Waking up with my nemesis baby novel Chapter 82

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But as soon as she got back, she changed her clothes and

rushed down to the basement.

Fine. Dance practice was more important than him.

Roderick felt a little annoyed. Wasn’t she just jealous of him

and Rebecca a moment ago?

Did she get over it that quickly?

He narrowed his eyes, and then remembered the basement

didn’t just have a dance studio–it had a gym, too.

A smirk touched his lips. He deliberately changed into workout

clothes that hugged his muscles and headed over.

The jealousy trick didn’t work?

Time for some seduction.

For the past eighteen years, dancing was etched into

Madeleine’s very bones.

She didn’t know why she’d had a fit and stopped dancing after

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she turned 18, but now that she had the chance, she had to get

it back.

Never giving up, never surrendering–that wasn’t just Roderick’s

nature, it was Madeleine’s too.

Back then, just because she heard her teachers say that girls‘

math skills fall behind boys‘ in high school, Madeleine was

angry for a long time.

She started grinding through practice problems day and night,

acing every single math test and proving her teachers wrong.

Her body was stiff from not dancing for a few years?

She’d just have to loosen it up.

Her movements weren’t standard or precise?

She’d just have to drill the fundamentals relentlessly.

That was just how Madeleine was; she never wasted energy on

self–doubt, only turned it into action.

She firmly believed that with this kind of perseverance, she could succeed at anything.

After practicing hard for over forty minutes, Madeleine was

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drenched in sweat, sitting on the barre and drinking water.

As she drank her water, she heard a loud thud from above her.

“An earthquake!

?”

Madeleine jumped off the barre in fright, ready to run outside.

But she had pushed herself too hard while dancing, and now

her legs felt a bit like jelly, so she couldn’t run fast.

She took two steps and stopped.

“Doesn’t seem like an earthquake…”

Just as she breathed a sigh of relief, there was another thud

from above, like something heavy had hit the floor.

Madeleine looked up at the ceiling.

Her dance studio was on the second basement level, and there

was another basement level above it that Madeleine had never

been to.

Unable to contain her curiosity, Madeleine took her water bottle

and got into the elevator.

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The elevator doors opened, and Madeleine’s eyes lit up.

A gym?

The first basement level was actually a gym!

She looked around excitedly. A cable machine, a Smith

machine, barbells and dumbbells of all sizes, and even cardio

equipment like a treadmill, an elliptical, and a ski machine…

It had everything, comparable to a professional commercial

gym.

Madeleine couldn’t help but touch this and that, completely

unaware that a resentful gaze was fixed on her from a short

distance away.

Roderick, his face dark, slammed the barbell in his hands down

again.

The thud made Madeleine jump.

“Ricki?

So you’re here.”

Madeleine was startled again, and after saying that, she felt her

throat tighten as her gaze unconsciously fell on Roderick.

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He was wearing a tight black tank top, and with less clothing

on, the perfect lines of his broad shoulders and narrow waist

were revealed.

Having just finished a few sets of heavy lifting, his arm muscles

were taut, veins slightly bulging, and his breathing was a little

ragged.

Sweat trickled down his neck, pausing briefly at his collarbone

before disappearing into his collar.

“Nothing wrong with your eyes, huh? You’re just seeing me now,

right?”

Roderick said faintly, his voice low and husky with a post-

workout languor. For some reason, Madeleine felt a little guilty

hearing it.

Her attention really had wandered just now.

“I didn’t notice before. You were too far away.”

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