“Kendrick, have you really lost your memories? How could you get yourself tangled up by that woman? Hurry up and send your wife to the hospital, she’s injured!” Karen said anxiously. She was shocked when she saw the large amount of blood flowing from Niamh’s right palm.
However, Kendrick was indifferent as he watched Niamh’s bleeding hand without any emotions.
“Kendrick!” Karen was anxious. When she saw that Niamh did not look quite right, she was even more flustered. “Hold on, Eveline!”
Niamh bit her lip, lowered her head, and looked down. “My water broke. I think I’m going to give birth soon.”
“What?!”
Karen looked at the space by Niamh’s feet in a panic.
It was the middle of summer and Niamh was wearing a dress. There was a pool of liquid at her feet.
It was her amniotic fluid!
If her water had broken and she was not sent to the hospital in time, the fetus might suffocate in her womb.
Karen did not know how far along Niamh was in her pregnancy, but she was sure that it was not anywhere close to the due date yet. “E-Eveline! How far along the pregnancy are you?”
Niamh breathed hard. “Exactly 30 weeks.”
“What?! Only 30 weeks?!”
If she was 30 weeks pregnant, it meant that she was about two months away from her due date!
Karen panicked and did not know what to do. When she saw Kendrick standing by the side and not doing anything, she shouted anxiously, “Kendrick, what’s the matter with you? Are you just going to stand there and watch while your wife is in trouble?!”
“Wife?” Kendrick chuckled and watched Niamh’s face grow paler. He turned around dismissively.
His indifference and the pain Niamh had to endure made her heart feel as if it was scooped out and stepped on.
When she saw the back of the man leaving, she gritted her teeth hard but still could not stop the tears from streaming down her face.
When Karen saw that Niamh was getting worse, Karen released Niamh and hurriedly ran over to Kendrick, pulling him. “Kendrick, how did you become this way? Eveline’s your wife! She’s your wife! She’s only seven months pregnant and look at what that witch did to her! Her water broke! If you don’t send her to the hospital in time, both of them will die! Don’t you understand?!
“If Eveline dies and you get your memories back, you’ll be in more pain than you did when you first lost her years ago!”
After hearing Karen’s exhaustive and hoarse words, Kendrick frowned. Even so, his eyes were still as cold as ice.
“Say one more word and I’ll make sure no one will ever find your bodies.”
“Kendrick, you…” Karen was irritated by Kendrick’s attitude at that moment and wanted to say something, but when she turned around and saw Niamh shaking, she quickly ran back. “Eveline! Don’t you dare fall asleep!”
Karen never thought that there would come a day when she would be anxious for Niamh.
She could not ignore the fact that Niamh had used her hand to block the knife for her just now.
When she saw that Niamh’s palm was still bleeding and that her breathing was getting weaker and weaker, Karen’s eyes turned red from anxiety.
In a panic, she saw a fruit knife on the coffee table and used it to cut through her expensive skirt. She tore a large piece of cloth off and quickly bandaged Niamh’s palm with it. She comforted her sincerely, saying, “Eveline, don’t be afraid. Mom is here with you. No matter what, I’ll get Kendrick back for you!”
When Niamh heard Karen acknowledging herself as her mother, Niamh felt as if she was in a trance.
When she saw that Karen was going to call for Kendrick again, Niamh pulled her hard.
“Forget it.”
Niamh endured the severe pain and held Karen tightly with her trembling hands as fine beads of sweat covered her forehead.
When she saw the man turning a blind eye to her condition, she smiled bitterly as tears blurred the figure reflected in her eyes.
“He won’t care about us. Even if I die here, he won’t realize who I am to him.”
“How could this have happened?!” Karen was angry and anxious. “What should we do now?”
“It’s too late to go to the hospital now.” Niamh took a deep breath. “I’ll have to just give birth here.”
Since her water had broken, even the hospital would not be able to repair it.
Niamh knew she had no other choice.
