Chapter 389

Meredith was taken aback by Jeremy’s sudden tug. Her eyes widened in shock as she took in his words. She seemed to have lost the ability to breathe.

‘How… How does he know that it wasn’t me?

‘Unless Madeline has already told him everything?

‘No. She wouldn’t. There’s no way she would!’

“Cough, cough…”

Meredith felt the air get sucked out of her lungs as Jeremy’s hand on her collar tightened. Her complexion flushed and her tongue became tied. “What… What are you saying, Jeremy? I am Linnie, the one you hold dear in your heart. How else would I have the leaf bookmark? Cough, cough…

Please… Jeremy, let go…”

“Do you still think that you can lie to me at this point?” Jeremy squinted, a ray of frost shooting from his eyes and freezing the better half of Meredith’s heart.

“You aren’t even Eloise and Sean’s daughter, so how could the gold pendant engraved with the name ‘Eveline’ be yours? You never had the memory of the nickname ‘Linnie’ to begin with! So how could you be that little girl?”

Meredith’s pupils contracted at his words.

She had not expected Eloise to tell Jeremy such a thing, let alone that Jeremy would be able to deduce the truth from the name alone.

“I can’t believe you’ve been lying to me by pretending to be her for so many years.” Jeremy’s tone lowered with every word as unbridled anger seeped out of his all-consuming peach-blossom eyes. “You should’ve known, Meredith Crawford, how pitiful an end you would find yourself at for deceiving me the moment you decided to lie.”

His slender fingers tightened their grip as his words fell, raising green veins on his fair arm. The fury he assumed was evident.

Meredith’s pupils dilated, her soul one shock away from leaving her as she took in the bloodthirst that Jeremy’s aura was dripping with.

“No, Jeremy. Don’t kill me, please. I… I’m really Lin—”

Meredith wanted to keep up with her act and insist that she was Linnie, but she was interrupted by a crack that suddenly sounded from her neck.

Her body froze while fear swam in her eyes. It compelled her to admit to lying.

“I… I’m sorry, Jeremy. I was wrong, please, let me go… If… You’ll never find out who that girl is if you kill me now…”

To be absolutely honest, Jeremy no longer cared about who that girl was anymore.

The moment he realized he fell for Madeline, Jeremy no longer desired to fulfill the promises he made when he was young.

What disgusted him the most that very moment was the fact that he had allowed this woman to intoxicate him, copulate, and bear his child.

What he detested even more was how Meredith had used Linnie’s name to lie and blindside him. As he had believed in her wicked words, he hurt the woman he truly loved time and time again.

Jeremy threw Meredith away, the desire to kill bubbling within him.

Meredith hit the floor with a thud and began to gasp and grapple for air.

Her neck hurt too much to even move.

She never thought that Jeremy could be so brutal!

While Jeremy had never returned her feelings in the years that they were together, it could at least be said that he trusted her completely and allowed her to do whatever she wanted.

Only now did Meredith finally understand that when this man loved, he loved you to bits.

Yet when you angered him, your consequences would be no lighter than that of the depths of hell.

Was she going to have to experience hell before she could ever feel what it meant to be loved by this man?

No.

She refused to go to hell.

Nor would she allow Madeline to enjoy the beauty of Heaven!

Through her blurry vision that was caused by the pain, Meredith watched Jeremy walk toward her.