What surprised Niamh was that not only did Kendrick not resist Lana, he even took the initiative to get involved with her.
Niamh’s breathing stagnated as she rushed over in disbelief, but her stomach suddenly hurt so much that she no longer had the strength to take another step forward.
“Kendrick…”
She curled up on the ground in pain as a familiar chill spread all over her body.
Yet, no matter how she called for help, Kendrick ignored her.
Immediately following that, Lana walked up to Niamh’s face with a smile. She viciously pinched Niamh’s face, and there was an evil, triumphant smile on her face. “Eveline, your husband is now my man, so be good and get a divorce from Kendrick or you may just lose two lives at once.”
There was a growing chill over her body, and Niamh was hurting from head to toe.
She opened her eyes forcefully and realized that it was just a nightmare.
She dreamt that her child was gone and that Lana snatched Kendrick away. Kendrick had not only ignored her, but he also left with Lana.
Niamh took a deep breath, a thin layer of sweat coating her forehead.
She turned her head to look at the man who was sleeping next to her and her heartbeat calmed down drastically.
…
Perhaps it was due to the psychological effects that were brought about by this nightmare, so Niamh somehow felt a little discomfort in her stomach.
She went to the hospital for an examination. Kendrick had to chair an important meeting, hence he could not accompany her.
After the check-up, Niamh gave the test sheet to Adam who then read it carefully.
“Eveline, I’ll prescribe another medicine for you. This medicine will not affect the fetus. It’s mainly used to stabilize your emotions. It’s enough for you to take one a day. You should not be working anymore in the near future so that you can get a good rest.”
Niamh knew that her mood as a pregnant woman would often fluctuate, and her dream last night was so vivid that she still remembered a little bit of it.
She nodded, thanked Adam, and went back.
When she had already left the room, a person leisurely walked out of the small room in Adam’s office.
Lana was smoking a cigarette, expelling clouds and mist. “It seems the medicine is slowly taking its effects on her.”
Adam perused Niamh’s real test results. “Yes, she’ll soon have hallucinations about the things she least wants to see.”
“What I want has never been impossible.” Lana raised his red lips with satisfaction. “Now what about Miss Montgomery’s family… I could leave her with nothing overnight, and I want her most beloved man to belong to me completely. He needs to obey me sincerely and become obsessed with me.”
She puffed out some smoke. “Although.. I’m not patient enough to wait for Kendrick to slowly become addicted to this. I want a faster method,” Lana said solemnly and began formulating her plan.
Knowing that Niamh would be raising her baby at home these few days, Lana would go to the company to look for Kendrick from time to time.
She would smoke her special cigarette every time, parading herself ostentatiously in front of Kendrick.
Kendrick was extremely disgusted, but this woman was using his care for Niamh to threaten him. “Kendrick, I’m not a kind woman. I have money, and money can be exchanged for a lot of things, including lives.
“I want you to join me for a candlelight dinner tonight, or else there will be a news headline about two lives lost the next day.”
Kendrick was furious and pulled Lana by the collar.
“If something happens to Eveline, I won’t let you live.”
“Do you think it’s worth using this life of mine in exchange for your wife and son’s? If it’s worth it, then don’t come tonight.
“Kendrick, who made you so attractive to me? I’m a truly evil and selfish person. As long as it’s something that I want, I must get it!”
Lana chuckled indifferently. After speaking, she took another breath and puffed the smoke at Kendrick.
Kendrick avoided it in disgust, but the strange smell had already entered his nose.
That night, Niamh had asked Kendrick to come to the Montgomeries for dinner after getting off work, but she suddenly received a call from him saying that he had an ad hoc video conference to chair and could not make it for dinner.
Niamh did not think much of it, but when she was playing with the two children, she suddenly received some news from Lana that was accompanied by a photo of Kendrick: [Eveline, your husband didn’t need to hold a video conference at all. He’s having a candlelight dinner with me.]
Niamh looked at the text on the screen and wanted to reply, but Lana sent another message again: [Kendrick will tell you that he has a client to meet and will be coming back later, when in fact, he’s already at the last hotel we were at with a room booked. He’ll be ready to be gentle with me. If you don’t believe it, you can come and have a look.]
