“Kendrick…”
She sat up and was about to get off the bed when Eloise walked over with a worried expression. “Eveline, you woke up! Are you feeling uncomfortable? If you are, we’ll go to the hospital right away.”
Niamh shook her head and gripped Eloise’s hand tightly. “Mom, where’s Kendrick? Where is he? Did you find him?”
Looking at Niamh’s pressing gaze, Eloise’s eyes reddened in distress. “Eveline, you’re pregnant, so you have to think more about your own body.”
“I want to know where Kendrick is. Is he really…”
Niamh did not have the courage to ask further, but the image of Kendrick dying in a pool of blood was in her mind.
The pain of a thousand arrows piercing her heart spread all over her body.
“Eveline Montgomery, come out! Come out!” A loud voice suddenly came from downstairs.
Niamh went downstairs and saw Karen rushing toward her in anger, glaring at her with red eyes. “Eveline, you bearer of ill luck! Ever since Kendrick married you back then, the Waldburg family has never had a peaceful life! I knew that you remarried Kendrick for revenge, but I didn’t expect you to be so cruel that you would actually kill Kendrick this way!”
Faced with Karen’s reprimanding and verbal abuse, Niamh felt wronged and even more indignant. However, she did not want to get angry in front of her children.
Eloise cared about her daughter, so she defended her righteously. “Karen, what nonsense are you saying? My daughter has been with your son for so many years, but when has she ever lived a happy day? It’s obviously you people from the Waldburg family who have been hurting my daughter all this while. Kendrick’s death was an accident, so why are you putting the blame on my daughter?”
From the two’s quarrel, Niamh’s ears only caught that one sentence—Kendrick’s death was an accident.
She blacked out for a moment.
He was dead.
A huge hole seemed to have broken through Niamh’s heart. It was clearly summer, but a chilly winter-like wind had poured into her body.
Niamh felt very cold.
She also felt that everything was gray in front of her eyes.
At this time, Ken rushed in from the entrance with a solemn expression. Seeing that Niamh was already awake, he walked over. “The salvage team has returned. There are some things that I would like to ask Madam to head to the police station to confirm.”
Niamh endured her grief. She nodded and went with Ken. A steady stream of verbal abuse from Karen could be heard from behind.
Niamh came to the police station, but she could only see scraps of messy and shredded clothes. Before they had set off to sea, he was wearing a white tee, but now it was stained red with blood.
Niamh gently picked up a piece of the red-dyed cloth with trembling fingers, her tears flowing silently from her eyes.
“Kendrick.”
She did not have the courage to continue looking. He was clearly so alive not long ago, but now he had become a pile of relics.
Niamh took a deep breath. She wanted to turn around and leave, but she suddenly noticed a very familiar item in the scraps.
She grabbed the bookmark in shock, her head buzzing.
That day in front of her grandpa’s grave, he had burned the bookmark in front of her and said that he would have a clean break with her.
Why was the bookmark showing up here?
Could it be that he was just making such an action at that time to make her mistakenly think that he had burned the bookmark as well as his love and fixation for her?
Yet it turned out that the bookmark was still there and his feelings for her had never disappeared.
Niamh went back to her and Kendrick’s room. She lay on their bed alone and gently caressed the pillow that he had lay on.
His scent in her nose grew fainter and fainter until she could no longer smell it.
Recalling the day before his accident, she had still argued with him and even slapped him.
‘I should’ve trusted you. Even if you really had something going on with Lana, you must’ve had your own reason.
‘Why couldn’t I have been calmer? Why couldn’t I control my own emotions and instead doubted and questioned you about your feelings for me?
‘Kendrick…’
Niamh shut herself in the room for two whole days. No one saw her during this period of time.
After receiving a call from Eloise that Karen wanted to take care of the funeral, she immediately rushed to Waldburg Manor.
Karen saw Niamh and wanted to drive her out angrily. “Eveline, you cruel and venomous woman! You’re a bearer of ill luck! You ruined Kendrick’s career, and now you’ve even killed him. How dare you still enter through these gates? What qualifications do you have to come here?!”
Niamh raised her red, swollen eyes and looked calmly at Karen who was verbally abusing her as she wished. A cold aura oozed off her delicate, palm-sized face.
