He used the remote to close the curtains and then he lit a scented candle. He then adjusted the light in the room to a dimmer shade.
He took out an old-looking pocket watch and walked to the reclining chair.
He looked at the sleeping Niamh and he said insipidly.
“I rarely see a woman as resolute as you. I’m guessing that the hypnosis on you last time wouldn’t work anymore. So, I can only perform advanced hypnosis on you. Eveline, you love Kendrick, right? Then, you shall pay for his debts.
Surely you’d be more than happy to do that, right?”
Carter said with a fake smile. He then lowered his head to look at the time, and then he picked up the pocket watch.
When he was about to perform advanced hypnosis on Niamh, the door of the study was abruptly pushed open.
Carter abruptly stopped what he was doing. He lifted his head to look at the door of the study and, to his surprise, he saw Shirley coming in while pushing herself in the wheelchair.
“You really did make a move against her.”
Operating her wheelchair, Shirley came into the room and glanced at the currently unconscious Niamh.
“Let her go.”
“I won’t let her go back now.” Carter gave Shirley a firm answer without hesitation. “Shirley, you didn’t care about the child, but I did. I won’t let my child just die like that in Kendrick’s hands. I want to avenge our child.”
As Carter expressed his determination to Shirley, his eyes were filled with sparks of hatred.
“Carter, how many times do I have to repeat myself so that you’ll understand? That child’s death had nothing to do with Kendrick, and it also has nothing to do with Niamh.”
“Shirley, you’re the one who has yet to understand.” Carter walked up to Shirley. “If Kendrick hadn’t injected you with AXP69, our child wouldn’t have died!”
“Heh. Hehe.”
As his voice fell away, Shirley laughed. Her smile was extremely sarcastic.
Carter’s long eyebrows furrowed when he saw the sarcastic smile on Shirley’s face.
“What are you laughing at?”
Shirley stopped laughing and looked at Carter in disdain.
“Have you forgotten why AXP69 was developed in the first place?”
Carter’s expression changed when he heard this.
Shirley laughed. “It was your order, Mr. Gray. You asked me to develop a poison that could affect someone’s emotions and thoughts. Back then, your target was Eveline.”
“Niamh had been poisoned after drinking the wine laced with AXP69, then experienced all four stages of pain. Since Kendrick loves Niamh so much, did you think that Kendrick, after seeing the woman he loves so much being relentlessly tortured, wouldn’t seek revenge on us using the same method?”
Shirley spat out word after word and finally looked straight into Carter’s fazed eyes.
“We are the ones at fault. We are the main culprits. We can’t blame anyone else.” Shirley bit her lip after speaking, suppressing the sadness surging up in her heart. “Kendrick didn’t kill that child. We, the parents, killed our child! ”
Carter’s face darkened after Shirley said theft.
Upon seeing Carter’s dazed state, Shirley operated her wheelchair and moved next to Niamh.
She reached out her hand and patted Niamh on the cheek. “Eveline, wake up.”
Shirley tried to wake Niamh, but Niamh gave no response at all.
“Eveline, wake up,” Shirley called out again, but Niamh was still not responding.
“What did you do to her? ” Shirley turned around and asked. Presently, she saw Carter had walked up behind her. “Wake her up now.”
Carter glanced at the worried and anxious look on Shirley’s face, then lowered his eyes gently to look at Niamh.
“She’ll wake up on her own an hour from now.”
After speaking, Carter turned around and walked out.
Shirley was momentarily dazed. She stared at Carter’s back figure. She did not know whether the man came to his senses after what she said.
Shirley dared not overthink. She stayed with Niamh the whole time, worried that Carter might come back to hypnotize Niamh again.
However, an hour had passed and Carter still had not returned. At the present, Niamh woke up as per the time Carter mentioned. Niamh slowly opened her eyes. She seemed momentarily dazed until she heard someone calling her name.
“Eveline, it’s me.”
Shirley lifted her hand to pat Niamh’s arm softly.
Niamh turned her head to look, and surprise flashed in her eyes. “Shirley?”
“It’s me.” Shirley nodded. “Niamh, this is St. Piaf, ” Shirley then said.
“St. Piaf?” Niamh frowned, gradually recalling all that had happened before falling unconscious.
It was clear to her now. She had been Carter’s initial main target in his revenge plan.
As Niamh collected her thoughts, she heard Shirley’s kind reminder drifted into her ear.
“Eveline, it’s hard for you to leave this place now, but I believe that Kendrick has ways to find you.
Though I want to remind you that this is St. Piaf. Carter’s status isn’t ordinary here. In the past, Kendrick could sneak in with a crowd, but he might not be able to this time.”
After hearing what Shirley said, Niamh started to feel worried.
She was worried not for herself but for Kendrick.
“Shirley, do you have a phone? I want to call Kendrick.”
Shirley shook her head softly. “I haven’t had a phone in a long time. Even if I had one, I don’t know who to contact.” Her eyes reddened as she spoke.
However, she quickly forced an apologetic smile on her face. “I’m sorry. Everything happened because of me. I developed AXP69. I’m also the reason why Kendrick had been tormented by the poison for so long. Now, you’re enduring all of this because of the mistakes I made.”
Niamh did not blame Shirley since Shirley was trying to make up for this as best as she could, so she did not want to dwell on the past anymore.
She lifted her hand to rub her temple. She looked at the layout around her and asked, “Is this Carter’s study?”
“Yeah.” Shirley nodded. “He was about to hypnotize you an hour ago.”
“ .” Niamh paused. She felt a chill running down her spine. “He still intends on hypnotizing me.”
“You must’ve heard about his hypnotism, right? He can affect anyone’s thoughts merely with his eyes.
He doesn’t need any tools. He has a natural-born talent for this.”
When Shirley said this, she seemed a little proud. She unintentionally displayed the admiration and fondness she had for Carter.
“Eveline, you must remember to avoid his eyes. Also, the hypnosis he’s best at simultaneously uses psychology to affect one’s mind. Don’t give him a chance to perform advanced hypnosis on you.”
Niamh smiled helplessly hearing what Shirley said.
“This is St. Piaf. If he has a plan, I think I won’t be able to escape.”
Shirley was dazed when she heard that. “You mean “Carter will definitely want to exact his revenge on Kendrick, so he’ll definitely find a chance to perform advanced hypnosis on me, that’s why…”
Niamh said and lifted her pleading eyes. “I hope you can help me.”
Shirley replied without hesitation. “Tell me. I’ll do my best if I can help you.”
“Thanks, ” Niamh thanked her but when Shirley heard Niamh’s gratitude, she could not believe her ears.
“No, you shouldn’t thank me, Eveline. I owe you this.” Shirley’s eyes were filled with regret.
Niamh did not speak further and merely smiled.
“Carter might be back soon. Eveline, tell me quickly, how do you want me to help you?”
Shirley looked into Niamh’s eyes as she started to become anxious. She was worried that Carter would suddenly return at this moment. If that were the case, she would be unable to help Niamh.
Niamh looked around the study vigilantly. She felt that Carter would have installed security cameras in the study.
Carter might even be watching her and Shirley’s every move right now.
As per Niamh’s expectation, Carter, phone in hand, was indeed watching everything that was happening in the study right now.
At this moment, he saw Niamh got up, walked to the desk, took a piece of paper from the desk, then picked up a pen and wrote something on the paper.
Carter moved the camera to the paper and zoomed in.
He could see what Niamh wrote on the paper. “If Carter really performed advanced hypnosis on me, please find a way to hand this paper to Kendrick for me.”
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.