“Then what do you think about my looks?”
Niamh looked at the man’s face after she heard that. His sharp eyebrows, bright eyes, pink lips, and pearly whites were the rare sorts of exquisite and handsome.
“You’re pretty good-looking,” Niamh answered honestly, “I’m a little tired, so I’ll be going back to my room. I won’t be disturbing you with your tea, Mr. Carter.”
Niamh turned around after she said that. However, she still could not forget the photos she just saw.
‘Did Kendrick send Jack and Lily to school with that woman?
‘Kendrick, do you not know that the woman isn’t me?’
Niamh thought in desolation. She did not notice the eyes that were fixed on her from behind.
In the following days, she endured the pain to treat her injuries. Her face started to feel itchy and the doctor said this was the sign of skin forming scabs and becoming better.
However, when Niamh heard the word ‘scabs’, she started feeling nervous.
She could not imagine what the skin on her face would look like after the scabs fell.
She could only numb herself and hypnotize herself to stop overthinking. She would actively cooperate with her treatment every day.
On the other hand, Niamh noticed that the man named Mr. Carter was indeed currently investigating Kendrick.
‘Why is he investigating Kendrick?’
Niamh wanted to find out about this.
However, she could not ask so brazenly. As such, she could only find a chance to try and find a reason to eavesdrop.
As it turned out though, Niamh could not obtain information this way as well. She only knew that this man had been collecting information on Kendrick this whole time. As for why he was doing it, Niamh did not have the answer.
However, the man’s behavior made Niamh somewhat uneasy.
She calmed herself down so that her injuries would heal, and at the same time, she tried to figure out what was going on.
Niamh powered through while she was in this state for about another week. Then, the doctor came and told her that from today on, she could take off all of the gauzes on her face. She could live without being wrapped in bandages anymore.
Niamh clenched her fingers tightly and sat on the sofa anxiously. She felt the layers of gauze slowly unwrapping from her face while her thoughts were in a whirl.
After removing all of them, Niamh picked up the mirror on the side.
She knew that her face must have been ruined badly, so she was prepared. However, when she saw her appearance clearly in the mirror, all her defenses collapsed. At that moment, her vision went completely dark for a moment.
Was this… actually how she looked like now?
Niamh raised her slightly trembling fingers and stroked her cheek.
The smoothness from the past no longer existed. What was left were just bumpy and ugly scars.
Except for the small wound on her forehead and her eyes that were intact, the other parts, especially the sides of her cheeks, were damaged to the extent that it was unbearable to look at.
Niamh squeezed the handle of the mirror and forced herself to calm down. However, no woman in the world could accept their initially flawless face getting ruined like this—neither could Niamh.
“It’s still in a preliminary state. Your face will heal after some treatments.” The doctor beside Niamh gave her some hope.
“Thank you, I’ll cooperate with the treatment.” Niamh put on a smile and thanked him.
Back then when she laughed, there were sweet dimples. Now, there was not an inch of intact skin on her face, let alone dimples.
Niamh put down the mirror and clenched the ring on her ring finger before casting her eyes down in despair.
‘Kendrick, you probably won’t recognize me anymore now that I’m like this, right?
‘Even if I stand in front of you, you’ll only pass by blindly.
‘Just like that dream, you and I are now just strangers to each other.’
“Have you seen what you look like now?” The cold voice sounded next to her.
Niamh lifted her head. Her clear and lively eyes met the man’s narrow and black eyes calmly.
“I have,” she replied calmly. Her emotions were flat as well. “I still need to thank you, or else I wouldn’t even be alive now.”
The man furrowed his thick eyebrows and peered at Niamh with interest. “Your reaction is a little special now that you’ve seen yourself.”
Niamh understood what the man meant. She looked at him as her eyes lit up. “You said being sad is the most useless thing in the world. I can’t change what has happened, so what can I do aside from accepting it? Plus, I’ll still have hope as long as I’m alive, right?”
After she said that, there was a fleeting look of admiration in his eyes.
She was indeed very different from how he imagined. He thought this woman would be wailing loudly and inconsolable after she saw how badly she was disfigured.
However, Niamh’s reaction shocked him.
Of course, no one could understand how Niamh was feeling at the moment. How could she be completely calm? She just did not want to face this pessimistically.
She could only cooperate with the treatment and wait for the day when she fully recovered.
At least, she could move freely now. Plus, she also had the strength to eat and drink.
To get more information on why the man was investigating Kendrick, she deliberately got up early the next day.
She knew that this man would have his breakfast in the dining room at eight o’clock sharp every morning, and during this period, his entourage would report some things back to him.
Niamh calculated the time and only went downstairs when she saw the man walking into the dining room.
The man was very observant. When he saw Niamh, he invited her courteously. “Are you interested in having breakfast with me?”
Niamh walked to the side of the dining table. “Aren’t you worried that my face will ruin your appetite, Mr. Carter?”
The man stared emotionlessly at Niamh’s face for a few seconds. “Sit down.”
Niamh knew in her heart that the man did not care about how she looked, although her face was indeed too horrifying.
The maid served Niamh some breakfast as well. Niamh ate some of it, and after a while, she saw the man’s entourage coming up to him to report some information to him.
“Mr. Carter, we can go to Glendale tonight. I heard that Kendrick is going to celebrate a special day with his wife, so he has been busy decorating these few days. He rarely goes to the office nowadays.”
After hearing what the entourage said, Niamh’s hands that were holding the fork and knife froze.
Special day?
Niamh quickly racked her brain, but she did not remember any anniversaries coming up.
‘However, Kendrick has been preparing a surprise for this woman these days?
‘What surprise will it be?’
Niamh’s brain was filled with questions. She wanted to know, but at the same time, she was even more reluctant to see Kendrick preparing a surprise for an imposter who was impersonating her.
She clenched the fork and knife tightly in her hands, trying hard to suppress her emotions. After she took a deep breath, she said, “Can I go to Glendale with you?”
The man lifted his head to look at her after he heard that.
Niamh looked confidently into those deep and cold obsidian eyes. “My home is in Glendale. I miss my home.”
“You want to go home looking like this?”
“No, I just want to go back to take a look.” Niamh knew her current condition. She did not want to stand in front of Kendrick while looking like this.
Perhaps he would not mind that she was disfigured.
However, Niamh did not dare to find out. She was scared that Kendrick might not even recognize her if she were to stand in front of him like this.
When she thought about that scene, she felt as if her heart had been stabbed by needles.
She did not have the courage to try.
“You’re from Glendale, so you should know about a lot of things in Glendale, right? If that’s the case, you should’ve heard about Kendrick Waldburg in Glendale?”
Niamh could not deny it. She nodded lightly. “I’ve heard about him. He’s the young master from the top wealthiest family in Glendale. However, I’m not sure about the rest.”
She answered calmly. Then, she asked while taking advantage of the situation for her benefit, “Are you asking about Kendrick? Do you want to do business with him? What do you do? Where is this place?”
After Niamh asked these questions, she realized she might have gotten a little too anxious.
When she saw the man examining her with his deep eyes, she shifted her gaze calmly.
“I’m just curious.”
“Everyone is inquisitive. It’s not strange,” the man said flatly, “Since you want to go home so badly, I’ll send you on the way.”
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.