Niamh lifted her head to look at Ryan. She felt like she could not focus on anything anymore.
Ryan took Niamh to the car and showed her the video of Lana getting arrested in the private room that day.
It was taken with the hidden camera in Kendrick’s tie clip. The video was crystal clear, and so were the voices in the recording.
Niamh saw Kendrick going into the private room of a restaurant with Lana. Then, she saw him pretending to side with Lana as they talked business with a fat man.
However, after the man signed a contract with Lana, everything changed.
Even though Niamh could not see Kendrick in the video, she could clearly hear his voice.
He had said to Lana, “Game over.”
Then, he continued, “Did you really think that I’m your man?”
He even added, “I only have and love one woman in my life, and her name is Eveline Montgomery.”
In the end, he arrested Lana who was gradually having a mental breakdown.
When Niamh saw this, her vision was blurred by her tears.
She clenched her fists and tried to control her emotions.
She said she would not cry for this man again. She would not…
However, despite that, tears started to well up in her eyes.
“When Kendrick reappeared in Lana’s life, he was already a part of Interpol, and because of Kendrick’s excellent mental state and ability, he’s not just a normal agent,” Ryan explained patiently.
“Eveline, he had never shared a romantic relationship with Lana and they were never intimate. He was only with her to spy on her.”
Niamh clutched her hands tightly when she heard that. She swallowed back her urge to cry and looked out the window with teary eyes. Then, she pretended to be calm. “Since the deed is done, why is he leaving Glendale?”
Ryan did not know how to answer her.
Kendrick had told him countless times not to tell Niamh about him dying.
After contemplating, Ryan answered, “Maybe after Lana used him to kill your parents, he knew there’d be a gap between you two that can never be mended, so he chose to leave.”
“Heh.” Niamh chuckled bitterly. “So he’s just going to ignore his children, his parents, and his company?”
Ryan comforted her when he saw Niamh trying hard to suppress her emotions.
“He might come back one day.
“When you can finally let go of your parent’s deaths and are willing to get back together with him, I’ll give you my blessing.”
Niamh turned around suddenly to look at the man’s gentle face.
“Rye, I didn’t forget the fact that I’m your wife now, so even if he comes back, it’ll be impossible for me to end up with him again. I won’t get married for the third time.”
Ryan smiled when he heard that. Then, he grabbed Niamh’s hands gently.
He felt joy in his heart after receiving this answer from Niamh.
When Ryan remembered what Kendrick told him before he left, he promised softly, “Eveline, I’ll do everything I can to make you happy.”
Niamh smiled and swallowed down all of her emotions.
Karen approached her happily when she saw Niamh coming back to Waldburg Manor. “Eveline, Lana was arrested!
“She’s in a mob, so no wonder she’s so heinous!
“Hmph! At the end of the day, evil can never prevail over good. She’ll suffer the consequences of what she has done!”
It was obvious that Karen was in a good mood.
However, Niamh recalled what she saw in the video just now. Kendrick had put the handcuffs on Lana himself, and at that moment, that diabolical woman had an emotional breakdown before getting locked up behind bars.
Niamh knew she should feel happy, but in that second, she felt an excruciating pain in her heart instead.
In the early morning of the end of summer, she bought some flowers and came to Eloise and Sean’s graves alone.
After bowing to them, she murmured, “Mom, Dad, the person who killed you has already been arrested. She’ll be executed very soon. I hope you can rest easy now.”
She felt the gentle autumn breeze on her skin that made her heart cold. Her eyes started to turn red from the wind.
“Mom, Dad, c-can you forgive Kendrick?”
When she asked this question, she could not control her tears from falling anymore.
She felt guilty.
She could not heal the wound in her heart regardless if she forgave or not.
Niamh stayed in the cemetery for a very long time.
No one was able to answer her question.
When she left, she saw a new tomb below Eloise and Sean’s.
She glanced at it and saw that the tomb was much shorter. Aside from the birth date, there was nothing else on it. Not even a name.
For some reason, she looked absent-mindedly at it for a few seconds more before leaving.
Niamh went back to the house she shared with Ryan. When it was nighttime, she made dinner in the kitchen robotically. While she was cutting the vegetables, Kendrick’s face appeared in her mind.
He was kneeling in front of her, his eyes filled with remorse and regret. He was begging her to forgive him for being manipulated by Lana and burning her house down. He was begging her to give him a chance to redeem himself.
However, she had refused.
On the other hand, she told him the thing she regretted the most was forgiving him back then and giving him another chance. As such, she would not forgive him anymore.
Niamh shook her head and forced herself to stop thinking about it. However, her heart still felt uneasy for no reason.
As she was spacing out, she accidentally sliced her finger.
She saw the bright red blood flowing out from her finger and just stood there motionlessly as she watched.
She recalled the blood on the tissue that she took for testing and Kendrick’s lingering scent on it.
What was going on?
Niamh felt her head throbbing in pain.
When Ryan stepped into the kitchen, he saw Niamh holding the knife while spacing out.
After he approached her, he spotted blood uncontrollably pouring out from Niamh’s finger. He quickly brought the first aid kit over.
Ryan was concerned and immediately bandaged her wound for her.
“Eveline, what happened? Why are you standing there even when you’re bleeding?”
When she heard Ryan’s voice, Niamh’s brain registered what was going on.
She suddenly remembered something and walked into the living room. Then, she picked up her phone and called the analyst who called previously.
Ryan thought that Niamh’s behavior was out of the blue. He followed her and saw her calling someone. Then, in the next second, he heard her asking the person on the other end of the phone, “Dr. Gordon, I’m Eveline Montgomery. Can I ask you what’s the blood type of the blood sample you tested previously?”
Ryan heard Niamh asking this hurriedly.
He did not know what answer the person on the other end told Niamh. He only saw Niamh letting out a sigh of relief.
It was as if she had gotten the answer she wanted.
After she hung up, Ryan saw that Niamh was obviously more relaxed now.
She then continued preparing dinner for both of them. Then, they sat down and had their dinner quietly.
Ryan had feelings for Niamh and genuinely liked her. However, Ryan also knew that Niamh only admired him.
This whole time, she only had Kendrick in her heart.
Since she still loved that man, that was why she was still in pain.
After dinner, Niamh went to take a shower after talking to Ryan.
Ryan came looking for her again after a while. However, he only came to tell her that he needed to take care of some work-related stuff before leaving.
Niamh did not know whether he really had work to do or if it was because he did not want to force her to do anything with him and that was why he left.
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