Chapter 1720

“Shirley, if you’re able to, you could keep on enduring it and suffer. If you can’t stand it anymore, get me the anti-toxoid test reagent. Otherwise, don’t even think about seeing the sun again in this lifetime.”

As he was about to leave after speaking, he happened to hear a customized ringtone.

He looked askance at Shirley, who could not speak at all, then walked to a side, answering the phone.

“Linnie.”

He spoke first, gently calling out to Madeline.

Madeline’s gentle and pleasant voice responded from the other end. “Jeremy, won’t you be coming to the hospital tonight? Is there still work at the company?”

Jeremy turned to glance at Shirley, then walked toward the basement door. “I’ll be done soon. I’ll head over in a moment. You should lie down and rest if you’re tired. Where’s Lily?”

“I’m not tired yet. Lily’s already asleep.”

“I’ll head over now.”

“Take your time. Drive carefully,” Madeline reminded him.

Jeremy felt a warmth in his heart, but he started to feel uneasy again at the thought of Madeline suffering from the poison very soon.

After hanging up, he walked back to Shirley.

“Have you properly thought about what you’re going to do?” he asked bluntly.

Shirley held her arms and, with great effort, lifted her eyelids.

“There’s no anti-toxoid test reagent.”

Shirley’s voice trembled as she spoke.

“The ones I gave you back then were only half-complete. They could only briefly alleviate the symptoms.”

“What did you say?” Jeremy’s eyes immediately darkened.

Shirley chuckled bitterly. “Jeremy, you could have the half-complete products, but it’s best if you let me go. Otherwise, you’d only be helplessly watching the woman you love most continue to suffer.”

“Heh.” Jeremy chuckled coldly in disdain. “If there’s no completed anti-toxoid test reagent, what is your worth to me? Do you think I need you for the half-complete test reagents? Your brother Adam’s much more talented and capable than you.”

Jeremy’s praise for Adam seemed to strike at Shirley’s vulnerable spots, and the expression on her face instantly changed.

“Nonsense! I am more talented and capable than him in this!” Shirley defended herself passionately.

“I’m smarter than him, and I have a better chance of becoming a medical scientist than him. They didn’t even give me a chance! It’s their fault! It’s all their fault!”

She was suddenly growling and snarling. Her facial expression turned malevolent, showing how much this mattered to her.

No longer interested in Shirley’s mad ravings, he turned and left.

“Jeremy, get me out of here!

“This is illegal imprisonment!

“Without my anti-toxoid test reagent, Eveline could definitely not endure it!

“Jeremy!”

Shirley’s heart-rending screams continued, but they were eventually cut off by the basement door.

Jeremy drove back to the hospital as if nothing had happened. The moment he saw Madeline and Lillian, he felt relieved.

Madeline was oblivious to the fact that Jeremy had gone to find Shirley, nor did she know that he had injected Shirley with the same anti-toxoid reagent poison as the one from which she was suffering.

However, she inevitably found it curious that there was some dust on Jeremy’s coat.

“Jeremy, did you just come from the office?”

“Yeah, I just finished my meeting.” Jeremy did not look Madeline in the eye as he casually came up with a lie.

“Is the meeting room so filthy? Why is there so much dust on your clothes?” Madeline patted the dust on Jeremy’s shoulders with suspicion. She had wanted to help him tidy his clothes when, much to her surprise, she felt a woman’s earring in Jeremy’s pocket.