Chapter 206 – Until You Say Sorry Novel

Hearing this, Niamh sighed with a smile.

“How much I loved him is how much I hate him now.”

She looked toward the endless sea in the distance.

“My love for him has sunk to the bottom of the sea by April Hill and it’ll never return in this lifetime…”

…

On the other side, Eloise and Sean had given up the idea of looking for Niamh’s belongings when they suddenly received a call from Kendrick.

After meeting at the agreed place, Kendrick handed a transparent plastic bag containing a toothbrush to Eloise.

“This is…” Eloise took the plastic bag with surprise. She seemed to have guessed something as her heartbeat sped up involuntarily.

Kendrick calmly parted his lips and said, “It’s the toothbrush she used. There should be residual DNA on it.”

“This… Is this really the toothbrush Niamh used?” Eloise and Sean were excited and surprised.

“You can use this to do a paternity test, but don’t let Vera know about it.” Kendrick’s tone was dull, but his attitude was serious. “I don’t want her to misunderstand anything.”

Eloise and Sean responded in unison, expressing their understanding.

Kendrick did not want Vera to know that he still had things from Niamh’s life. That was completely understandable. After all, Vera was now Kendrick’s true wife.

After Eloise and Sean thanked him, they immediately went to the screening agency in person.

From this moment on, Kendrick’s heart also became perturbed.

With Eloise and Sean’s status and background, they could definitely use the quickest route to obtain the identification result within the shortest time.

Night fell. Kendrick had just returned to the villa when his phone rang. He looked at the strange number on it, and after a few seconds had passed, he slowly swiped on the answer button. At the same time, Sean’s excited voice came from the other end…

Kendrick held his mobile phone quietly, listening to Sean telling him the result of the identification word for word…

Sean’s tone was indescribably complicated. There was happiness, but there was still a touch of sorrow in this joy.

Sure enough, after listening to what Sean had to say, a tsunami rose in Kendrick’s heart.

“Kendrick, you’re back.”

The call had not been hung up yet when a sweet voice sounded in front of him.

Kendrick raised his eyes and saw Niamh walking toward him.

The picturesque face hidden deep in his heart gradually magnified in his deep eyes.

“I was just waiting for you to come back for dinner.” Niamh walked toward Kendrick and reached out to him to help him take off his suit jacket.

Kendrick quietly hung up, his eyes staying on Niamh’s faintly smiling face the whole time.

Seeing her turning around to hang up the clothes, he suddenly grabbed her wrist.

Niamh looked back questioningly. “What’s the matter?”

“It’s nothing. I just missed you a little,” he said softly. He walked up to her and hugged her all of a sudden.

He wrapped his hands tightly around her, the heat from his palms pressed against her skin. His affection that was not known to anyone felt scorching.

Yet this move of Kendrick’s only made Niamh feel even more hatred for him.

She forever remembered his lack of affection for her back then.

How many times had he abandoned her during heavy rains, leaving her hopeless and trapping her heart in the biting cold spring? Until now, it could not be warm again.

‘But Kendrick, it turns out that you’re ridiculously fond of women who like to put on a facade. When I treat you sincerely, you disdain it.

‘Nowadays, you’re so attached to me when I’m being fake.

‘Hmph.’

Niamh curled the corners of her pink lips quietly and laughed more and more in mockery.

“Kendrick, I missed you too,” she said perfunctorily without feelings, “Let’s eat first. Jack is still waiting.”

Niamh let go and turned around, not paying attention to the expression on Kendrick’s face at the moment.

During their meal, Niamh intimately served Jackson vegetables and wiped the soup around his mouth.

She noticed that this little guy was smiling more and more while the gloomy air around him seemed to have dissipated by a lot.

After dinner, Niamh accompanied Jackson to do his homework.

His kindergarten homework was simple for Niamh, but it should be a bit difficult for children. However, Niamh found that Jackson did not need any guidance at all to complete his homework perfectly.

She guessed that Jackson had inherited Kendrick’s mind. Not only was his memory extraordinary, but his IQ was not low either.

Niamh was very fortunate that this child was nothing like Nevaeh.

Thinking about this, she could not help but think of her own child.

‘Baby, where are you, hmm?

