Chapter 187 I’m Sorry, Maddie
“No…” Madeline shook her head and let out a sob. “I was too naive… Even though a lot has happened between Luke and I, I have never hated him. I—I treated him like my real brother… I trusted him too easily…”
If it wasn’t for her to trust that Luke would not do anything to her and her sons, she might have thought of other ways to solve the matter instead of not telling anyone about it like he told her to do, and later going with him.
She was still the old her, but Luke was no longer the Luke she knew.
Not only did he humiliate her, he also drugged her.
After everything that had happened, she could say for sure that she despised him.
She would never trust him or anyone else that easily anymore.
Sebastian did not continue to discuss this with her and the topic promptly changed. “Logan is here. He is downstairs. Do you want to see him?”
“Logan came?” Madeline stood up from the bedside.
“Yes,” Sebastian said. “He said he is sorry for what Luke did, and he is willing to bear any punishment and compensation. I told him that this is your business. You will be the one to call the shots.”
He paused briefly before continuing, “Do you want to see him? If you don’t, tell me what you plan to do with Luke. I will get it done for you.”
“Me?” She hesitated for a moment and asked, “Is it going to be done exactly how I want it?”
“Yes.” He nodded. “This is about you. Although I really want to deal with him myself, you are your own person. You are not my subordinate. I have no right to make decisions for you. I respect your opinion.”
“Thank you…” She sighed gratefully. It seemed like she was seeing the good in him the more they got along.
She was especially grateful for him.
Meeting him was probably the second good thing that god had bestowed upon her, the first time being the time when she had Quincy and Joel.
“I have told you that you don’t need to thank me ever again,” Sebastian gently reprimanded Madeline. “You are not only the mother of my children. You are also my woman from now on. You gave birth to our sons, and you also gave yourself to me. It is only natural that I would do anything for you.”
She could feel her cheeks getting warm. Give myself… to you? Baffled, she repeated quietly, Do you really need to say something like that out loud?
Not wanting to recall what happened earlier at all, she quickly changed the subject and announced, “I want to see Logan.”
To that, Sebastian nodded and said that he would go with her.
Madeline subconsciously wanted to give her thanks again, but upon remembering what he had said about that, she swallowed the words that almost came out of her mouth. She nodded and didn’t say another word.
Before she left the room, she turned to look at her sons. She looked like she was reluctant to leave them again.
Noticing that, Sebastian reassured her, “Don’t worry. Desmond will be here to accompany Aldo and Buddy. He will let us know when the children wake up.”
Then, Desmond hurried over and bowed. “Please be at ease, Mrs. Hart. I will look over the little young masters without even blinking once.”
“Thank you for your hard work,” she earnestly said with a nod.
Although reluctant, she still left the room with Sebastian after leaning down to kiss her sons.
She immediately saw Logan after she made a turn at the stairs.
Looking at the familiar face, Madeline’s emotions instantly erupted and her tears rolled out of her eyes like beads on a broken thread. She couldn’t hold it in, no matter how hard she tried now.
She then raised her hand to cover the lower half of her face to stop herself from making a sound.
She was ten years old when Dan brought her to the Taylor Residence in Worrick. Even though he was the one who took her there, he never seemed to care much about her.
The only person whom she knew when she first arrived at the completely foreign place was Dan. He would often stay out of home and wander around. Madeline could only stay at the residence as she was surrounded by unfamiliar places and people. She didn’t dare to go anywhere.
However, the Taylor Residence was filled with people who harboured only ill intentions toward her.
It was normal for her to get a beating or starve when she lived there.
Even so, those were only trivial matters.
The only thing that almost broke her down was the never-ending loneliness she had to endure. She was truly lonely.
She lived alone with no one to care about her while having to deal with contemptuous and scornful eyes everywhere she went. She didn’t even have someone to talk to and felt like she was alone in this big world, and that loneliness was enough to drive her crazy.
Just as she thought that she couldn’t hold on any longer and was on the verge of death, the peculiar Dan suddenly took her to go hunting.
Madeline then saved the thoroughly injured Adams siblings who seemed like they could die anytime soon.
For a long time, she and the brothers relied on each other to keep themselves warm and alive.
To her, the brothers were the most important people in her life, other than her two sons.
Their place in her heart was far above that of Crystal and Michael.
She had always thought that they would be family for life.
However, Luke attempting to rape her after sneaking into her room in the middle of the night had changed everything.
Logan had told her wearily that he would bring Luke out of Worrick so that Luke could never disrupt her life.
Since then, they had lost contact.
As much as Madeline missed them, she knew that she didn’t love Luke, and could never accept becoming his wife.
So what if they met again? It would only add to the list of things to worry about.
She could only put all her attention to her work and her two sons. That was her way of forcing herself not to think about them or even going to see them. She would pretend that she had really forgotten about them, but still, the moment she saw Logan, she immediately knew that she had never forgotten them.
Madeline didn’t give much thought about Luke because of how complicated her feelings toward him were after all the disgusting things he had done, but she had missed Logan a lot.
The moment she saw Logan, she felt as though she was seeing a relative she hadn’t met for a long time. She couldn’t help but feel overwhelmingly sad at that moment.
Just like an aggrieved child who could hold back when they haven’t seen their parents but would immediately turn on the waterworks as soon as their parents appeared, Madeline burst into tears at the sight of the man she had not seen in years.
Her eyes were blurry with tears almost instantly. She didn’t even know how she managed to stumble her way into Logan’s embrace.
She hugged him tightly as she buried her face in his chest. Then, she was sobbing so sadly her body began to tremble.
Madeline really, really did miss Logan.
After being separated from the brothers, she had no one to talk to about her ups and downs. No one even cared to know how she felt.
She had finally found a place that felt home. It was somewhere where she could hide in and cry or laugh uninhibitedly. She had support and company in that home, and she had someone to lean against for warmth.
It had all disappeared in a puff of smoke overnight.
It was hard for her to describe the pain, but if she had to, it felt like she had the most important thing to her poked at and carved off from her heart with a knife.
She couldn’t stop crying as she hugged Logan.
He also hugged her in return as he gently patted her, but didn’t even notice the tears streaming down his face.
“It is alright now, Maddie…” Logan held back a choke as he comforted her with his words. “Luke, that piece of sh*t… It is my fault. I didn’t watch him like I told you I would. It is all my fault. I’m sorry, Maddie. I’m sorry…”
