Kendrick lifted his piercing and threatening gaze. He said frigidly, “I said, don’t touch my wife. This has nothing to do with her.”
He pushed the police’s hand away, his tone sounding certain.
“Kendrick, why are you still defending this vile woman? What did she drug you with? Did you forget how much you hate her?” Winston was starting to blabber from anger. “Look at your grandpa. He’s going to die from her abuse!”
“Kendrick, stop being fooled by this witch. If you defend her again, the next victim might be Aunty Karen!”
Karen was taken aback when her name was suddenly mentioned. She was feeling dissatisfied, but in order to boycott Niamh, she pretended to be terrified. “Why do we have to wait until the next time? Kendrick, you have no idea. Whenever you’re not around, this woman will go against me. She even—”
“Enough,” Niamh said out of the blue, interrupting Karen in the middle of her sentence.
She lifted her perfectly done eyebrows. “At the end of the day, it’s all just your one-sided statements. You have to show some proof if you want to convict me of this crime.”
Karen was shocked when she heard that. Winston was even angrier when he saw Niamh’s calm demeanor. “Niamh, you’re still so stubborn! Who did this if it’s not you?”
“There are so many people in this house. Aside from me, are you all not people?”
“…” Karen felt offended and said confidently, “Niamh, if you’re not the one who abused the old master, I’ll chop my head off and present it to you as a stool!”
“…” When Yvonne heard this, she glanced over at Karen subconsciously.
Niamh looked askance at her. “I have no interest in sitting on your head. However, I’ll happily accept your apology.”
Yvonne scoffed when she saw Niamh’s confidence. “Niamh, you’re still forcing yourself. You want proof, huh? Go ask for it from the police at the station!”
“There’s no need to ask from them. I have the proof with me right here.” Niamh added on to what Yvonne said. Then, she calmly presented a small memory chip with her fair and slender fingers.
Everyone was shocked and curious when they saw the memory chip, including Kendrick.
“What proof is that?” Winston asked unconvinced. He felt that Niamh was purposely making this unnecessarily complicated.
“This is able to prove my innocence.” Niamh explained calmly. Then, she handed the memory chip to the police. “This is the memory chip from a hidden camera. I installed this in Grandpa’s room after he was abused the first time.”
‘What?’
Yvonne’s heart started to race when she heard that. She widened her eyes while feeling as if she was at a loss. Then, she glared at Niamh in disbelief.
‘How is that possible?
‘She installed a camera in the room? Does it mean that she knows what I’ve done?
‘If she knows, then why didn’t she expose me?
‘This must be fake! She must be trying to lure me out!’
Yvonne was trying her best to comfort and calm herself down.
“What? A camera? How dare you install a camera in the old master’s room? Niamh, how can you be so perverted?” Karen mocked Niamh using this opportunity.
However, Niamh was magnanimous. “Grandpa can’t speak nor move. I installed this so that I could monitor Grandpa’s situation. Don’t force your filthy and perverted thoughts on me.”
“D-Did you say that I’m filthy and perverted? You…” Karen’s face was red. She wanted to argue when she noticed a murderous aura in Niamh’s eyes.
On the other hand, Winston had already moved a computer over. He was about to insert the chip into the computer.
Yvonne stopped him nervously. “Uncle Winston, do you really believe what this woman is saying? She’s just buying time. Stop watching and let the police take her away!”
She wanted to snatch the chip away as she was saying that. However, Niamh grabbed her wrist when she was about to do that.
Yvonne lifted her head dumbfoundedly. Then, her eyes met Niamh’s thought-provoking gaze.
“It’s just a one or two-minute delay. Are you scared that they’re going to see what’s on the chip?”
“N-Nonsense! Why should I be scared?”
“Of course, you’re scared because you’re that vile low-life who abused Grandpa and want to shift the blame to me.”
As Niamh testified against Yvonne, she let go of her hand.
Yvonne fell to the ground with a loud thud. At the same time, Winston, Karen, and the police officer watched the video that was playing on the computer.
It clearly showed that Yvonne was the one who whipped the paralyzed old master with a cane again and again. She was even swearing and cursing at him while she was doing that. She also said that she wanted Niamh to be the scapegoat no matter what.
During this entire ordeal, the old master could only moan lifelessly with widened eyes as Yvonne beat him.
