The days had passed bestially need to the villa whatase smile
o the upper echelonet society though his own efforts. He was no longer the broke student who had to sell himself in pay for
« pocket, he hail a cand that contained the first son of put he received from the project. He plumed on tetuming the money to Madeleine when he saw her. Once he cleared the debt he owed her, he would be able to hold his head up highs in tout of her, t
However, when Sollivan opened the door, he was greeted with an empty villa that was completely silent. In the past, Madeleine would always wait in the living
he was nowhere to be sent
stumpe feeling developed inside of him. For some reason, his heart telt a little empty. Recalling Madeleine’s strange behavior in recent days, he started feeling
Thad she come up with yet another method of tommenting hind?
sure what this meant, so he pulled his phone out to text Madeleine, nut before he could do that, he got a notification about the breaking news
rison, the daughter of the richest family in Abington, was recently reported undssing.
ing. Not too long ago, a body was found floating on the sea. Following the police’s investigations, they have contined that the body belongs to the missing Ms. Enersou. Het cause of death remains unknown. Iter hoef news tease it left Sullivan feeling thunderstruck. He couldn’t believe his eyes. Neither could be stop self from clicking into the news article to read
The pictures had been censored, but he could still see the body that had been fished out of the sea.
Though he scouted the photo to find something that could prove the body didn’t belong to Madeleine, the more he studied it, the more shocked he became body was wearing the exact outtu Madeleine had on when he last saw her.
Was Madeleine trally dead?
Sullivan had to ser tot homself. it he didn’t see the body, he wouldn’t be able to believe she had died past like that.
He rushed straight for the door, repeatedly stumbling as he dial ite wanted to drive to the police station, but when he tried to start the engine, his hand kept shalong so much that he couldn’t insert the key into the ignition. He had in chalce but to get a cab histead,
Soon, the cab pulled up outside the police station Sullivan was still gripped with tear. He didn’t know what he would do it the body truly belonged to Madeleine.
‘we arrived, sit. Ate you not getting down?” the cab driver asked after some time had passed.
He had looked through the rearview minor and saw the way Sullivan’s expression kept changing. That, palted with the location, made him think that Sullivan bad communitted murine and was here to form himself in He sighed to himself, wondering how a decent looking young man ended up like this.
Sullivan had no clue what was going on inside the driver’s mind. The driver’s voter had supped him out of his reverie, and he got out of the cab.
ming the police about why he had come, one of them led him to the morgue. Once he got there, be realized he wasn’t the first one there. Cynthia’s eyes were red and potty. Evidently, she had been crying for some time now. Frank was a lot more composed, but his eyes were reddened as well. Both locked up when they heard someone approaching, but when they saw Sullivan, they both had mixed feelings about it.
They had iral Madeleine’s letter and knew she had merely gone aload after taking her death. Nevertheless, they still wesensted would Madeleine lure to peront to taking bei death just to get away? Stratimbule, Sullivan’s heart sank the moment he saw them. Suddenly, heard not get any closer he was too afraid to look at the body upe
Sullivan for in
for it. If not for him, why
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