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Married by Mistake Mr. Whitman’s Sinner Wife [Sixteenth Child] Chapter 491

Madeline never expected to see the day when Jeremy would kneel for her.

It would be a lie to deny that she was shocked, but as shocked as she was, it would be more fitting to claim that she found the situation absurd.

The man before her was one of noble status and his name was known throughout the entirety of Glendale. It was a given that anyone who crossed paths with him would treat him with respect, while some went the extra mile to get on his good side.

It was hard to imagine such a man kneeling in front of her, in front of the woman he had once cast away.

Madeline lowered her aloof gaze to stare at Jeremy’s handsome face, his knitted brows radiating the sorrow he felt.

“Who would have thought that the young master of the greatest family would kneel for the woman he had once tossed away? Don’t you find it hilarious, Mister Whitman?”

Jeremy took Madeline’s mockery in stride. “I would do anything for your happiness.”

“Hah.” Madeline scoffed. “You’ll make me very happy if you stop appearing in front of me.”

Jeremy’s eyes dimmed, feeling his heart ache in cold and pain as Madeline’s frosty gaze pierced into his chest.

All he could do was hold Madeline’s hand as he greedily took the warmth her hand provided.

“Madeline.”

“Don’t call me Madeline when the moment I became Madeline Crawford was the beginning of the tragic turn my life took.”

Madeline interrupted Jeremy coldly as she tried to pull her hand away, only for the latter to tighten his grip.

“Let me go, Jeremy. I don’t want our lives to be intertwined anymore. Don’t you have an idea how much I dislike and how much I hate you already?!”

Jeremy felt his body grow cold at her determined and annoyed tone.

She said she disliked and hated him.

Hate.

Jeremy silently pushed the heartache away for later as his Adam’s apple bobbed with the suppressed grief.

It took a while before he finally lifted his hurt-filled eyes, allowing his deep and dark irises to fall on the other’s beautiful features. Her features dripped with heavy fury.

“Eveline,” Jeremy called her by a different name. “You’re right, I’m blind and I’m a fool. I should never have allowed such a heinous woman to harm my wife and my child. I’ve done too much wrong to possibly hope that you could forgive me, but there’s something that you have to know.”

“It’s too late now. I don’t want to listen to you, nor will I believe anything you say anymore.” Madeline savored the serious and adamant look on the man before suddenly flinging his arm off as hard as she could. “I don’t love you anymore, Jeremy. Leave your shallow displays of affection for another woman. I don’t need it from you!”

Then, Madeline turned and left coolly.

Dazed, Jeremy kneeled in place as he felt his heart break. Frost swarmed in through the cracks, freezing him from the inside.

He swallowed soundlessly as his deep eyes reddened.

He scrambled to run just as he heard Madeline open the door to leave. “Eveline!”

Madeline was at the door when Jeremy hugged her again.

Pissed, she tried to push him away, but her strength was no match for his.

The cool scent of the man attacked her nose, and for a moment, she felt her heart quicken inexplicably.

“What do you want from me, Jeremy?”

“Don’t leave me, please. Don’t leave me again…” he murmured frantically by her ear.

“I don’t want you to vanish from my world again, Linnie. I won’t survive it a second time…”

“Leave your honeyed words for the woman in prison!”

“No.”

Jeremy rejected stubbornly and tightened his hold.

“I know you won’t believe me, but I’ve never said this to anyone else. I mean it, Eveline. I love you, ever since the beginning. You were the only one for me.”

For what was supposed to be the most touching phrase in the world, ‘I love you’ now sounded like the biggest joke as it drifted to Madeline’s ears.

“Haha…” Madeline scoffed. “You remind me of a saying, Jeremy.”

Confused, the man’s grip around her slacked.

Married by Mistake Mr. Whitman’s Sinner Wife [Sixteenth Child] Chapter 492

The two pairs of eyes locked under the dark of the night. Madeline’s gaze was cold as she parted her pink lips to speak, “The deaf heard the mute say that the blind saw love.”

“…” Jeremy’s reddened eyes widened when he heard Madeline.

“Perhaps it’s because you’ve never meant the words that you say, Jeremy, which is why you see your promises as pranks and your professes of love as jokes. But that doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten them.”

She paused for a moment, the mockery in her eyes thickening.

“You were the one who told me that Meredith has an irreplaceable spot in your heart, that the moment your eyes fell on her, you knew that she’s the only girl you’ll ever love and protect your entire life.”

Repeating Jeremy’s words to him, the contempt in Madeline’s smile grew.

“You were the one who said Meredith is your one and only, yet now you’re telling me it’s been me all along? Hmph. If this is what your love looks like, Jeremy, then I don’t want it.”

With that, she turned around decisively and left before Jeremy had the chance to stop her.

Jeremy broke into a self-deprecating smirk as he stared blankly at Madeline’s retreating figure.

There was nothing he could say about the happenings of the past.

How was he supposed to explain to Madeline that he only allowed Meredith to do as she wished as an extension of the love and care he had for Madeline when they were children?

Snow began to flutter from the night sky.

The snow was silent, yet Jeremy heard something shatter within him…

He had no idea how he endured the night.

