“Nia, do you have any secrets? Why are you staying with Carter?”
Niamh lowered her eyes to look at Kendrick’s hand that was holding hers tightly. Then, her icy glare looked into Kendrick’s enthusiastic and expectant eyes.
“If I don’t stay with Carter, should I go back to you instead?” Niamh asked with a cold chuckle. She pushed Kendrick’s hand away. “Why did I marry a guy like you back then? Kendrick, I’ve already divorced you. Let me warn you now, stop pestering me.”
After listening to Niamh, Kendrick felt as if his heart had been struck by lightning. In that instant, his heart broke into two pieces.
Warn.
She said she was warning him to stop pestering her.
She said how could she have married a guy like him?
Kendrick knew he had wronged Niamh before, but he also knew that it was impossible for Niamh to say these kinds of things to him now.
This person in front of him was like a completely different person. The way she talked and acted was different from what he knew of her.
‘Is this not Nia?’
This thought appeared in Kendrick’s head.
No, impossible.
Judging from the skin contact when he held her wrist earlier and the feeling she gave him, he was 100 percent sure that the person in front of him was his Nia.
However, how did Nia become like this?
Kendrick was stuck in an astonished and heartbroken state while he watched Niamh leave decisively.
Judging from what she was wearing, Kendrick was sure that she was attending this party with Carter tonight.
However, he would not allow her to appear on such an occasion with Carter as husband and wife.
Kendrick looked at Niamh’s figure that was getting farther and farther away. He quickly ran behind her and when she was least expecting it, he lifted her up.
Niamh was caught off guard, so when Kendrick carried her away by the waist, she struggled with all her might. “What are you doing? Kendrick, put me down! You scum!”
“Yes, I’m scum, Nia. You’re right. I did a lot of things that hurt you in the past, but you said you’ll give me another chance to start over.”
“I never said that. Kendrick, you’d better put me down or else…”
“Nia, there’s no ‘or else’. I don’t know why you’ve become like this but I can tell you with certainty that I’m the man you love the most.”
“Carter is the man I love the most. Put me down now! I want to go back to Carter!”
Niamh’s emphasis felt like tiny needles stabbing into Kendrick’s heart, and the intense pain quickly overwhelmed him. Even so, his grip on Niamh only tightened.
He did not say any more. He brought Niamh to the garage in the underground parking as quickly as he could.
However, Niamh did not give in just like that. She was still fighting back and struggling.
Inside the dim garage, the sharpness in Niamh’s eyes was still clear. She was glaring at Kendrick and looked even more overbearing than him.
“Kendrick, this is my final warning. Let me go. If not, you’ll get into trouble.”
Kendrick gripped Niamh’s hands that were trying to escape and gently curled the corners of his alluring lips. His eyes looked gentle, yet there was intense confidence in them. “Nia, I’d rather get into trouble than let you run to another man again.”
While he said that, he suddenly pulled down his tie to bind Niamh’s hands together.
“What are you doing? Kendrick, what are you trying to do?”
“Nia, don’t be scared. I won’t do anything to hurt you anymore. I just want to take you home.”
“I don’t have a home with you anymore. Kendrick, you…”
Niamh was rejecting him strongly, but in the end, she still could not win against Kendrick’s strength.
He used his tie to bind both of Niamh’s hands in order to stop her from struggling and resisting.
Even though he did that, Kendrick was reluctant to tie her up too tightly in case he hurt her.
“Nia, I’ll take you home right now. Trust me, the thing you want the most in the deepest part of your heart is to come back to me.” Kendrick looked fixedly at Niamh.
However, Niamh was glaring at him with eyes that were filled with anger.
“Cart will never forgive you.”
“Let him come to me, then. I want to see what he’ll do to steal my wife away from me again.”
“…”
Niamh pressed her pink lips together and did not say anything more.
Inside the lounge, Carter had been waiting for Niamh to come back. However, after a very long time, Niamh still had not come back.
Suddenly, he remembered the text his people sent him a few moments ago that told him Kendrick was here.
Carter finally thought of one possibility.
Niamh might have been kidnapped by Kendrick.
He looked at the phone Niamh placed on the sofa. He did not have any way of contacting her now.
However, he was confident with his hypnotism. Even if Kendrick really brought her away, nobody would be able to break the hypnosis aside from him.
He started reading up on hypnotism and psychology when he was about ten years old. For now, nobody could beat him in this category.
As for Kendrick, Carter was sure that this man would not have the ability to break the hypnosis he had cast on Niamh.
…
Initially, Kendrick wanted to bring Niamh back to Waldburg Manor. However, when he saw Niamh resisting so violently from the rear-view mirror, he drove the car to the new home that they had bought after.
It had been some time since they came here. Even though it was not as extravagant as Waldburg Manor or their previous villa, Kendrick still felt warm. This was a home that belonged to the two of them, after all.
After the car stopped, Kendrick carried Niamh out of the car.
“Nia, do you still remember this place?” Kendrick looked at the house in front of him.
Niamh glanced at it coldly. She had an impression of the house. Her memory was telling her that she had lived here with Kendrick before.
However, another voice in her brain told her that she had already divorced Kendrick. Now, her husband was Carter.
“So what if I do?” Niamh asked coldly. “I also remember how you humiliated me and how you held my hand to force me to sign the divorce papers back then.”
“…” Kendrick felt a sharp and intense pain in his heart. When he did it, he had felt horrible as well. However, it was as if he had lost his mind and was blinded by something. He could not see the truth at all.
“Nia, I’m sorry.”
“What can I do with your apologies?” Niamh mocked. She lifted her hands that had been tied. “Kendrick, release me now. I want to go back.” Kendrick furrowed his long eyebrows and looked at Niamh’s outstretched hands. He sighed helplessly, and suddenly, he raised his domineering and handsome eyes.
He lifted his hand and grabbed the tie around Niamh’s hands before taking her inside.
Niamh could not escape from him, so she could only allow Kendrick to bring her inside. However, she was obviously very reluctant.
“Kendrick, what on earth do you want? It’s over between us.”
Kendrick turned around to look into Niamh’s eyes that were filled with rage. “Nia, there will never be the day when things are over between us.”
“You lunatic!”
Kendrick found it sweet when Niamh was criticizing him.
“No matter what you say about me, I’ll just think of it as flirtatious banter.”
“…”
Niamh furrowed her beautiful brows tightly while feeling extremely vexed. When she was about to berate the man more, she was suddenly brought into the bedroom.
Perhaps he was preventing Niamh from running away, so Kendrick deliberately locked the door.
After locking the door, he undid the tie around Niamh’s wrists. However, when the tie was removed, Niamh pushed Kendrick away and ran quickly to the door.
However, Kendrick had locked the door from inside, and just now, she saw Kendrick putting the key into the pocket of his shirt.
Niamh directly reached out to Kendrick. “Give me the key.”
While facing Niamh’s eyes that were filled with animosity, Kendrick was still gentle. “Nia, even though I don’t know why you’re like this now, I believe that when you recover one day, you’ll feel glad that I’m forcing you to stay now.”
“You’re saying that you won’t let me go back?” Niamh chuckled lightly and asked. “You’re falsely imprisoning me and you’re so pompous about it. Kendrick, even if you force me to stay with you, you won’t change my attitude toward you.”
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.