together. It’s none of your business. How dare you come over here to scold Rye?”

Mrs. Jones threw the photographs onto the coffee table. “Mr. Whitman, get it clear. Eveline Montgomery is your ex-wife. She’s now Rye’s wife. She’s the daughter-in-law of the Jones family! Apologize to Rye at once. If you don’t apologize, I’ll tell the reporters that the prince of Glendale is out here snatching someone else’s wife!” she yelled.

Jeremy finished listening to her threats calmly. He then laughed.

“Why do I have to apologize to a fake *sshole who snatched my wife away and is now pretending to be all high and mighty?” he questioned.

“…” Mrs. Jones was in a state of stupor. “What nonsense is this?” she asked.

“Is it really nonsense?” Jeremy snickered. “Ryan, tell your mother. Am I spewing nonsense?”

Ryan wiped away the blood on the corner of his lips. “Jeremy Whitman, let’s not involve our family in this matter.”

Jeremy’s gaze hardened. “Now you’re saying that family shouldn’t be involved, but it’s already too late,” he said.

He suddenly pulled out a pistol from his waistcoat and pressed it against Ryan’s heart in an act of bravado.

“W-What are you doing?!” Mrs. Jones shrieked immediately, her face turning pale from fear.

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Jeremy ignored Mrs. Jones and loaded the bullets with practiced ease before hooking his slender finger on the trigger. “Did you think that with Yorick dead, you’d have nothing to fear anymore, Ryan?”

A ripple finally flashed through Ryan’s elegant expression at the mention of Yorick Johnson.

Jeremy’s sharp gaze caught the slight shift in the man’s expression, and he pressed the muzzle against Ryan’s heart. “You sure are good at hiding it.”

Ryan looked confused as if he did not understand what Jeremy was talking about.

He shot back, “Don’t you think that something’s wrong with you, Jeremy? It seems like not only did the poison change your appearance, but it’s messing with your thoughts as well.”

Jeremy’s gaze darkened. “You’re right. My thoughts are messed up, and these messed up thoughts of mine are telling me that I want you gone.”

His slender fingers curled around the trigger.

Ryan was about to raise his hand to stop Jeremy when Madeline’s figure flashed in his peripheral vision.

“Don’t do it! Jeremy!”

Madeline dashed over to stop him, grabbing Jeremy’s hand and pushing the muzzle away from Ryan’s body.

Jeremy did not expect Madeline to appear. His heart felt as if it was being filled with cotton, suffocating him as he watched her stand in front of Ryan like she was afraid that Ryan would be hurt.

He gripped the gun, his finger pulling around the corner of the trigger.

Madeline had rushed over after receiving a call from Mrs. Jones and was met with such a sight upon entering the door. She had no idea why Jeremy was furious, and from the corner of her eyes, she saw the photographs on the ground.

She had merely taken a quick sweeping look at them when her heart began to race.

She quickly picked a few of them up to take a closer look, her mind buzzing. She could completely understand why Jeremy looked like he wanted to kill somebody.

Madeline balled the photographs in her clenched fists.

She finally understood why someone wanted her to sleep with Ryan.

Her chest tightened, and she did not dare to meet Jeremy’s gaze at all.

Looking at the brown envelope, it dawned on Madeline that Jeremy must have been in his office when he saw those photographs. That was why his expression had been so cold and dark.

Rye. Are you not going to do

at Ryan.

to grab Jeremy’s hand. “Let’s

to leave Rye here and walk away with your ex-husband?” Mrs. Jones was displeased but

of Jeremy, and more importantly, she

Mom.” Ryan looked at Madeline.

being pulled along by Madeline, Jeremy turned back to look at Ryan and raised his gun again. He

Bang!

behind Ryan instantly

“Ah!” Mrs. Jones screamed.

fury. He was warning Ryan,

pulled his hand away from Madeline’s grasp

chased

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for a

Madeline decided to drive and follow

arriving at

the sea. She was surprised to find Jeremy smoking. She would

who gave Jeremy those cigarettes in the first place, and it was the slow-acting

toward Jeremy to grab his hand. “What

locked onto Madeline’s worried-filled ones. He did not reply, only raising his hand to

heart grew frantic at the

“Jeremy Whitman!”

and crushed it

in his heart as he reached out to grab Madeline’s hand. Unfurling her palm, he was met with a stark red burn from the

wanted to clean her hand,

ashes from her palm. Leaning down, he traced the tip of his tongue on the burn and lightly licked the

taken aback by his

have sparked something in

the wound seriously, in a way that spoke the genuineness of his sentiments. Then, he placed a soft peck on the

didn’t want to touch me anymore. Why

watched Jeremy’s actions

you

now. I

the corners of her eyes grew wet against her

avoid me when you came back

indescribable pain as she came to

as if

it was being blown cold by the sea breeze. The

remained caring and nostalgic as

smoking, Jeremy. They might not be the cigarettes Lana gave you, but smoking itself is bad for the body.

