They had to cancel the marriage agreement so that Niamh would not bear the crime of bigamy anymore.
“Alright, I’ll call her and help you arrange a meeting time.”
Carter seemed to smile in relief. “Thank you.”
“We’re family. You don’t have to be courteous with me.” After Camille said that, she turned around and walked out of Carter’s study.
Carter looked at the door that closed slowly and took out the mini crystal ball from his pocket.
Under the bright light, the crystal ball was sparkling. The translucent horizontal cut was reflecting gorgeous multicolored light rays. It looked stunning.
Carter looked at the crystal ball and smiled while remaining calm and collected.
Niamh stayed in the hotel with Kendrick where they were undisturbed for two days.
Seeing that Kendrick had pretty much recovered, Niamh planned to leave as soon as possible as well.
However, she had not forgotten Camille’s advice. When she was about to call Camille to tell her what she was planning, Camille coincidentally called her.
“Miss Montgomery, Carter has agreed to cancel the marriage agreement with you. I figured that you might not want to come to Gray Manor, so I’ll ask you to meet us tonight in the restaurant on the seventh floor of the hotel you’re staying. What do you think?”
After hearing what Camille said, Niamh was shocked.
Carter agreed to this?
“Thank you for being so considerate to me, Mrs. Gray. See you tonight.”
“Alright, see you tonight.”
After promising Camille, Niamh hung up the phone.
She wanted to tell Kendrick what was going on, but when she turned her head, she saw Kendrick holding his phone and looking at the screen like he was lost in thought.
“Kendrick, what’s wrong? What are you looking at?”
When Kendrick heard Niamh’s curious voice, Kendrick seemed to come back to his senses suddenly.
His long and thin fingers slid across the screen as though he did not want Niamh to see something. He immediately locked his phone and placed it into his pocket. He got up and walked toward Niamh with a gentle smile. Then, he grabbed her shoulder softly.
“Nia, what did Mrs. Gray say to you?”
When he mentioned this, Niamh smiled. Her sweet dimples blossomed next to her lips as well.
“Guess.” She decided to keep him on tenterhooks.
Kendrick looked at Niamh’s smile without blinking. He unconsciously lifted his hand to stroke her cheek. His charming and deep narrow eyes were filled with heartbreak.
“It’s been a while since I saw you smile like this.” He sighed with sorrow. That statement carried a lot of complicated emotions.
Niamh immediately understood how Kendrick was feeling right now. She placed her palm over the back of his hand lightly.
“I’ll keep smiling like this in the future. I know you’ll make me happy and blessed forever.”
When Kendrick heard that, he felt his heart turning sweet and bitter at the same time. She was so amazing and yet he only knew how to cherish her after so long.
After knowing how to cherish her, he was not able to protect her fully.
“Nia.” Kendrick kissed Niamh’s lips and pulled her into his arms. However, this warm hug right now was not able to make him feel at ease.
They had gone through so many arguments and conflicts. At the same time, he also felt that a calm and peaceful life was hard to obtain.
“Kendrick, Carter agreed to cancel the marriage agreement with me. I won’t need to be restricted here soon.”
Kendrick’s wandering thoughts were brought back. “Did Mrs. Gray call you to say this?”
“Yeah, she asked me to meet her tonight in the restaurant on the seventh floor.”
“I’ll go with you.”
“Okay.” Niamh nodded. She leaned against Kendrick’s shoulder while feeling at ease. She closed her eyes in anticipation, saying, “I’m dying to go home with you soon. I want to see the children and our parents.”
Niamh suddenly felt concerned and lifted her head.
“Right, how’s my mother? Can she talk now?”
Kendrick smiled gently and pinched the tip of Niamh’s nose. “You’ll know when you get home.”
Niamh felt a sweetness in her heart.
The words ‘get home’ was the best phrase Niamh could hope to hear in a foreign country.
For their safety, Niamh and Kendrick did not go anywhere at all and only waited for the meeting tonight so they could cancel Niamh’s marriage agreement with Carter.
For them, all places were the same as long as they were together.
However, when Niamh was leaning against Kendrick’s arms for a nap in the afternoon, Kendrick took out his phone in annoyance and opened a conversation chat once again.
Looking at the contents of the message, he could not help but frown.
At the end of the day, he still had to take care of what he should.
Kendrick thought about it and gently carried Niamh to lie down on the bed before considerately covering her with the blanket.
He stood next to the bed and looked at Niamh who was sleeping soundly for a short while before turning around to leave.
After walking out of the door, he decisively called the number that had messaged him earlier. The moment the call got through, a familiar ringtone sounded behind him.
Kendrick stopped in his tracks and hung up the phone. A second later, a woman’s soft voice could be heard from behind him.
“I knew you’d contact me eventually.”
Kendrick turned around, calm and composed. With an indifferent expression, he faced the woman who was walking toward him.
“The sudden flaring of the poison in my body wasn’t due to chance, but rather a scheme, correct?” Kendrick asked directly. “You’ve never been helping me from the start, were you, Shirley, or should I call you Ms. Brown?”
Shirley, one arm folded while the other held a thin and long cigarette, leisurely took a long drag, and walked toward Kendrick while puffing away.
“When you thought you were at death’s door and then decided to leave Eveline willingly before serendipitously meeting me, the ‘doctor’, on the plane–all of this was indeed a scheme”.
Shirley, her red lips curled, walked toward Kendrick and stopped in front of him.
“I’m quite moved by you, actually, but I enjoy conducting experiments even more. However, I’m not the same as Adam. He likes to save people, while I like to… harm people.”
She admitted with a magnanimous look, the smile on her grew more intense.
Kendrick inexplicably felt the woman in front of him to be completely unfamiliar. In the past, she had always seemed like a nice person. During those moments being tormented by the poison, she had come to his aid, and his situation had indeed stabilized ever since.
Judging from what the woman was saying now, however, she had never been helping him. She only wanted to achieve her personal goals.
Shirley smiled and took another drag of smoke.
“Kendrick, you’re truly quite smart. I originally intended to continue this pretense, but you immediately asked me if I was scheming against you as you came out, so I figured that I shouldn’t beat around the bush any further.”
“Then don’t. What are you trying to do? Are you planning to use the poison in my body to continue treating me as your experimental subject or what?”
“No.” Shirley chuckled and shook her head, the corner of her eyes crinkling. “Let me tell you then. You and Eveline can’t leave St. Piaf unless you pay a certain price.”
“Is this what you wanted to remind me as per your message?”
“That’s right.”
“Heh.” Kendrick could not help but burst out laughing lightly, his eyes were filled with suspicion. “Don’t you think that you’re contradicting yourself? Shirley, are you reminding me this because you have good intentions? The fact that you’re making the situation sound so serious must imply that you have another motive?”
As he said this, Kendrick suddenly felt something was amiss.
Nia!
He suddenly thought of something. His expression changed abruptly, and he strode vigorously toward the room.
However, for some reason, the key card in his hands could not unlock the hotel room door.
In a moment of panic, Kendrick’s heartbeat lost all control. He yelled at the door of the room. “Nia, Nia!”
Kendrick yelled a couple of times, yet Niamh’s response could not be heard.
“Nia!”
Bang bang bang!
Kendrick banged the door with force. In the absence of Niamh’s response, he was panicking so much that he was about to kick the door open.
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.