Chapter 855

He stood right where he was, watching Claire Chase walk into the pouring rain. He wanted to call out to her several times but knew her temper all too well. All he could do was watch her figure fade into the distance. Just as she was about to disappear from sight, Felix Quigley’s expression suddenly changed. He bolted into the rain, sprinting toward the person who had collapsed on the ground.

Claire had a very long dream.

In it, she saw her mom and dad, whom she hadn’t seen in a long time. She was just a little girl.

Her dad pulled out a beautiful set of diamond jewelry he had carefully prepared and gave it to her mom. Her mom was thrilled.

Young Claire loved it too and reached out to grab it, but her dad gently picked her up. ‘This is a gift from Daddy to Mommy,’ he told Young Claire. ‘Sweetheart, you can’t play with this. If you break it, Mommy will be mad.’

‘Daddy, I want one too!’ Young Claire loved shiny things.

Her dad tapped her nose affectionately and coaxed, ‘When our sweetheart gets married, Daddy will give you a set too, okay?’

Young Claire pouted. ‘Then I want to get married right now! Daddy, go find me a husband.’

The couple laughed at her. They finally appeased her with a piece of cake.

Young Claire happily walked out with her cake. When she reached the door, she turned around to say something to her mom, only to see her dad putting the necklace around her mom’s neck.

She quietly slipped out of the room, skipping all the way to the garden. She planned to enjoy her delicious cake on the garden swing.

But someone had already taken the swing today—a pretty little boy.

She stared at him for a moment and couldn’t help but ask, ‘Will you be my husband?

Her dad had said that when she got married, she would get pretty jewelry.

But when the boy saw her, he looked disgusted. ‘Who wants to be your husband?’

Rejected, Young Claire rubbed her nose awkwardly. ‘Fine, I’ll ask someone else then.’

As soon as she turned around, she bumped into her cousin, Madeline Lynwood.

Young Claire didn’t really like her

little cousin because every time she came over to play, she broke the

dolls her dad had bought her. So, she instinctively tried to walkaround her

But Madeline pouted and said, ‘I want some cake too.’

‘No, I only have this one piece. I can’t share it,’ Young Claire refused immediately.

Her mom didn’t let her eat too many sweets, saying it was bad for her teeth. She had worked hard to get this piece of cake, so why should she give it away?

After being rejected, Madeline instantly burst into tears.

Young Claire had seen this trick before; she had used the same tactic to trick her out of a little dress her grandmother had made for her. So, she instinctively shielded her cake.

But a second later, the pretty little boy on the swing snatched the cake from her arms and handed it to Madeline. He even scolded her, ‘Why are you so stingy? She’s your cousin!’

Young Claire wanted to argue, but to her horror, she watched the boy rapidly transform into a grown man. And Madeline grew up in an instant as well.

‘Felix Quigley…’ Young Claire gasped in shock.

Madeline shoved the child-version of Claire to the ground and smiled mockingly. ‘I’m going to take everything that belongs to you. Including your man.’

Felix wrapped his arms around he the two of them looking incredibly intimate He even looked down and coaxed Madeline in a gentle voice, ‘I was always yours. No one can take me away.’

‘You cheating scumbags!’ Claire used every ounce of her strength to scream, slowly waking up from the nightmare.

Before her vision could clear, she heard Old Mrs. Quigley’s voice by her ear. ‘Sweetheart, did you have a nightmare?’