Lana’s tone and manners were even worse than Nevaeh’s.
Niamh did not want to believe it, but it did not take long before she actually received a call from Kendrick saying that he had a client to meet and would return much later. He also asked Niamh to stay overnight at Montgomery Manor.
As soon as the call was hung up, Lana sent another inciting message. It was a photo of Kendrick driving.
The superior side profile of that man could not be easily faked.
Niamh wondered if Kendrick had been caught by Lana like how she was threatened by Felipe at the beginning, which was why he was cooperating with that woman like this.
She rushed to the hotel, and the door of the suite seemed to have been opened specially for her.
Niamh hesitated at the door for a few seconds before opening it. As soon as the door opened, she heard Lana’s coquettish voice. Niamh walked closer while holding her breath, and the scene she saw next made her speechless.
Niamh clearly saw a man and a woman intimately hugging and kissing each other.
This woman was naturally Lana, and the man was…
It was absolutely impossible for her to misremember the contours of the man’s back that was engraved deep in her mind.
“Kendrick…”
There was a dull pain in Niamh’s heart, and her thoughts suddenly became chaotic.
She forced herself to calm down, but her emotions seemed to be getting more out of control.
The dim light in front of her eyes and the unique fragrance made her dizzy.
Lana raised those charming eyes of hers and smiled triumphantly at Niamh who was gradually getting pale. “Mrs. Waldburg, have you arrived?”
Her tone was arrogant, contemptuous, and provocative. “Mr. Waldburg’s kissing is really so good. Such a man really makes me unable to extricate myself.”
She knew that Lana was deliberately provoking her, but Niamh could not calm herself down.
She quickly clenched her fists and walked up behind the man before pulling him and Lana apart. “Kendrick, what are you doing? Have you gone crazy?” she reproached while her heart continued to hurt. Her vision was blurred, but she could still clearly see the man in front of her chuckling disapprovingly. “It’s normal to put on an act in business, why are you making such a fuss?”
Niamh really thought that she had heard him wrong, but the voice in her ears was clear and real.
“A fuss? Kendrick, do you know what you’re talking about?”
Niamh looked at the man in front of her incredulously. Then, she heard him say, “Go back and don’t disturb Miss Johnson and me from discussing business.”
This answer gave Niamh a splitting headache. She even felt the people and things in front of her beginning to become more and more muddled.
Looking at Niamh’s reaction, Lana curled up her lips with satisfaction and walked behind Niamh proudly. “Did you not hear that, Mrs. Waldburg? Your husband told you to leave. If that’s the case, you should quickly go and not disturb us from ‘talking business’.”
She stressed the last two words ambiguously.
Niamh turned around, raised her palm, and slapped Lana across her face.
Her eyes were dyed with razor-sharp edges as she said imposingly, “Talk business, eh? Then, this slap is my reward for you accompanying my husband to talk business!”
Lana clutched her face, her eyes turning extremely fierce in an instant.
Not once in her entire life had anyone dare say a word to her let alone hit her.
Her eldest brother, Paul, had influence in both the dark and light sides of society. She, the second young lady, had been doing whatever she wanted in F Country ever since she was young.
All the men she set her eyes on had obediently submitted to her, and when it came to the women she took issue with, she could render them unable to lift their heads with just a word!
Yet now, Niamh had actually hit her.
Oh, that was great.
Now she had a legitimate reason to deal with this sore sight!
However, Niamh was not afraid at all. She even warned Lana, saying, “Lana, I don’t care who you are. If you harass my husband again, it won’t be just a slap next time.”
However, as soon as she said this, her wrist was suddenly held tightly by the man behind her. “Eveline Montgomery, you dare hit Miss Johnson?”
The sight of Kendrick defending Lana shocked Niamh.
In a daze, she looked at his face that was filled with hostility aimed at her.
She was about to speak but was thrown to the side by the man. “Leave now, don’t get in the way.”
Niamh almost lost her balance. She was in disbelief that this was Kendrick’s attitude toward her. “Kendrick, what’s the matter with you?”
“I’ll let you off.” The man strode off dissatisfied. Without even looking at her from the corners of his eyes, he comforted the pretentious Lana.
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.