“Not back then, but now we are,” Niamh answered without a second thought.
Karen looked stunned. She was looking at Niamh dumbfoundedly.
“Eveline, what’s wrong with you? You love Kendrick so much…”
“Yes, I do love him. However, it has been so many years yet how many happy days did I have with him?”
Niamh scoffed and showed her discontentment.
“My parents were killed by him and Lily is mute because of him. Now, he’s even involved in a murder. Plus, the stocks of Montgomery Enterprise were also affected because of him. I’ve had enough.”
“Kendrick didn’t kill anyone! He was framed! Do you not believe him as well?” Karen started to get agitated as she tried to hold Niamh’s hand. She said, “Eveline, you’ve been through so much with Kendrick. You can’t leave him now!”
Niamh pushed Karen’s hand away like she was disgusted with her. Her face was filled with frost.
“So what if I believe him? There’s so much evidence against him, and if he’s captured, his life will be over even if he doesn’t get the death penalty. Why would I want to stay with a man like that? I’ve wasted more than ten years of my life on him. I don’t want to waste any more of my life.”
Her face was frigid as she rejected Karen. Her tone was also emotionless.
“From now on, aside from the three children we have, there’s nothing else between us anymore. It doesn’t matter if he’s dead or alive, or if he’s captured or not. It’s none of my business—”
Slap!
Before Niamh could finish her sentence, Karen slapped her across the face heavily.
Niamh did not feel any pain on her face when she received the slap. On the contrary, her heart was the one in pain.
“Eveline Montgomery, I was wrong about you!”
Karen’s face was filled with disappointment as she berated Niamh.
“I thought I was blind when I misunderstood you and falsely accused you of things you didn’t do, but now, I’m still blind. I seriously thought you were a good daughter-in-law! Eveline, let me tell you, don’t even think about getting custody of the children. They don’t have a cold-blooded mother like you!”
Niamh endured the pain in her heart and touched her hurting face nonchalantly. “Do you think I want it? It’s better if I don’t have children. They’ll just get in the way of Ryan and me.”
“You…” Karen was shaking from anger. When she was about to slap Niamh again, Ryan appeared just in time.
He stopped Karen and grabbed Niamh’s shoulder to protect her in his arms intimately.
When Karen saw this, she was livid. “You kept saying that you love Kendrick, but in the end, you’re running into the arms of another man because of superficial gains! Eveline, you’re fickle. The Waldburgs don’t have a daughter-in-law like you!”
When Karen was done yelling at her, she left angrily.
After Niamh endured Karen’s beratings, she let out a sigh of relief in secret.
It was fine to be misunderstood. The most important thing right now was that she was one step closer to her goal.
Niamh pushed Ryan away after Karen left. She said coldly, “I want to be discharged.”
Ryan seemed to be in a good mood. He smiled and nodded. “Okay, I’ll take you home.”
Home?
Niamh scoffed sarcastically.
A house was not a home if Kendrick was not there, not even when it was the most luxurious house in the world.
Niamh was brought to the mansion that she stayed in a few days while she was married to Ryan. However, when she stepped foot inside, Ryan received a call from Mr. Jones.
Judging from Ryan’s tone, it sounded like something urgent had happened and he needed to take care of the matter now.
She pretended to sit on the sofa in exhaustion as she waited for Ryan to end the call.
Indeed, when Ryan saw Niamh’s tired face after the call, he looked at her in concern.
“Your wounds won’t heal so quickly, so you should stay home and tend to it. I’ll take you to see my parents in a few days.” There was concern laced in between his words.
Ryan walked in front of Niamh and bent down when he saw her not reacting to him.
“Eveline, I know you have a purpose for getting close to me, but I don’t think I’m worse than Kendrick. I’ll make you fall in love with me and forget about that murderer.”
Niamh calmly looked at the confident pair of eyes in front of her before clenching her fists in secret.
Her Kendrick was not a murderer.
Also, she would not fall in love with a man like Ryan.
When Ryan saw sharpness and determination in Niamh’s eyes, he smirked. He was the most impressed with Niamh’s calmness and courage.
“Wait for me to come home.” After Ryan said that, he drove away.
The moment he left, Niamh became energetic. She went to the bedroom on the second floor.
Judging from the cleanliness of the room, Ryan probably usually stayed alone.
However, after looking around, there was nothing suspicious in the room.
Niamh wanted to continue searching, but the wound on her arm was hurting extremely badly.
She had moved too much just now, so the wound was affected. Now, blood was seeping through her bandages.
Niamh wanted to tend to her wounds as best as she could, so she went to look for the first aid kit. She opened the closet but did not find it there. However, to her surprise, she found nothing in the closet aside from a suit.
Niamh remembered that this was the suit Ryan was wearing when he asked her to meet him in the cafe, which also meant it was on the day Lana was killed.
Niamh had a good sense of smell. She smelled the agarwood from the suit, but at the same time, she also smelled a hint of smoke that would be released from a gun upon firing it.
Lana was shot dead, so the person who shot her would definitely have some smoke on their clothes.
Ryan had not gotten rid of this suit. It was probably because he was worried it would cause trouble for him if he was unable to get rid of it properly.
‘Ryan, I want to see how you’re going to explain yourself with such concrete evidence.’
Niamh was happy with her discovery. ‘Kendrick, everyone will know that you’re innocent soon.’
She was feeling thrilled when her phone rang. When Niamh picked up the phone, she heard Jackson’s voice saying dispiritedly, “Mommy, Grandma said that you don’t want us anymore. Lily is very sad and hasn’t eaten until now.”
When Niamh heard that, she felt her heart tightening. “Jack, I’ll come home now. Tell Lily that no matter what happens, I won’t abandon you guys.”
After she hung up, she called a cab and sped over to Waldburg Manor.
The moment she got out of the car, she saw her son running over to her frantically. “Mommy, Lily is missing!”
As a mother, the thing Niamh was scared of the most was something bad happening to her children.
She was feeling restless but had to ask calmly, “Where was Lily when you called me just now?”
“Lily was at the door.” Jackson pointed at the door. “However, after I called you, she went missing. Grandma asked a lot of people to look for her, but they still can’t find her.”
Niamh frowned and looked at the time. It had been more than ten minutes since the little girl went missing.
“Jack, go back to the house. I’ll bring Lily back,” she promised. After her son went in, she walked along the path surrounding the manor to look for Lillian.
However, after some time, she still could not find Lillian.
Niamh was extremely anxious. She walked a few more yards without an idea that her wound was bleeding again. Her face was turning paler and paler.
“Lily, Lily, where are you?”
Niamh could feel her heart shattering into pieces. At this moment, she received a message from Ava. It was a video.
Upon playing the video, she saw Lillian’s tiny body standing at the edge of the roof of Waldburg Corporation.
“Lily!”
Niamh was horrified. She did now know why Lilian was at such a dangerous spot.
She felt dazzled as she quickly called a cab to Waldburg Corporation. Now, there was already a crowd under the building.
Niamh pushed through the crowd and rushed to the roof.
Some police officers were talking to Lillian, but since Lillian could not talk, she did not interact with them. She was as quiet as a doll as she stood on the edge of the roof while looking at the people in front of her.
Niamh forced herself to stay calm as she slowly walked over to her. “Lily,” Niamh called out softly. “Lily, why did you come here all alone? Sweet girl, come to Mommy.”
When Niamh was saying that, her heart and voice were shaking violently.
Lillian wanted to say something, but at this moment, a gust of wind blew the paper from Lillian’s hand over to Niamh’s feet.
Niamh lowered her head and picked up the paper. When she saw the words on the paper, she felt tears welling in her eyes.
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.