She looked down at Ava and saw that Ava was drunk as a skunk.
“Ava?
“You said you would come here to help me look for my memories.”
Niamh smiled and sighed, turning to see the figures passing by the window. Those energetic faces were permeated with the breath of youth.
There were also young couples holding hands and drinking the same cup of milk tea sweetly.
She thought of Kendrick again. As it turned out, she had really liked him so much.
She would peep at him during her morning jogs, would go to the library to wait for him, and even deliberately studied jewelry design for him…
Was this considered young and frivolous?
She did crazy and obsessive things for a boy she admired.
Niamh laughed. She lowered her gaze and saw the notebooks hanging under the table. She picked up a book curiously and read it, finding that it was full of notes written by the guests who came to eat here.
There were various words and sentences on the pages. Some people asked for contact information, some people wrote ‘I was here’, and others even expressed their feelings.
Niamh flipped through it casually, but unexpectedly, she saw her own name on one of the pages.
[Niamh Delgado, I like you.]
The five words written were concise and straightforward. The fluent handwriting was so clean that it struck her heart.
The time of the inscription was when she was in her freshman year, but there was nothing else other than the five words and the date.
She had no way of knowing who left this confession.
At this moment, Ava’s phone suddenly rang. Niamh retracted her thoughts and saw that it was Daniel who called.
Niamh answered the phone and informed him of the situation.
Daniel arrived in a hurry about half an hour later.
Seeing Ava who had passed out from drinking and Niamh who had flushed cheeks, he could not help but smile. Niamh helped him carry Ava into the car.
“Why did you guys come here to drink?” Daniel asked with concern.
“I couldn’t recall a lot of my past, so Ava said she wanted to help me find my memories here, but she got drunk instead.” Niamh glanced at Ava worriedly. “Dan, I still want to walk around for a while. Please help me send Ava back home.”
Daniel looked at Niamh worriedly. “Niamh, let me send you back first.”
Niamh shook her head. “Don’t worry, I’ll be careful,” she said before turning around.
Daniel did not stop her again. He drove back to the apartment with a drunk Ava.
Ava was still drunk talking on the way back. She kept on telling Niamh not to look back, not to be fooled by Kendrick, and even enumerated Kendrick’s faults while calling him a scumbag.
Daniel could not help but smile. He suddenly felt that Ava’s friendship with Niamh was really precious.
After arriving at the apartment, Daniel helped Ava into the room. He wanted to leave after putting her to bed, but Ava was very drunk.
She grabbed him by the collar and forcibly dragged him down on the bed. Daniel hurriedly wanted to get up and step aside, but Ava suddenly fell on him in the next second. Not only did she throw herself on him, but her mouth also fell on his lips by accident…
An unfamiliar heat rushed past every cell in Daniel’s body. Even his heartbeat and breathing had lost their normal regularity.
“Mm…”
Ava did not know that she had kissed Daniel’s lips and murmured uncomfortably. She looked for a comfortable posture, turned her face, and lay on Daniel’s body before continuing to sleep.
“Niamh, listen to me, don’t ever be stupid again.
“You were… really such an idiot. You only had that scumbag Kendrick in your eyes. You couldn’t even see the handsome, gentle, kind, and outstanding Dan…
“Do you know how much I envy you, Niamh? Aren’t you curious why I haven’t found a boyfriend? It’s because… Because all this while, I’ve liked Dan, but Dan only has you in his heart…”
Hearing the drunk Ava spitting out the truth at the moment, Daniel looked down at the sleeping girl lying on his chest in shock.
She was very drunk and her cheeks were abnormally rosy. Beneath her delicate and willowy eyebrows, the woman’s thick eyelashes fluttered from time to time. Her tiny mouth was still muttering drunken words. She kept on repeating what she had told Niamh and that she liked him.
Daniel listened motionlessly, his thoughts a mess.
He really never realized that Ava had a crush on him.
He did not even think that a girl with a cheerful personality and who loved to laugh like Ava would like a dull and boring man like him.
However, her words had turned him into a handsome, gentle, kind, and outstanding man.
Daniel did not know how long he maintained his posture before he cautiously helped Ava, who had already fallen asleep, up.
He carried her to the bed and lay her down, then gently covered her with a blanket.
Looking at the girl who was still muttering in her sleep, Daniel smiled faintly with a soft gaze.
“Goodnight and sweet dreams.”
…
Niamh was walking around Glendale University but still could not recall the memories she had made here.
She went back to Montgomery Manor, and Eloise told her that her children were already asleep.
Niamh called Felipe and told him she would be staying over with her two children at Montgomery Manor, then she went to take a shower.
She wore her pajamas and went to her children’s room afterward.
Hearing the sound of the door opening and her entering the room, Jackson lifted his blanket and got out of the bed.
“Jack? Why aren’t you asleep yet? What about your sister?”
“Lily’s already asleep, but I wanted to wait for Mommy to come back.” Jackson walked toward her, his big eyes filled with distressed tears.
Niamh knelt down and hugged Jackson. The little guy leaned into her embrace. “Mommy, Jackson hasn’t seen you for almost a hundred days.
“Does Mommy not want me anymore now that you have Lily?”
Hearing the little guy’s words, Niamh’s heart suddenly became sour while the corners of her eyes started to get wet.
“Silly, how could I not want Jack? You and Lily are both my treasures.”
“But why is Lily’s dad not my dad? Didn’t Granny say we’re real siblings?”
Niamh did not know how to answer for a moment.
Jackson looked a lot like Kendrick, so there was no doubt he was Kendrick’s and hers.
On the other hand, Lily looked like her and she only remembered Felipe telling her that Lily was their daughter.
“Mommy, Mommy.”
Niamh returned to her senses upon hearing Jack’s cries.
“Jack, I promise you that I’ll be with you forever. I’ll never leave you alone.” Niamh promised solemnly.
Jackson blinked his clear, big eyes and nodded. “Mom, you have to keep your promise. You can’t leave me alone.”
“Okay.”
Niamh stretched out her finger and hooked it with Jackson’s.
Only then did the little guy go to sleep at ease.
Niamh immediately lay down beside the two little babies, but she could not get rid of the words she saw in the notebook from her mind even after a long time.
[Niamh Delgado, I like you.]
Whose confession was that?
On the other hand, Kendrick had kept himself shut in his room after he came back from getting the divorce certificate.
Touching his empty ring finger, he did not know what else he could use to miss the woman he loved but could not get.
Only this deformed divorce certificate was proof that Niamh once belonged to him and him only.
However, that was only the past…
A week passed in a flash.
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.