Niamh smiled happily and stretched out her hand to hold Kendrick’s arm. Her arrogant, beautiful eyes swept across Nevaeh who was still kneeling by her feet.
“Kidnapping for extortion, intention to harm others… If sentenced for these crimes, it should garner a few years in prison, am I right? Miss Delgado, you must have never gone to jail before, right? Then, you can go in and experience the darkness inside. I heard that some people would be surrounded and get beaten up after they go in. How scary.”
“…” Nevaeh’s face turned pale after hearing this.
Kendrick immediately thought of Niamh.
She had experienced countless sufferings and beatings in that dark place.
The scars and wounds on her body had existed so glaringly and vividly in his eyes.
“Vera Quinn.”
Before Niamh and Kendrick could take a few steps, Eloise’s voice sounded from behind them.
She slowed down her steps as her heart ached involuntarily.
Eloise walked toward her. Her face that should have been graceful and beautiful was full of resentment at the moment.
Niamh looked at Eloise calmly. “What’s the matter, Mrs. Montgomery?”
“I beg you,” Eloise opened her mouth and spoke the three words softly but with a strong unwillingness that invaded Niamh’s heart. “Miss Quinn, the Montgomeries will compensate for all your losses. I just hope that you won’t pursue this matter anymore.”
Niamh laughed. “Are you begging me as well, Mrs. Montgomery? Is it worth it?”
“It’s worth it because she’s my only precious daughter!”
Only.
Precious daughter.
Niamh looked at those eyes and suddenly found them to be so familiar.
This resoluteness and unwillingness were just like hers back then.
‘As it turns out, my eyes look like my mother’s.’
However, the woman in front of her did not seem to notice it at all.
Seeing that Niamh was just smiling without saying anything, Eloise seemed to have come to a decision. “Miss Quinn, if you think that an apology isn’t enough, then I can also kneel for you as long as you stop causing trouble to my daughter.”
As Eloise said this, she was really about to kneel down.
Niamh returned to her senses as her gaze sank. “It’s useless even if you kneel,” she suddenly said coldly, looking at Rose who was standing at the side, “She should be the one kneeling.”
“…” Rose was stunned and immediately received the cue from Nevaeh’s eyes. Although she was extremely reluctant, she rushed forward and knelt at Niamh’s feet right away. “Miss Quinn, it’s my fault! It’s all my fault! I beg you to disregard my wrongdoings. I beg you to let me off the hook this time. I won’t dare do it anymore!”
Her performance was very exaggerated, and of course, it was not a sincere apology.
“That’s enough.” Niamh glanced at her impassively. “I don’t want to look at you people right now.”
When Rose heard this, she immediately got up and ran over to pull Nevaeh up. “Nevaeh, Mrs. Montgomery, let’s leave first.”
Nevaeh was unwilling to leave like this. “Kendrick, may I have a few words with you?”
Kendrick opened his mouth indifferently. “Go ahead.”
“Can I talk to you alone?”
Niamh let go of Kendrick’s hand upon hearing this. She smiled generously before saying, “I’ll wait for you here.”
“Okay.” Kendrick nodded, then turned around and went out.
Rose and Eloise also followed them out of the gate.
Seeing Nevaeh walking away with Kendrick, Niamh curled her lips and smiled happily.
‘Nevaeh, what I want to give back to you is much more than this.
‘You’d better not fall so quickly.’
“If Niamh had half of your boldness, that child wouldn’t have left just like that.”
Old Master Waldburg’s sigh sounded softly from behind.
Niamh’s heart soured. She felt the warmth of being cared for and missed.
She smiled and turned around to look at Old Master Waldburg. “If Grandpa doesn’t mind, you can think of me as Niamh.”
Old Master Waldburg looked closely at the exquisitely beautiful face in front of him and shook his head regretfully.
“No matter how similar you look, it’s just a similarity. At the end of the day, you’re not my granddaughter-in-law.”
“Perhaps I’ll be soon enough.” Niamh smiled. “Kendrick said he wants to marry me and I’m considering it.”
“What?!” Mrs. Waldburg rushed downstairs. “Kendrick wants to marry you? Aren’t you going to marry Felipe?”
“Felipe and I have canceled our engagement.”
“…” Mrs. Waldburg’s eyes widened. “I won’t agree to let you in. I feel annoyed seeing your face. You look so similar to that b*tch Niamh, so you won’t be good news.”
“Shut up,” Old Master Waldburg scolded, feeling dissatisfied, “Niamh was your daughter-in-law at the end of the day. Even if she’s dead, it doesn’t change the fact that she’s the Waldburgs in-law!
“Not to mention, those messy things in the past have nothing to do with Niamh at all. Everything was done by Nevaeh. Don’t tell me you don’t see it? If not, you’re seriously blind!”
“…”
Mrs. Waldburg was lectured by Old Master Waldburg. Of course, she was upset on the inside, but she did not dare to refute him.
“Miss Quinn, I advise you to think clearly about who you’re going to marry. Marriage is not child’s play. If you choose the wrong person, you’ll maybe end up on the same path of no return as Niamh,” Old Master Waldburg solemnly said before going upstairs.
Mrs. Waldburg glared at Niamh fiercely and lowered her voice. “Listen to me, Vera Quinn. No matter what, I will never agree to Kendrick marrying you. Unless the dead can come back to life, I will never let you into the Waldburgs gate!”
Niamh let out a laugh upon hearing this. She looked straight at Mrs. Waldburg. “Then, you have to take a good look and see if the dead can be revived.”
“…” Seeing Niamh’s subtle gaze at this moment, Mrs. Waldburg could not help being startled.
She wanted to insult her back, but Niamh had already turned away unaffectedly.
Niamh walked to the gate and happened to see Nevaeh getting into the car before leaving with tears in her eyes. Kendrick, on the other hand, was walking over from the other side with a cold expression.
Seeing her coming out, the cold lines on his face were much softer.
This was because he would feel healed after seeing this face.
“Are you tired? I’ll send you back.”
“Okay.”
Niamh nodded and did not ask what he and Nevaeh had talked about just now.
She initially thought that Kendrick was sending her back to the apartment, but the car was eventually parked in his villa’s garage.
“I don’t want you and Felipe to continue living together. From today onward, you’ll live here with me.”
Niamh leaned against the car. She glanced at the villa and pretended to be disgusted.
“This is your and your ex-wife’s house. If you sincerely want to marry me, shouldn’t you prepare a new house? I don’t want to live in a house where someone has died.”
Upon hearing the word ‘died’, Kendrick knitted his eyebrows. He suddenly stared deeply at Niamh. “She’s not dead.”
Niamh’s heartbeat became erratic all of a sudden, but she calmly put on an expression of surprise and confusion. She looked up to meet Kendrick’s black eyes.
“What? You’re saying your ex-wife isn’t dead?”
She pinched her eyebrows together before laughing.
“You’re not suspecting that I’m your ex-wife Niamh again, are you?”
When her voice fell, Kendrick also laughed. A gust of autumn wind blew, faintly blowing at the mysterious color that was surging in his eyes. He looked at Niamh and said profoundly, “Some people are alive, and she’s dead. But some people are dead, and she’s still alive.”
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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