However, the moment he let go, the baby started wailing in his cot.
Kendrick quickly picked him up to comfort him. However, the baby started crying even louder. His face had turned red from crying.
At this moment, the door of the bathroom opened.
Niamh did not have time to dry herself, so she hastily wrapped the towel around her and walked out barefoot.
When she saw Kendrick and the crying baby in his arms, she rushed over hurriedly. “What are you doing here?”
She glared at him and took the baby as gently as possible from Kendrick’s arms.
“Don’t cry, Pudding. Don’t cry. Mommy’s here, darling, don’t cry.” Niamh smiled softly and coaxed patiently.
Kendrick looked at her, feeling dispirited. He felt like he was eons away when he looked at Niamh’s smile.
It had been a while since he saw her smile like that.
“Nia,” he called out to her softly.
Niamh ignored him and walked to one side to continue coaxing the crying baby.
On the other hand, Kendrick stood behind her. They were so close, yet he felt as if they were separated by a mountain and a river. He wanted to touch her, but she was so far away.
For some reason, the baby was crying louder and louder.
Niamh was heartbroken.
“What’s wrong, honey? Are you unwell?” she asked in concern, but of course, the baby could not answer her.
She placed the baby down and checked his diaper. However, he had not peed or pooped.
Niamh was worried that something might have happened to the child. She picked him up and was ready to take him to the hospital.
“Nia, let me try,” Kendrick begged. “When I held him just now, he didn’t cry.”
Niamh looked at him coldly. “If you hadn’t come in, he wouldn’t have woken up at all. I spent so much time putting him to sleep. Why did you come in?”
Niamh grumbled. Despite knowing that the baby might be crying for other reasons, she did not have the capacity to face this man.
“Nia, let me hold the child. Really, he didn’t cry when I carried him just now,” Kendrick begged again.
However, Niamh did not let him hold Pudding. On the contrary, she scoffed.
“So you know he’s your son now?”
“Nia.”
“Kendrick, I don’t blame you. I really don’t blame you for losing your memories. I just hate that you lost your humanity after you lost your memories.”
She tried very hard to control her emotions.
“The nurse told me that after you went into the room, the baby’s face turned purple and he went into shock. I really couldn’t believe that you’re able to take action against such a young child just to make Lana happy.
“After that, I went to see you and what did you do?” Her eyes were red as she stared at the man who was looking more and more remorseful. “You choked me and asked me what my child has to do with you? What does he have to do with you?
“I was the one asking for trouble. I was the one asking for all this trouble. Why did I fall in love with a man like you…” Niamh mocked herself and smiled bitterly. She lowered her head to look at the crying baby as more tears streamed down from her face. “Pudding, I hope I can be like you, to have no worries. I hope with all my might…”
When Kendrick heard Niamh talking to herself, he felt like he had no right being here.
He turned around with tears in his eyes. When he got to the side of the door, he covered his face with his hands and sobbed.
“I’m sorry…”
Niamh and Kendrick cried silently with a door between them.
If there was no love, they would not be in so much pain.
However, they loved each other to the bone. As such, they would feel as intensely even when they hated each other.
Kendrick stood at the door for a very long time. He kept waiting until the child stopped crying and until the depths of night. Eventually, he left when he made sure she had fallen asleep.
However, the moment he got out of the door and into the car, Kendrick felt his consciousness drifting again. There were a lot of weird images in his head, and he felt extremely uncomfortable.
He suddenly wanted to smoke. He wanted to smoke the cigarette that Lana gave him in the past three months.
However, after he regained his memories, he did not touch anything Lana gave him. He had already thrown away those cigarettes a long time ago.
Kendrick suppressed his urges. He tossed and turned in his car for the entire night and only fell asleep groggily in the wee hours.
However, after about two or three hours, he heard Lillian’s sweet voice. Then, he woke up and saw Jackson and Lillian. They were holding hands as they got into the school bus to go to school with their backpacks.
On the other hand, Niamh drove away shortly after.
Kendrick saw Karen holding a one-month-old Pudding as they strolled around the lawn. Then, Kendrick stepped on the accelerator to follow Niamh.
He had not been sleeping well these days, and along with the combination of those weird feelings, Kendrick’s vision started to get blurrier.
Then, Kendrick started seeing ridiculous things in front of his eyes. He saw Niamh smiling bashfully as she reached out her hand to him while displaying her dimples. “Kendrick, let’s start over.”
Kendrick reached out his hand to hold Niamh with a longing glint in his eyes. “Okay, Nia. Let’s start over.”
Niamh was driving when suddenly, she heard a loud crash behind her.
She turned around and saw a car crashing into the divider island. Then, a bloody hand was seen from the car window. When she saw the ring on the ring finger, she felt something tug on her heartstrings.
“Kendrick?”
At that moment, Niamh felt her mind going blank.
In the next moment, she opened the door of the car and called the ambulance with her shaking hands.
She ran to the side of the car. When she saw the bloody hand, she looked inside.
“Nia, let’s start over…”
She heard Kendrick mumbling this as he fell unconscious.
Niamh’s tears rolled down her eyes. She felt extremely conflicted right now.
She did not want anything to happen to him, but she could not let down her dead parents.
The ambulance arrived after a while and they stabilized Kendrick quickly.
He did not have any internal damage. Most of his injuries were flesh wounds, but his left hand was hurt pretty badly. He could not lift anything heavy in the meantime. Plus, there was also a huge cut on his left calf that was bleeding profusely.
Kendrick started dreaming groggily again. He dreamed about the ship exploding and about Niamh leaving him.
He reached out his hand to grab Niamh’s hand, and in the process, he called out reluctantly, “Nia, don’t leave me.”
He yelled and opened his eyes at the same time.
Then, what he saw was Ken’s awkward face. “Mr. Waldburg, you’re awake.”
Kendrick noticed that he was holding Ken’s hand and remembered the scenes in his dream. He spaced out for a moment before letting go.
He coughed softly and sat up slowly.
Ken hurried over to help him up with a look of relief on his face. “Mr. Waldburg, you finally remember!”
Kendrick paused, frowning. “Why am I here?”
“Mr. Waldburg, have you lost your memories again? You had an accident this morning.”
“An accident?” Kendrick tried to recall what happened, but his head felt heavy. What happened at that moment was blurry as well.
He had no memory of such a serious accident.
He only remembered Niamh walking to him and telling him, “Kendrick, let’s start over.”
Kendrick came back to his senses abruptly. “Where’s Nia?”
“Madam called me to tell me that you’re in the hospital. After I got here, she left.”
A look of delight appeared on Kendrick’s face. “Was she the one who sent me here?”
“The nurses did say that Mrs. Waldburg was the one who called the ambulance for you.”
Kendrick felt his cracked heart heal slightly after he heard this answer.
‘Nia, you still care about me.
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.