Chapter 55
In the Maple Forest Villa.
Madeline sat at the bar in the living room. She scrutinized the gilded invitation card in her hand with mixed feelings.
My children's birthday.
It was also the darkest day of her life.
She vaguely recalled the storm that day. Noah didn't hear a word out of her as the rain came crashing down.
Angie Grant took precedence. He believed no one but her.
He was resolute in leaving her and the unborn children, condemning them to death.
Turbulent emotions rushed over her. She crumpled the invitation in her hand, failing to notice that her knuckles had gone white.
The invitation had long since been scrunched up.
Her cell phone lit up when a notification came through. She was instantly grounded back to reality from her whirlwind of emotions.
Thomas's chat box popped up.
She was greeted with a photo of a pitiful Angie, carefully tugging at Noah.
It turned out Noah had brought the delicate little princess home. He must be distressed to see her ridiculed.
Yet, he never cared for Madeline or her children.
Yes, their survival was because they had luck on their side.
What were you expecting, Madeline?
Having figured this out, Madeline heaved a long sigh of relief.
It was consolation twinged with disappointment.
She scrunched the invitation into a ball and tossed it aside, then got up and sat down on the sofa. Her fingers flew across the keyboard as she composed a text.
"Be careful in the Quincy household, brat. Stay away from Angie. Got it?"
"Don't worry, Mom. I'm not letting that bad woman near me."
"Good boy."
today. It felt surreal to
and
you planning
"Hehe, secret!"
Thomas unsent the message.
Madeline was taken aback.
he wouldn't be that
message, but Thomas decided to adopt the practice of not
her pack up her laptop and rush
……
Quincy residence.
switched his smartwatch to silent in his panic when he noticed the error of sending Madeline that text,
to himself. Mom didn't notice. Mom
and breathed a sigh of relief when he noticed
Mom
took his binoculars to check the
people left in the yard were the
head downstairs
out of the room with
a father. There was, however, no one to be found when
was large. It was also currently midnight. The servants of the household had long
able to locate any of them with his
worry came over him, a delicious scent wafted
the kitchen this
he decided to
the person
woman
his curiosity, approached
possible and prepared Noah some supper. Steak and red wine.
bound to conquer
you doing, Auntie
by surprise.
you doing behind me,
late at night. She didn't bother to keep up her act with no servants prowling
as good a kid as
make, Auntie
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