Chapter 175 I Want You to Kneel Down
Madeline was, again, so mad that she was lost for words.
She wanted to say that he was the one who caused that, not her, but she didn’t dare to agitate him any further since Quincy and Joel were still in his hands.
Then, she closed her eyes and said slowly, “That was something none of us wanted for Logan. I’m sorry to see him like this, but it was an accident that we couldn’t prevent—”
“How nicely you’ve described it.” Luke smiled coldly. “You can be so calm because my brother and I were nothing to you!”
“Why do you always have to say these annoying words?” She finally lost control of her rage and yelled, “We’ve known each other for more than ten years. During you and your brother’s most difficult times, I was the one who supported you both to survive. I treated both of you like my brothers and this is how you treat me now? By kidnapping my sons? Luke Adams, are you even a human?”
“Yes, you’re right!” He nodded. “I don’t want to be a human anymore; it’s just too tiring. Look at Logan now. He would not have become like this if he could just forget his indebtedness toward you! A human had to be bullied and humiliated upon; I would rather be a beast!”
He stretched his hand and gripped her neck tightly. “And now, I want to be a beast!”
“Let me go!” Madeline struggled angrily.
“Let you go?” Luke repeated with his brow raised. “Sure, I’ll let you go.”
He subsequently untied the ropes on her limbs and pointed toward the door. “I’ll let you go now, but do you dare to leave? The door is there, and it’s open for you to leave, but I can guarantee you that I’ll kill that two b*stards the moment you leave.”
With a brazen and evil smile, he continued, “As you know, I will suffer no consequences if I kill somebody. I would not have to pay my life for those b*stards and leave my brother alone in this world to be bullied by you!”
“You…” Madeline was so furious that she wanted to scold him as a lunatic, but her rationality stopped her from doing so.
She did not want to scold him even under this kind of situation. Furthermore, scolding him could not solve any problem.
Deep down her heart, she wasn’t convinced that Luke would really do something to Quincy and Joel. She leaned toward the fact that he was just unhappy after learning of her marriage with Sebastian.
And he just wanted to torture someone else to vent his anger.
In fact, Madeline wasn’t particularly worried about the safety of her kids because she believed that Luke wouldn’t do anything to them.
What she needed to do now was to dispel the annoyance in Luke so that he could release her as soon as possible for her to be reunited with her sons.
With this thought in her mind, she again suppressed her anger, looked into his eyes and suggested in a calm manner, “Can we have a discussion over this? What do you want before you let me see my sons?”
“What do I want?” Luke repeated her question, and she had no idea whether he was asking this question to her or talking to himself. “I’ll have to give it a serious thought!”
She sat on the floor, waiting for his answer.
After a while, he appeared to have thought of something and pointed at the ground underneath his feet. “Get down on your knees and beg me. Maybe I’ll be kind enough to let you see them.”
Such demand shocked Madeline and she looked at him with disbelief. “Luke Adams, do you know what you are saying?”
“Of course I know,” he replied mindlessly. “I know what you are going to say. You’re going to remind me again that you were my life savior, right?”
He continued mocking her, “Madeline, it’s disgraceful for you to keep on threatening me with that indebtedness. Just because you saved my life, do I have to wait on you forever? Do I have to be your servant and do whatever you want me to do just because of that?”
Hearing that, she felt like her vessels were on the edge of bursting.
Madeline’s face went red with rage. “Can you stop distorting the truth? When did I threaten you? And when did I ever ask you to be my servant? Other than not marrying you, what else did I offend you? In fact, I have the freedom to marry whomever I want. I don’t love you and thus I do not want to marry you. That isn’t counted as an offense to you, right? Just because I don’t love you, you kidnapped Quincy and Joel. You are the one being unreasonable right now!”
“Well, I love being unreasonable.” Luke gave her a smirk. “I’m a lunatic, and you know that, right? Being a lunatic, I can be as unreasonable as I wish!”
She almost passed out from anger. Finally, she understood that she could not reason it out with him as he was living in his own world with no reason at all.
“So, are you kneeling down? If not, I’ll leave now!” He looked at her with his brow raised. “Do you really think that I wouldn’t touch your sons? You assumed that I kidnapped them only to scare you, right? Well, you can try, but I have to remind you that I’m not my brother. I’m a lunatic now!”
“You…” Her face went pale. Clutching her fists tightly, she closed her eyes and acceded. “Okay, I will kneel.”
Although Madeline still believed deep down in her heart that he wouldn’t do anything to her sons, she did not dare to take such risks.
They were too important to him, more important than her dignity or even her life, for which she would not risk her life. She was prepared to die for them.
She had been sitting on the ground and now moved her knees into a kneeling position.
Her face was burning with redness. Now that she was suffering such humiliation, she asked, “Is this enough? Can I see them now?”
“Wait. What are you rushing for? You have to let me finish my words!” He then sat down at the space opposite her.
Luke couldn’t care less about his expensive clothes and sat down on the cold floor without any hesitation. “Madeline Taylor, do you remember how many people you have knelt down in front of over the years?”
She was quivering from anger when she heard his words. “Luke Adams, what do you want? Do you feel happy humiliating me?”
“Happy?” He raised his brow for the umpteenth time. “No, I’m not. In fact, my heart aches when I see you kneeling before me!”
Madeline was so overwhelmed with rage that she did not know what to reply. At this point of time, she almost believed what he said of himself—that Luke Adams was a lunatic!
“It’s fine if you do not want to list them out. I’ll do it for you!” Then, Luke continued, “You’ve kneeled before Xander, Cameron, Nigel, Phoebe, Sam, Dan, Isabel, and even her attendants! Though you were being forced to do so, the fact remains that you did. You—”
“Just be straightforward with what you are going to say.” Madeline’s eyes were already filled with redness. “Luke Adams, what did I do to you for you to humiliate me like this?”
