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."
obedient today. It felt surreal to see as his parent
felt uneasy and sent another text
you planning to
"Hehe, secret!"
Thomas unsent the message.
Madeline was taken aback.
he wouldn't
but Thomas decided to
made her pack up her laptop and rush out the
……
Quincy residence.
panic when he noticed the error of sending Madeline that text, and stuffed it neatly into his small
himself. Mom didn't notice. Mom didn't
sigh of relief when
Mom
then took his binoculars
were the bodyguards on duty. Everyone
should head downstairs to
room with his beloved
scum of a father. There was, however, no
large. It was also currently midnight. The servants of
Thomas was going to be able to locate any of them with
as worry came over him, a delicious
the kitchen
decided to go downstairs to
find the person
that horrible woman
in his
possible and prepared Noah some supper. Steak and
to conquer
you
by surprise.
you doing behind me,
at night. She didn't bother to keep up her act with no servants prowling about. She was
as good a kid as she wanted him to be. He blocked
you make, Auntie Angie? It
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