Chapter 217

As Madeline spoke, Jeremy’s arms now embraced thin air. A sense of endlessly bleak loneliness occupied his heart for a moment. It felt as if he had just come out of a daze. Looking at the face before him, Jeremy realized that he had completely lost his composure earlier. He had even shown this woman the depressed, dejected side of him that no one knew existed. Moreover, he had yearned for her embrace so much. He had even longed for her to feel sorry for him and hold him tight… This was something that had never happened before. Yet he was aware that he was only like this because of this face—a face that was almost identical to Madeline’s back then. “Didn’t you say you’d only be arriving tomorrow? Why are you back all of a sudden?” Madeline’s cheerful voice brought Jeremy back to his senses. Only then did he react, remembering what she had just said, “My fiancé is here.” Fiancé? “Do we have a guest in the house?” A man’s voice came from not too far away Jeremy frowned. Althoug