Chapter 98 – Until You Say Sorry Novel

Nevaeh frowned, displeased. “He used to be one of Niamh’s friends, or rather, Niamh and he were involved in that kind of relation—”

“Enough.”

Kendrick parted his lips to interrupt, the ferocity in his icy tone rendering Nevaeh silent.

His gaze and expression as of that moment had people shivering.

“Oh… Is that who he is?” Niamh nodded in understanding before slowly walking toward Tanner who was stumbling on his feet with a hand on the table for support. “Well then, Sir. You don’t seem very welcomed here. Perhaps you should leave…”

“Don’t come close, Niamh! Go away! I get that you have unfinished business, but if you’re going to haunt someone, I’m not the one you should be haunting! If you want to haunt someone, go haunt

Nevaeh instead! It’s her! She’s the one who killed you!”

With that, the ballroom fell into pin-drop silence.

The corners of Niamh’s lips curled as she tilted her head to stare innocently into Kendrick’s ice-cold eyes. “What is this man saying, Mr. Waldburg? What haunting? What does he mean haunt Nevaeh instead?”

At that, Nevaeh felt the air around her turn void. She felt as if she had been thrown into an ice house.

Not daring to look at the expression on Kendrick’s face, she rushed up to Tanner instead. “What drunk nonsense are you saying, Tanner? There’s no ghost at all! Niamh’s not here anymore! Also, I’ve never done anything against my conscience! When have I ever hurt her? I saw Niamh as my own sister. Don’t frame me for things I didn’t do!”

Tanner found himself sobering slightly thanks to Nevaeh’s shouting, but the sight of Niamh’s intrigued smile seconds later had him once again petrified.

“Niamh’s right here! Can’t any of you see her? It can’t be that I’m the only one who sees her, right? I knew it. She has definitely come to haunt me!”

Tanner was positively terrified, the color draining from his face as his pupils dilated from the fear.

“Go away, Niamh! Stop bothering me! I… I was just doing what I was paid to do!”

“Tanner Long!” Nevaeh immediately interrupted him and nervously called for the bodyguards. “Quickly, take this man away!”

Tanner pointed a trembling finger at Nevaeh, paying her words no heed.

“Niamh Delgado! If… If you want to haunt someone for revenge, then haunt her! It was all Nevaeh’s orders!”

With Tanner’s words, Nevaeh felt her body growing cold. Feeling a tyrannical storm of frost swirling around her, she could not imagine the expression Kendrick was wearing on his face.

“What’s happening? Who is this man? What does he mean?” Mrs. Waldburg quickly rushed over to ask.

Nevaeh frantically tried to change the subject. “Mrs. Waldburg! This is Tanner Long. He and Niamh used to be involved illicitly. They also planned Jack’s kidnapping together!”

“So it’s you!” Eloise glared furiously at Tanner. “You were the one who helped Niamh kidnap my grandchild! You b*stard! Niamh Delgado has already died for her sins, yet you’re still alive? You need to die!”

“Indeed.”

Kendrick’s icy tone froze Nevaeh’s breath in her lungs.

Now that he had sobered up, Tanner felt the need to flee. However, he felt something tighten around his neck.

“Repeat the words you just said.”

Kendrick’s bloodthirsty eyes reminded him of a sharp sword that was about to be unsheathed and coming for his neck.

Tanner shivered, cold sweat beading unstoppably from the fear he felt.

Nevaeh’s pupils constricted at the scene before her. She was afraid that the truth of what happened back then would come out.

She staggered forward. “Calm down, Kendrick. Let’s just ignore this person, okay? He’s ostentatious, and all he does is lie. We can’t trust a man who lied his way into drinking and eating our food. Let’s just let him go!”

Kendrick sent her a cold glare from the corner of his eyes. The corners of his lips tilted into a cold but handsome curve as he stared at Nevaeh before parting his lips. “Ostentatious? All he does is lie? I’m pretty sure that’s not what you told me back then. You were very assertive and certain when you told me he was Niamh’s ex-boyfriend.”