“Why can’t I come over? This is my in-laws’ house.”
“In-laws? Hah,” Karen sneered and glared at Niamh with hatred. “You killed Kendrick and you still have the face to say that this is your in-laws’ house?! Go away!”
Winston stopped Karen and persuaded her, saying, “Karen, you’re too much! Eveline is Kendrick’s wife, after all! She’s your daughter-in-law.”
“What daughter-in-law? I don’t have such a merciless daughter-in-law! She kept saying that the Waldburg family and Nevaeh harmed her, but now it seems that she’s worse than Nevaeh. At least Nevaeh was truly in love with Kendrick. At least that woman wouldn’t be cruel enough to kill Kendrick!”
“Shut your mouth up!”
Old Master Waldburg came out of the room holding his crutches while trembling. He sternly criticized Karen, “Eveline is the one who is suffering the most now that something has happened to Kendrick!”
Karen chuckled disapprovingly. “She’s suffering? What suffering does she have? She’s the one who planned this out!” She was certain that Niamh was taking revenge on Kendrick. “Kendrick was killed by this venomous woman but you guys still believe her. She has been planning to kill Kendrick a long time ago so that she could live a happy life with that b*stard Felipe!”
“Huh, that’s right. Once Kendrick dies, then I can live a happy life.”
Suddenly, Felipe’s cold chuckle came from the entrance.
Niamh looked back, and as expected, she saw Felipe.
The once noble, graceful gentleman was now so shabby that his beard was not even shaved.
Only a touch of heroism remained between his brows that decorated his handsome face.
He walked over slowly and saw the mourning hall set up by the Waldburg family for Kendrick. His smile gradually spread on his lips.
“Kendrick, it seems that you can’t escape the fate of going to hell after all.”
“Felipe! You and this woman teamed up to kill my son, right?!” Karen put the blame on Niamh without distinguishing between right and wrong.
Felipe sneered nonchalantly and walked in.
Niamh stopped him, her gaze looking sharp. “Felipe, you killed Cathy. You killed the girl who cared for you for more than ten years and had genuine affection for you. The one who really should go to hell is you!”
Felipe looked at Niamh and admitted it with a smile. “You’re right, I killed Cathy. I was the one who ordered someone to fire a shot at the woman who loved me the most and killed her.”
Knowing that this was the truth, Niamh, who was already very sad, felt devastated for Cathy at this moment.
“Felipe, you’re actually brushing over the harm you’ve caused Cathy just like this? Do you really not feel guilty at all?”
“Guilty?” Felipe found it ridiculous, but he suddenly looked at Niamh very seriously. “Kendrick’s guilt could be exchanged for your forgiveness and company. What can my guilt be exchanged for?”
Upon hearing this, Niamh unexpectedly realized that Felipe’s eyes were wet.
Was he sad?
“After I finish the last thing, I’ll go to where I should go.”
He raised his eyebrows, and his fierce gaze suddenly fell on Old Master Waldburg.
Niamh had a feeling that Felipe might do something to Old Master Waldburg, so she quickly stepped forward to stop him. “Felipe, don’t make any more mistakes!”
“It’s him who is in the wrong. He’s the one who caused all the tragedies.” Felipe directed all of his grievances and dissatisfaction on Old Master Waldburg.
Winston also saw through Felipe’s motives and quickly went over to stop him, but Felipe was even faster. He gently pushed Niamh who was in front of him toward Winston who was running over.
“Eveline, I don’t want to hurt you, but I must seek justice for my parents today!”
Felipe rushed toward Old Master Waldburg.
He took out a gun from his waist and pointed it directly at Old Master Waldburg’s heart. “Go to the mausoleum!”
Karen and the servants were terrified when they saw this scene.
Niamh and Winston felt that they could not act rashly at this moment.
Old Master Waldburg frowned a little as he calmly went to the mausoleum in the Waldburg Manor with a cane according to Felipe’s wishes.
Here were the ancestors of the Waldburg family.
Felipe pushed Old Master Waldburg to his parents’ memorial tablet and ordered coldly, “Kneel down.”
Winston was worried that something would happen to Old Master Waldburg. He said hurriedly, “Felipe, your parents’ deaths were just an accident. It has nothing to do with Old Master Waldburg. Let go of him!”
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.