Madeline had changed her mind at the last minute and did not go to the lab, so the chemist typed the results into a comprehensible report instead and sent it over to her in the form of an email.

Yet with Jeremy by her side, she did not dare open it in front of him.

If he did not want her to know that he had not fully recovered, then she would not cut through his facade.

“Didn’t I tell you to wait for me at home, Linnie? Why did you follow me out?” Jeremy’s curious and soft tone drifted over.