“What are you laughing at? Answer me! Do you like him?” Kendrick asked with eeriness in his eyes. He had some alcohol before so his eyes looked slightly intoxicated.
Niamh lifted her dazed eyes and then grinned at him. “Yeah, I like him. He’s much gentler and much mature than you. Plus, he’s even considerate about me. How would I not fall for a man like that? Since you don’t like me, then I should find a man who knows how to care for me.”
“Niamh!”
Kendrick was utterly infuriated.
Niamh was drifting in and out of consciousness, but when she heard him calling his name through his gritted teeth, she was completely awake.
However, Kendrick’s rage could not be diminished anymore.
He ripped apart Niamh’s clothes in anger and bit on her collarbone.
Niamh’s nerves were all wound up from the pain. He pushed her backward when she did not have any energy to fight him.
She could not fight back against Kendrick’s punishments. It was as if he wanted to tear her apart. He did not allow her the chance to even breathe.
She was truly terrified of this man’s violent mood swings.
When he was in a good mood, he would cook breakfast for her.
However, when he was in a bad mood, he would really kill her.
Niamh was scared that she could not endure this. She was scared that she would die before she got her revenge. She could not die like this.
“Mr. Waldburg, are you sure you want to touch a filthy, lowly, despicable, and shameless woman who already had another man in her heart?”
When Kendrick was about to take action against her, Niamh said this to him calmly. The man froze and looked at her after she said that. He lost all interest instantly.
She said she had another man in her heart.
Niamh looked at Kendrick’s angry eyes. Then, she gathered her courage. “Kendrick, let’s get a divorce.”
After she said that, it felt as if the air around them had frozen over.
Kendrick towered over the woman beneath him. “What did you say? Say it again.”
“Us. Divorce.” Niamh repeated without hesitation. Those two words were firm and clear.
The air became silent again. After a few seconds, Niamh heard Kendrick snorted. His eyes looked like they belonged to Satan. They were dark and they looked like they were about to devour her.
“Divorce? Don’t even think about it!”
Those icy and bone-piercing words escaped from his seductive lips.
“Weren’t you so desperate to become my woman? I’ll fulfill your wish.”
Niamh could feel herself breaking down while looking at his sinister smile.
“I don’t need you to fulfill my wish! Kendrick Waldburg, I want to divorce you!”
“In your dreams.” Kendrick rejected her with no mercy. Then, he pinched Niamh’s jaw. “You want to divorce me just because you have another man? Niamh, how shameless can you be?”
‘Niamh, how shameless can you be?’
His insults were always so fluent. His eyes looked ever more sinister than before.
“You said you had my child three years ago and you blamed me for that child’s death. Now, I think you must be pregnant with a bastard child back then! After all, you have so many customers. You even have Daniel and Tanner. I wonder if you even know who the child’s father is!”
Niamh was trying so hard to suppress her emotions, but now, they started crumbling down.
Her hands were shaking violently. It felt like her heart that had just been stabbed. It was in excruciating pain.
She gritted her teeth and her red eyes were staring intensely at the man who was mocking her.
“Hmph.”
Kendrick scoffed before peering at her in disdain. Then, he walked away.
“Don’t try to be pitiful in front of me. A woman like you deserve to be beaten to death in prison.”
Niamh watched as Kendrick walked further and further away. After she heard what he said, she finally could not hold down the feeling in her throat. She vomited a mouthful of blood again.
Her stomach was still burning. Her tumor was also hurting. Niamh slowly curled her pained body up and gripped the bedsheet tightly.
The pillow still smelled faintly of him. It was like the most lethal poison and it was slowly poisoning Niamh’s heart.
She thought she would have the most memorable love story after she met Kendrick.
However, the only thing he gave her was the most memorable pain.
…
Niamh stayed in bed for the entire day and no one noticed.
She looked up the reason why she vomited blood. It might be acute gastric mucosal lesions. She dragged her tired body and bought some medicine for herself.
She did not dare to go to the hospital. She was scared that they might find something bad again.
Worse comes to worst, she would still have at least a few month’s time.
Niamh was glad that this was the weekend. She changed the bedsheet and washed away the blood she vomited. Then, she packed a few pieces of clothes before going to Ava’s place.
Niamh went to work as normal on Monday. Perhaps it was because of her relationship with Felipe, her colleagues treated her pretty well except for Elizabeth. She was always behaving weirdly and she had severe mood swings.
When it was lunchtime, Niamh took some time to give back Felipe his clothes.
Coincidentally, he was in his office and he was on the phone.
Niamh wanted to leave after putting the clothes down. However, Felipe gestured to her to sit down and wait.
He finished the call quickly and Niamh handed the neatly-ironed clothes back to him. Felipe smiled. “I didn’t think you’d actually wash it.”
“I have to keep my promise. Besides, you only got splashed with Nevaeh’s coffee because of me.”
“As a man, how could I watch a woman get bullied and not do anything?”
Felipe’s answer warmed Niamh’s heart. Then, when she recalled the man who promised to protect her forever, her heart ached.
“You don’t look too well.”
When Niamh heard Felipe say that, she touched her face awkwardly.
She was unwell. Her body was getting worse and worse so of course, she would not look too healthy.
“Are you okay?” He asked considerately.
“Thank you for your consideration, Mr. Waldburg. I’m fine.”
Niamh thanked him quickly before getting up.
She remembered how she got Felipe involved because of Kendrick and she felt very apologetic.
“You can stop calling me Mr. Waldburg when there’s no one around.”
Niamh hesitated and then she said, “I’ll get going now, uncle.”
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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