Suddenly, Felipe held her hand. “Your hands are cold. Is it because of what Eloise and Sean said earlier?”
Niamh smiled a little, feeling the warmth in her hands. However, she still could not stop the sourness in the corner of her eyes.
“Perhaps I’m destined to have no parents in this life.”
“Did you decide not to acknowledge them? But they’ll always be your biological parents.”
“It’s better not to acknowledge them.” Niamh laughed lightly. Even if she did not acknowledge them, she would not continue to let Nevaeh be the eldest daughter of the Montgomeries.
She would not let Nevaeh pretend to have the title that belonged to her, even if she did not want to go back.
She sighed. The car stopped at the traffic light. She looked out of the window and unexpectedly saw Kendrick’s car parked by the roadside. In the next second, she saw Kendrick coming out of a flower shop while holding a large bouquet of roses.
“Kendrick?”
“Hmm?”
Following Niamh’s line of vision, Felipe also looked over.
He saw Kendrick carrying a large bouquet of roses while getting into his car.
“Why did he buy so many roses?”
Could it be that he secretly had other women besides Nevaeh? Was that why he broke off his engagement with Nevaeh so simply? This was only Niamh’s guess, but the flames of hatred in her heart burned again.
She thought that he resolutely broke off the engagement with Nevaeh because he felt somewhat guilty toward her, but at this moment, that did not seem so.
“If we want to know, let’s follow him and look.” Felipe stepped on the accelerator and followed Kendrick’s car as he spoke.
Niamh did not think she cared about Kendrick giving roses to other women. She just was not reconciled.
Kendrick’s car went straight all the way. There were gradually lesser cars along this road.
In order to avoid being found out by him, Felipe stretched the distance very far.
After about 20 minutes, Niamh saw Kendrick’s car had stopped.
However, the place he parked his car made Niamh and Felipe feel confused.
“A cemetery?”
Kendrick had actually come to a cemetery.
Why would he come to this place while carrying a bouquet of roses?
Furthermore, this cemetery was exactly where she once buried her grandfather and her first child. It was also the place where he had cruelly killed their child in front of her. Niamh’s heart trembled fiercely thinking about it. The snow floating in the sky on that fateful day seemed to float into her heart at this moment, so cold.
She would never forget how desperate and helpless she was when she pleaded with him. Yet, he ignored her pleading and tears, ruthlessly cutting up her heart a thousand times. In the end, he even let Nevaeh disfigure her.
“Do you want to follow him in?” Felipe asked.
Niamh suddenly withdrew her thoughts and shook her head. “There aren’t many people here and not many cars either. If I follow him, he’ll surely realize.”
“Then we wait?”
Niamh was silent upon hearing this.
Did she want to wait?
However, what was she waiting for?
The cemetery was so big that Kendrick’s figure could no longer be seen.
What could she get from waiting here?
“Your hands are cold.” Felipe held her hands again. “Is it because you’re thinking of the unhappy things in the past?”
His voice was as soft and warm as ever, quietly trickling through her injured heart.
Hearing Niamh’s silence, Felipe curled his lips. His fingertips gently patted the hair beside her ear. “Don’t worry, you have me.”
…
At the cemetery.
Holding 88 red roses, Kendrick walked along the familiar road and finally came to a tomb.
Looking at the name carved on the tombstone, he reached out and gently grazed over each word as though he was able to sense her warmth this way, but the coldness on his fingertips reminded him that everything was just his illusion and fantasy.
Kendrick put down the roses and lit a cigarette as usual. Sitting on a stone bench by the side, the lingering smoke was blown away, but the gentle breeze blurred the tombstone in his eyes.
The moment when he believed that Niamh and Tanner had partnered to kidnap Jack and the scene of him cruelly pushing her away emerged clearly in his mind.
The rain had been so heavy that day.
Now that he thought about it, she was already sick with such a serious illness back then. Her body had to be in so much pain.
She had said, “Kendrick, believe me.”
She had also said, “Kendrick Waldburg, why can’t you just believe me for once? Just once!”
In the end, he used all kinds of insults to pinch out the hope in her eyes bit by bit.
He had actually seen her pale face from the rear-view mirror, sitting in the rain like a broken doll.
He had also felt his heart aching at that time but thought his heartache was over Nevaeh. He never realized that it was her he was feeling a heartache over.
Hiss.
The pricking sensation pulled Kendrick’s thoughts back from three years ago.
Letting the cigarette butt burn, he quietly looked at the tombstone in front of him and smiled bitterly.
“I regret it. Do you hear me?”
He lifted the corner of his lips, his eyes starting to feel sore.
He never thought that after Niamh died that he would have a tough time every night and that he would be thinking of her all the time.
He slowly got up and walked to the tombstone. Crouching down, he reached into his pocket and took out that dark blue velvet jewelry box.
Opening it, the diamond reflected a bright halo under the sun.
“Do you like it? I designed it for you.” Kendrick smiled to himself. “She looks like you and I keep on having illusions, but not anymore. You are you, and she is her.”
After promising this, he gently stuffed the jewelry box into the gap beside the tombstone.
“Nia… Can I call you this from now on?” he asked, but the answer he received was only the rustle of the branches after a breeze blew past.
Kendrick gently grazed his fingers over the words on the tombstone before standing up.
His surrounding was empty, just as his heart was desolate at the moment.
When a drizzle suddenly began to fall from the sky, Kendrick reluctantly left.
After Niamh picked up Lilian and went back to the apartment, she received a call from Kendrick.
He had said that he was at the community gate and was looking for her for something important.
Niamh hung up and looked at Felipe who was playing with Lilian.
“Go and do the things you want to do.” Felipe had already read through the embarrassment and hesitation in Niamh’s eyes.
He knew that all she wanted to do now was to take revenge.
Kendrick was one of the targets for revenge.
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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