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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.

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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.

opened his mouth to speak, “Indeed, you signed the papers. But I’ve

Madeline was stunned. “What

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

“…”

present, you’re still the

“…”

expression was no longer

fists, she stared at the

you want, Jeremy? You forced me to agree to a divorce, only to

the situation had Madeline losing control over her

then we can

the car decisively and gave the man in the car

up the divorce agreement and give it to you as soon as possible. I

slammed the door with a bang and

wheel harder, his heart in pain as his gaze locked on the figure that was walking away. A bitter smile tugged

have thought?

had forced a divorce back

who would place the divorce papers in

done this

…

hour later, Madeline arrived at the shop

search for reference materials to draft the divorce

she made ended

to calm herself down, for she could not wrap her head around why Jeremy had

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still

knocked on the

Felipe who wore a warm and small

clearing her table, she opened the door for Felipe

did you turn your phone off

topic, Madeline beamed with a beautiful

“I found my child.”

and Jeremy’s first

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

your son?” Felipe

a special connection and intimacy when it came to

at the sweet and carefree smile Madeline had never

on finally finding your

there was a crease between his

morning, you followed Jeremy into his

never intended to be separated from Jack, I still owe it to him as his mother. After all, Meredith only tortured and hurt him that way because of

are Meredith and Jeremy. I can help you if you want to fight for

the mention of

more time to deal with some old issues. Then I’ll bring you and Jack back to F Country to see Lily. We can get married then and live simple and happy lives as

obsidian-like eyes

he pulled Madeline into

not know whether she should hug him back or push him away for a moment. Sure, that was her plan

idea why her

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

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

“You can’t fall for that, Maddie.

feelings

as the b*stard is, I’m so happy you

being tortured to death by that bstard and

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

because of the child, Maddie. Don’t go back to him, not

mind echoed with Ava’s remarks after

would not go back to

Definitely not.

locking herself in the office for the entire

grim as the icy wind blew outside

she was about to finish typing it up, Madeline accidentally

her past resources and had accidentally clicked on one of the nameless files she

how the file was filled with thousands of .txt documents. She simply clicked on one of them and it opened to

that something was wrong as she pondered over

closed it only to open the first

within it had Madeline in

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formatted as if

thing Madeline saw was the date

three years ago,

content left Madeline

This must be a

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

on purpose, Madeline. You’re doing this so that I would never

[Madeline…

[Madeline…]

“…”

her name typed again

hand that was on the mouse

read the words typed in the document on her screen, Madeline found herself unable to imagine how Jeremy must have felt while he wrote it

did she understand why Jeremy

not accept the fact that she had

of a breakdown could be

when

between the

to click her mouse and delve into the other

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

a hint of

he’s here to

“…”

closed the file and looked for the divorce agreement that had been saved under ‘history’ before printing

wife. There’s nothing between us anymore.” Madeline explained curtly before rolling

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

his attractive features, exquisitely defined brows, and eyes that reminded others

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

man’s charms and aura oozed, causing numerous female employees and customers to

handsome

him.

though he and Miss

Vera sure is

and customers sighed

to argue, for it was public knowledge

Vera now, she was going to sever all

Jeremy walked over with adoration in his eyes as he handed the bouquet

lightly as she gripped the divorce papers in her hand tighter. She gave up on her initial plan to cut straight to the chase.

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not take the roses, he was happy enough with her

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

already signed my part. Give it back to

his heart sink the moment he set his eyes on the words atop

much into it,

hasn’t known what a complete and happy family feels like for the

know what you’re trying to gain, but it’d do you good to stop

cold and held

such, Jeremy kept quiet and

at the kindergarten, Madeline moved to the back seat so that she could

clenched when she saw Jeremy

happy to see

makes it

Jeremy drove them to

in, Madeline immediately went to the kitchen to

homework. By the time he finished it, so

heart shrivel as he stared at the mouth-watering dishes and soup on the

cook him dinner

that he never

unlike what Madeline thought, it was not because he spent

every night in the office. He never

seated, Madeline began to help Jackson to some of the dishes

on the little boy’s face was enough to fill

Madeline ignored him and merely took Jackson’s hand as they went out for a walk. The mother and child were basking in each

for his family in the park nearby. Jackson waved when he saw him and called out to his

called for his dad, Madeline could only smile and

an hour later, the sky was

a drowsy Jackson in his arms, Jeremy and Madeline walked back

into his bones, yet Jeremy had

trembling in her light jacket, he reached out to

against it as she did

backs, enveloping them

for bed that Madeline reverted to her aloof attitude. She handed him the divorce papers again. “Sign

furrowed his

was a familiar response, one Madeline had stubbornly given

made my mistake once and I don’t want to make it again.” Jeremy fixed his gaze on Madeline. “Give me another chance, Linnie. For Jack

seconds. “I’ve already told you,

was warm. “I refuse to believe that you’d throw yourself into another man’s arms after you’ve been so thoroughly hurt by this b*stard who you loved

daughter, Linnie. You got pregnant with her from the time I forcefully took you in that apartment

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

she fought to deny. “It’s because you hurt me so thoroughly, you b*stard, that I gave myself to Felipe. He was the only ray of

Jeremy’s

is Felipe’s and my child. She will never have a person like you as her father,

that, Madeline raised her hand to push

boneless his legs had gotten, Jeremy felt

took her bag and left the

home, Madeline’s mind began to

up her weak body, Madeline had Ava bring her

loved and the hatred of her dearest parents

certain that she had died in the engagement venue and she never expected Jeremy to act so out

lost consciousness two

she was

she woke again. This time in F Country’s royal hospital with a gentlemanly

her from her dying

underwent tumor removal surgery. The surgery itself was rather successful and Madeline was no longer in life-threatening

completely shattered. Her onslaught of memories made her

one day, the doctor

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

an end with Madeline staring determinedly at the

all ties she had with the

…

the villa early every day to make Jackson breakfast

would arrive on time outside Madeline’s shop in the evening so that they could pick Jackson up and return