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."
It felt surreal to see as his parent
felt uneasy and sent another text
planning to deal
"Hehe, secret!"
Thomas unsent the message.
Madeline was taken aback.
he wouldn't be
message, but Thomas decided to adopt the
made her pack up her laptop and rush out the door as soon as
……
Quincy residence.
the error of sending Madeline
a mantra to himself. Mom didn't notice.
while and breathed a sigh
alarm. Mom didn't
then took
in the yard were the bodyguards on duty. Everyone must be inside
should head downstairs
out of the room with his beloved Baymax plushie
was, however, no one to be found when
midnight. The
going to be able to
over him, a delicious scent wafted up to
in the kitchen this late
decided to go downstairs to have
downstairs to find the person
horrible woman
his curiosity,
Noah some supper. Steak and
bound to
you
by surprise. The wine
you doing behind me, little
keep up her act with no servants prowling about. She
that Thomas wasn't as good a kid as she wanted him to be. He
did you make, Auntie
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