When she was done giving her statement, it was already close to the wee hours.
The rain had stopped, but the autumn breeze was still blowing and the coolness penetrated one’s skin. Niamh could not help sneezing twice.
Kendrick frowned lightly. He thought for a moment before opening his mouth to say, “Didn’t Miss Montgomery have something to discuss with me? If there is something you wish to discuss today, why don’t we head to a hotel nearby and have our talk in a room?”
Niamh glanced at Kendrick in surprise and was just about to speak when she sneezed again.
Kendrick frowned again but smiled nonchalantly. “Miss Montgomery, are you worried that I’ll make a move on you? Don’t worry, I’m blind now and can’t do anything to you.”
“If I was afraid of you, I wouldn’t have come here with you.” Not to be outdone, Niamh immediately took Kendrick to a nearby hotel and got a room.
Upon entering the room, Niamh was first going to take a bath.
She was drenched all over, so if she let herself remain in this state, she might really catch a cold and fever.
Kendrick took advantage of Niamh taking a shower and fumbled downstairs to find the proprietress. “Please help me prepare two cups of ginger tea, thank you.”
He was worried that Niamh would catch a cold and was even more worried about being unable to take care of her if she really did get a fever.
Kendrick returned in the same way and opened the door with his room card. As soon as he opened the door, he heard Niamh screaming in the bathroom.
“Ah!”
“Nia?”
Thinking that something had happened to Niamh, Kendrick held no consideration for his own situation and bumped his way into the bathroom. He looked panicked and worried.
“Nia, what’s the matter? Nia! Where are you?”
Kendrick’s face appeared worried, but he was still blankly looking for Niamh’s figure in the darkness.
Although Niamh was no longer a weak woman, she was still inevitably surprised when a gecko had crawled to her side so suddenly. She also did not expect Kendrick to just suddenly enter so anxiously.
“Nia? What happened to you? Where are you?” Kendrick fumbled around. There was intense uneasiness and worry in his tone.
Niamh was standing aside, and she saw how Kendrick was searching for her in confusion as her heart trembled secretly.
“Nia, please answer me quickly. Where are you?” he asked again nervously. Niamh could no longer remain silent.
“I’m here.”
As soon as he heard Niamh’s voice, Kendrick followed the direction it came from. The moment he touched Niamh’s body, he embraced her tightly while wishing he could melt her into his own blood.
“Are you alright?” His low voice was trembling with a hint of tension.
Niamh was stunned for two seconds before she replied, “I’m fine. I saw a gecko that was crawling around just now, so I screamed a little.”
“Glad to know that. I’m glad to know you’re fine.” He seemed to only be able to give a sigh of relief now.
Although she was obviously the one who was surprised, it was him who was frightened.
Thinking of Kendrick’s reaction just now, Niamh smiled lightly and said in a playful tone, “Mr. Waldburg, don’t you already have a new love interest? And don’t you no longer care about your ex-wife from a long time ago? Why are you worrying about whether I’m alright now?”
Hearing her words, Kendrick realized that he had lost his composure.
However, he had already in fact lost his composure ever since the three gangsters were planning to dally with Niamh.
He could pretend that he had let go of the past, but during the emergency situation just now, he could not ignore her existence.
Kendrick quickly released his hand. “Miss Montgomery is a woman, so as a man, I need to give a helping hand when a woman is in danger.” He found a very reasonable excuse for himself.
“Oh…” Niamh responded meaningfully, “Then, Mr. Waldburg, as such a good man who is so helpful, why did you treat your weak ex-wife so cruelly?”
As the words left her mouth, a trace of regret appeared on Kendrick’s face.
Niamh picked up the bathrobe beside her hand and covered her body quickly.
“Mr. Waldburg, you should also take a bath. I don’t want you to catch a cold because of me again,” she said as she put the daily necessities along with the bathrobe on the shelf. “Don’t let your wound come in touch with water to avoid inflammation. I’ll be right outside. If you need any assistance, you may call for me.”
Niamh walked out of the bathroom after she said her words.
She glanced at him again before she closed the door and left.
