“I think it’s hard for me to do that, Eveline.”
“Fabian, you—”
“Go look at your precious daughter. Watch out, something might happen if you’re not by her side,” Fabian reminded her profoundly.
Niamh’s expression changed. She immediately turned around and ran back.
‘Lily!’
‘Did Fabian deliberately lure me here?
‘Please don’t let anything happen to you, Lily!’
Niamh thought in her heart. Her heartbeat became more and more frenetic along with her footsteps.
When Kendrick arrived at the hospital, he saw Niamh hurriedly running over before he got to the door of the ward. He quickened the pace of his footsteps and sped toward Niamh. The two of them rushed over from both directions to the door of the ward.
“Nia, what happened? Did something happen to Lily?” Kendrick’s face was filled with worry.
Niamh did not have time to explain the situation to him. She turned around and pushed the door open.
“Lily!” Niamh ran over while losing her head out of fear. She saw that there was no one in bed. The nurse from just now was gone as well.
A cold chill surged from the bottom of her feet, and Niamh felt as though every cell in her body had turned cold.
“Lily… Lily is gone.” Niamh looked at the empty bed with a despondent look. Her eyes went red in that instant.
“Why did Fabian do this? Why? What do we have to do with Yorick’s and Lana’s deaths? Why does he want to seek revenge on us?”
“Nia, what are you talking about? What happened to you?” Kendrick held Niamh’s shoulders in concern. He forced her to look at him. When he saw Niamh’s teary and red eyes, his heart ached even more.
“Nia, did you see Fabian just now? What did he say to you?”
Niamh looked into Kendrick’s eyes with a lifeless look in her eyes. When she was about to say something, the nurse who had been watching Lillian just now appeared at the door. “Mrs. Waldburg, what are you doing here?”
When Niamh heard the nurse asking her this, she abruptly came back to her senses.
She strode over to the nurse and grabbed the nurse’s hand. “Nurse, where is my daughter? Why is my daughter missing?”
“Missing?” The nurse blinked in confusion. “Lillian is sleeping in the next ward. How is she missing?”
“Next ward?”
Niamh immediately understood and noticed that this was not Lillian’s ward after all.
She ran out of the ward and into the next ward.
When she saw Lillian sleeping soundly in bed, Niamh’s racing heart started to calm down.
“Nia.” Kendrick got behind Niamh and lifted his hand to caress her short hair.
Nia turned around abruptly and hugged Kendrick. She could not hold in the tears that were welled up in her eyes.
Kendrick held Niamh while feeling sorry for her. He comforted her, saying, “I’ll always stay with you. Just cry if you want to. Don’t force yourself.”
Niamh bit her lip and nestled tightly against Kendrick’s chest as she let all her tears out.
However, she did not dare to cry too loud. She was worried that she would wake her little princess who was sleeping.
She was terrified. She was scared that something had happened to Lillian earlier, so that was why that situation happened just now. She did not realize she had walked into the wrong ward.
Niamh stayed in Kendrick’s arms for a very long time before finally recomposing herself.
When they saw that their child was still sleeping soundly, Niamh and Kendrick walked to the chairs outside the ward to sit down.
Niamh told Kendrick the conversation she had with Fabian just now. After Kendrick heard about it, he was not surprised. It seemed that he had expected this.
“I had also wondered if Fabian had suddenly changed because of Lana’s and Yorick’s deaths,” Kendrick stated the guesses he had in his heart.
However, Niamh thought that it was not so simple. “Yorick was executed because he violated the law and the same for Lana. She did so many things and in the end, she was killed by Ryan. The deaths of the siblings had nothing to do with us at all. Why is Fabian blaming us?”
Kendrick also thought that Niamh was making sense. He furrowed his handsome sword eyebrows and parted his thin lips, saying, “Perhaps something we don’t know about happened in between. If not, Fabian wouldn’t have said that to you either.”
‘I thought we were friends this whole time, but eventually, I realized that I was just being used by you guys. Eveline Montgomery, we’re not friends anymore.’
