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The memory of her own words felt like a stinging slap across
the face.
The twenty–seven–year–old Roderick was utterly cold and seemed to be in a hurry. He gave a brief explanation to the police and then walked out of the station, carrying Kevin in one arm and grabbing Madeleine’s hand with the other.
After he dragged her into the car, Madeleine took a deep
breath.
“Ricki, I have something to tell you.”
Roderick had just secured Kevin in the child seat.
Hearing her words, he slowly looked up at her. “What did you
call me?”
“Ricki, your nickname. What’s wrong?”
Roderick’s gaze darkened, betraying no emotion. He had lost count of how long it had been since she had called him that.
He closed the door and sat in the driver’s seat.
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“What do you want to say to me?”
“In fact, I-”
Madeleine paused, turning to look at Kevin, who was gazing at
her.
If she said she had traveled through time, would it scare him?
She then decided to tell Roderick in private when they got
home.
Putting on her best gentle mother act, she smiled at Kevin.
“Kev, did I scare you?”
Kevin gawked at her, slack–jawed.
Was this really his mommy?
Why was she so gentle all of a sudden? Was it because she …
finally decided to abandon him for good?
Pouting, he looked at Roderick. “Daddy, I’m scared.”
“It’s okay. I’m here,” Roderick said.
With that, he glanced at Madeleine through the rearview mirror.
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The smile on her face froze, and she shrank back awkwardly
before looking out the window, pretending nothing had
happened.
So, it was really an act?
Roderick’s grip tightened around the steering wheel, his jaw
clenching.
Soon, he pulled up to the entrance of a riverside villa. Looking
up, Madeleine couldn’t help but be impressed.
He’d been such a bum back then, yet now he had made it this
big. Good for him.
Before she could finish taking in the sight of the villa, Roderick
grabbed her wrist, pulled her into the bedroom, and slammed
the door shut.
“W–What are you—”
She immediately covered her chest with both arms.
Before she could finish speaking, Roderick snapped,
“Madeleine, the next time you decide to cheat on me, could you at least have the decency not to bring Kevin along?”
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What had Roderick just said?
Madeleine wondered if she had misheard.
Her? Cheating on him?
Had she truly done something so shameless? And to have
brought Kevin along?
How despicable!
Her eyes widened in shock, and for a moment, she almost
forgot to breathe.
Slowly, she raised her head and met Roderick’s gaze, which was
burning with rage.
“Ricki,” she said, her voice trembling, “if I told you I’ve lost my
memory and only remember being eighteen, would you believe
me?”
Roderick’s fury was visibly replaced by stunned silence.
But soon, a cold understanding seemed to dawn on him. He
arched an eyebrow and let out a derisive snort.
“You’ll really stop at nothing to get a divorce, won’t you?”
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Madeleine instantly gathered another piece of crucial
information.
She had an affair and was demanding a divorce from Roderick.
It turned out she had grown to be a villainess.
She couldn’t help but feel a pang of self–disgust.
But then, it was understandable. This was Roderick, after all— her sworn enemy, the boy she had grown up with… To be more accurate, the boy she had grown up fighting with. Of course, there wasn’t a trace of affection between them.
Even now, looking at his face, she could still vividly remember the time when he was five and had the seat of his pants bitten
off by a dog.
She couldn’t help but giggle at the memory.
And really, could she be blamed? She was, after all, a girl of only eighteen. How could she be expected to perfectly hide what she
felt?
“What are you laughing at?” Roderick’s frown deepened, his
teeth gritting in a wave of humiliation.
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“Madeleine, am I really that much of a joke to you?”
Madeleine wiped the grin off her face at once.
She and Roderick had always been at odds, and she was long
accustomed to his stern tone.
Yet, for some reason, this grown–up version of him frightened
her. She couldn’t shake the feeling that before, when he was
angry with her, it had just been him messing around. But now, he was genuinely furious.
“That’s not what I meant,” she said, spreading her hands in a
helpless gesture.
“I really have lost my memory. The last thing I remember is
being a freshman, trying to study for finals in the library when
you came over and switched my textbook with ‘Ten Ways to
Make Your Child Smarter‘.”
The memory reignited her indignation, and she glared at him.
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