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Married by Mistake Mr. Whitman’s Sinner Wife [Sixteenth Child] Chapter 1401

Madeline ignored the pain and suddenly shot to her feet.

“Hey, why are you ignoring me?” upset, Eloise grabbed Madeline’s hand. She had no idea what was happening behind her.

“Why would I ignore you, Mom?” Madeline held Eloise’s hand tightly. Her heart ached at the sight of the dirt and dust on Eloise’s innocent child-like appearance.

She did not have a clue what happened while she was unconscious, except that Eloise had woken up and the man was now unconscious on the floor by the door.

Madeline did not have the time to entertain those thoughts. Seeing the spreading flames that had started some time ago, she took Eloise’s hand and walked toward the exit.

The spreading flames blocked their way, and Madeline found herself coughing from the pungent billowing smoke.

It was only then that Eloise seemed to have noticed that the house was on fire. Staring dazedly at the raging flames, she seemed lost.

“Mom! Cough. We have to leave now!” Madeline squeezed Eloise’s hand. She tried to escape through the room’s door, but the piles of garbage and takeaway boxes ended up contributing to the rapid spread of fire.

“Cough cough!”

Madeline fell into a violent and uncomfortable coughing fit when she suddenly heard a violent crash outside.

It was followed by the main doors being kicked open with a bang.

Jeremy kicked down the door and was shocked when he was met with a strong scent of blazing black smoke once he walked through.

“Is it you, Jeremy? Jeremy! Cough, cough, cough…” Madeline shouted at the door. Her senses told her that Jeremy had arrived, and the irregular rhythm of her heartbeat never deceived her.

Jeremy covered his mouth and walked along the entrance to the outside of the room where Madeline and Eloise were trapped in.

“Linnie!”

Through the heavy black smoke, Jeremy’s half-squinted peach blossom eyes caught sight of Madeline and Eloise’s figures.

“Don’t worry, Linnie. I’ll come in and bring you and Mom out right now!”

“Don’t! Don’t come in, cough! It’s still somewhat safe in here. Ensure your own safety before you come and save me and Mom, Jeremy! Do you hear me?”

Madeline persuaded him to stop, even though she wanted nothing more than to bury herself in Jeremy’s arms where it would feel safe like no other place. Still, him entering the room rashly would not do anything to help them.

“Fire! What a big fire!”

Eloise suddenly screamed.

“Eveline’s still in the fire! It’s all gone! The fire has burned everything away!”

“Mom?”

“Eveline! I have to save Eveline!” Eloise murmured to herself before she suddenly pushed Madeline’s hand away and ran toward the flames.

Madeline pulled Eloise back. “Eveline’s right here, Mom. I’m right here!”

“No. You’re not Eveline, you’re not my Eveline! My darling daughter, Eveline Montgomery, is still inside! She’ll be burned to death! It’s Lana, she’s the vile witch who wants to kill our entire family!

“Eveline, my child. Mom knows she has never taken good care of you or protected you but won’t you forgive Mom? Please? Come back to me,” Eloise rambled, her expression especially solemn under her dust-covered face.

She seemed to have remembered the day Montgomery Manor was burned to ruins for she kept repeating about how she needed to save Madeline.

Madeline’s heart tightened as if something had taken hold of it. She had no idea if her eyes were burning from the smoke or something else but she could not seem to stop the tears from flowing.

“Eveline is safe, Mom! She’s standing right in front of you!”

“No, no, my Eveline is still in the fire! I have to save her! Let go of me!”

Eloise pushed Madeline away again and rushed desperately toward the raging flames before her.

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She had only one thought and it was to save Madeline.

Madeline did not expect Eloise’s strength to grow so exponentially either in order to save ‘her’.

She ended up staggering two steps backward before she knocked into the bookshelf beside her.

The bookshelf swayed twice as if it was about to fall.

Knocking into it hurt slightly, but Madeline did not have the time to worry about herself as she saw Eloise already stepping into the fire.

“Mom!” she exclaimed and ran over to embrace Eloise as tears fell freely from her burning eyes.

“Look at me, Mom. I really am your Eveline!” Madeline hugged Eloise and stressed the words.

