The woman squatted and had her back toward him. She was tidying the clothes of a little girl who looked to be about one or two years old.
“Mommy is calling for me. I have to go,” the little boy said childishly and turned around on his chubby legs. Then, he ran toward the young woman who was holding a bouquet of yellow flowers while holding the hand of a little girl.
Felipe looked at her figure and stared at her involuntarily for some time. While he was staring, he felt that this figure looked very familiar.
“Cathy?”
He was unsure of his guess. When he was about to go over to take a look, Kendrick walked over to him and said seriously, “Even though you might have to pay a huge price for your crimes back then, you might get a lighter sentence because of the clues you provided just now, coupled with the fact that you surrendered yourself.”
Kendrick lifted his hand to pat Felipe’s shoulder.
“Grandpa hopes that you can go back to Waldburg Manor so that we can reunite as a family. However, Grandpa is old now and we don’t know how much longer he can wait,” said Kendrick with a stern look in his eyes. “So please don’t do anything rash just because you want to repent your sins for Cathy.”
“Cathy. I think I saw Cathy,” Felipe looked in the direction where the thin woman had left and said absent-mindedly.
Kendrick looked over to where he was looking. “You saw Cathy?”
“Cathy, Cathy…”
Felipe’s eyes lit up as he started running in the direction.
However, after chasing some distance, he did not find anything.
It was as if everything just now was merely an illusion.
Kendrick chased up to Felipe and looked around. He did not see any familiar figures but he recalled something Niamh said not long ago.
‘Cathy. Is Cathy really not dead?’
Kendrick had this question in his heart. However, when he saw Felipe’s desolate eyes, he meditated in perfect silence for a few seconds.
“Perhaps Cathy isn’t dead yet. Perhaps you and Eveline did not see wrongly.”
Felipe lifted his gaze immediately after he heard that. “Kendrick, what did you say?”
“In the morning when I came back from Interpol’s branch with Eveline, she also said she saw a woman who looks like Cathy. I got out of the car to look around with her but we didn’t find anything. Nia also felt that maybe she was seeing things. However, now that you saw her as well, I don’t think it’s a coincidence.”
Kendrick’s expression became more and more solemn.
“Is it possible that Cathy is still alive? Do you still remember the doctor who operated on Cathy back then? Do you think that the doctor might be suspicious?”
Felipe immediately recalled the doctor back then. “Impossible. He’s my private doctor. He wouldn’t lie to me.”
He denied it, but then he quickly remembered something else. “That’s right, he’s my private doctor who has been working with me for many years. However…”
Felipe paused as his heart started beating faster.
“However what?” Kendrick asked curiously.
Felipe did not beat around the bush. He said frankly, “This doctor has been with me for so many years, so Cathy was familiar with him as well. He always treated Cathy like his daughter and Cathy looked up to him.”
Kendrick remembered something when he heard this. “Is the doctor you’re talking about the same one who treated me?”
Felipe nodded. “Cathy pulled some strings with the doctor. If not, normal people wouldn’t be able to get this doctor to treat them.”
“Don’t overthink things first. Call that doctor right now to ask him about this.” Kendrick reminded him.
Felipe’s heartbeat became more and more erratic. He took out his phone, and at that moment, he felt his hands getting weak.
Should he make this call?
If he got a denial, his heart would feel as painful as if it was being sliced by a thousand knives.
However, if he did not ask, he would lose his last hope.
Kendrick knew why Felipe was hesitating. “Do you need me to help you make the call?”
“No. No need.” Felipe came back to his senses and rejected him. He looked at his phone and after some hesitation, he finally made the call.
After a while, the call got through.
Felipe spaced out absent-mindedly for a few seconds before asking the question he had in his heart, “Is Cathy still alive?”
His tone sounded light, but he felt that his heart was beating abnormally heavy right now.
The person on the other end was obviously taken aback. “Mr. Waldburg, why are you asking this question?”
