Ryan returned to the study and clicked on a software on the computer which showed him multiple cars driving toward the villa.
He enlarged the footage and was met with a clear visual of Kendrick’s appearance.
Kendrick’s features were too defined to be of a doppelganger.
“How would he know where we are?” Adam seemed confused and frustrated. “What do we do now?”
“The fact that he has found us means that he has come fully prepared. Bring Eveline and her parents away. I’ll deal with this.” Ryan decided, showing absolutely no fear of facing Kendrick head-on.
“Will you be alright here?” Adam asked worriedly.
Ryan curled his thin lips into a confident smile. “Why wouldn’t I? It’s not like they can catch me.”
Adam did not comment further and quickly made his way back to the bedroom Niamh was staying in as Ryan instructed.
The maids greeted courteously when they saw Adam approaching them. “Doctor Brown.”
“Leave us alone.” Adam shooed the two maids away.
He strode toward Niamh and grabbed a jacket on the way to put it over her shoulders. Her expression remained blank and lost.
“Come with me, Eveline Montgomery.”
Niamh’s gaze lingered on Adam for a few seconds before she shook her head. “I’m not going anywhere. I’m waiting for someone here.”
Adam frowned. “Who are you waiting for?”
“Kendrick Waldburg.” She averted her gaze to look at the cloudy sky outside. “He’s coming over, so I’m waiting for him.”
She leaned against the bed in exhaustion and closed her eyes.
Adam was about to say something when he caught Ryan making his way over from the corners of his eyes.
Seeing Niamh lying on the bed with her eyes closed, Ryan went over to princess-carry her in his arms.
Niamh’s eyes snapped open, revealing traces of fear and shock within them. “Where are you bringing me?”
She looked at Ryan and said in a weak tone. The drastic blood loss and the lack of food had zapped all the strength from her body.
Not to mention after all the torment Ryan had been putting her through these days, Niamh could no longer summon the aura she once had.
Ryan forcibly carried Niamh to the car while Adam followed inside with his medical kit in hand.
“Bring her away now,” Ryan ordered.
Niamh raised her hand to paw the inside of the window with widened eyes. “I’m not going anywhere. I need to wait for Kendrick. He promised that he’ll bring me home,” she emphasized. Kendrick’s name seemed to have become her unwavering belief.
Ryan furrowed his brows when he felt something off about Niamh’s behavior. “Look after her,” he ordered Adam.
Adam nodded in acknowledgment and pried Niamh’s hand off the window forcefully.
“I’m not going anywhere. No.” Niamh raised and pinned her misty round eyes on Ryan. “I’m going to wait here until Kendrick comes. He promised that he’ll come and get me.”
“…” Ryan stared at Niamh’s unusual attitude in confusion.
Be it her tone or demeanor, Niamh was behaving exceptionally unusual today.
“Didn’t you tell me that you want to see your parents? These people will bring you to see them now.” Ryan reminded her.
Niamh’s expression changed as if she had just thought of something.
“Mom, Dad…”
She lightly blinked her lovely, soulful eyes, then knitted her finely-shaped velvety brows.Solemnly, she urged Ryan, “Please help me inform Kendrick that I’ll be back after seeing my parents. If he comes looking for me, do let him know..”
“…” Upon hearing Niamh’s words, Ryan and Adam were both simultaneously dumbfounded.
Niamh sat up straight in a very self-possessed manner, and said to the driver, “Please start the car now. If we leave early, we can return early. I still need to come back here and wait for Kendrick. He said he’ll pick me up.”
Ryan finally knew what was off about Niamh.
He looked at her flawlessly beautiful profile in disbelief, his long brows furrowing. “Take care of her and don’t let anything happen to her,” Ryan ordered.
Adam nodded to express his understanding, then slowly rolled up the car window.
Ryan stood in place for a while, watching the car that was getting gradually further away.
He had thought that he had completely worn down Niamh’s stubbornness and disobedience toward him, and had also thought that the reagent would wipe her memory out entirely. However, he had never expected that he would have coerced Niamh into becoming an idiot who wanted only to wait wholeheartedly for Kendrick to pick her up and bring her home…
Ryan returned to the house in some agitation. It was not long before Kendrick arrived.