The fetus who was only seven months old had to be delivered prematurely.
Karen was dumbfounded for a few seconds. “Are you saying that you want to give birth right here?”
Niamh used her peripheral view to glance at the man who did not even want to look at her. “I don’t have any other choice.”
She stopped looking at him and swallowed her tears into her belly.
Karen did not know what else to do either, so she helped Niamh lay down slowly on the sofa.
When Karen saw that there were two other bodyguards in the living room, Karen drove them out angrily. “Get out! Get out! All of you!”
She looked at the man who was standing by the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at his phone.
“Kendrick, even if you don’t recognize Eveline, are you really that cold-blooded to ignore her in her current situation? Will you ignore a person’s life and her unborn child?”
Kendrick furrowed his eyebrows, and when he turned around, he was obviously very unhappy.
He was about to warn Karen when he caught a glimpse of Niamh who was lying on the sofa, sweaty and pale.
For some peculiar reason, Kendrick suddenly felt a piercing pain in his heart.
He glanced at the two bodyguards at the door and motioned for them to go out.
When Karen saw that the two men were gone, she took out a tissue to wipe the sweat on Niamh’s forehead. Then, she held up her legs while her own heart was in a panic.
She had no experience delivering babies, and to make matters worse, the baby was going to be born prematurely.
The physical condition of premature babies was not as good as that of full-term babies. If they were not sent to an incubator for care after birth, they might not be able to live long.
Niamh’s head was all muddled at that moment, but she would never forget the haunting pain.
When she was in prison, she had been induced to give birth and her first child was taken away from her just like that.
That heartache was especially clear in her mind at that moment.
Niamh gritted her teeth and clenched her hands on the sofa cover until her veins were popping up. However, she was still tenacious and did not make any painful cries for help.
She knew that the care and tenderness she wanted most at that moment was not available.
Karen could not bear to see Niamh that way, and it was the first time she saw how strong Niamh was.
Kendrick also seemed a little lost by the scene before him.
He walked slowly in front of Niamh and looked down at her pale face that was covered with sweat.
She frowned and gritted her teeth. When he saw the pain she was enduring, it was as if his heart was also experiencing an invisible sharp pain along with her. For some reason, his eyebrows were also locked deeply in a furrow.
From her peripheral view, Niamh saw Kendrick’s figure. She struggled to lift up her white palms and grabbed his trouser legs as she panted heavily. “Even though our situation is this way, this still counts as fulfilling the promise you made to me last time. You said that you were going to accompany me when I give birth to this child…”
After she said that, Niamh’s hand sank weakly.
Kendrick’s heartstrings suddenly tensed up. He reached out and grabbed Niamh’s hand.
“For the sake of your baby, I’ll take you to the hospital.” Kendrick sighed.
Niamh shook her head. “It’s too late…” She sighed regretfully. “I hope that I’ll have a chance to see this kid. I don’t know if he’ll be more like you or more like me…”
“Kendrick, please get someone to prepare some hot water and scissors! And call an ambulance! Call an ambulance now!” Karen yelled in a mess.
Kendrick stared at Niamh for a long time, then coldly ordered the servant to prepare those things.
He wanted to ignore Niamh and not look at how hard she was pushing, but he could not help it and continued to stare at her.
This inexplicable worry made Kendrick suspicious. ‘Is it true that I’m her husband?
‘If not, shouldn’t it be time for me to sit on the sidelines and turn a blind eye?’
“Eveline, stay awake! Baby, stay awake!”
When Kendrick suddenly heard Karen shouting at Niamh with such anxiousness, he was also inexplicably shocked.
When he saw Niamh’s sleepy appearance, he walked up to her again.
She was sweating profusely and her face was as white as a piece of paper.
He could see how hard she was trying to give birth to the child, but she seemed to not have enough energy.
Niamh saw the man standing next to her in a daze, and she stretched out her hand to him strenuously. “Kendrick…”
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.