“My Eveline…” Eloise was stunned for two seconds as she stared blankly at Madeline’s face. Her eyes were filled with doubt and question. “No, you’re not. Eveline would never talk to me. She hates me. You’re not… Cough cough, you’re not…”

Madeline tightened her arms around Eloise. “Eveline stopped hating you a long time ago, Mom. I know you didn’t hurt me on purpose. Eveline doesn’t blame you anymore.”

“Eveline doesn’t blame me anymore?” Madeline’s words seemed to have gotten through to Eloise who raised her hand to touch Madeline’s teary cheeks. Her delicate brows became furrowed. “Do you truly not blame me anymore, Eveline?”

Madeline nodded and squeezed Eloise’s hand. “Truly. Eveline doesn’t blame her mother. Eveline loves her mother. Cough cough.”

Eloise seemed to have understood Madeline and gave a relieved smile. “Will you come home with me then, Eveline?”

“Yeah! I’ll go home with Mom! Our family won’t be separated anymore!”

“Okay.” A loving smile broke on Eloise’s face. She raised her hand to caress Madeline’s head, but a look of horror suddenly tinted her kind gaze.

Madeline had no idea what was going on, but she saw Eloise suddenly rush behind her.

The swaying bookshelf lost its center of gravity and fell with a bang, crushing Eloise, who had run over to protect Madeline, to the ground.

It then dawned on Madeline that Eloise had suddenly run behind her to protect her.

“Mom!” Madeline screamed and hurried over to Eloise.

“Mom, cough cough…” Feeling unwell, Madeline fell into another coughing fit. The pile of garbage around the room had given the thick smoke an abnormal smell that attacked her nose.

“Linnie! Can you hear me, Linnie?” Jeremy’s anxious tone crept closer.

“Jeremy…” Madeline tried to shout back in response but something seemed to be stuck in her throat. It threw all her efforts to waste.

Her vision began to blur and even breathing became more difficult.

“Linnie! Linnie!” Madeline heard Jeremy shouting heart-wrenchingly before her senses were overwhelmed by the scorching high temperature that enveloped her.

Amidst the confusion, she thought she felt a cool gust of air blow over her. It was accompanied by a scent and a familiar sense of security that slowly calmed her inner anxiety and fear.

“Jeremy…” Madeline murmured, seeing Jeremy’s face appearing vaguely in her blurred vision before everything in front of her eyes turned black.

She began to have nightmares about Eloise still crushed under the bookshelf and covered in blood.

She kept screaming ‘Mom, Mom’ but Eloise never woke up.

“Linnie. Linnie, are you awake?”

The man’s magnetic, gentle baritone voice drifted into her ears and Madeline’s eyes shot open. When she sat up, her eyes were filled with confusion. “Mom! Jeremy!”

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“I’m right here, Linnie.” Jeremy sat down on the bed and wrapped his arms around Madeline’s shoulder to comfort her. “Everything’s alright now, Linnie. It’s okay, calm down.”

Madeline’s nervous heartbeat gradually settled when she felt the man’s familiar warmth engulf her.

Thinking back to what happened before she fell unconscious, she clenched her fingers through the aftershock as her beautiful pupils shone with unease.

“The bookshelf fell and Mom got crushed under it to save me.” Madeline threw off the covers and got off the bed.

Jeremy rushed forward to hold Madeline. “Where are you going, Linnie? You haven’t fully recovered yet.”

“I know Mom is in the hospital as well! Bring me there, Jeremy. I need to know how Mom is doing.” Her expression was frantic as her eyes became swirled with panic and fear.

Jeremy’s sharp brows were knitted together. “Mom’s alright, Linnie. Be good and rest, okay?”

“I’ll rest, I promise, but I need to know how Mom is doing first.” Madeline was persistent as she took Jeremy’s hand with a stern expression. “Just bring me there, Jeremy.”

Even so, Jeremy hesitated as if taking the step was a difficult feat to accomplish.

Madeline had a foreboding thought that something was wrong. Her expression shifted as she let go of his hand. “Mom is in bad condition, isn’t she?”