“I… Kendrick, I didn’t lie to you. If anything, it would be Tanner and Niamh who lied to you…” Nevaeh rambled anxiously.

“I guess we’ll find out then… Who actually lied to me.”

Kendrick’s frosty tone sunk ice slabs in Nevaeh’s heart, freezing over the blood in her veins.

“…”

With that, Kendrick pulled Tanner by his tie and drilled his icy gaze into the man. All while reaching out to point a finger in Niamh’s direction. “You see that face? Tell me why you think she’s haunting you of all people.”

“…” Tanner had just sobered slightly when Kendrick spoke. However, all efforts were wasted as he followed the other’s hand to look at Niamh. His mind fogged as his legs grew weak.

It was hard to stand strong and good when you had done so much bad.

Staring at Niamh, his complexion paled as he began to beg for mercy. He blurted out the truth to distance himself.

“It’s got nothing to do with me! Really, it doesn’t! Yes, Niamh, I did something wrong, but I only wanted to sleep with you back then! Everything else was Nevaeh’s plan. She was the one who told me to lie! I never even touched you at all! Niamh, if you want revenge, get it from Nevaeh! She’s the one who pulled the strings!”

Just like that, the truth back then finally came to light thanks to Tanner’s ramblings.

Kendrick’s expression darkened instantly as unrestrained bloodthirst flared in his eyes.

In his fury, he raised a fist that crashed hard against Tanner’s cheek.

Tanner stumbled backward, losing his footing. His mind was muddled by the hit.

Wine glasses and plates crashed all over the floor upon impact to the long table behind.

However, Kendrick did not stop. Rather, he pulled Tanner up to deliver two more punches.

Blood trickled from the corner of Tanner’s lips as his face turned distorted.

However, no one dared to stop Kendrick.

The man looked terrifying that very moment and too scary. Everyone felt that getting too close would leave them burnt by the flames of fury that engulfed him.

Kendrick kept thinking that he had been wrong for the past three years.

Especially on the topic of Niamh’s purity. He could not shove off the feeling of being blindfolded.

Right now, he had finally taken off the veil that covered his eyes. In light of the truth, he found it hard to face his heart, let alone the face that swam in his mind…

Watching the scene unfurl, the pretty corners of Niamh’s tips tugged up infinitesimally.

Finally.

Finally, she heard Tanner reveal the truth behind her slander.

Finally, she was deemed innocent.

Niamh felt the wounds in her heart hurt a little less.

However, she was still far from healing all the holes that riddled her heart or from pacifying the red-hot burning rage of hatred within her.

“Tanner! How could you say something like that to slander me?” Nevaeh accused, her eyes red. She was angry from feeling wronged.

She had to defend herself now.

Naturally, Eloise did her best to protect her. “What nonsense is this b*stard spewing? As if we needed Nevaeh to slander her. Everyone already knew about how easy a woman Niamh was!”

Tanner had suffered quite a few blows, as evident from the taste of blood that filled his mouth. As afraid he was of Niamh haunting him, Tanner was more afraid that Kendrick would strike him to death.

The hits seemed to have sobered him up as well, and he realized that he had told everything—the things he should and should not have said. His only priority now was to protect his own life!

“I’ve really got nothing to do with it, Mr. Waldburg. I was merely following Nevaeh Delgado’s instructions. She was the one who told me to lie about having done something with Niamh. Yes, I liked Niamh Delgado, but I swear I’ve never touched her! And the thing about the kidnapping, that has nothing to do with Niamh either. It was all Nevaeh—”

“Tanner Long! The Lord sees everything you do. How could you frame me for something I didn’t do? I’ll sue you for defamation if you keep slandering me!” Nevaeh was determined not to let Tanner continue. “What are you still waiting for? Throw him out! Or are you waiting for Kendrick to do it himself?”

She ordered the bodyguards impatiently.

The bodyguards immediately turned to pick up a fainted Tanner, kicking him out the doors of the hotel.

Tanner may have been thrown out, yet everyone in the ballroom had clearly heard the words he said.

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