Waking up with my nemesis baby novel Chapter 145

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he quickly looked away, her long lashes fluttering twice, as if

she’d suddenly been hit by a blinding light.

“How did you… find out?”

“Mariah was looking into Nanette and found out by accident.

On the 12th, you told me you went shopping with Rebecca.”

No wonder.

Her reaction to the yacht dinner he’d prepared that day had

been strange.

Something must have happened before she came to see him.

Roderick’s heart suddenly clenched with a pang of pain, and he

regretted not asking what was wrong, not being there to face it

with Madeleine.

Whatever it was, he wanted to face it with Madeleine.

“Maddie.”

Roderick’s tone softened as he said gently, “Tell me what

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happened.”

“I…” S

Madeleine opened her mouth, her gaze falling to their clasped

hands.

The words were on the tip of her tongue, but she swallowed

them back down.

She was scared.

She remembered how crazy Zoe had looked, and a shiver ran

through her.

She took a deep breath, suddenly grabbed Roderick’s arm, her

eyes determined.

“Roderick, do you trust me?”

“Of course.”

Roderick nodded without hesitation.

“There are some things I can’t tell you right now, because it

might… hurt you. But please know that I like you, I love you, and

I would never, ever lie to you or betray you.”

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Afraid Roderick would get the wrong idea, Madeleine said the

words in a rush.

After she finished, Roderick’s eyes seemed to brighten.

“Say it again.”

“Huh? Oh, that there are some things…”

“The last two sentences.”

“That I could never lie to you‘?”

“The one before that.”

Roderick smiled, prompting her patiently.

Madeleine, momentarily speechless, simply stood on her toes

and answered him with her actions.

At three in the afternoon, a few managers grabbed their laptops

and were about to head to the conference room for a meeting.

Gerry stopped them at the door.

“The meeting’s been canceled. You can all head back for now.”

Everyone looked at each other.

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Why was it canceled?

Gerry had a secretive look on his face, but he knew exactly what

was going on.

Half an hour ago, he had gone to the president’s office to drop

off materials for the meeting and found that the president, who

was usually efficient and never procrastinated, had a pile of

work stacked up.

When he looked at the man himself, he was sitting at his desk

with a mysterious smile on his face.

He called out several times, but the president acted like he

couldn’t hear a thing.

A situation like this meant he was either seeing things or

possessed.

There was also another possibility…

Gerry turned and his gaze fell on the president’s secretary’s

office, where Madeleine was.

Only Chase could have this kind of power.

At that moment, the culprit, Madeleine, was holding a bottle of

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ice–cold Coke to her lips.

She was annoyed as she did it.

This isn’t right. Didn’t we agree that next time Roderick’s lips

would be the ones to swell up?

Was her technique that bad?

How come she was the one with swollen lips again?

Shaking the thoughts from her head, Madeleine rested her chin

in her hand and started reading the news about the North City

Science and Technology Park.

The bidding conference was about to start, and there had been

a lot of news about the Livingston Group lately.

#Livingston Group Stock Plummets, Cash Flow Shortage May

Force Withdrawal From Bidding#

#Livingston Group Pulls Out of North City Science and

Technology Park Project#

#Livingston Group President Refuses Interviews, Suspected Company Crisis#

Madeleine scrolled through them, unable to help but be

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