That stunning face immediately appeared in Niamh’s brain.
“Shirley?” she asked in disbelief.
“Yes, her.” Kendrick tightened his arms around her. “Not long ago after I finished buying you the new clothes, I saw her standing outside the door of our room.”
“Why is she in St. Piaf? How does she know where we are?” Niamh widened her alluring eyes in surprise.
Kendrick furrowed his long eyebrows. “She even reminded me that the poison in my body would flare up soon and asked me to go back to Glendale to find Adam as soon as I could.”
When Niamh heard this, she somehow felt that something was amiss.
She let go of her arms around him and did not want to find out the answer at this moment. She quickly found Kendrick’s phone that was on his body.
After unlocking his phone, Niamh found Shirley’s number in his contacts. However, while she was in the middle of doing that, the doorbell rang.
Niamh did not want to pay attention to it. However, it kept ringing and she could only go to open the door.
She thought it was room service, but after she opened the door, she saw Carter standing in front of her.
Carter still had the posture of an elegant son of nobility. However, to Niamh, this man was not as upright as the time when she had just met him.
Niamh blocked the door vigilantly when she figured that Carter might be here to cause trouble for her, or he might have even brought the police to arrest her.
However, before Niamh could say anything, Carter suddenly reached out his hand in front of her and opened his palm.
“You need this, right?” Carter asked. There was a faint smile that looked both righteous and evil on his handsome face.
Niamh’s eyes lit up. She saw the anti-toxoid test reagent she needed in Carter’s hand.
This was the anti-toxoid test reagent that she always had with her but lost unknowingly!
Niamh quickly reached out her hand to grab it but Carter clenched his fist tightly.
This movement seemed to have distinguished the light in Niamh’s eyes.
She looked behind her and closed the door of the room slightly. Her black yet bright and clear eyes looked into Carter’s smiling eyes sharply.
“Carter, don’t make me look down on you,” Niamh said softly.
Carter tugged the corners of his lips lightly and answered bluntly, “I don’t care what kind of image I have in your heart. I just want to reach my goal.”
Niamh stared blankly at the man who was smiling superficially. Suddenly, she realized that Carter was so much different than what she had imagined him to be.
This man was too mysterious, and until now, she still could not understand the reason behind his actions.
At this moment, his straightforwardness and ‘honesty’ made him seem extremely jolly.
Niamh did not want to beat around the bush anymore. However, she did not want Kendrick to know that the person standing at the door was Carter.
She took a step toward Carter and closed the door.
“What’s your purpose in doing this?”
“Today at 7 p.m., I’ll be waiting in the study of Gray Manor. I’ll tell you what my purpose is then.” Carter gave her this answer and opened his palm once again. He picked up the anti-toxoid test reagent in his hand and shook it in front of Niamh.
“I think you don’t have a reason to reject, right? Once that poison flares up again, it’ll be 100 times worse than what you imagine.”
Carter’s words undoubtedly exposed the fact that he knew about Kendrick’s situation well.
Niamh had no choice and said, “Okay, tonight at 7 p.m. I’ll go meet you.”
“I hope you can avoid Kendrick as best as you can. Don’t let him follow you again. This will be the best for you and him.” Carter seemed to be reminding her out of goodwill.
Niamh nodded mechanically and agreed. “Okay, I won’t let my husband follow me.”
“See you tonight, then.” Carter curled the corners of his lips in satisfaction before handing the anti- toxoid test reagent in his hand to Niamh.
After Niamh got the anti-toxoid test reagent, she finally felt her heart feeling more at ease.
However, when she was about to turn around to walk into the room, she heard Carter say leisurely from behind her, “You didn’t lose the anti-toxoid test reagent. I took it out of your pocket. Maybe you think you’re in control of everything, but you might not know that I’m in control of more things than you are.”
“…”
A split second after she heard this, Niamh felt a chill rising from the bottom of her feet.
She turned around to take a look and saw that Carter had already left.
Niamh told herself not to think too much about it. She immediately went back to Kendrick and skillfully attached the anti-toxoid test reagent to the tiny syringe.
When Kendrick saw the anti-toxoid test reagent in Niamh’s hands, he was surprised. “Nia, who was knocking on the door just now? Why is this anti-toxoid test reagent…”
“Mrs. Gray asked someone to send this to me.” Niamh found a seemingly reasonable excuse. “Kendrick, I’ll inject you with this first. You’ll feel much better soon.”
Kendrick did not suspect what Niamh was saying at all. In addition to the pain that was torturing him, he did not have the mood to overthink as well.
After Niamh injected the reagent into him, she could clearly see Kendrick starting to recover.
When Niamh saw this change, she felt very much relieved. However, it was just temporary.
It had been a long time since the last time this happened to Kendrick, so she found this sudden flare-up strange. Plus, Adam’s sister had even appeared and said all those weird things to Kendrick.
Niamh thought about this, and while Kendrick was resting, she used this opportunity to call Adam.
After Adam got news of this, he was stumped for words on the other end of the phone. After a while, he said, “I think you guys should stay away from Shirley Brown.”
Shirley Brown.
He was calling his sister by her full name.
Niamh detected something strange when Adam addressed his own sister in such an estranged way.
“Can you tell me why?” Niamh asked softly.
After a while, Adam answered, “I don’t know how to explain this to you. I can’t make this clear in just a few sentences. If possible, you should come back as soon as you can but before that, don’t get in touch with Shirley.”
“I got it,” Niamh answered. After she hung up the phone, she found another number in her contacts and made a call…
Gray Manor.
Carter was sitting in the study staring at the clock on the wall in front of him. He was waiting for the minute hand to get to the position of 7 p.m.
When the minute hand was one second away from 7 p.m., the door of the study was pushed open.
He thought Niamh had shown up just in time, but when he saw the person who appeared, he could not help but furrow his brows.
Carter looked at the person who came in and got up slowly.
“Can I help you?” he asked courteously, being very respectful toward Camille.
“I’m here to tell you that you can stop waiting now. Eveline won’t come,” Camille opened her mouth and told him with an insipid tone.
Camille’s answer caused Carter’s expression to freeze for a second. After a moment, he curled the corners of his lips. “You came all the way here to help her tell me this? I got it.”
Carter smiled and finished saying that. Then, he sat back down on his seat.
Of course, Camille could see Carter’s displeasure. She slowly walked to the desk and said earnestly.
“Carter, you’ve been exceptional ever since you were a child. Don’t care too much about what your father thinks and be too stern with yourself to chase after those unattainable things. This will only make you lose yourself in the end.”
After Carter heard what Camille said, he kept a small smile on his face. However, there was even more ambition and desire in his eyes.
“Don’t worry, I know what I’m doing.”
After detecting the subtle flash across Carter’s eyes, Camille was feeling even more uneasy.
“Carter, I hope you can voluntarily cancel the marriage arrangement with Eveline so that she and her husband can leave St. Piaf.”
When Carter heard this, there was a hint of disappointment on Carter’s face.
He looked at Camille and there was a hint of disappointment on his handsome face. “I really hope you can side with me.”
Perhaps Camille did not expect Carter to say something like this and even have such a desolate look on his face, but her firm attitude softened slightly.
“Carter, I’ll definitely side with you, but there are some things—”
“I understand. I know what I should do.” Carter sighed softly while looking listless. “Since you think I was wrong in this, then I will reassess myself. If possible, I hope you can help get Eveline to meet me. I need to settle the cancelation of the marriage with her in person.”
When Carter said that, Camille did not reject him anymore.
This was one of the reasons why she had asked Niamh not to leave St. Piaf for the time being.
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.