He was fidgeting, his thoughts being violently tugged in all different directions. He seemed to be looking a lot more haggard once the afternoon passed.
He looked at the kitchen and it was as if he could still see Niamh cooking there while wearing an apron. She turned around suddenly, smiling as she said to him, “Kendrick, dinner is ready.”
Her smile was really beautiful with her sweet dimples and curved eyebrows, but as he reached out his hands, she disappeared.
That was merely his fantasy.
His eyes reddened, and his thoughts went back to the moment they first met—the moment when their gazes collided. In fact, every small action of hers had already marked themselves in his heart ever since the beginning.
However, she no longer existed and everything was a luxurious dream of his in the dark night.
Suddenly, some movement was heard from the entrance. Kendrick raised his red but cold eyes.
He had not closed the door because he knew that someone would come.
Sure enough, she came before dark.
Nevaeh had a heavy expression on her face, and when she saw the handsome but gloomy man sitting on the sofa, she walked to him step by step with a quickened heartbeat. After taking a deep breath, she threw caution to the wind and said, “You’re right, I was the one who had someone do it. I instructed someone to destroy that b*tch Niamh’s grave!”
As soon as Nevaeh said what she said, she felt a chilling, violent wave envelop her entire body in an instant.
She felt cold and could not help but shiver.
While she was still thinking about what Kendrick would do to her, she suddenly felt a tight grip around her neck. In the next second, she lost the ability to breathe freely.
“Ke… Kendrick…”
Nevaeh widened her eyes in shock, looking at the man who was choking her neck in disbelief.
How could it be?
How could he treat her this way?
He was actually strangling her for that b*tch Niamh!
“Do you know what you’ve done? Do you think that you can just do whatever you want because of my liking and my spoiling you?” His cold voice swept toward her like a cold wind, his gaze full of murderous intentions.
Nevaeh felt that she was about to be strangled to death. She was feeling highly discomforted as she could not breathe.
However, no matter what she said, Kendrick would not let go. Instead, he even tightened his fingers one by one.
His eyes were dark and treacherous at the moment, looking as if he was Satan who was about to engulf her entirety. His ice-cold aura was fear-inducing.
“Kendrick, I… It hurts, please let me go. Kendrick, Ken…”
Kendrick only let go of Nevaeh the moment she had almost lost her last breath.
She sat weakly on the ground, greedily breathing in the fresh air.
Unexpectedly, the phrase ‘Ken’ was the word that moved him the most in the end.
Sure enough, he was very emotionally attached to Niamh.
As Nevaeh thought about it silently, tears welled up in her eyes.
She was feeling fear, panic, jealousy, and even more hatred!
She hated that Niamh occupied Kendrick’s heart, whether it was at the beginning or even now.
In fact, there had only ever been Niamh in Kendrick’s heart from beginning to end.
“Give her back to me, then I won’t pursue this issue further.” Kendrick’s voice came from above Nevaeh’s head without any warmth.
Nevaeh gasped for a while, pretending to be in pain. Her superficial tears accompanied her performance as she said, “Why… Why are you treating me like this?”
She stretched out her hand to hold onto Kendrick’s trousers as she cried.
“Kendrick, the woman you love has always been me! Why are you treating me this way now?”
Kendrick then frowned in annoyance and said, “I don’t want to repeat these words again. I’ve said that I had only a muddled interest toward you since childhood, but that’s not love.”
“That is love!” Nevaeh cried heartbreakingly. She stood up as she grabbed Kendrick’s trousers, saying, “Kendrick, can we start again? I will listen to you about everything in the future. Let’s let the past be the past.”
“Kendrick, you won’t fall in love with others, let alone Niamh. You hated her the most. She was unchaste, despicable, and shameless. She crawled into your bed through any means in order to get to you, so how could you fall in love with her? It’s just because she’s now dead that you’re only feeling a little sympathetic. How can sympathy be regarded as love? The one you’ve always loved is me!”
Nevaeh held Kendrick’s arm tightly as if she was possessed, desperately emphasizing that the one Kendrick loved was her.
Kendrick’s anger had already been ignited upon listening to her slandering Niamh.
It was just that he did not want to throw his tantrum at this time.
He suppressed his anger and said coldly again, “Give me back her ashes and the ring. Otherwise, you’ll handle the consequences at your own risk.”
He warned her again. His patience was already long lost from his dark eyes.
Nevaeh stopped her tears after hearing his sentence.
“Kendrick, are you really going to treat me so coldly? Do you really not have even a single ounce of feelings for me at all?”
Kendrick sneered softly, “It’s better to ask yourself about whatever you’ve done. The fact that you can stand here now is already my greatest tolerance toward you. If it weren’t for us being acquainted since our young age, you would already be in jail.”
“…”
Hearing this, Nevaeh suddenly felt like a deflating ball. She felt completely numb.
After a while, she laughed with a sorrowful smile. “Well, I can return Niamh’s ashes to you, but I have a request.”
Seeing Nevaeh’s desolate look at this moment, Kendrick suddenly recalled scenes of their childhood friendship.
Thinking of the girl’s innocent smiling face back then, his heart softened again for no apparent reason.
“Go on.”
“Fulfill your promise to me back then. Take me as your wife,” Nevaeh continued without hesitating.
In an instant, a deep frown was plastered across Kendrick’s face. He looked at Nevaeh with his eyes that were filled with emotions.
“Kendrick, you know that I love you. I’m crazily in love with you. I can’t live without you. I knew I wanted to stay with you forever after I saw you for the first time.”
Nevaeh looked at Kendrick sentimentally.
“Kendrick, you’re the only hope for me to continue living. If I don’t have you, I’d rather die. If you don’t want to fulfill your promise, then I’ll leave this world along with Jack. If you die, you’ll never find Niamh’s ashes.”
Looking at Nevaeh’s determined gaze, Kendrick chuckled lowly. “Are you threatening me?”
Nevaeh shook her head and looked at him aggrievedly. “How would I dare to threaten you? I just want to be with the man I love. So, I’m willingly turning into the kind of evil woman who would do anything to get their way in your eyes.”
After she said that, Kendrick’s eyes became cold. “I’ll grant your wishes.”
Nevaeh widened her eyes when she suddenly got his answer. “Kendrick, really? Are you really agreeing to marry me?”
Kendrick flung Nevaeh’s hand away. “Give me back Niamh’s ashes before I change my mind.”
The delight in Nevaeh’s eyes was destroyed.
She scoffed and lowered her empty hands.
She had been waiting for the day he would finally agree to marry her, but the reason he agreed was because of Niamh who had already turned into ashes.
Nevaeh laughed at herself. “Kendrick, even if you hate me or blame me, I won’t return Niamh’s ashes to you before we have the wedding.”
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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