Chapter 359

Jeremy heard some noises coming from the forest. Then, he saw Meredith’s figure as it flashed past.

He looked around but did not see Madeline anywhere. Suddenly, his heart started beating erratically.

He tried to call Madeline’s number, but there was no signal on his phone.

Looking at the misty forest in front of him, Jeremy started feeling more and more uneasy.

Meredith wanted to kill Jackson, then shift the blame to Vera. However, she changed her mind at the last minute and decided to kill both of them.

She might as well, right?

Meredith smirked when she recalled her plan.

She knew Jeremy would look for Madeline after he got here.

Jeremy indeed went looking for Vera first. Then, using this opportunity, Meredith fed Jackson some water that was mixed with crushed sleeping pills. After that, she asked a man who was pretending to be a parent to suffocate Jackson before abandoning his body.

No one would know about her evil plan.

This was the outdoors where there were no cameras. Plus, there were so many children and parents here. Who would notice the man bringing Jackson away?

At this moment, she was sure that Jackson was already dead.

However, she was not entirely sure if Vera was dead after she fell from the incline.

Even if she was not dead, she would not be able to get up. There was no signal in the forest. As long as no one found her, she would die from her wounds or even hunger.

Meredith was elated. She would be able to sleep at night now that she had gotten rid of the obstacles in her life.

When she was feeling pleased with herself, Jeremy’s tall figure appeared in front of her.

“What are you doing in the forest?”

Jeremy’s icy voice poured down from her head to her toes.

Meredith was stumped for words. She was also feeling frenetic.

‘Did Jeremy see me with Vera just now?’

Meredith rolled her eyes before she started sobbing. “Jeremy, boo-hoo… Vera is so merciless. Not only did she frame me in order to get you, she even went after our child. She’s so inhumane!”

She cried as she was about to go into Jeremy’s arms.

Instead, Jeremy grabbed her shoulders. “What did you say? Speak clearly!”

He lifted his sharp gaze that felt like arrows.

Meredith hid her franticness and started making up a story. “Jeremy, it’s all Vera’s fault! No wonder she asked you to join this activity. It’s because she planned to use this opportunity to ask someone to kidnap Jack. Vera must’ve already harmed Jackson by now!”

Meredith sobbed and continued, “I noticed there was something amiss with Vera, so I followed her. I saw her talking to a man in the forest. She even gave the man a large sum of money. Then, I went over to question her. I didn’t expect her to admit it so fast. She even wanted to shut me up forever by pushing me down that steep incline. In the end… In the end…”

Meredith pretended to look terrified as tears rolled down her cheeks uncontrollably.

Jeremy could feel his temples throbbing. He even felt that it was getting hard to breathe.

“What happened in the end? Tell me!” He roared. His eyebrows were already twisted into a knot.

Meredith shook and said, “In the end, she accidentally fell down the incline!”

‘What did you say? She fell?” Jeremy’s hands that were on Meredith’s shoulders fell lifelessly. There was a storm in his charming eyes.

He turned around and went straight into the autumn rain that was getting heavier and heavier.

His heart was empty all of a sudden. The feeling of when he lost Madeline three years ago appeared in the bottom of his heart again. It felt as if his heart had plunged into a bottomless abyss.

Meredith clenched her fists as she watched Jeremy leave.

She did not expect Jeremy to care about Vera until this extent. He even ignored the safety of his own son so that he could go inside the forest to look for Vera.

“Hmph, it’s good that she’s dead.” Meredith gritted her teeth. Then, a sinister smile appeared on her face.