Kendrick pulled his arm back coldly at her words.
“Stay if that’s what you want.” His lips parted emotionlessly.
It did not matter whether Nevaeh lived here or not, not when the last clean spot had already been tainted.
Nevaeh was elated. “Really, Kendrick? Then this family of ours won’t need to be separated anymore!”
She skipped over to Kendrick with an affectionate look in her eyes. “I just knew you wouldn’t dump me like that, Kendrick. You promised to take care of me forever…”
Forever.
An indescribable smirk tugged at the corner of Kendrick’s lips at the word.
…
Niamh relayed everything about the night before to Felipe, leaving nothing out as the latter listened silently by the floor to ceiling windows. He was deep in thought.
“He believes me. He thinks that something happened between us, so he was determined when he said he’ll marry me.”
An ironic glint sparkled in Niamh’s beautiful eyes as she stared at Felipe’s lithe figure.
“Kendrick has always refused to believe anything I told him back then and opted to believe Nevaeh instead as she would frame me time and time again. So now, I’m going to give them a taste of how it feels to be played and framed.”
Her words fell, bringing the duo into a short lapse of silence.
Felipe turned around a few seconds later, concern tinting the gentleness on his chiseled features that were enhanced by the warm rays of the setting sun.
“I just want to ask you one last time, Vera. Are you sure that this is what you want? It wasn’t easy escaping the claws of a monster. Are you sure you want to be caged by him again?” His tone was warm like the winds of spring, but in his eyes held a fierce glint.
Niamh hesitated for a confused moment before a revengeful flare shone in her eyes.
“I can take the pain and humiliation they gave me, but I’ll never forgive the two of them for teaming up to destroy the ashes of my precious child. The death of my child is something I must avenge!”
Niamh balled her fists as hatred imprinted itself deeply onto her gentle features. There was a sharp and strong-willed look swimming in her eyes.
After being gifted with rebirth, taking revenge was the top goal that gave her the determination to continue living!
Felipe did not persuade further as he took in the determination in her eyes.
Instead, he raised her hands to place a gentlemanly and loving peck at the back of them.
“Promise me that you’ll take care of yourself no matter what. Should any problem arise, I want you to look for me.”
Niamh was stunned for a moment and the cold anger in her eyes slowly melted away under Felipe’s gentle warmth.
She broke into a smile, locking gazes with the glistening eyes in front of her.
“Thank you, Felipe. I promise I’ll come back to you after I take my revenge, then we’ll go back to F Country with Lillian where we’ll live simply and happily together.”
“Alright.” Felipe smiled faintly, pulling Niamh gently into his embrace.
With her warm figure held close, the corners of Felipe’s lips lifted vaguely. He was hiding a dark secret within.
…
Satisfied, Nevaeh began to live in Kendrick’s villa. Her attitude toward Jackson had undergone a complete 180 change to persuade Kendrick into marrying her. She would go to great lengths to pretend and fake how close and intimate their mother-son relationship was.
She would wake up early on weekdays to make breakfast for Jackson before sending him to school herself.
Jackson, however, did not like Nevaeh’s fake pleasantries. They only made him dislike her more.
Nevaeh would not stop searching for topics to engage Jackson in as they rode to the kindergarten while the latter remained silent the entire time.
Nevaeh spared the baby face a displeased glance.
Oh, how Nevaeh wished to strangle this bstard son of a btch.
She should have killed him all those years ago. Now, he was the eyesore he was today.
Nevaeh rolled her eyes in distaste when she saw Jackson looking at the display on his phone. The boy tapped on an app that listed a bunch of figures that Nevaeh could not understand before the screen showed a small moving red dot in the end.
She found that the appearance of the red dot brought along a hint of a smile on Jackson’s expressionless face.
The car pulled to a stop just as Nevaeh wondered what it was all about.
Nevaeh looked out to realize they had already reached the kindergarten.
“We’re here, Jack. Come on, Mommy’s going to send you…” Nevaeh smiled before turning her head only to realize that Jackson had already alighted the car himself.
She glared at him, feeling pissed. When she followed after him, she realized that there stood Niamh by the kindergarten gates.
As surprised as she was to find that Jackson was walking toward Niamh, she was baffled to find that his reticent baby face was smiling widely because of that woman.
Nevaeh immediately ran over to pull Jackson back.
At that moment, a car began to speed uncontrollably toward the kindergarten gates.
Someone shouted and Niamh turned to look in that direction. The first thing she saw was Jackson’s crescent-eyed smile that warmed her heart. Niamh was about to greet him when she realized the uncontrolled car was currently making its way to where Jackson was.
“Ah!” Nevaeh exclaimed. Her first reaction was to throw Jackson away and turn back to hide.
The car was about to hit Jackson. Niamh felt her heart drop as she ran instinctively to the boy. “Jack!”
Niamh ran toward Jackson without care, completely disregarding the danger of the situation. Her body made the instinctive decision to protect Jackson, even if it meant getting hurt in the process.
Holding Jackson in her arms, Niamh had not the time to run. She prepared herself to get hurt as she felt the car coming into contact with her body.
In the nick of time, someone shrieked, thinking that a horrible accident was about to occur. However, the car suddenly came to a stop.
Nevaeh swore as she stared at the scene from afar.
Oh, how she had hoped the car would rid her eyesores, both Vera and Jackson, from her life with this accident!
The car braked, and Niamh felt the world around her grow silent.
Carefully, she opened her arms to stare at the little boy buried in her embrace. She could not help the sudden burn around the corner of her eyes.
“It’s alright now, Jack. Big Sis Vera promised you, didn’t she? I promised to protect you, so I will.”
Niamh raised a hand to pat Jackson’s small head affectionately.
The little boy lifted his innocent orbs that were glistening with complicated emotions within.
“Mom…”
He was calling her that again.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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