If he could turn back time, he would choose to go back to the day they met again in college.
He would have never hidden the fact that he liked her.
He would have never let down the girl he liked for a promise.
Even so, he was really grateful whether the person he met was the young girl or the woman she became after. She was the same person—the same girl who made his heart flutter.
Despite that, he had lost all that time he could have spent with her.
Since the start, both Niamh and he were manipulated by Nevaeh.
Kendrick did not know how long Niamh’s memory loss would last, but he was really happy to find that she still loved and cared for him.
For a moment, he selfishly hoped that Niamh’s personality and memories remained at that moment when she loved him deeply.
The rays of the setting sun were like tiny pieces of gold scattering on her face. He finally saw the bright and warm smile on her face. It was incredibly beautiful…
Kendrick and Niamh spent the night at the guest house. After a long time, he finally had a good night’s sleep.
After Kendrick woke up and saw the tiny woman sleeping in his arms, he smiled gently and kissed her forehead.
During breakfast, many tourists went to the nearby guest houses. The owner of the guest house said that there was a festival in the town for the next two days and tourists had come to celebrate the holiday.
That night, Kendrick brought Niamh to the town.
Under the dark blue night sky, the bustling street was packed with stalls where souvenirs and various street food were sold.
Kendrick held her hand as he led her around, weaving through the crowd and occasionally stopping to look at the stalls.
He wanted to make sure she was taken care of and that she felt happy.
She had never experienced that kind of care and tenderness from him before.
At that moment, Niamh, whose memories were still stuck at the time when she was seriously ill, thought to herself that as long as she had these memories with Kendrick, her life was complete.
As long as she knew the person he loved was her, she had no other regrets.
However, just as Niamh was enjoying her new memories with Kendrick, big fireworks suddenly shot up in front of them.
The sound of the fireworks sounded in the sky loudly. Fizz! Hiss! Boom! Bright fireworks bloomed like flowers in the night sky.
Kendrick held Niamh’s hand and walked forward, but suddenly, she stopped.
He was uncertain of what was happening and turned his head. As the fireworks broke into multiple different colors in the sky, he too saw the subtle and gradual changes in Niamh’s eyes.
He had a bad hunch. “Nia?”
As he called out her name, the tenderness in Niamh’s beautiful eyes disappeared in an instant and was replaced with a thorny edge.
“It’s you?” She looked at Kendrick with a solemn expression and uncertainty in her eyes. “Where is this place? Why did you bring me here?”
When Kendrick heard what she said, he instantly understood that Niamh had switched her identity— the identity that did not have him in her memories.
It was obvious that this identity of hers did not have the memories of her previous identity. Otherwise, she would not look at him so coldly.
If she had them, she would remember that they had been getting along very well for the past two days.
Kendrick’s short-lived joy was like the fireworks blooming in the sky. After the explosion, there was only icy coldness left.
In a daze, Niamh broke free of his hands, turned, and walked away.
Kendrick returned to his senses and hurried to catch up with her. “Nia, where are you going?”
“Don’t call me that. We’re not that close,” Niamh replied indifferently without turning around.
The place was crowded and Kendrick was afraid that he would lose Niamh again, so he decisively pulled her back. “Nia, don’t go.”
Niamh, who was held back by him, glared at Kendrick with displeasure. “If Felipe’s still your uncle, you should respect me as your aunt.”
When she mentioned that, the gentleness in Kendrick’s eyes turned into possessiveness. “You’re not my aunt. You’re my wife. You’re my woman.”
“Heh.” Niamh chuckled. “You’re being ridiculous. I don’t even know you.”
She shoved his hand away again with annoyance.
However, when Niamh looked around, she looked troubled.
‘Where is this place?’
She seemed as if she had never been to this place before.
Niamh wanted to call Felipe. She reached out and felt her pocket but did not find her phone. She only felt something cold.
When she took it out, it was a bookmark made of leaves.
When Kendrick caught up to her and saw Niamh staring at the bookmark in a daze, his heart fluttered a little. A smile appeared on his handsome face.
“Nia, if you still kept this bookmark, it means you still care about me deep down in your heart.”
When Niamh heard Kendrick’s words, she became even more dissatisfied. “I only have Felipe in my heart.”
Kendrick frowned, his eyes looking solemn. “Nia, listen to me. You don’t have Felipe in your heart. You don’t love this man at all.”
“Don’t you think that it’s a little rude of you to be confusing my fiancée?” Felipe suddenly appeared, his relaxed voice drifting through the crowd with clarity.
Niamh suddenly smiled. “Felipe! I’m so glad you see you.”
She ran to him with a big smile on her face.
It felt as if Felipe was her savior, the man who made her feel safe.
Kendrick looked at him, his gaze meeting Felipe’s that always seemed to be gentle and smiling. “You know very well whether what I just said is the truth or not. Nia will recover and realize the truth one day.”
“The truth?” Felipe chuckled. “The truth is that you’ve hurt her with exceptional cruelty. The truth is that she hates you.”
The two points that Felipe made were indeed true and Kendrick did not want to deny it.
However, when he saw the bookmark just now, he was sure that Niamh still cared for him deep down.
Otherwise, she would have thrown the bookmark out a long time ago so that she would break off all ties with him.
“Vera, let’s go.” Felipe turned around and took Niamh’s hand. “You’ve been missing for two days and your parents have been very worried about you.”
‘Two days?’
Had she been missing for two days?
Why did she have no memory of her going missing for the past two days?
She only remembered Kendrick pulling her away forcibly in front of the mall and that she witnessed a car accident. Then suddenly, she was here.
Kendrick stood at the same spot without moving as he watched Felipe gradually disappear with Niamh toward the end of the crowded street.
A touch of anxiety and crazy possessiveness quietly overflowed in his lonely eyes.
‘Nia, I’ll never let you slip away from me again.
‘Never.’
…
Niamh followed Felipe back to the apartment.
On the way back, Niamh still had the bookmark in her hand. Kendrick’s words echoed in her mind, “Nia, if you’re still keeping this bookmark, it means you still care about me deep down in your heart.”
‘What’s this bookmark about?’
After entering their place, Niamh asked Felipe a straightforward question to quench the doubt in her heart, “Felipe, do I have a history with Kendrick? Does my amnesia have something to do with him?”
Felipe seemed surprised when he heard that and smiled bitterly. “It seems that I have to confess to you.”
“Felipe?”
“Yes, Vera. Your lost memories are indeed related to that person.” Felipe admitted frankly.
The rhythm of Niamh’s heart suddenly went all over the place. When she recalled Kendrick telling her that he was her husband, Niamh asked with more nervousness in her voice, “Were we married before?”
“You were indeed married before, but you never loved him. He was always very cruel toward you to the point that you hated him. So that was why you hated him to his bones.
“The reason why the two of you got married was that someone set the two of you up. You had no choice but to be forced into marriage by Old Master Waldburg. After the two of you got married, Kendrick ignored your feelings for him and got intimate with his mistress. He even condoned the mistress to hurt you physically. When your life was hanging on by a thread, he was still thinking about how to get rid of you.”
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.