Chapter 260 – Until You Say Sorry Novel

After they met, he drove the car and finally arrived at a nursing home.

“Is this where Grandpa is currently staying?” Niamh felt it to be rather unacceptable.

“The environment and facilities here are very good.” Kendrick then led the way forward.

Niamh knew that for an old man, it would not matter how well his living environment was or how well he ate. It would never be as good as him having his children and relatives around him.

Niamh could not bring herself to allow Old Master Waldburg to spend his remaining life in this place. “Felipe has promised me that he’ll return Waldburg Manor back to Grandpa.”

Kendrick smiled with deep implications. “Do you really believe that he’ll do it? Nia, you still are a bit naive.”

“…” Niamh glanced at Kendrick with dissatisfaction. As she was about to say something, her gaze was caught by Old Master Waldburg who was practicing Tai Chi in the garden not far away.

Grandpa seemed to be much more energetic than before.

Old Master Waldburg noticed Niamh as well and his eyes were still as kind and peaceful as always.

“You can talk to Grandpa first. I’ll answer a phone call.” Kendrick seemed to deliberately try to create alone time for Niamh and Grandpa Waldburg. After saying this, he simply walked away.

After Old Master Waldburg finished his Tai Chi routine, he smiled kindly and waved to Niamh. “Niamh, you came.”

Niamh’s heart suddenly turned sour when she heard the old man calling her Niamh and the urge to cry almost instantly surged.

“Grandpa, I’m sorry.” She apologized.

“Silly girl, you didn’t do anything wrong toward Grandpa.” Old Master Waldburg smiled and stretched out his hand toward Niamh. “Come and sit next to Grandpa.”

Niamh held Old Master Waldburg’s hand while her eyes reddened, then sat beside him.

The sunshine of the early spring was not warm, but the gentle gaze of Old Master Waldburg made Niamh feel warmer. “Grandpa, Felipe has promised me that he’ll return the house to you. You can move back in around two days.”

Old Master Waldburg smiled lightly when he heard her words. “I already have one foot in the ground. Whether it’s real estate or money, they’re both no longer important to me.”

“Grandpa…”

“I understand Felipe’s hatred toward me. The accident that happened back then had been so coincidental.” Old Master Waldburg sighed.

Niamh recalled Felipe’s past that he had shared with her before. He said that Old Master Waldburg had designed the car accident that killed his parents just to gain the Waldburg family’s inheritance rights.

Niamh was sure that Old Master Waldburg was not such a sinister person, but it also did not seem that Felipe had lied.

After putting in some thought, Niamh decided to ask as she could not just hear one side out.

“Grandpa, what happened back then?”

Old Master Waldburg then sighed regretfully again, those weather-beaten eyes suddenly becoming a little muddy. “Felipe’s father is my brother. My father gave birth to my younger brother when I was almost 18 years old. He was delighted that he was able to get a child even in his old age.

“My father had always valued Felipe’s father ever since I was a child. This made me a little envious and even jealous. Later on, Felipe’s father got married and started a business. My father had intended to hand over the entire Waldburg Corporation to Felipe’s father as an inheritance. However, the day he announced the inheritance, Felipe’s parents got into a serious car accident while on their way to the company and died on the spot.

“When Felipe’s parents died, the biggest beneficiary would be me, so I naturally became the suspect who planned the car accident.”

Niamh was startled. “So, it’s all just a misunderstanding? There’s no evidence to prove that it was related to you, is there, Grandpa?”

“Misunderstandings are most of the time the deadliest thing.” Old Master Waldburg smiled with relief and patted Niamh’s hand. “In fact, what happened between you and Kendrick, wasn’t it also because of one misunderstanding after another?”

Niamh became silent when he suddenly mentioned Kendrick and her.

“Niamh, by now, I have to tell you the truth about that matter.”

Old Master Waldburg’s gaze was serious.

Niamh’s heart thumped as she asked in confusion, “The truth of that incident? Grandpa, which incident are you talking about?”

Old Master Waldburg smiled kindly and gently. “Silly girl, the truth is, it was not I who decided the marriage between you and Kendrick.

“…” Niamh was dumbfounded. “Grandpa, what are you talking about? Weren’t you the main reason why Kendrick and I got married back then…”

“No.” Old Master Waldburg interrupted Niamh’s doubts. “It was someone else. It was this person who had taken the initiative to look for me and ask me to host the marriage between you and Kendrick.”

Upon hearing this, Niamh felt even more lost. “Who is it? Grandpa, who is this person?”

“It was Kendrick.”

“…” Niamh’s eyes widened in disbelief. “Kendrick? How could that be possible? How could he be the one to initiate marrying me?”

“Because that b*stard liked you, but he was prideful and refused to admit it.”

“…”

Niamh felt her heart instantly turning into a mess when she heard this.

Back then when she and Kendrick got married, everyone in Glendale knew that Old Master Waldburg had been the one who forced the marriage.

Now, Old Master Waldburg was telling her that he had never forced Kendrick into the marriage.

It was Kendrick who requested this marriage!

“Niamh, I know it’s hard for you to believe it, but I wouldn’t lie to you like this.”

As he said this, the old man stood up slowly and looked at the evening sky as the sunset came to an end.

“That day, Kendrick came to the study looking for me all of a sudden and said to me, ‘Grandpa, I want to marry Niamh.’ I asked him the reason behind him wanting to marry a girl he didn’t like. He did not answer me at the time, but his face back then was as red as the sunset’s glow right now.”

After listening quietly to what Grandpa had said, Niamh gradually pulled back her wandering thoughts. “You’re trying to tell me that Kendrick had actually liked me back then?”

“No man would allow a woman who they didn’t love to bear them children, and no woman is willing to take care of the children of a man she doesn’t love.” Old Master Waldburg turned away and patted Niamh on the shoulder.

“Niamh, I wasn’t trying to defend Kendrick. No matter how much I wished I could defend him, the harm he has done to you is still not erasable. I just thought that you had the right to know the truth. While I don’t know why Kendrick never wanted to acknowledge that he had feelings for you, I could tell that he has sincere feelings for you.”

As soon as Grandpa was done, Kendrick’s tall figure appeared in Niamh’s sight.

He looked at her from a distance, and under the sunset glow, his appealing appearance quietly portrayed itself in her eyes.

Old Master Waldburg had caught sight of Kendrick as well, but he ignored him and still faced Niamh with patience and kindness. “Since it’s a misunderstanding, it will be resolved sooner or later. I believe that one day, you’ll be able to feel Kendrick’s sincerity toward you.”

Accompanied by the sound of his ending words, Old Master Waldburg turned away and left.

Niamh stepped out calmly, but a storm was brewing in her heart.

She remembered the year when Kendrick had pinched her chin and said while showing a wicked smirk, “Niamh, do you seriously think that I’m still putting up this act with you just because of my concerns about Grandpa?”

He had also said, “Niamh, let me tell you this, from the beginning to the end, it is me, Kendrick, who will decide the start and end of this marriage. Or did you really think that you could be my wife just by sleeping with me? Aren’t you being too naive?”

As the words he had said to her connected with Grandpa’s words from just now, only then did Niamh came to a realization.

At this moment, she seemed to finally understand the meaning behind the two sentences Kendrick had said back then.

It turned out that the existence of their marriage was really not because of Old Master Waldburg.

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