still

to be husband and wife.” She

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heart and pulled her arm back as she turned to walk back

sea breeze blew, pushing the tears that brimmed

my world, Jeremy, only to

wrong? I just want to

Madeline swallowed hard.

the distance between them was growing, yet it had only been a few steps when the man

“Don’t go, Linnie.”

wrap it around her neck as the other wrapped itself around her waist. His heavy desire and love for her were exploding within

me no matter how I’ve changed. I feel the same, Linnie. As long as you’re still my

her

seeped through his skin and into his heart

tucked his head into the crook of Madeline’s neck. At that moment, he resembled more like a child burying himself in Madeline’s scent. It was as if she held

was almost like she was

the light and hope that kept him

took a deep breath and bit her lip to hide the pain. “You don’t need to force yourself, Jeremy. I know that you

I can’t lose you either. Losing you would hurt more.” Jeremy

felt the ache in her heart

also knew that what happened between her and

you didn’t intend for this to happen. I trust you, Linnie. That’s

I trust you.

warmed at

the man’s arms. Looping her

“Jeremy.”

“Linnie.”

embrace as his heart twinged. He lovingly called out to her by

sorry, Jeremy. I was too

from her gaze, a cold glint sparked across his frosty eyes. “I know someone set you up. I don’t blame you for

is always perfect and beautiful.” Jeremy’s gaze reverted to its gentle look once

“Jeremy…”

anymore, okay? It hurts

down as he spoke and kissed the tears from her face

his lips made their way to hers

returned, Madeline decided that she would investigate

just who was setting her

leads when she went to check the hotel cameras. Someone

It felt off.

to him. Why would it not

built for her, Madeline found Jeremy’s shoes by the

He was back already.

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was about to go upstairs when

think I care? Don’t tell me how to do things. Our relationship, if anything, is

felt her heart clench at

‘business’ was Jeremy talking

around and walked toward the

Back off or there won’t

feeling that the person

eavesdrop on his phone call, but she could not seem to

the bathroom

to meet Jeremy’s bottomless gaze.

It’s just work.” He brushed it off with

evidently nothing to do

past few days, she took Jeremy’s hands. “We haven’t even gotten the chance to have a nice meal even though you’ve been back for a while already, Jeremy. I want to make you dinner tonight. Let’s just forget about the kids tonight. It’ll just be the two of us.

the two of us.” Jeremy curled his lips into a small smile and pressed them against

went shopping for ingredients and began preparing in the

to darken as Madeline started on the dishes

years ago when they first got married—a simple and quiet

had never come despite the years

making a simple homemade meal—three dishes and a soup. It

table and helped him to

moment, Madeline finally felt what it meant to live a simple and married

taken a

as Jeremy’s

I have

a cup of water. Turning around, she watched Jeremy wipe the corner of his mouth with a piece of tissue before quickly stuffing

her

the ball of tissue Jeremy had coughed blood into half a year

the cup of water, she pushed her feelings aside and passed Jeremy the cup as if

a smile. “I want to eat your

“Okay. I’ll cook for you until we’re both grey

change in Madeline’s expressions, he continued to

the two decided to

him from time to time. It was as if he would run away if

leave me again,

looked down to meet

he did during dinner was

the villa, Jeremy

the bathroom door, Madeline glanced at the man who was taking

eyes fell on his clothes by the rack, and she carefully tiptoed forward. She was reaching out to take the clothes when the glass door next to her suddenly opened and the man inside stretched his hand out, stopping Madeline while dragging

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shower by Jeremy. She ended up losing her balance and fell into

man’s wet hair, drenching her clothes. Madeline raised

you want to shower with me?” Jeremy’s deep baritone drifted into her

felt her heartstrings shake, not knowing if

up to stare at the expression he was wearing,

just wanted to wash my hands.” Madeline

Jeremy lowered his voice. The raspiness of his deep voice ignited something within her. “If you’re going to wash your hands, you

“…”

her

Madeline still felt shy at the

even after they showered. Sitting frozen on the bed, she basked in the warmth of Jeremy blowing

not stop thinking about the ball

it

Madeline had the urge to search Jeremy’s pockets. However, the man’s hold

Madeline resigned herself to falling

in her mind, sleep

at the man’s sleeping

see the man’s differently colored irises. Still, his hair, scent, and voice had

like a thorn as it began to

quietly moved toward him to press her lips against his in a genuine

Jeremy. I really don’t want to lose you

then leaned into the man’s broad chest as sleep took

eyes,

quiet moonlight, the man stared calmly ahead as darkness swirled behind

pulled the person in

…

the

late to

happily. Despite her smile, her heart was still

that Jeremy had already gotten

did not see Jeremy coughing again. She wondered if she was

that call the other

Jeremy gone through over the past half

survived the life-threatening crisis,

the only reason why he did not tell her was that he did not want her

for him. She wondered how much of a toll it had taken on him to suffer everything