Wide awake, he spent the night sitting by Jackson’s bed.

Remorse and guilt filled him as he stared at the familiar brows and eyes on the small face.

His heart felt like it had been stabbed as he thought of how difficult Madeline must have had it when she was pregnant with Jackson.

The day finally brightened and Jeremy heard activity from downstairs.

His heart raced, knowing that Madeline had returned.

Walking downstairs, he found Madeline bustling in the kitchen just as he had imagined.

Jeremy felt his gloom lift considerably, but he did not dare disrupt her for she was most likely here for Jackson.

Not wanting to give Madeline more reason to be angry at him, Jeremy waited for Jackson to wake before helping the boy wash up and change. Then, he took him downstairs.

Seeing the father-son duo appear hand-in-hand, Madeline ignored Jeremy to smile at Jackson.

“I made you breakfast, Jack. Would you like me to send you to kindergarten after breakfast?”

Jackson responded with a hopeful smile, “Can I have both Mommy and Daddy send me to school?”

“Of course,” Jeremy replied, sighing a breath of relief at Madeline’s lack of protest.

When breakfast was over, Jeremy then drove the three of them to the kindergarten.

Reaching the kindergarten, Jackson tugged on a young female teacher and pointed a finger at Madeline and Jeremy. “Look, Ms. Laurens, that’s my mom and dad! My mom’s a beauty!”

His classmates exclaimed innocently as their gazes landed on Madeline, “Jackson’s mom is so pretty.”

“His Daddy is so handsome too.”

A proud smile graced Jackson’s boyish features at their praises.

It was a smile that comforted Madeline.

Her child would no longer be as gloomy as he used to be.

Madeline turned to leave after she watched the child enter only to have Jeremy follow behind. “Where are you going, Eveline? I’ll send you.”

A car stopped in front of Madeline just as his words fell.

Alighting the car was Felipe who merely spared Jeremy a faint glance before he turned around to open the passenger seat door for Madeline.

Realizing Madeline was about to leave with Felipe, Jeremy stepped forward to loop his arm around her slender waist decisively. He then pulled her toward himself. “Please leave, my wife will not sit in your car.”

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Madeline was taken by surprise when she found herself being held tightly in Jeremy’s arms. She had not the chance to avoid him.

A smudge of anger tinted Felipe’s gentle features. “Let go, Jeremy. Stop bothering her. Vera’s my fianceé.”

“You’re very well aware who exactly I’m holding in my arms, Felipe, and I can tell you with absolute certainty that Madeline and I are still legally married. Don’t become a homewrecker.”

Felipe’s expression darkened.

Jeremy tugged lightly on Madeline’s waist with a faint smile. “Let’s go, darling.”

“…”

Madeline had half the mind to struggle only to realize that several parents were watching her and Jeremy.

Remembering how happy and proud Jackson was as he introduced her and Jeremy moments ago, Madeline relented.

Sparing Felipe and his cold eyes a glance, Madeline followed Jeremy into his car.

It was only after they had left the kindergarten perimeters that Madeline requested Jeremy to stop his car.

He listened and stopped by the roadside.

Madeline gave him a cold look. “I would never have gotten in your car had it not been for Jack, Jeremy. Stop bothering me, please. I’m not your wife anymore.”

Jeremy’s grip tightened around the steering wheel.

He turned around when he heard Madeline push open the car door. “You are. You still are the wife of Jeremy Whitman.”

Madeline turned back with a scoff. “Did you forget how you forced me to sign the divorce papers three years ago? I said no, but you held my hand and forced me to sign just so you could marry Meredith Crawford, that evil woman. How could you still call me your wife?”

Jeremy’s brows furrowed slightly when he remembered how heartless he had been.

His gaze was remorseful when he looked at Madeline.

Yet, Madeline saw a tint of relief in Jeremy’s eyes.

the papers.

was stunned. “What

have an ex-wife. You’re the only wife I’ve had, ever since the

“…”

Eveline. Be it the past or the present, you’re still the only wife I,

“…”

was

at the

forced me to agree to a divorce, only to tell me

had

haven’t divorced yet, then we can divorce for real

car decisively and gave the

divorce agreement and give it to you as soon as possible.

door with a

pain as his gaze locked on the figure that was walking away. A bitter smile tugged on

thought? History was

forced a divorce

place

done

…

Madeline arrived at the shop on First Crystal

to search for reference materials to

made ended

to calm herself down, for she could not wrap her

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was still

knock, knock. Someone knocked on the

wore a warm and

table, she opened the door for Felipe to enter and made him a cup

a light sip before going straight to the point. “Why did you turn your phone off the past two days? Did Jeremy say something that day in

with a beautiful

“I found my child.”

trembled. “Yours and Jeremy’s

would’ve thought that he has always been by my side?” Madeline smiled sweetly, revealing her

your son?”

explains why I always felt a special connection and intimacy

carefree smile Madeline had

finally finding your

there was a

followed Jeremy into his car

nodded as he spoke her mind. “While I never intended to be separated from Jack, I still owe it to him as his mother. After all,

fault.” Felipe gently held Madeline’s hand. “You’re not at fault. The ones to blame are Meredith

in frustration at the mention of divorce. “Felipe,

old issues. Then I’ll bring you and Jack back to F Country to see Lily.