After a short while, Niamh could hear the sound of the shower coming from the bathroom.
Someone had knocked on the door then. She went to open the door and found that the proprietress had brought two cups of ginger tea.
Niamh felt her heart warm up as she said, “My lady, you’re too thoughtful.”
The proprietress smiled, putting down the cups and saucers. “It’s your boyfriend who’s considerate. He was worried that you might catch a cold from the rain, so he specifically asked me to brew this for you.”
Niamh was surprised when she heard this from the proprietress.
She only came back to her senses when she heard a crash from the bathroom. By then, she had realized that the proprietress was gone.
Niamh walked toward the bathroom door, guessing that Kendrick might have bumped into something since he was unable to see.
She thought Kendrick would call her for help, but he did not say anything until he came out of the shower.
Niamh looked at the man who was walking forward cautiously. With a loose bathrobe draped over him, he walked slowly. A few strands of his hair on his forehead were still dripping with drops of water, adding a bit of bewitching charm on such a night.
Niamh handed a cup of ginger tea to Kendrick. “Drink this ginger tea from the proprietress.”
Kendrick stretched out his hand to take it but did not manage to touch the cup for a while.
Seeing him struggle blindly, Niamh inexplicably felt an unease in her heart.
She held Kendrick’s hand and placed the teacup precisely into his palm.
The skin contact during this brief moment made Kendrick feel a little bit lost in his thoughts.
He felt Niamh’s warm and soft palm on the back of his hand for a short moment. The ginger tea that slid down his throat was unusually sweet.
Niamh handed their wet clothes to the proprietress, and when she returned, Kendrick had already finished his ginger tea. He was sitting quietly by the window.
She walked toward him, and as she was about to speak, her nose suddenly itched. She then turned away to sneeze.
Kendrick turned his head and looked at her with his eyebrows furrowed. “Miss Montgomery, if you’re feeling unwell, you should rest earlier. Don’t worry, I won’t leave until you’re done discussing what you intend to discuss with me.”
Niamh looked into Kendrick’s eyes that had lost their glow and were now as deep as the sea. After staring at them for a long time, she then turned toward the bed and laid down.
The room had slowly quieted down, and Kendrick listened to Niamh’s breathing as she gradually fell asleep. Yet, his eyes were filled with more worry.
Sure enough, just as what he was worried about, Niamh started developing a fever.
She had been tossing and turning on the bed in the second half of the night. He measured the temperature of her forehead with his own and found that she was really hot.
He asked the proprietress for Tylenol, then helped to physically cool her down in the dark. As he was thinking of pouring a glass of warm water to feed her the medicine, Niamh suddenly held his hand.
“Why?” she muttered dreamily, “Why are you doing this?”
Kendrick was dumbfounded. Although he did not know what Niamh was asking about, he felt that she was talking to him.
He looked down at her face, but what he could only catch in his sight was boundless darkness.
“Nia,” he called out her name softly and reached out to touch the face he desperately wanted to see.
The unusually warm touch made him feel even more distressed.
“Kendrick…”
Suddenly, he heard her calling his name in a weak tone.
His gaze became full of pampering instantly as he gave a tender smile. “Nia, I’m here. If I could, I really wish to be with you forever.”
‘However, what rights do I even have to be with you forever?’
He squeezed her hand tight as he slowly lowered his head and dropped a kiss between her brows.
Niamh opened her hazy eyes in a daze, and Kendrick’s gentle, handsome face was reflected in her pupils. She quickly fell asleep again afterward.
A night had passed. Not knowing when he fell asleep, Kendrick found himself lying with Niamh when he woke up.
She was nestled in his arms, sticking by his side like a clingy kitten.
Kendrick’s lips curled up satisfyingly and when he measured Niamh’s body temperature again. He found that it had almost returned to normal.
He quietly let go of his worries and gently loosened his embrace.
After washing up, Kendrick wanted to order breakfast for Niamh but someone had coincidentally knocked on the door just then. He thought it would be the proprietress who had come to return their cleaned clothes. However, when the door opened, he felt an unusual airflow.
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.