Madeline Crawford and Jeremy Whitman

Chapter 1314

Madeline's expression changed as if she had just thought of something.

"Mom, Dad..."

She lightly blinked her lovely, soulful eyes, then knitted her finely-shaped velvety brows. Solemnly, she urged Ryan, "Please help me inform Jeremy that I'll be back after seeing my parents. If he comes looking for me, do let him know.."

"..." Upon hearing Madeline's words, Ryan and Adam were both simultaneously dumbfounded.

Madeline sat up straight in a very self-possessed manner, and said to the driver, "Please start the car now. If we leave early, we can return early. I still need to come back here and wait for Jeremy. He said he'll pick me up."

Ryan finally knew what was off about Madeline.

He looked at her flawlessly beautiful profile in disbelief, his long brows furrowing. "Take care of her and don't let anything happen to her," Ryan ordered.

Adam nodded to express his understanding, then slowly rolled up the car window.

Ryan stood in place for a while, watching the car that was getting gradually further away.

He had thought that he had completely worn down Madeline's stubbornness and disobedience toward him, and had also thought that the reagent would wipe her memory out entirely. However, he had never expected that he would have coerced Madeline into becoming an idiot who wanted only to wait wholeheartedly for Jeremy to pick her up and bring her home...

Ryan returned to the house in some agitation. It was not long before Jeremy arrived.

He was like an unsheathed sword that bore a devastating, all-engulfing aura. He charged in, backlit, leaving behind the others who had come with him.

Ryan sat composedly on the sofa. His bodyguards quickly stepped forward to stop Jeremy.

However, Jeremy was in no mood to be assaulted or challenged at this moment!

Relying on his outstanding fighting skills, he easily brought down the bodyguards and arrived in front of Ryan, unimpeded.

"Ryan, where's my wife?! Where are you hiding my wife?!" Jeremy's treacherous, cold eyes bored through Ryan ruthlessly. Nothing was more important to him now than Madeline's safety. "Tell me now!" Ryan stood up in a leisurely, self-possessed manner unhurriedly, saying in a light tone, "Your wife isn't here. As for my wife, I just sent her to meet her parents-in-law."

Jeremy's eyes narrowed sharply. At the same time, his IBCI colleague arrived. He strode upstairs hurriedly.

He searched every single room but did not find any sign of Madeline.

However, Jeremy then found some traces of Madeline's former presence in one of the rooms.

In the video earlier, Madeline had been in this room, but now, she was gone.

Jeremy turned around and hurried downstairs. He saw the people from IBCI were about to arrest Ryan and bring him back.

Ryan's manner, however, was still haughty and indifferent. "You're arresting me? What for?"

"We're arresting you because you've committed a crime and murdered someone! Even more so because you're the mastermind behind the Stygian Johnson Gang!" Jeremy's grim, judgemental voice sounded from the stairs.

Cloaked in a formidable aura, he moved, quick as a gust of wind, to stand in front of Ryan. His cold eyes, keen as an eagle's, stared straight at Ryan.

"Ryan, it's time for this game to end."

"Heh." Ryan chuckled dismissively and argued his case unhurriedly. "Jeremy, you're really doing everything possible to try and get rid of me. The mastermind behind the Stygian Johnson Gang is Yorick, and I'm merely the commissioner who was in charge of investigating the Stygian Johnson Gang. Don't heap baseless charges on my head."

Faced with Ryan's chicanery, Jeremy said sharply and impatiently, "Then let me tell you now about my other identity in the IBCI."

Other identity?

Ryan was stunned. He then heard Jeremy saying, "I'm an internal investigator who was specially dispatched to your group by IBCI. In addition to going undercover in the Stygian Johnson Gang, my other task was to investigate you."

"..." Ryan was astonished. He had not expected the IBCI to have suspected him a long time ago, to the extent of having Jeremy investigate him!

"Ryan, we already have evidence that you're the mastermind behind the Stygian Johnson Gang. You can't escape now."

Ryan regained his composure, his manner as scornful and arrogant as before. "Can you really arrest me based only on this evidence you've mentioned?"

The moment he spoke, a voice suddenly came from a distance that completely shocked Ryan.

"If the evidence they have is too flimsy, how about if I add my personal testimony to it?"