After listening to Carter’s warning unconcernedly, a magnanimous smile appeared on her gentle and beautiful face. She spoke fearlessly in front of everyone.
“Carter, you don’t need to threaten me anymore. I am committing bigamy. I, Eveline Montgomery, am now admitting it to the public!”
“…”
After Niamh said this, Carter showed a never-before-seen look of surprise in his eyes.
He had thought it was the best threat to use on her because she was previously in prison where she suffered inhumane treatment and suffering, so she was deeply traumatized. It was impossible that she would still want to go back to such a place.
However, he never expected that Niamh would say that she was guilty of bigamy so confidently and magnanimously.
Although, he had been the one who designed this crime for her.
Ada, who was among the crowd, was also stunned when she saw this scene.
After being stuck in a daze, she quietly turned around and sneaked to the side.
Ada’s mother saw this and followed behind her.
When she was about to ask Ada what she wanted to do, she saw her daughter taking out her phone and quickly dialing a number.
“Hello, is this the police station? I want to make a report. There’s a woman here who committed bigamy.”
After reporting to the police, a happy grin appeared on Ada’s face.
When she turned her head, she saw her mother looking at her with a smile. Ada touched her chest in fright. “Why are you standing here without making a noise? You scared me.”
Ada’s mother gave her a thumbs up with admiration. “Honey, you’re truly quick on your feet. It seems that Eveline will go to jail soon and you’ll have another chance to nab the position of viscountess!”
Ada spread her hands, unconvinced. “I should’ve thought of this long ago. Although it is a bit late, Eveline did commit bigamy. It’ll be difficult for her to leave the prison in St. Piaf within a year or two.”
“One or two years is enough for you to win the position of viscountess!” Gradually, a greedy light was revealed in the eyes of Ada’s mother. “Ada, this time, we have to do this steadily. You have to please and flatter Camille. As long as you can handle her, you’ll be half-seated on the throne of the viscountess.”
Ada raised her eyes that were covered with delicate eye makeup and smiled triumphantly. “This time, I’ll definitely win!”
Back at the wedding.
After Niamh pleaded guilty to bigamy, the scene fell into chaos for a while.
The faces of the elders in the Gray family had fallen, and they called a stop to the wedding.
“Carter, you can’t marry this woman!”
“You’re so ridiculous! You’re married and you have a husband, yet you dare to provoke Carter?!”
“Do you know who Carter is? How dare you commit bigamy in St. Piaf?! St. Piaf’s marriage law will teach you a lesson!”
When Niamh was faced with these verbal abuses and warnings, she remained magnanimous. She did not flinch even when she met Carter’s increasingly cold gaze.
“Carter, I dare to commit bigamy, so why don’t you dare to admit that you deliberately set up a trap to frame me for bigamy?”
“…” For the first time ever, Carter felt that he seemed to be restrained by a woman.
So far, he had not met a woman who dared to challenge him like this.
However, Niamh, who was standing in front of him right now, dared to.
After Niamh said this, everyone around her was shocked again.
“What? Did she say that Carter framed her?”
“Would Carter actually do such a thing?”
“This woman is lying!” Ada pushed the crowd aside. “Don’t believe what this woman says! The elders present should know what kind of person Carty is better than me! This woman is the one who’s slandering Carty!”
With a righteous and just appearance, Ada strode up to Niamh.
“Eveline, why is your heart so dark? Carty saved your life when you almost died during that accident at sea so that you can get your life back, but you’re biting the hand that feeds you!
“You fancy Carty’s status as a viscount, so you deliberately appeared weak and fragile in front of Carty. You used the most despicable means to confuse Carty. Carty is too naive, so that’s why he was successfully fooled by you and believes everything you say. However, unexpectedly, you’re already married and have three children! Eveline, you’re so contemptible!”
Ada firmly vilified Niamh and defended Carter. She wanted to take this opportunity to win Carter over because she was undoubtedly helping Carter by doing this now.
However, just when Ada was feeling pleased that she could finally ridicule Niamh in public, an alluring and icy deep voice sounded from the crowd.
“It’s you who’s the contemptible rat who inverts right and wrong.”
“…” The smug smile on Ada’s face suddenly froze.
She immediately realized who had arrived. This special voice remained freshly engraved in her memory.
Ada turned her head abruptly, and her eyes, filled with guilt, fell on Kendrick’s figure, silhouetted against the light outside.
She panicked and looked at Carter, but Carter’s expression remained unchanged, as if he had already expected Kendrick’s appearance.
Meanwhile, Niamh was much more certain that her man would appear.
She met Kendrick’s gaze, full of affection and longing, which filled her heart suddenly with a boundless sense of security.
She no longer cared what would happen next.
He was her most stalwart source of strength and support.
At this moment, murmurs rippled across the surrounding area, all were equally stunned by his appearance and curious at his stroll towards Niamh.
“Who’s that?”
“I think I’ve seen him somewhere before. He looks very familiar.”
“I know who he is! I saw him on the Internet. He is the young master of Glendale’s number one family, Kendrick Waldburg!”
“What? So that’s Kendrick Waldburg!”
“Why is he here in St. Piaf, and at Carter’s wedding, no less?”
As everyone voiced their disbelief, Kendrick walked over to Niamh and gently took her hand.
“I’m here to bring my wife home.”
“What?”
“W-What!? Kendrick’s wife is this Eveline lady?”
“Carter’s fiancée is actually Kendrick’s wife?”
“My gosh!’
The exclamations came pouring one after another.
However, both Kendrick and Niamh remained extraordinarily calm and unperturbed. He held her hand, and this time, she did not break free.
“Nia, I knew you remembered me.” Kendrick’s eyes were full of warmth, brimming with light once more.
“If you had truly known, you wouldn’t have been so persistent yesterday,” Niamh rebuked, but she saw that Kendrick’s eyes were twinkling with affection. Concerned, Niamh shifted her gaze to Kendrick’s injured ankle. “How’s your foot? Is it still hurting?”
“Not after you treated it.”
“How is it not hurting? You were bleeding so much.”
“…” Carter watched as this scene unfolded next to him, an inexplicable feeling of unhappiness welling inside him.
Just as he was about to speak, Kendrick glared at him sharply.
“Carter, did you truly think that Nia and I would yield to you and your manipulations?”
“…”
“I dare you to use your status and power in St. Piaf to illegally imprison me and my wife. Otherwise, no one can stop me from bringing my wife home.”
As Kendrick finished raging at Carter, he clasped Niamh’s fingers and turned away with her.
Niamh briskly took off her wedding veil and got out of her dress, revealing the plain clothing she had prepared earlier in the morning.
Only then did Carter realize that Niamh had been preparing for this. He neglected to consider this.
However, at this moment, a few uniformed police officers rushed in, blocking Niamh’s and Kendrick’s path.
“Which one of you is Eveline Montgomery?”
The police’s sudden appearance stopped Niamh and Kendrick in their tracks.
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.