He was like an unsheathed sword that bore a devastating, all-engulfing aura. He charged in, backlit, leaving behind the others who had come with him.
Ryan sat composedly on the sofa. His bodyguards quickly stepped forward to stop Kendrick.
However, Kendrick was in no mood to be assaulted or challenged at this moment!
Relying on his outstanding fighting skills, he easily brought down the bodyguards and arrived in front of Ryan, unimpeded.
“Ryan, where’s my wife?! Where are you hiding my wife?!” Kendrick’s treacherous, cold eyes bored through Ryan ruthlessly. Nothing was more important to him now than Niamh’s safety. “Tell me now!”
Ryan stood up in a leisurely, self-possessed manner unhurriedly, saying in a light tone, “Your wife isn’t here. As for my wife, I just sent her to meet her parents-in-law.”
Kendrick’s eyes narrowed sharply. At the same time, his IBCI colleague arrived. He strode upstairs hurriedly.
He searched every single room but did not find any sign of Niamh.
However, Kendrick then found some traces of Niamh’s former presence in one of the rooms.
In the video earlier, Niamh had been in this room, but now, she was gone.
Kendrick turned around and hurried downstairs. He saw the people from IBCI were about to arrest Ryan and bring him back.
Ryan’s manner, however, was still haughty and indifferent. “You’re arresting me? What for?”
“We’re arresting you because you’ve committed a crime and murdered someone! Even more so because you’re the mastermind behind the Stygian Johnson Gang!” Kendrick’s grim, judgemental voice sounded from the stairs.
Cloaked in a formidable aura, he moved, quick as a gust of wind,to stand in front of Ryan. His cold eyes, keen as an eagle’s, stared straight at Ryan.
“Ryan, it’s time for this game to end.”
“Heh.” Ryan chuckled dismissively and argued his case unhurriedly. “Kendrick, you’re really doing everything possible to try and get rid of me. The mastermind behind the Stygian Johnson Gang is Yorick, and I’m merely the commissioner who was in charge of investigating the Stygian Johnson Gang. Don’t heap baseless charges on my head.”
Faced with Ryan’s chicanery, Kendrick said sharply and impatiently, “Then let me tell you now about my other identity in the IBCI.”
Other identity?
Ryan was stunned. He then heard Kendrick saying, “I’m an internal investigator who was specially dispatched to your group by IBCI. In addition to going undercover in the Stygian Johnson Gang, my other task was to investigate you.”
“…” Ryan was astonished. He had not expected the IBCI to have suspected him a long time ago, to the extent of having Kendrick investigate him!
“Ryan, we already have evidence that you’re the mastermind behind the Stygian Johnson Gang. You can’t escape now.”
Ryan regained his composure, his manner as scornful and arrogant as before. “Can you really arrest me based only on this evidence you’ve mentioned?”
The moment he spoke, a voice suddenly came from a distance that completely shocked Ryan.
“If the evidence they have is too flimsy, how about if I add my personal testimony to it?”
Ryan could not be more familiar with this voice.
Ryan’s gaze went past the people in front of him and fell on the man who was walking toward him slowly.
This person was not just anyone. It was someone he trusted the most in recent times—Adam.
Kendrick was a little surprised when he saw Adam but also not particularly surprised.
He had already almost figured everything out on the way here.
The mysterious man who had given him first aid, brought him to the hospital, and sent him the message was Adam.
Ryan looked at Adam who was slowly walking toward him, the proud smile on his face disappearing.
“Why are you here?” Ryan’s expression was cold. In fact, he even wanted to ask Adam why he said those words just now.
Adam smiled calmly, lifting his dark eyes that were behind his glasses.
“Where did you think I would be otherwise?” Adam asked with a faint smile. “Did you think I was following your instructions and bringing Eveline to the settlement point you mentioned?”
When his words fell, both Kendrick and Ryan’s eyes flashed abruptly at the same time.
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.