Carter, who had always admired Madeline’s boldness the most, let go of Madeline’s hand.
Madeline promptly took off her coat and put on the new coat and glasses as per Carter’s instructions.
Carter, very satisfied when he looked at Madeline’s current outfit, then gave the bodyguard another look.
Madeline thought Carter was going to just let her follow him, but in the next second, she heard the fire alarm.
After a while, the people in every hotel room ran out one after another. Since they did not know where the fire started, everyone was running toward the fire escape stairs. The scene was very chaotic.
Carter then smiled at Madeline unhurriedly. “It’s time to go.”
Madeline glanced at Carter. The man was beyond devious.
In such a chaotic situation, even if Jeremy were to ask for the security footage, it might still be difficult to locate her.
The monitoring system on this floor might have already been destroyed by Carter.
After the morning meeting, Jeremy habitually went to the office to find Madeline.
Halfway through, however, he suddenly remembered that Madeline was meeting with clients today.
He looked at the time and thought that Madeline should still be in the meeting with the clients, so he did not call to bother her and he just sent her a message.
After a moment’s wait, there was no response from Madeline. Although Jeremy was a little disappointed, he went to work first.
Time passed silently. After Jeremy finished with the things at hand, he glanced at his silent Whatsapp chat and felt inexplicably perturbed.
It was almost noon, and even if Madeline were still in a discussion, he felt that Madeline would still reply to him.
Jeremy, not giving it further thought, called her directly, but he found that Madeline’s mobile phone was turned off.
Did it run out of battery?
Impossible.
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