Madeline let Ryan throttle her as he wished as her gaze remained unfazed.

“Kill me. I might as well die if I can never see Jeremy again. There’s no difference between the two anyway.”

She smiled bitterly. Ryan had already sanded her sharp edges away over the past few days, so she no longer had the strength to fight back.

Ryan could not bear to accept such words coming from Madeline at such a time.

“Why must you force me, Eveline? Why do you have to force me?” A look so angry it seemed wre