“Good girl, Lillian.” Niamh soothed her. Guessing that the child was feeling she had been wronged, she felt more heartache for Lillian.
She helped Lillian get up and got herself washed before changing her clothes. They both then ate breakfast together.
However, Lillian did not say a single word even after breakfast was done.
Niamh found it very strange. “Lillian, why aren’t you talking?”
Lillian looked at Niamh, but she only blinked her big eyes while her small mouth did not move even one bit.
Niamh was now convinced that there was something off. She obviously sensed that Lillian was not as lively as before. She was not even speaking a word.
After she passed Jackson and her youngest son to Karen, she brought Lillian to visit a doctor.
After going around a few pediatric hospitals, a doctor finally told Niamh, “Your child seems to have been shocked and is experiencing trauma, causing her to be unable to speak for the time being. She needs to break through the psychological trauma. Only then may she speak again.”
Niamh’s heart trembled violently when she heard the doctor’s reply.
She could not imagine what Lillian had gone through that caused such a trauma.
‘Is it due to Kendrick being ignorant and indifferent?’
Niamh carried the child back home. Lillian would still smile, and her smile was still warm and cute as usual. It was just that she was not speaking at all. She did not even utter the word ‘Mommy’ once.
At this moment, Jackson was accompanying Lillian as they piled wooden blocks together. Looking at the innocent and adorable faces, Niamh’s fists clenched tighter and tighter. She turned around immediately.
“Eveline, where are you going?” Karen chased after Niamh and asked while carrying Pudding who was about to drink milk.
Niamh walked toward the car without looking back. “I’m going to find that inhumane and cold-hearted father!”
‘Inhumane and cold-hearted father?’
Karen was puzzled, but Niamh had already driven the car away.
When she reached the downstairs of Waldburg Corporation, Niamh was still convincing herself to be calm, but she could not bear it when she thought about how such a good child like Lillian could no longer speak. She could not hold herself back.
Niamh did not know whether Kendrick would be at the company at this time, and she did not want to call this man either. He would no longer answer her calls anyway.
The lady at the front desk noticed Niamh heading over in such a rush and hurried to greet her.
“Where’s Kendrick? Is he in his office?” Niamh asked immediately, causing the front desk lady to start stammering due to her intimidating aura.
“Mr. Waldburg…”
“I’ll go in and find him myself.”
Niamh went straight to Kendrick’s office while the lady at the front desk caught up to her. “Miss Montgomery, Mr. Waldburg is not in the office. He really isn’t. Mr. Waldburg is in a meeting.”
Niamh paused when she heard the words and turned to the meeting room.
She strode along with an awe-inspiring aura and opened the door to the meeting room straight away.
All of the department leaders who were listening to Kendrick’s speech were stunned and looked at Niamh who had barged in.
Kendrick paused the ongoing meeting as well. He turned his chair and looked sideways at the door.
Niamh walked straight toward Kendrick. She could see no one else in her eyes.
Kendrick did not know why Niamh had come to see him, but he still felt happy to see her.
It was just that the moment Niamh came over to him, she raised her hand and slapped him heavily across his face.
Kendrick, with his tilted face, appeared lost.
Everyone was dumbfounded. They were silent for a while without even the slightest sound in the entire meeting room.
After witnessing this scene, Ken was stunned for a few seconds as well. Then, he immediately requested everyone in the conference room to leave before following suit himself. He closed the door as he exited.
Instantly, there was only Niamh and Kendrick left in the meeting room.
Kendrick raised his slender fingers and touched his beaten cheek. Then, he stood up and looked at Niamh whose expression was cold. Her glare was prickly as well.
“Miss Montgomery, I’ve said it before that I don’t want to see you again. Why are you still looking for me? Are you really unable to forget about me? You want to see me so badly, eh?”
Niamh looked at this handsome face that held a frivolous smile, and her disappointment was shown in her eyes.
“Lillian has become mute, are you happy now?”