“Nonsense. She’s fine, Linnie. You’re overthinking it.” Jeremy comforted, trying to pull Madeline back before she broke down.

Madeline regulated her emotions and nodded calmly. “I won’t overthink it. I’ll just ask the doctor, then!”

Madeline moved quickly and immediately ran to the nurse’s station to ask if there was an Eloise Patton who was also hospitalized here.

The nurse did a quick search and affirmed it. “We do have a lady by the name Eloise Patton who was just admitted to the hospital. She’s in the VIP ward in front.”

Hearing this, Madeline felt her heartstrings tighten suddenly. “Can you tell me how my mother is doing?”

Understanding that Madeline was the patient’s daughter, the nurse told her everything she knew.

“The patient is in a rather critical state. She was crushed by a heavy object and broke two of her ribs in the process, one of which had pierced her lung and caused massive internal bleeding. The situation was urgent when she first arrived at the hospital, but she’s no longer in life-threatening danger. She’ll be alright with enough rest and recovery,” the young nurse explained with a smile before she ended with words of comfort.

“Don’t worry too much. Your mother is not in life-threatening danger.”

Still, Madeline remained dazed. “Thank you.”

She then turned to see Jeremy walking over to her.

“Linnie.”

man despondently.

had come to know of Eloise’s situation and took her hand

response and followed Jeremy

with both his hands clasped

was evident how much Sean cared about

suddenly turned to lean against the wall. Her eyes

quickly grabbed Madeline’s shoulders. “It’s not your

through her, to

a mother to protect her children. As long

Madeline

me, Jeremy.

wife, silly. You don’t need to thank me for this, hmm?” Jeremy lifted

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and smiled

about the man

the police and is now in the detention

say?”

he saw Mom by the road near the ruins of Montgomery Manor. He recognized

said that,

to let you go in alone. I was fully capable of subduing that

narrow and deep eyes overflowing with

looked up to stare at the man’s enchanting

embrace without hesitation and

so glad to have you,

smiled and caressed Madeline’s head.

relief, feeling much

up. As her condition was slightly critical, it affected Eloise’s physicality greatly and all she could do was look at the person in

ached tremendously at

how muddled Eloise’s mind was, Madeline could still feel that her

filled with gentleness and love when they trained on Madeline whenever she entered the

other as she fed, saying, “Get better soon, Eloise. It has to be uncomfortable staying in

but she looked at Karen with an expression that seemed

found herself comforted when she noticed the change in

mental condition had recovered greatly over the past few days. She would even say a couple of words here and then, even though it would be particularly

and the hospital every day, but she did not find herself complaining about how difficult it was. She was content as long as she got to be with her family. It

sight of Madeline being so busy every day, so he secretly arranged a vacation for the both of them. He was thinking about taking Madeline out on

and he would

had no idea that Jeremy was planning a trip for the both of them. Having sent the kids to kindergarten as

car, waiting for the light to turn green at

like a spring breeze drifted

Mr. Whitman missing me?” Madeline jokingly

so I’m wondering if my wife is

a cold facade. “Very well, then. I suppose I could grant your wish

a smile. Watching the light turn

in on the person walking on the zebra-crossing right in front of

blew, and Madeline looked at the silhouette of the person who entered her line of vision. She wondered if something was wrong

How could it

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the familiar

Honk, honk, honk!

from behind, causing Madeline to snap back to her senses. When she looked up again, the face she had just seen was nowhere to

‘Did I imagine it?’

mind fell into a short daze, but she did not think too

meeting up with Jeremy, Madeline came to know that the man had

Madeline did not reject the

retrospect, she and Jeremy had never gone on a decent honeymoon with how they kept separating and getting

