Chapter 157 – Until You Say Sorry Novel

Kendrick was puzzled when he saw Nevaeh running toward him.

She seemed to be well dressed but was somehow covered with red wine stains. Her hair was messy as well. She looked particularly embarrassed.

“Kendrick…” As soon as Nevaeh came over, she threw herself directly into Kendrick’s arms and hugged him tightly.

Kendrick’s eyebrows narrowed. He felt dissatisfied, and when he was about to push Nevaeh away, she started crying in his arms.

“Kendrick, why? I’m already like this, so why does Miss Quinn still want to trouble me? She had already set me up to be kidnapped from the hospital before, asking those men to insult and humiliate me! She said that I’m dirty and not worthy of you. She even tossed the dishes that I had made specially for you to the ground and made fun of me for not being worthy to cook for you. Moreover, she hit me. Huhuhu… Miss Quinn is terrifying, Kendrick…”

As soon as Nevaeh’s accusation sounded, Kendrick caught a figure in the light.

He raised his deep eyes and saw Niamh not far away, but his eyes were suddenly filled with worry. He pushed Nevaeh, who was holding him tightly, away and strode toward Niamh.

“Vera, what happened to you?”

Nevaeh did not expect that Kendrick would push her away so simply. She was dumbfounded!

She heard Kendrick calling out Vera’s name nervously. The worry and concern in his tone clearly belonged to her alone!

Now, however, he was giving it to another woman.

What made Nevaeh even more astounded was that she was actually seeing Niamh sitting on the ground at this moment with a helpless and weak expression, as if she had been pushed down by someone.

“Why are you sitting on the floor?” Kendrick walked quickly toward Niamh before kneeling down. The corners of his eyes and eyebrows were dyed with sadness and a rare tenderness.

Niamh slowly raised her beautiful eyes and glanced at Nevaeh who was behind Kendrick.

“If I said that this noble Miss Delgado pushed me down, would you believe me?” She looked at Kendrick’s deep eyes innocently.

When Nevaeh heard this, she clenched her fists violently and defended herself angrily. “Vera, what are you talking about? How could I have pushed you? It was you who provoked me and destroyed the dinner I prepared for Kendrick. You even hit me!”

She then said in a frail tone while crouching next to Kendrick and holding onto his arm, “Kendrick, don’t be fooled by this woman. She bullied me! I didn’t even lay a finger on her, Kendrick. Don’t you believe me?”

Nevaeh looked at Kendrick deeply, looking forward to his satisfactory response to her.

However, instead of paying attention to Nevaeh, Kendrick stretched out his hand and gently lifted Niamh up.

“Ow!” Niamh frowned.

Kendrick looked at the area where she had been bruised in the morning because of the car accident. “Does it hurt?”

“A little.”

“I’ll take care of it for you,” Kendrick said as he put his arms around Niamh’s shoulders. He helped her sit down on the sofa tenderly and with so much care.

Nevaeh could not believe what she was seeing. Her eyes were filled with envy, jealousy, and burning hatred.

Seeing that Kendrick had brought out a small medicine box and was preparing to treat Niamh’s wounds personally, Nevaeh could no longer maintain her always soft, dignified, and gentle demeanor.

“Kendrick, do you really not believe me but instead believe this demon of a girl?” Nevaeh pointed at Niamh angrily. “Can’t you tell that she’s acting?!”

Kendrick’s long fingers that were holding the alcohol pads paused. “Acting? The car accident in the morning was an act? Vera’s desperate effort to save Jackson was also an act? Is the wound on her foot also an act?” he asked in a cold voice. His indifferent tone was like the cold winter wind in Nevaeh’s ears.

Nevaeh opened her mouth but was speechless.

Niamh raised her delicate eyebrows as her mouth formed a dimpled smile. “Miss Delgado, I know you always think that I want to steal Kendrick from you, which is why you’re always targeting me.

Whatever one does, the heavens are watching. What wicked things you have done, surely you know it in your heart. Kendrick knows it too. You cannot just simply tarnish my name with just a few words.”

“You…” Nevaeh was so angry that she almost jumped to her feet.

Her eye sockets were splitting, but she could not choke out a word.

She had always been the one setting others up. Since when was it the others’ turn to set her up and make her the one to feel aggrieved instead?!

‘How dare you, Vera Quinn?!’

Nevaeh gritted her teeth and stared at Niamh’s smiling face, wishing to bore through her face!

“You should go and reflect on what you have done,” came Kendrick’s order of chasing away his guests.

Nevaeh clenched her fists unwillingly. Her heart was full of anger, but in the end, she could not release it. Instead, she wept while feeling aggrieved. “Kendrick, we’ve been together for so many years, yet you actually refuse to believe me. I’m heartbroken!” she said before covering her face and running away crying.

Unmoved, Kendrick continued to treat Niamh’s wounds without even sparing a glance for Nevaeh.

Niamh had been watching, however. Watching Nevaeh’s resentful yet aggrieved figure running away really made her feel so happy.

‘Nevaeh, finally you know what it’s like to not be trusted by the man you love.

‘Everything that I’ve done today is nothing compared to the humiliation and set-ups you imposed on me in the first place.

‘Of course, what I want to give back to you is much more than that.’

“I always seem to hurt you lately.” Kendrick’s low, husky voice sounded softly. “But I promise that this situation will never happen again.”

Niamh turned her head to look over and he happened to look up.

Their two pairs of eyes met inadvertently. He had eyes as deep as the sea that looked as if they were rippling with dizzying vortexes. All of Niamh’s attention was drawn to him at once.

Niamh’s heartbeat quickened somehow. She even felt a warmth slowly spreading from her ears to her cheeks.

She looked at the unmatched, handsome face in front of her in a slight daze as her heartbeat accelerated. Soft ripples gradually dispersed from her initially clear and charming eyes, making her look coquettish for a moment.

Seeing Niamh looking at him obsessively with blushing cheeks and droopy eyes, the rhythm of Kendrick’s heart also began to beat irregularly.

The face in front of him was exactly the same as that woman’s in his memory. He felt so moved at the moment.

However, he recalled clearly that these were two different people. He would not be moved. Yet, the change in rhythm made him delusional and dazzled.

He seemed to really be harboring a subtle affection for the person in front of him.

“Why do you keep looking at me like that?” he asked in a low tone.

Niamh was startled. She felt that her breathing and heartbeat were all messed up. She was almost overwhelmed by that once familiar fervor.

Then, she remembered something.

“I had a sip of the red wine that Nevaeh had prepared for you earlier. I think she might have drugged the wine in order to keep you for the night. I’m feeling dizzy now.”

Niamh relied on her tenacious will to express clearly the suspicion in her heart.

Upon hearing this, Kendrick seemed to instantly have thought of something. A touch of sorrow suddenly revealed itself on his handsome face, and unpleasantness spread between his brows.

Six years ago, he believed that Niamh had used drugs to fabricate a relationship with him. No matter how Niamh explained and told him that Nevaeh was actually the instigator, he did not believe a single word.

Now, he realized that he was wrong yet again.

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