Chapter 177 What Did You Add in the Glass?
When the accident happened, they were still in Worrick, so Madeline rushed over the minute she received the news.
However, as if he had gone insane, Luke blamed everything on her and severed all contact with her.
Logan eventually recovered and they returned to their homeland to look for their stepmother to settle all feuds.
Occasionally, she would hear some news concerning them from her men. From that, she knew that they had successfully recovered their family assets and managed to send their stepmother to jail—all with their uncle’s help.
Madeline was happy for them, but she did not contact them any further.
Since she had totally no feelings for Luke, it would only add to her woes if they met. She was content to know that they were doing well.
Yet, she had never expected that Luke would return and seek vengeance on her after a long time.
Indeed.
As Luke was persistently pestering her, Madeline had told him without thinking twice that she intended to devote herself to her sons and would not settle down for her entire life. However, she had never thought of meeting her sons’ biological father. Times were different now whereby the situation had also changed. Now, she was willing to marry her sons’ biological father in order for them to have a complete family.
She had broken her promise, but it was justifiable, wasn’t it?
He now wanted to make a big fuss over what she had said earlier and she couldn’t do anything about it besides to explain, “I didn’t mean to deceive you back then. That was truly my intention, that I would not marry anyone and would spend my entire life taking care of my two kids. The situation has changed, though I’ve met their biological father and I really wished for them to live with him, while at the same time, I don’t want them to lose their mother either. That being the case, Sebastian and I can only live together. You don’t have to keep harping on what I’ve said in the past and insist that I’ve deceived you. Besides the one you’re harping on, I’ve also said that I treated you like my own brother, that I’ve no feelings toward you, that I did not love you at all, that even if I were to get married, the one I’m marrying would not be you!”
“Your words don’t count; only mine does!” he said with a smirk that was followed by a cunning smile. Then, he took a glass of liquid from the coffee table beside the sofa. “Drink it, and I’ll let you see your sons.”
A frowning Madeline lowered her head to check what was in the glass. “What’s this?”
“Will you?” Seeing her in doubt, he placed the glass back on the table and responded, “You decide. If you don’t drink it, I’ll never let you see them.”
“You…” Madeline was mad that she rose to her feet, walked over to the coffee table, took the glass, and drank everything in it.
She didn’t believe that Luke would dare to poison her!
After finishing it, she glared at him. “I finished it! Where’s Quincy and Joel?”
“Great.” He stood up and clapped for her. “Come on, I’ll bring you to them.”
She gave him an angry stern and did not say anything further.
That didn’t bother him at all. He was casually leading the way while saying, “Let me warn you; don’t try to play any tricks before you see them, and don’t even think of running away. Otherwise, I can’t guarantee your sons will be fine when you see them.”
Hearing that, she was so angry with him that she couldn’t say anything.
They had known each other for a long time. Before she gave up her relationship with Luke, her bond with the Adams brothers was even closer than what she had with Sam.
Many people who knew them had always thought that they were real siblings.
Madeline really regarded both Logan and Luke as her siblings and her family! They had treated her well in the past; it was so well that even though Luke was treating her this way now, she couldn’t see him as her enemy.
She was merely angry—angry at the fact that Luke had become such a person.
After they exited the basement, Madeline looked around the surroundings and realized that this place was entirely foreign to her. However, from the trees and the style of the buildings in this area, she knew that she was still close to Dusktown.
It seemed like Luke did not bring her somewhere far.
With his warning in mind, she did not dare to do anything but follow him into a building.
He proceeded straight to the second floor whereby she immediately followed.
When he arrived at the end of the corridor on the second floor, Luke opened the door of a bedroom and entered.
Madeline followed while looking around. “Where’s Quincy and Joel?”
“Don’t be anxious!” He took off his jacket and tossed it on the bed. Then, he unbuttoned his shirt at the collar and rolled up his sleeves. “I’ve already sent someone to pick them up. You’ll see them soon.”
She found him acting weirdly and looked at him with her mind full of doubts.
What was the drink that he had given her? Why did he lead her out of the basement and bring her here just after she drank it? Was he really bringing her here to see her sons?
With these thoughts, she immediately warned him, “Don’t lie to me!”
“I didn’t.” Luke sat on the sofa and looked at her from head to toes. “Maddie, do you feel anything weird?”
“Weird?” She was taken aback by what he asked.
Earlier, she had been in a tense state where her entire attention was focused on her two children that she had not realized anything within herself.
Now that he had asked, she suddenly realized that her body was indeed feeling strange.
She felt hot, restless, and something more that she couldn’t put into words. She was tense with a racing heart.
She was fine before he asked, but after he did so, she felt even weirder.
Suddenly, the drink that she just had come to her mind. She looked at him in disbelief and asked, “What did you add in that drink?”
It tasted like a lemonade to her, having a mixture of both sour and bitter taste.
What else could it be other than lemonade? Was it the one that she was thinking of?
She could not believe that Luke would do such a thing to her.
Seeing her in this manner, he stood up, headed toward her and grabbed her shoulders. Then, he pushed her onto the bed and bent his waist to look at her. With a deep voice, he teased, “Maddie, you can feel it. Do you know what was added in the lemonade now?”
Madeline pushed his hand off her and looked at him, as if she was looking at a lunatic. “Luke Adams, are you really insane now?”
“Not so,” He moved his lips and blew at her ear. “I don’t think I’m a lunatic. In fact, I feel like this is the most clear-headed moment in my life. Only at this moment am I getting close to the exact thing that I wanted the most. I—”
He wanted to say something further, but his phone rang.
His phone had a customized ringtone, so he didn’t have to look at the screen to see who was calling.
Hearing the ringtone, Luke frowned and decided to ignore it.
Madeline gritted her teeth. “Dream on! I would rather die than to let you have your way.”
“Die?” He twitched his brows. “Can you bear to die? What would happen to your sons, then? You did not want to die; stop lying to me!”