The doctor sounded confused. “Miss Cathy passed away a long time ago, have you forgotten? Miss Cathy was such a poor soul. She was shot in the heart and there was no chance of saving her anymore.”
Felipe felt a bolt from the blue after hearing that answer.
His vision seemed to be dyed red and the redness was the blood from Cathy’s body.
She had loved him so much.
She had been with him for so many years without complaints.
However, it was too late for him when he finally realized the feelings of a woman like her toward him. He only realized she was the one he had been thinking about for so many years after she died.
“Cathy.”
Felipe mumbled Cathy’s name silently while bearing the pain in his heart. Then, he turned around in desolation.
Kendrick was about to go up to him to comfort him, but at the same time, Niamh called him.
He was worried that something might have happened to Niamh, so he immediately picked up the call. Then, he heard Niamh’s sweet and gentle voice from the other end of the phone. “Kendrick, is Felipe still with you? Grandpa said he hopes to have dinner with everyone tonight and said that you have to bring Felipe back.”
Kendrick looked at the depressed Felipe and promised without thinking, “Nia, tell Grandpa to not worry. I’ll bring him back now and we’re definitely having dinner tonight.”
He purposely said this for Felipe to hear.
After he hung up, he patted Felipe’s shoulder. “You should’ve heard me just now. Grandpa hopes to have dinner with you. I know you want to surrender yourself, so I’ll go with you after dinner.”
Felipe hesitated for two seconds before agreeing in the end.
After they got back to Waldburg Manor, Felipe was not in the mood to eat. His mind was occupied with Cathy.
When he saw Niamh, he asked anxiously, “Eveline, did you also see a woman who looked like Cathy on the streets today?”
“Also?” Niamh could sense something amiss in his sentence. She looked at Felipe and then back at Kendrick who was next to him. “Did you guys see her just now too?”
“I didn’t, but Felipe did,” Kendrick explained.
“So it means that I’m not imagining things and there’s indeed a woman who looks like Cathy out there?” When Niamh thought about this, she started to feel emotional as well. “Do you think that the woman is indeed Cathy?”
After Niamh asked that question, flames of hope started burning in Felipe’s heart again.
After the dinner, he followed Kendrick out of the gates of Waldburg Manor. Then, he suddenly stopped.
“I want to know something.” Felipe lifted his gaze. Under the glow of the streetlights, the glint in his eyes was clearly reflected.
Kendrick turned around because he had sensed it a long time ago. “I’ll pretend that you’ve surrendered yourself to me and I’ll do my best to buy you more time so that you can get a chance to investigate what’s going on with that woman who looks exactly the same as Cathy.”
“Thank you.” Felipe thanked him sincerely. “I want to go take a look at the place where I saw the woman. I’ll come back later.”
After he said that, he turned around carefreely. Kendrick stood where he was for a while before turning back to go to the house.
Niamh was sitting on the sofa talking to Eloise. Kendrick could tell that Niamh’s emotions and mental state had become much better.
He wondered if she was triggered again when she saw Ryan getting shot and collapsing in front of her, so the negative impacts canceled out on each other and that was why she was better now.
When Niamh saw Kendrick coming in, her eyes went to the man immediately.
Of course, Eloise did not notice that. She held Niamh’s hand reluctantly. “Eveline, let’s—”
“Ellie, it’s late. We should go to bed.” Sean could see the love Niamh had in her eyes for Kendrick, so he tactfully pulled Eloise back to their room.
Niamh wanted to stay with Eloise as well, but at this moment, she had so many things to say to the man.
It was completely silent right now.
Niamh leaned against Kendrick and genuinely felt as if she was free from anxiety. She never had this feeling before.
Kendrick’s long fingers ran through Niamh’s hair. When he touched her short hair, he was still heartbroken.
The hair that was cut from her head made his heart ache.
Ryan was so cruel.
He lowered his eyes to look at the woman who was nestling against his chest while feeling safe and pampered. Then, he tightened his arms around her.
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.