This statement repeated in Niamh’s and Kendrick’s heads at the same time.
“Nia, something must have happened to Fabian and that was why he said this.”
“But I’ve never used him before. At first, I thought he was very unreliable and looked like a hedonistic son of rich parents who only know how to have fun, but gradually, I started to treat him as someone I could trust,” Niamh said before sighing in pity.
“Now, he’s treating us as enemies and the people he’s going to take revenge on. I’m so worried if he’ll do something to Lily.”
“I don’t think he will.” Kendrick gave her a firm answer. He grabbed Niamh’s hand and looked at her gorgeous eyes that were filled with worry. “Nia, trust me and trust Fabian too. Trust that he won’t hurt Lily.”
Niamh nodded and leaned her head against Kendrick’s shoulder.
However, when she was about to close her eyes to rest for a while, her heart started racing all of a sudden.
Kendrick could see that something was not right with Niamh. “Nia, what’s going on? Where does it hurt?”
Niamh sat up and tried her best to keep herself calm, but she could not stop her heart that was racing again. “Kendrick, I think it’s starting again. The poison is flaring up…”
Niamh lifted her hand to put it where her heart was. Her face was also gradually becoming paler and paler.
Kendrick’s expression changed as well. He carried Niamh bridal style and placed her on the carer’s bed in the ward. “Nia, don’t be scared. You’ll be fine.”
“Okay…”
Niamh replied weakly. At that moment, she felt as though cold waves were furiously crashing against her. It was as if she had fallen into an icy lake where she was slowly sinking. That bone-piercing feeling was about to drown out all of her senses.
“I’m so cold…”
Niamh murmured.
Kendrick quickly wrapped Niamh tightly with the blanket, and at the same time, he increased the temperature of the air conditioner. However, Niamh was still shaking uncontrollably.
Aside from feeling sorry for her, Kendrick could not do anything. This feeling of not being as capable as he wished to be caused him to feel distraught and anxious.
Kendrick calmed himself down and reached out to stroke Niamh’s cheek. He comforted her in a soft voice.
“Nia, hold on. I’ll call Adam now. You’ll get through this.”
“Okay…” Niamh blinked.
She knew she would be able to make it through.
Shirley had told her she would not die as well. She would only have to suffer this kind of unknown torment.
Plus, it was also unknown what would happen the next time this happened.
While comforting Niamh, Kendrick made a call to Adam. However, he could not get through to Adam no matter how he tried.
He tried to call Cathy but it was the same result.
Kendrick looked at the time and thought that it would be impossible for Adam and Cathy to be sleeping at this hour. However, they were not picking up his calls.
As he watched Niamh suffering from the pain, he quickly called the dean of this hospital whom he was familiar with. After a while, an experienced doctor in a white coat walked into the room with a stabilizer.
Kendrick stood at one side as he watched the doctor inject the stabilizer into Niamh’s vein. However, Niamh’s chills and heartache only slightly got better for the time being.
The doctor said that he could not do anything as well. Niamh’s symptoms did not look like normal symptoms of any disease.
After the doctor left, Kendrick stayed next to Niamh for a while. After making sure that Niamh was not in as much pain anymore, he called the nurse over to take care of Niamh and his daughter before he hurriedly left.
He drove to Carter’s villa in Glendale. After he arrived, the bodyguards at the gate stopped Kendrick from entering.
Kendrick immediately beat up the two bodyguards and walked to the living room.
After the two bodyguards that had been defeated got up from the ground, they quickly ran over to chase after Kendrick. They even wanted to take action against Kendrick, but before they could do anything, Kendrick punched them. The two fell to the ground while wailing in pain.
“Shirley Brown, get the hell out!”
Kendrick yelled at the stairs.
Adam and Cathy, who were in the room, ran to the door when they heard this.
They wanted to go out but the door was locked from outside. They could not open the door at all.
“The poison in Eveline must be flaring up again, so that’s why Kendrick is here.” Adam’s guess was correct.
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.