‘Where did Nevaeh hide you?

‘Mom really wants to see you soon…’

……

The next day, Kendrick thoughtfully sent Niamh to First Crystal Street, leaving only after a short while.

Instead of returning to Waldburg Corporation, he drove the car to the cemetery.

Eloise and Sean had been waiting there since earlier on. They were holding white chrysanthemums in their hands and were wearing solemn black clothes. Their eyes were red.

The wind at the end of autumn and early winter was a bit bitter. It blew past their faces with a biting chill.

It was not yet the usual time to visit cemeteries and there were very few people walking about there. There was only the rustle of leaves being blown by the wind.

Eloise and Sean followed behind Kendrick with heavy footsteps. They finally reached the grave that had been destroyed into pieces.

“This… This is the place Niamh is buried?” Eloise’s eyes widened with surprise.

She really could not accept the scene before her.

The grave was a destroyed mess, and even the tombstone was broken to pieces till the point it was no longer able to be pieced back together.

“It was Nevaeh who caused the destruction,” Kendrick answered lightly.

Eloise and Sean’s eyes lit up with anger in unison, but there were more heartache and grief at this moment.

Eloise put down the bouquet in her hands, walked to the scattered stones, and crouched down slowly.

She picked up a small piece of gravel and stroked it gently and very cautiously as if she was holding a treasure.

Tears of regret dripped quietly onto the rocks, leaving heavy tear stains.

“My baby girl…”

Sean crouched down and put his arm around Eloise as well, crying with regret.

If they had not hated Niamh so deeply, hitting and cursing her, they would not be feeling this insurmountable guilt along with their grief at this moment.

Kendrick silently looked at the couple who was crying in their arms in front of him. His deep, black eyes no longer held the loveless gloom from when he used to come here in the past.

It took a while for Eloise to adjust her emotions before getting up.

“Where are Niamh’s ashes? Where are her ashes? Regardless, I’ll rebuild a grave for the child.”

“The ashes and the buried objects were all stolen by Nevaeh. I still don’t know where they are.”

“What?!”

“Nevaeh actually stole Niamh’s ashes? Why would she do this?” Sean could not understand this absurd behavior.

Eloise was extremely angry. “This woman, how could she be so vicious? She has already ruined Niamh. She’s no longer with us but I didn’t expect that even her ashes would not be spared! I will go and ask her about the whereabouts of Niamh’s ashes now!”

“Eloise, I’ll go with you,” Sean said and began to follow after his wife.

“Don’t waste your time. She won’t tell you at all.”

Eloise’s footsteps paused, the glittering teardrops in her eyes full of deep regret and self-blame.

“Mr. Waldburg, I know you hate Niamh and that you don’t care where her ashes are. You’re indifferent even though her grave has been destroyed like this. If it were me from before, I would be the same as you, ignoring the matter as it was no concern to me, but now…”

Eloise smiled bitterly at herself.

“She’s my own flesh and blood. How can I be willing to allow her to be without peace even in death…”

Hearing Eloise’s words, Kendrick’s lips curled into a smile.

Everyone knew that Niamh was crazy in love with Kendrick, but only he knew his love for her.

He was not unnerved about anything regarding her only because these matters in front of him were no longer of significance.

“I think you’d better first go to another place with me,” Kendrick said as he moved his long legs.

Eloise and Sean followed him after a few seconds of hesitation.

Kendrick took them to the grave of Niamh’s grandfather, Len Samuels.

Seeing the name on the tombstone, Eloise and Sean raised their eyebrows thoughtfully. When they saw that the person who had erected the tombstone was Niamh, the couple was even more shocked.

“Grandfather?” Eloise was very puzzled.

Her father was not named Len Samuels and he had been living abroad all these years after she got married. He had never been to Glendale at all.

“He’s the only relative who raised Niamh.” Kendrick explained.

Hearing this, Eloise and Sean looked a little grateful.

“It turns out this old gentleman had raised Niamh.” Eloise bowed deeply, looking at the name on the tombstone. Suddenly, she felt the name becoming more and more familiar, “Len Samuels… I feel as if I’ve seen this name somewhere.”

She thought hard, and suddenly, there was a flash of inspiration.

“I remember! I saw this name at home!”

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