Madeline and Jeremy went to visit Eloise at

were leaving tomorrow and Madeline was most worried about her

recovering and she has your Dad to take good care of her. Don’t worry and go relax.” Sean patted Madeline’s

her father to do everything to take care of Mom, but she could not help but

Eloise only suffered such a serious injury because

and took Eloise’s hand, looking into

gone for very long, Mom. You have to listen

and saw Eloise looking back at her with confusion. Her heart sank slightly and she felt a

her. He put his hand on

will remember that you’re the daughter she has been missing

will recover, Eveline. Don’t worry.” Sean came over to

care and love these two men had for her, Madeline

road not too long ago. She wondered if it was her own illusion and was still

and walked toward Eloise. She spoke in an encouraging tone, “Yeah, take

smiling at Eloise. “Don’t worry, Eloise. With me visiting you every day,

nodded slightly as if she

tell that Karen would take good care of Eloise. “I’ll have to trouble you for the next

soup to Eloise’s mouth. “I must’ve been blind before with how I couldn’t see the truth even when it was in front of my eyes.

as she

is suffering such consequences when

hospital room had grown silent just as she finished speaking. She found Eloise frowning and staring especially heavily at

am I saying? Pretend I didn’t say anything, okay?

the subject and began

better Eloise. You

for

…

the custodial

sickbed, resting his eyes while the wounds on his

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ward suddenly opened and a prison guard walked in. “Someone’s here to see you,

opened his starry gray eyes at

expected anyone to come and visit as who else but his parents would

thought to himself, but a face he had never expected surprised

he could

also thought that the meeting that

in front of him sneering. It was a sound that turned all of Ryan’s pleasant

did it not occur to you that your future would end up

curled her lips slightly and a scornful smirk appeared on

become like this? What’s the point of me being like

flawless beauty in front of

all

You can’t just give up like this! How could you? What am I supposed

Even when she was furious, the woman was beautiful and could move hearts. Even so, he

of

game isn’t over, Ryan! What do you

won’t let it

giving up doesn’t mean I will

frowned when he heard this. “What do you want to

point at her delicate, beautiful face. “This appearance is my

mess around,” Ryan

Stop lying to yourself, Rye. You can’t possibly be content with how it has ended, can you, Rye?”

woman turned around and left

abruptly in bed. He wanted to stop her, but every move he made pulled at

at the closed prison door as he clenched his fists

content with how all this ended,

that the question

…

The following day.

and Jeremy boarded a two-hour flight and arrived at

of midsummer Glendale when the sun shone

and Jeremy left their luggage at the hotel and changed into comfortable leisure clothing

on the beach, filling the area with young ladies in bikinis, men with exposed abs, and children with their

atmosphere, Madeline’s mood brightened as

of water that stretched infinitely into the horizon, a bold idea suddenly

Jeremy her idea when the world around her suddenly fell

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those men.” The man’s seductive baritone voice drifted

hand to push Jeremy’s palm away from her eyes. She turned around and met

meant to admire the beauties of the world,” Madeline replied innocently before

Madeline domineeringly and pushed his handsome face in front

if you keep

a rare mischievous smile. “Perfect. I’d like to see what my husband looks like when

a short moment later. “I’ll let you see as much as you want when we get back to the hotel tonight

and stopped

at my husband.” She gave a crescent-eyed smile and wrapped her hands around Jeremy’s shoulders before leaning against his

looked down at the woman leaning against him and a bright smile graced his attractive

He wanted to stay by her side every day

wanted a quiet and

want to do right now is fulfill your simple and small wish,’ he thought to himself before leaning down to place a peck on Madeline’s

meet the man’s glistening eyes. “I want

“What bold thing?”

learn to swim,” Madeline replied frankly, “Be honest with me, Jeremy. You thought about it too, didn’t you? That’s why you

Jeremy ruffled Madeline’s short hair as his gaze turned serious. “I want to be by your side to protect you all the time, Linnie, but

understood what Jeremy meant as well as the

had been through too much distress as of recent. The things that she had gone through made him feel

Linnie?” Jeremy suddenly grabbed Madeline’s hand to placate his unsettled

forever.” Madeline then got on her tiptoes to place a peck on the corner of

to take off her UV protection jacket only for Jeremy to pull

gazes everywhere. He decided that he did not want other men seeing Madeline’s

a swimming pool in our room, darling.

“…”

Madeline just how prone to jealousy this

stingier he was and the more he wanted to keep

spend time with this man and the man’s bossy willfulness

then turned her around with a hand around her. They