Approaching to look at the photo, his gaze warmed while his tone was tinted with regret. “I still remember how happy we used to be by the sea. I’m sorry I ruined it by mistaking you for someone else.”
“You weren’t the only one who mistook me. Felipe did as well.”
Niamh frowned as she stared at the other girl who had accidentally made her way into the picture. She reminded Niamh of the girl in the photo collage she saw in Felipe’s manor.
Cathy was still a teen in the photo collage, and she looked unnervingly like the girl in this picture.
Kendrick was confused. “What do you mean Felipe mistook you too?”
“He kept telling me he loved me and wanted to have me because he thought that I was the girl who brought him back to light when I was young. But I’m not that girl. Back in April Hill, I only ever played with one boy.”
Hearing Niamh’s explanation, Kendrick remembered Felipe telling him such a thing as well.
He too thought that since Felipe had also met Niamh, Felipe fell for her back then as well.
Now he knew that there was someone else.
She took a photo of the framed picture with her phone before spending some time asking the old master how he had been. Then, they finally returned to their first marital villa.
By the time they arrived, so had Eloise and Sean with Jackson and Lillian.
After putting the two adorable children to sleep, Niamh looked down at her baby bump. This was their third child she bore.
Kendrick approached her from behind with light steps as he raised his arms to loop around her shoulders. Placing his handsome face where her neck met her shoulder, he breathed in her perfume greedily.
Niamh’s heart raced, and she was about to push Kendrick away when she heard him speak.
“I want to move to somewhere else.”
Niamh was confused. “Why?”
The man’s clear and alluring voice drifted past her ears. “Jack and Lillian are going to have a little brother or sister in a couple of months. We can’t possibly expect the three of them to squeeze into the same room. Plus, this house has too many unhappy memories.”
At that, Kendrick seemed slightly regretful. Anxiously taking in the change in Niamh’s expression, he resembled the careful self she used to be with him.
“I’m sorry, Nia. I shouldn’t have brought up the past. I’m sorry I made you upset again.”
He apologized softly, pressing his lips lightly against the back of her ear.
“I’ll bring you to Adam first thing in the morning to make sure you’re alright. Then I’ll go and settle Cathy’s situation.”
Without waiting for Niamh to nod, he bent down to carry her into his arms.
“It’s getting late. Let’s go to sleep.”
Niamh reached out instinctively to wrap her arms around his neck.
Carrying her into their bedroom, Niamh felt her heart race in a way that reminded her of the first time she married Kendrick.
She had been nervous, moved, and slightly hopeful.
Lying down, Kendrick held Niamh and pressed a kiss on the top of her head.
“I can finally hug you and have a peaceful sleep, Nia.”
In the dark of the night, his tone was slightly bewitching as it drifted into her ears.
Lying against his broad chest, Niamh drifted into a dreamless sleep as well.
She went to do a full-body check-up the next day, then an ultrasound.
Niamh’s heart warmed as she stared at the concern on the man by her side’s face.
She remembered how she had wished he would come with her when she was pregnant with Jackson, but those days were all destroyed by Nevaeh.
On the topic of Nevaeh, Niamh found out through Fabian that she had been handed over to the police and that the international police force in F Country had contacted Glendale’s police force to arrest Nevaeh again.
With Nevaeh facing her charges, Niamh wished that her grandfather and the murdered Brittany would be able to rest peacefully in heaven.
Taking a look at Niamh’s lab results and B-scans, Adam pushed his glasses lightly.
He stared at Niamh seriously. “Must you have this child, Eveline?”
Niamh thought for a bit and was about to answer when Kendrick said, “If it threatens the mother’s life, Eveline and I will not hesitate to let the child go.”
Knowing that Kendrick was merely worried about herself, Niamh did not protest.
Of course, if her body could not support it, she would not force herself to bear the child.
Adam nodded in understanding and replied, “Take your medication and be on time for your check-ups. As your doctor, your health is my priority.”
Niamh and Kendrick let out a sigh of relief.
Felipe had returned to Glendale last night and was staying in Cathy’s room in his villa the entire time, watching the person he longed for through the security footage.
The more he watched, the more his heart hurt.
Especially when he watched himself ruthlessly push Cathy toward the corner of the table, thus causing her to miscarry.
Felipe took a deep breath and closed his eyes. After getting up, he washed up and got ready to bring Cathy’s ashes to the beach by April Hill. He wanted to gather a few of her favorite clothes and toys before he left, but he found her diary instead when he opened the drawer.
His slender and bony fingers flipped open to the first page, and his vision blurred the second he read the first sentence.
On the first page was written in a girl’s clean handwriting: [The most beautiful moment in my life— meeting Felipe Waldburg]
‘The most beautiful moment in her life.’
Felipe’s vision blurred.
‘No, Cathy. Meeting you is the best thing that happened to me.
‘There is nothing beautiful about you meeting me.’
With his heart aching, Felipe flipped through the diary and found that the first entry was the day he confirmed his sponsorship.
The words inside read: [I’m so lucky to have met the little boy who was by my house all those years ago. Ah, wait, he’s not little anymore. Despite how long it has been, I knew it was him the moment I saw him. Although, it doesn’t seem like he recognizes me anymore. (Sobs)
[I still have the red string he gave me. I wonder if he still has the shell I gave him?
[He has grown to look so handsome and gentlemanly. Ah, how could a man look so beautiful? He’s so perfect, I’m sure there are a lot of girls who like him. (Envious)
[Yeah, I’ve got to study hard so that I make the best use of his sponsorship. I don’t wish for much, but I think I want to stay by his side forever. I’m content even if he sees me as his little sister. Though of course, I’d like to be more than just a sister if I could…]
Felipe closed his eyes in agony as tears fell freely down his face.
He no longer had the courage to keep reading, not when breathing itself felt like a sin.
Felipe quickly gathered a few pieces of clothing and Cathy’s urn before he made his way to April Hill alone.
The sky was gloomy, almost as if it was mourning his loss as well.
Arriving at April Hill, Felipe took the string and the shell before walking toward the beach that stretched endlessly.
As he closed his eyes, memories of the past flashed through his mind like they had happened just yesterday.
However, the girl who had pulled him from the dark had now gone to another dark world.
Numb from the pain, Felipe made his way to where Cathy’s home used to be.
The small villa before his eyes was simple but elegant with bright and colorful flowers blooming in its courtyard.
The world was still brimming with color, but as far as Felipe was concerned, his world had turned to shades of black and white.
Felipe stood at the entrance for a while, preparing himself to enter when a middle-aged woman with ginger curls walked out. She chased him off with a sneer. “Why are you standing by my door? Are you expecting me to give you food? Scram!”
Felipe spoke calmly, “Is this Cathy’s house?”
Startled, the woman replied distastefully, “Who are you?”
“Answer my question. Is this Cathy’s house?”
Felipe’s tone was cold for his patience was running low.
The woman was about to shout expletives when a 20-something-year-old walked out of the house in a camisole dress. Her long hair blew behind her as she approached the older woman. “What’s wrong, Mom?”
“Someone’s here to cause trouble. I was just chasing him away,” the woman said as she was about to chase Felipe out of her lawn.
As he had not been taking care of his appearance and was wearing two-day-old clothes, coupled with his unruly stubble, Felipe was probably a wretched sight to behold. However, there were still signs of energetic youth between his brows, and not even his unkempt appearance could mask his exquisite features.
The young lady gave Felipe a good look as her eyes sparkled. “Let’s not be impolite, Mom. I’ll talk to him instead.”
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.