obsidian-like eyes gleamed with

Madeline

away for a moment. Sure, that was her plan too, to leave this land of rumors after she completed

had no idea

long after Felipe’s departure, Ava came to visit her

had happened over the past two days, which ended in Ava being too shocked to hold the cup steadily in

be so shameless as to tell you he loves you? Love my foot!” Ava was furious. “You can’t fall for that, Maddie. He’s got

nodded. “Relax. My feelings for him

as the b*stard is, I’m so happy you got to find your son back,

that bstard and that btch, I’m glad

and understanding child. It hurts me a lot to know what he’s

the child, Maddie. Don’t go back to him, not after how he

Ava’s

not go back to

Definitely not.

agreement, locking herself in the office for the entire

sky was grim as the icy wind blew outside

as she was about to finish typing it up, Madeline accidentally

her past resources and had accidentally clicked on

how the file was filled with thousands of .txt documents. She simply clicked on one of them and it opened to reveal a single line—‘It’s nice to

was wrong as

to open the first document

it had Madeline in

Sinner

as

first thing Madeline saw was the

years ago, the day after

content left Madeline

would leave me like this. You wouldn’t, right? This must be a prank, right? Don’t joke about things like

bother me forever. Why is your forever so short? It can’t be. I refuse to believe

I would never forget you and miss you forever.

[Madeline…

[Madeline…]

“…”

her name typed again

hand that was on

on her screen, Madeline found herself unable to imagine how Jeremy must have felt while he

Jeremy would type the words

could not accept

breakdown could be seen within the

loss, but the timestamp dating when the document was

as her gaze darted between the thousands of documents filed

found it hard to click her mouse and

over to remind her. “Mr. Whitman’s here, Miss

was a hint of

said he’s here to fetch his wife from

“…”

for the divorce agreement that had been saved

wife. There’s nothing between us anymore.” Madeline explained curtly before rolling up the divorce papers and

downstairs, Madeline was met with the sight of Jeremy holding a large bouquet of fire-red roses. He was standing

that reminded others of ink,

and his dark eyes swam with warmth under those dense and long eyelashes as they stared in the direction

and customers to stare at the gorgeous view with smitten

a handsome young

recognize him. That’s Mr.

romantic even though he and Miss Vera

sure

female workers and

it was public knowledge that she had

now, she was going

Madeline approaching, Jeremy walked over with adoration in his eyes as he handed the bouquet to her. “Let’s go fetch

in her hand tighter. She gave up on her initial

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he was happy enough

Madeline threw the divorce papers at the driver’s seat the moment she got

already signed my part. Give it back

set

much into it, he kept the papers and stepped

complete and happy family feels like for the past six

to sign the papers, Jeremy. I don’t know what you’re trying to gain, but it’d do you good to stop believing that I would believe your

was cold and held no

quiet and stewed

back seat so

saw Jeremy in

happy to see you again,

the pain I endured has led to our reunion makes it all worth it. Mom’s satisfied enough with the

protest as Jeremy drove them to

went to the kitchen to

Jeremy sat and guided Jackson through his homework. By the time he finished it, so

as he stared at the mouth-watering dishes and

to cook him dinner

just that he never returned

was not because he spent the night with

spent every night in the office.

help Jackson to some of the dishes and peeled some prawns for

smile on the little boy’s face was enough to fill

him and merely took Jackson’s

to look for his family in the park nearby. Jackson waved when he saw

called for his dad, Madeline could only

later, the

Madeline walked back to

bones, yet Jeremy had

light jacket, he reached out to take her slightly

but decided against it as she did not want to disturb Jackson who was slowly

shone on their backs,

for bed that Madeline reverted to her aloof attitude. She

furrowed his brows. “I

response, one Madeline had

already made my mistake once and I don’t want to make it again.” Jeremy fixed his

for two seconds. “I’ve already

believe that you’d throw yourself into another man’s arms after you’ve been

slowly walked toward Madeline. “Lily is our daughter, Linnie. You got pregnant with her from

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her fists tightly, her tone sounding determined. “Lily is not related to you

me so thoroughly, you b*stard, that

Jeremy’s growingly

She will never have a person like you as her father, so stop lumping

raised her hand to push away the man

his legs had gotten, Jeremy felt

and left the villa

home, Madeline’s mind began to take a trip down an

up her weak body, Madeline had Ava bring her to Jeremy and Meredith’s

take the cold words of the man she loved and the hatred of her dearest parents with a smile until she

the engagement venue and she never expected Jeremy to act so out of character by rushing over

had lost consciousness two sentences

that she

royal hospital with

her

surgery. The surgery

her heart had already been completely shattered. Her onslaught of memories made her life

the doctor told her

gave Madeline hope again, and she lived through her most difficult times with Felipe

came to an end with Madeline staring determinedly

had with the

…

to make Jackson breakfast before sending

outside Madeline’s shop in the evening so that they could pick Jackson up and return to the villa