‘Lillian has become mute.’ The moment this sentence penetrated Kendrick’s ears, it began occupying his mind, repeating continuously.
He could not believe it. For a brief moment, he even felt that Niamh was joking.
However, why would she make such a joke with him?
“Kendrick, you can hurt me all you want, but why are you hurting even Lillian now? What did you do when the child fell down in front of you and wanted you, her dad, to hug and comfort her?! You didn’t do anything? You actually chose to turn a blind eye and merely looked on?
“Kendrick, tell me, what happened that made you so cold-blooded that you choose to stand by that psychotic woman, Lana? Tell me.”
Niamh restrained herself from breaking down and questioned him continuously.
Kendrick was also holding back his emotions. In the end, he endured his pain and chuckled pretentiously. “Dad? When has she ever called me her dad? She has never regarded me as her father.”
“Why doesn’t Lillian know that you’re her biological father? Ask yourself the reason.” Niamh looked back into Kendrick’s deep eyes. “Kendrick, I’ll ask you one last time. The person you care about the most now, is it Lana?”
Looking at those beautiful eyes that awaited an answer, Kendrick clenched every finger of his and said, “Yes, the one I care about now is only her.”
“Alright. This is a good answer,” Niamh sneered sarcastically, then turned away abruptly.
Kendrick was lost in a daze, his mind still echoing with the words Niamh just said—‘Lillian has become mute.’
After being lost in his thoughts for a while, he felt that something was not right again because of the last thing Niamh said.
After Niamh left Waldburg Corporation, she drove the car and went directly to Lana’s villa.
As she was about to enter, she came across Fabian who was about to head out to look for Lillian. Seeing Niamh’s vengeful expression, Fabian realized that something was wrong.
“My lady, why are you here? Is it because you discovered that Lillian was thrown into the swimming pool by Lana and had almost drowned? Did you come to get even with her?”
Niamh figured that it was Lana’s subordinates who abducted Lillian yesterday, but she did not expect Lana to be so vicious!
“Lana! Where is she now?!” The flames in Niamh’s heart had already burned to their maximum point.
Right at this moment, Lana’s leisurely voice came from the swimming pool. “Who’s looking for me? Heh, Eveline?
“What’s the matter? Aren’t you already getting married to Ryan? Are you still unable to let go of Kendrick and have come to cause me trouble?”
Seeing that it was Niamh, Lana folded one of her arms over her chest and started smoking a cigarette with the other. Her eyes were filled with arrogance and disdain.
Niamh raised her eyebrows and responded, “You’re right, I’m here to trouble you!”
As her words fell, Niamh walked toward Lana. While Lana was caught off guard, Niamh suddenly pinched the back of Lana’s neck and raised her leg to kick Lana’s knee.
“Argh!”
As a result, Lana was now kneeling beside the swimming pool in pain.
“Lana, for everything you’ve done to my daughter, I’ll do them unto you now!”
Sh*t!
Lana immediately got angry out of embarrassment. She abruptly raised her head, but as soon as she did, Niamh slapped her face with a loud smack.
“Argh!”
Lana cried out in pain again, then had the back of her neck clamped tightly once more by Niamh.
She could not move at all and was entirely unable to even stand up.
“What are all of you doing, being frozen there?! Drag this woman away from me!”
Lana instructed the bodyguards, but Fabian did not give her the chance to do so. “No one is allowed to touch her!”
The bodyguards who were just about to take action on Niamh quickly stopped and Lana became irritated. “Have you become stupid, Fabian?! I’m your biological sister. How could you help this woman instead?!”
“I’ve said it before, I don’t have a sister like you.”
“You…”
“Moreover, this is a grudge between both of you women. How can us men interfere with this matter?” Fabian shrugged and walked toward Lana’s side nonchalantly.
“Miss Lana Johnson, haven’t you always thought of yourself so great and that no woman could be your opponent? Isn’t that why you’ve been so tyrannical all this while? But it seems that you can’t even deal with anyone successfully without your subordinates now.”
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.