Winston’s face turned pale and his hands started trembling when he saw the truth.
The corners of Karen’s lips started twitching. She did not expect that the true culprit was Yvonne. Her face immediately turned red in shame. She was beyond embarrassed.
“No, that’s not me. I didn’t! The person in the video isn’t me! She’s not me!” Yvonne quibbled hysterically.
Kendrick threw a report to Yvonne’s face. “I found the cane that was used to abuse Grandpa yesterday. I went out just now to get the report and it clearly states that your fingerprints are found on the cane. How are you going to explain this?”
“…” Yvonne’s eyes widened in horror. She thought she had executed this flawlessly. However, she did not expect that she would get trapped!
Niamh and Kendrick had already seen through her!
“You… Niamh, you’re so cruel! How can you frame me like this?”
After Kendrick heard what she said, a layer of frost appeared in his eyes. “We have concrete proof and yet you’re still saying that Nia framed you?”
Yvonne trembled. She did not dare to look into Kendrick’s eyes. “I-I didn’t. I’ve been treating the old master like he’s my grandpa this whole time. How would I…”
Winston was livid. He slammed his hand down on the table loudly. “I didn’t expect it to be you!”
“No, it’s not me. I didn’t! Uncle Winston, you have to believe me—”
“The truth is right in front of our eyes and you’re still lying to us!” Winston was outraged, and his face was turning from red to green.
After Karen got over her shock, she felt nervous.
Before she could get roped into this, she decided to gain the initiative by striking first. Hence, she slapped Yvonne heavily across the face.
“Yvonne, you’re such a disappointment! You’ve ruined the reputation of the Yalemans! I’m so mad!”
Karen pretended to feel resentful toward Yvonne for failing to meet her expectations. Then, she picked up the cane and yelled heatedly.
“Yvonne, how could you hit the old master? Are you insane? As your aunt, I have to punish you right now!”
As she shrieked, she pretended to hit Yvonne with the cane. Yvonne started wailing and bawling cooperatively. “Stop hitting me, Aunty Karen! It’s not me! I didn’t abuse the old master! Niamh is framing me! It’s her…”
Smack!
“Ah!”
Yvonne was still quibbling when a belt struck her violently.
She screamed and jumped up in pain.
When she lifted her head, she noticed that it was Kendrick who whipped her just now.
“J-Kendrick? Did you just whip me?” Yvonne stared at him tearfully while feeling shocked.
Kendrick’s face was dark, and his tone was icy when he said, “You should know how much it hurts to be whipped. Did you ever consider the fact that Grandpa will also be in this much pain when you hit him?”
“…” Yvonne was speechless as she stood there dumbfoundedly.
“Now that the truth has come out, you all should know who’s the real abuser who needs to be punished by the law.” Kendrick threw the cane at Yvonne’s feet.
The two policemen understood immediately. When Yvonne was at a loss, they clicked the handcuffs on her wrists. Then, they took her away.
After Yvonne registered what was going on, she started bawling and screeching. “I don’t want to go to prison! Aunty Karen, it has nothing to do with me! I didn’t do anything! I-I must’ve been sleepwalking! Aunty Karen, help me! If I go to prison, my whole life will be ruined!”
When Karen heard that, she immediately spoke well of Yvonne to Winston. “Win, you heard her. Yvonne didn’t do it on purpose. She was just sleepwalking. She’s sick and didn’t mean to!”
“Do you think you can wipe out the fact that she abused Grandpa with the excuse of sleepwalking? Do you think it can smooth out how she has slandered Nia?”
Kendrick’s tone was firm and his gaze was stern.
“Before the truth came out, you were criticizing and berating Nia. You wanted her to go to prison so badly. Now that the truth has been exposed, you don’t even want to look into it? Do you think my wife deserves to be bullied, or do you think Grandpa deserves to be abused by that shrew?”
Karen was speechless. She knew she would infuriate Kendrick if she said something. If that was the case, there would be even worse consequences.
Yvonne was bawling when she was brought away by the police. She kept repeating that she was innocent.
Winston looked at the video of Yvonne abusing the old master again, his eyebrows knitting together tightly.
Then, when he turned around to see Niamh, he averted his gaze in guilt. He left without even apologizing to her.
It was evident that Karen would not apologize, so she just walked upstairs with a sour face.
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.