He looked back at the passenger seat and noticed Niamh was wearing black pants. If one did not take a closer look, one would have missed out on the fact that her pants were actually drenched in blood!
‘But why are her pants all bloody?’
Kendrick felt a pang of pain coursing through him.
He could not afford to hesitate any longer as he slammed on the gas pedal and headed to the hospital in full throttle.
On the way to sending Niamh to the emergency department, Kendrick attempted to take away the purse from Niamh’s hand but noticed that she was gripping on it tightly.
He forcefully pried her fingers away and managed to get his hands on the purse.
Looking at her pale face threw Kendrick in a state of terror.
‘What’s going on, Nia?
‘How did you get yourself injured?’
Kendrick waited anxiously for Niamh to come out from the emergency room.
Time was ticking away, and Kendrick kept pacing back and forth along the corridor.
He took a glance and noticed that a long time had passed. When he took out his phone at this moment, he saw a notification on the net that coincidentally popped out.
He scanned through the content. The story was about a young and pretty lady jumping into the river just for a purse. The netizens were even mocking her, saying that humans in this era were getting crazy.
‘Purse.’
Subconsciously, Kendrick looked at the purse which Niamh had brought with her.
Suddenly, he realized that maybe the lady in the news was Niamh.
He clicked into the pop-up notification and saw there was a related short video attached to the story.
In that video, Niamh was chasing after a man who was holding onto her purse. All of a sudden, that man discarded the purse into the river. In the end, Niamh jumped into the river without thinking twice.
The scene where Niamh jumped into the river made Kendrick feel as if his heart was being pierced through.
He knew she could not swim, yet she had jumped into the water just for a purse.
Kendrick looked up the related videos and found more short clips of the scene taken from different angles.
Niamh was struggling and asking for help. Later, Ryan had appeared to save Niamh. There were even some thugs frantically taking pictures of Niamh’s body.
Kendrick pursed his lips, suppressing the flames of rage within him as he made a call to Ken.
He intended to make all the related videos vanish for good!
He wanted to find out who were the ones who offended Niamh and those who kept taking photos of her drenched in water. He would make them all pay for it.
After giving his orders to Ken, Kendrick tried to compose himself. After a moment, the anger within his eyes dissipated slightly.
He glanced at the purse in his hand and started having some wild guesses running in his mind.
‘There must be something important in this purse. Or else, she would never have taken such drastic measures to jump into the river.’
Kendrick thought to himself as his long fingers unzipped the purse.
He wanted to know what was inside the purse that made Niamh put her life on the line.
It was at that moment a nurse came anxiously running out from the emergency room.
Kendrick discarded the idea of peeping into the purse and quickly halted the nurse. “How’s my wife? Why is she bleeding so much?”
The nurse was worried as well, but after noticing Kendrick was feeling the same way, she explained, “It seems something sharp has cut through your wife’s left thigh, causing the severe bleeding.
“But her blood group is Rhesus negative, a rare type of blood group! Our hospital doesn’t have this kind of blood in our blood bank. We have to go and get it from another hospital! With that being said, we can’t be sure whether there’s such a blood group in their blood bank either,” the nurse said before quickly leaving the scene.
Veins were throbbing on Kendrick’s temples.
Niamh had lost a lot of blood and the hospital did not have the required blood in their blood bank. Besides, they were unsure whether other hospitals had her blood group.
He knew that Niamh’s blood was of a rare type.
He wanted to just donate all of his blood to Niamh, but he could not do so as their blood groups were not compatible.
Jackson had the same blood group as Niamh but he was only six-years-old. A six-year-old kid could not donate blood.
‘If only Eloise was still around. She could donate her blood to Niamh, but now…’
Kendrick leaned against the wall, feeling troubled. He recalled the fire that burned down the entire Montgomery Manor along with Eloise and Sean who were mercilessly burned to death.
Even though Naomi said he was not the one who set the fire, he still could not be sure about it.
Up to this day, he still could not figure out what had happened when he made his way to Montgomery Manor that day.
He had lost the most crucial part of his memory.
Kendrick was helpless. Looking at the nurses coming in and out made him unable to calm down.
There were a few times he wanted to go forth and ask but was afraid he might hinder Niamh’s treatment.
After some time, the doctor finally showed up.
Kendrick rushed forward and grabbed hold of the female physician. “Doctor, how’s my wife? Is her condition any better?”
The female physician could not help but complain, “As her husband, how could you not know that your wife was so badly injured? Her pants were drenched in blood! Besides, her blood type is so rare. If we didn’t get the blood transferred here in time, you might have lost your wife by now!”
Kendrick frowned as his eyes gave off a sharp glare. “What nonsense are you talking about? What do you mean by losing my wife?!”
“…” The doctor noticed Kendrick’s murderous glare and realized she had crossed the line. She quickly softened her tone, saying, “Your wife is alright now. You don’t have to worry. You… You can go and accompany her.”
Kendrick retrieved his glare and said coldly, “Thank you.”
“You… You’re welcome,” the doctor replied. As she was terrified, she quickly made a run for it.
In the VIP ward.
Kendrick helped Niamh change into a pair of clean clothing and dried her hair patiently.
The sky outside the window slowly became dark. Kendrick held onto Niamh’s hand and kept her company.
He raised his hand and touched her face that had turned pale after losing so much blood. He choked, feeling hurt.
He lifted his head and kissed her hand. His eyes grew red as he said, “You’ve never had a peaceful day after being with me. Nia, I’ve really let you down…”
His eyes were apologetic as he stared at Niamh who had not awakened. It was as if his heart was stabbed by thousands of knives. It was so painful that he found it hard to breathe.
However, very soon, Kendrick remembered about the purse. It was the purse that made Niamh put her life on the line and jump into the river.
He was guessing perhaps she got injured while in the water.
He placed Niamh’s hand down gently and took the purse beside to open it.
Kendrick took out all the things in the purse, but there were not many. There was only a long wallet, keys, and lipstick. There was nothing special.
‘All these items wouldn’t make Niamh place her life on the line.’ Kendrick found it odd. Just when he was about to place everything back, an item fell out from the gap of the wallet and dropped right beside his foot.
Kendrick looked down to see the small bottle of reagent and bent down to pick it up.
The clear bottle was around the size of his thumb and was filled with a colorless and scentless liquid. There were no descriptions on the bottle either.
He had no idea what it held, but he remembered the scenes of Niamh injecting something into him on two occasions when he was asleep.
He turned to Niamh who was still unconscious. Confusion bled into his gentle gaze.
‘Is this what you’ve been injecting me with, Nia?
‘What is this?
‘Is it so important that you would jump into the river to retrieve it back?’
Kendrick thought to himself but came up with nothing. However, he did not plan to ask Niamh.
He was about to put the things back into the purse when Kendrick saw someone staring in from the hospital room window from the corners of his eyes.
His gaze flicked up and the person turned to flee.
Kendrick found the behavior weird.
He got up and walked out of the hospital room, following the path that person took for a while only to come up empty-handed.
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.