With Ricki’s jealous streak, if I held Kevin’s hand, he’d get upset,
wouldn’t he?
But if I ignored Kev… I’m his mother, I couldn’t bear it!
After a fierce internal debate, Madeleine grabbed Kevin’s hand
and placed it in Roderick’s.
“It’s okay, I don’t need to. You two can hold each other’s hands.
I’ll just pinch my thigh!”
The father and son, whose eyes had been full of anticipation,
glanced at their hands now forced together, both wearing the
exact same look of exasperation.
The check was just for peace of mind. Seeing that no one was
physically harmed by the milk, Madeleine could finally relax.
During the days waiting for Nanette’s trial, she didn’t go to the
office, nor did she let Kevin go to kindergarten, staying home to be with him completely.
One day, Roderick came back looking a bit serious.
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Madeleine could tell something was wrong, so she sent the
child away first.
“Did something happen?”
“Nanette said she wants to see us.”
Roderick didn’t have to pay any attention to this, but Mariah had
said that if they could get a letter of forgiveness from Nanette,
the matter of Madeleine hitting her could be resolved quickly.
So, Roderick was a little hesitant.
“If you don’t want to see her, we don’t have to go. I’ll have
Mariah handle it. Trust Mariah, she won’t let anything happen to
you.”
“No, I want to go see her.”
“I want to see what she looks like now. I want to ask her why
she was so cruel, to harm a child she had been with for over
two years!”
Madeleine’s eyes grew colder, showing a maturity that didn’t
belong to an eighteen–year–old.
Roderick looked at her, momentarily dazed, unable to tell what
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Madeleine’s mental age really was now.
“Okay.”
After a long moment, Roderick finally nodded.
“I’ll go with you.”
Nanette had been held in a detention center for the past few days. Madeleine was a little curious and searched for Nanette’s
social media accounts on the way.
The accounts were already banned. In the remaining clips from
her livestreams, there was nothing but insults directed at
Nanette.
Netizens are like a gun. Whoever holds it has a weapon to
attack people with.
She scrolled a bit more and found someone had revealed that
Nanette was a repeat offender who had made money this way
in another province years ago.
The number of children whose conditions worsened under her
care was countless.
The last trace of pity in Madeleine’s heart vanished.
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A person like that doesn’t deserve to be a psychologist at all.
Inside the detention center, Mariah had already arrived.
She had been busy running around these past few days and
looked quite tired.
“You’ve been working hard, Mariah.”
“Don’t mention it, Mr. Livingston, Mrs. Livingston. It’s my job.
Nanette is inside. She’s confessed to her crimes without
reservation, but…”
Mariah pushed up her glasses and sighed.
“She still refuses to agree to a settlement.”
Madeleine nodded, “I understand. Take us to her.”
In the meeting room, Nanette’s face was ashen, her clothes
were wrinkled, and her eyes looked lifeless.
It wasn’t until she saw Madeleine and Roderick enter that her
eyes focused.
She curled her lips into a triumphant smile.
“I knew you would come. Madeleine, you’re scared too, aren’t
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you?”
“A person like you? What’s there for me to be afraid of?”
Madeleine moved gracefully, walking over to sit across from
her, a stark contrast to Nanette’s miserable state.
Seeing Roderick protectively by her side, never leaving her,
Nanette gritted her teeth and clenched her fists.
“If you’re not scared, why are you here? Isn’t it to beg me to
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