“Shut up!” Lana shrieked and stopped Naomi.
She was so scared that her hands were shaking. Beads of cold sweat were pouring from her body.
Of course, she wanted to live. However, it would be difficult to stay alive in this situation.
If she really were to die, she would want to hide the truth of Eloise and Sean’s deaths forever.
“I won’t let Eveline get the man I can’t get!” Lana yelled hysterically. “I want Eveline to be in pain, and I want them to never get back together!”
…
Yorick had prepared a plane and was about to send Lana back to F Country in the morning.
However, Lana had not come back since last night.
He was worried that Lana would cause trouble again, so he asked his men to find her. After they looked all over, they discovered that Lana and Naomi were taken away by Kendrick when they were in the bar last night.
When he remembered what happened three months ago, Yorick sensed that something was amiss.
He handed the information he got to Fabian and asked him to contact Niamh.
Niamh was changing her son’s diaper when she suddenly received a call from Fabian. On the other end of the phone, she heard Fabian’s anxious voice saying, “Eveline, can you ask your husband to release my sister since I’ve saved Lily before?”
Niamh was confused, but she sensed that something was wrong.
After she knew that Kendrick had kidnapped Lana and Naomi to an abandoned factory, Niamh immediately called Kendrick.
At the same time, Kendrick sent her a message.
There were only a few lines in the message. [Nia, I’ve avenged our mom and dad. Please don’t be sad anymore. You should find a good man and marry him. Don’t tell Lily that I’m her birth father. There’s no need for that.]
At the end of the message, he confessed to her once more. [Eveline Montgomery, I love you.]
Niamh felt her body going cold after she saw this message.
She immediately handed her child to Karen and drove to the address Fabian sent her.
After arriving at the location before Fabian and the rest, Niamh watched the flames engulf the factory and understood what Kendrick meant by revenge.
She quickly ran through the metal doors to take a look at what was happening inside. Upon entering, she was met with Kendrick standing before the factory like an exquisite sculpture, rooted in place as he watched the flames feed aloofly.
Niamh felt her heart sink.
She quickly called the fire department and ran to stand in front of Kendrick.
It was then that the man realized Niamh had arrived. His dim eyes sparkled.
“What are you doing here, Nia? Quick, leave.” Kendrick quickly pulled Niamh away, not wanting her to be scorched by straying flames.
Niamh slapped his hand away, her eyes filled with worry and concern.
“What do you think you’re doing? Have you any idea at all?”
“I know,” Kendrick replied curtly, the flames reflecting in his frosty eyes. “She deserves to die.”
“Yes, she deserves to die, but you don’t have to play the executioner!” Niamh panicked, wanting to run inside to look only for Kendrick to hold her back.
As she was struggling, Niamh’s eyes moistened from the heat or something else she did not know. “You must know where Lana and Naomi stand! You can still stop before it gets beyond that point, Kendrick!”
Kendrick’s hold on Niamh did not loosen. “They’re not worth your pity, Nia.”
Niamh did not know how to explain to the man that she could not possibly pity Lana Johnson or Naomi Lionel.
“You’re not avenging my parents, Kendrick. You’re destroying your entire life! Stop!”
Yet, the man merely smiled by her ear. “My life turned dark the moment I lost you, Nia.
“Once Lana dies, I’ll surrender myself. I’ll tell the police that I was the one who set fire to the Montgomery family, that I was the one who destroyed your home and killed my own parents-in-law.”
Niamh shook her head, her tears falling from her glistening eyes due to the breeze. “Are you even listening to me, Kendrick? Let Lana and Naomi out now!
“I’ll avenge my parents myself! I don’t need you to do it for me!
“Do you hear me, Kendrick Waldburg?”
Just then, Fabian and Yorick arrived at the scene as well. Staring at the burning flames in front of them, a bad feeling crept up.
Fabian covered his mouth and ran to the window to take a look. “Lana and Naomi are both inside. The flames haven’t gotten to them yet, but they’re unconscious!”
Hearing him, Yorick immediately came up with a plan to get Lana out.
Kendrick watched coldly from the side as he carried Niamh and turned around. “Go, Nia.”
“I’m not going anywhere!” Niamh struggled out of his grip. “If you’re just leaving like this, Kendrick, then don’t appear in front of me again!”
She glared at him with her reddened and wet eyes.
“There’s a back door we can use, Yorick, but I can’t open it.” Fabian’s voice drifted from afar.
Niamh reached out to Kendrick. “You must have the key to the back door. Give it to me!”
Kendrick remained stoic.
Niamh ran toward him and reached out to rustle through his pockets impatiently. Instead of the key, all she found in his pockets were the rainbow shell he had been keeping carefully and the wedding ring Niamh had removed.
Her vision blurred as she stared at the man whose gaze grew colder by the second.
“Give me the key, Kendrick! Give it to me!”
Kendrick raised a hand to wipe her tears away lovingly. “Are these tears because of me?” He smiled. “Don’t cry, I’m not worth it. Ryan’s not bad for a significant other. I’m sure he’ll be someone you can lean on in the future.”
“You don’t even know who it is that I want to lean on the most! It’s you, it has always been you. Kendrick, please! Wake up and give me the key. Come back to me. You don’t have to make another mistake!”
Watching Niamh’s eyes that were red from crying, emotion finally flashed through Kendrick’s gaze.
He could not ignore Niamh’s plea, let alone continue to go against her wishes.
“It’s under the door,” Kendrick finally said.
Niamh quickly shouted for Fabian, “It’s under the door!”
Fabian squatted and groped around, surprised to find the key.
Opening the door, he and Yorick then ran inside to carry out Lana and Naomi who had passed out.
As both Lana and Naomi had been doused in gasoline, embers of flame managed to catch on them while they were carried out.
Thank goodness for the firefighters who arrived in time and extinguished the flames.
Lana and Naomi were sent to the hospital where both were declared to not be in any life-threatening danger.
However, the ends of Lana’s already short hair were burnt and became choppy. The scent of smoke filled the strands of her hair.
Knowing that Lana and Naomi were alright, Niamh got into the car anxiously.
She could only imagine how much Kendrick must have hated Lana and himself to do such a thing.
Niamh reached out for a picture of Eloise and Sean, tracing it with her fingertips.
“Will you blame me for stopping Kendrick, Mom and Dad?”
She frowned, feeling conflicted.
She felt a boulder lodge itself on her chest at the idea that the man she loved had become her parents’ murderer, putting her in a suffocating situation.
The more she thought about it, the more remorseful she felt.
There was no way she could erase the fact that Kendrick had killed Eloise and Sean, but here she was worried about their future together.
At that train of thought, Niamh felt guilty.
After buying a bouquet of white chrysanthemums and carnations, she arrived at the cemetery. Before she could walk over, she was met with the sight of Kendrick bending down to light candles and incense before Eloise and Sean’s graves.
Niamh walked over to replace Kendrick’s flowers and candles with new ones.
Kendrick stood rooted in place. His deep eyes were staring at Niamh who was paying him no heed.
“Can I have a day with the kids, Nia?”
He was pleading, but Niamh ignored him to light candles quietly.
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.