Carter abruptly stopped what he was doing. He lifted his head to look at the door of the study and, to his surprise, he saw Shirley coming in while pushing herself in the wheelchair.
“You really did make a move against her.”
Operating her wheelchair, Shirley came into the room and glanced at the currently unconscious Madeline.
“Let her go.”
“I won’t let her go back now.” Carter gave Shirley a firm answer without hesitation. “Shirley, you didn’t care about the child, but I did. I won’t let my child just die like that in Jeremy’s hands. I want to avenge our child.”
As Carter expressed his determination to Shirley, his eyes were filled with sparks of hatred.
“Carter, how many times do I have to repeat myself so that you’ll understand? That child’s death had nothing to do with Jeremy, and it also has nothing to do with Madeline.”
“Shirley, you’re the one who has yet to understand.” Carter walked up to Shirley. “If Jeremy hadn’t injected you with AXP69, our child wouldn’t have died!”
“Heh. Hehe.”
As his voice fell away, Shirley laughed. Her smile was extremely sarcastic.
Carter’s long eyebrows furrowed when he saw the sarcastic smile on Shirley’s face.
“What are you laughing at?”
Shirley stopped laughing and looked at Carter in disdain.
“Have you forgotten why AXP69 was developed in the first place?”
Carter’s expression changed when he heard this.
“What did you do to her? ” Shirley turned around and asked. Presently, she saw Carter had walked up behind her. “Wake her up now.”
Carter glanced at the worried and anxious look on Shirley’s face, then lowered his eyes gently to look at Madeline.
“She’ll wake up on her own an hour from now.”
After speaking, Carter turned around and walked out.
Shirley was momentarily dazed. She stared at Carter’s back figure. She did not know whether the man came to his senses after what she said.
Shirley dared not overthink. She stayed with Madeline the whole time, worried that Carter might come back to hypnotize Madeline again.
However, an hour had passed and Carter still had not returned. At the present, Madeline woke up as per the time Carter mentioned. Madeline slowly opened her eyes. She seemed momentarily dazed until she heard someone calling her name.
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