She immediately went to Karen’s side to fan the flames. “Look, Aunty Karen. I just knew that she would be fine with how she had bewitched Kendrick. He’d definitely defend her!”
Karen was staring at her wound in the mirror, worrying if it would scar, when she heard Yvonne. She was quick to become angry.
She shot up and threw the mirror in her hand at Niamh who was currently ignoring her.
Niamh evaded agilely, and the mirror shattered by her feet with a crash.
She lifted her sharp gaze. “You do know that I can report you for malicious wounding, right?”
“Hahaha!” Karen doubled over as if she had heard the best joke in her life. “How are you shameless enough to talk about suing me? Let me tell you, Niamh. If this wound of mine scars, I promise you, I’ll give you the same scar on your face!”
Yvonne felt as if someone had hit her head twice.
Realizing Kendrick had not come in with Niamh, Yvonne immediately helped scold Niamh, “How could you be so sinister, Niamh? First, you poisoned the old master. Now you hit Aunty Karen?
You’re obviously taking revenge! You’re trying to kill them!”
“Don’t think you’ll get away with this, Niamh! I’ll make sure Kendrick sees your true identity. When that happens, you can spend the rest of your days in jail and never come out!” Karen cursed her harshly.
Niamh’s eyes grew cold and her tone frosty. “That’s right! So what if I am taking revenge? I can’t wait for all of you to die! You hurt me first!”
She stepped closer to Karen as she spoke, causing the latter to shiver and stagger backward at Niamh’s overwhelming aura.
Niamh’s eyes were cold as she glared at her. “Oh, how I regret not hitting you harder that day. I should have killed you, then you wouldn’t be bothering me, you eyesore!”
Karen and Yvonne’s eyes widened in shock.
‘What? Why would Niamh confess to hitting Aunty Karen when I was the one who hit this idiotic and annoying woman?’
Karen’s was twitching from frustration. “You… So you’re finally admitting to being the one who hit me, huh, Niamh?!”
She pointed a trembling finger at Niamh before suddenly turning to look at the door. “Kendrick! You heard her, Kendrick! She admitted it!”
Niamh turned around to see Kendrick standing by the entrance.
While the fact that Kendrick had turned back around shocked her, she ensured that her expression betrayed nothing.
She did not care whether Kendrick had heard the words she said.
“Kendrick! You heard what this woman said, right? She admitted it! She admitted to hitting Aunty Karen! How could she be so cruel? Even after doing something like that, she still has the galls to act innocent too!” Yvonne took the chance to make Niamh look bad.
“You can’t possibly still believe that she’s innocent, right, Kendrick? All it took was a bit of taunting from me and she admitted everything! How can she be so wicked?” Furious flames flared in Karen’s eyes.
Kendrick stared at a poised Niamh and slowly walked over.
His gaze dimmed with every step, the look on his face turning into disappointment.
“I can’t believe that it really was you, Nia.” He seemed to have believed her.
Karen’s expression bloomed into a relieved smile at Kendrick’s sigh.
Yvonne was ecstatic now that Kendrick would no longer defend Niamh!
Even if Niamh’s confession was purely fury-driven, as long as Kendrick believed that Niamh was the one who hurt Karen, then that would be the final truth.
In the end, all she had to do was ensure that Old Master Waldburg would never speak again. If Yvonne succeeded, she would be able to walk free!
Elated, she looked up to see Kendrick frowning at Niamh with his peach-blossom eyes that were filled with disappointment.
What a wonderful turn of events!
“Answer me, Nia. Was it really you?” Kendrick asked again, refusing to believe that she did it.
Niamh responded with an indifferent glance, “So what if I did? You’ve already called the police, didn’t you? Arrest me if you have evidence.”
“You… Niamh Delgado, have you no sense of self-preservation at all?” Karen was infuriated.
Yvonne pretended to comfort her, saying, “Don’t be angry, Aunty Karen. People like her will be punished sooner or later!”
“Shut it.” Kendrick shot back at Yvonne, his gaze still lingering on Niamh. “Why would you do such a thing, Nia?”
Niamh scoffed. “Why? Are you honestly asking me ‘why’ now?”
She fired back sarcastically as she walked toward Kendrick, her emotionless eyes sharpening instantly.
“Ask yourself and your gracious mother how have you guys treated me in the past, hmm? What is the speck of blood she bled today in comparison to the blood that poured out of my wounds back then?
“So what if her forehead scars? You lot played an indirect role in the disfigurement of my face as well. How do you want to account for that?”
Niamh questioned as her sharp gaze fell on Karen’s face.
“What do you have to complain about when you didn’t even take responsibility for the time you pushed me onto the floor? My forehead bled when it hit the corner of the coffee table and you didn’t even apologize. Not even once!”
“…” Karen’s initial confidence to yell back at Niamh shrunk. “You… So you did do it for revenge, Niamh Delgado! You were the one who hit me!”
“So what if I did? Are you telling me you’ve never hit me? Who are you to accuse me?”
“…” Karen had nothing to retort. Her expression flashed from anger to humiliation as she ordered Yvonne, “Call the police, Yvonne! Call the police! This woman has admitted to everything!”
Yvonne immediately obliged, unable to wait for Niamh to be locked behind bars. The fact that Kendrick did not stop her only elated her mood.
The police arrived shortly with Karen and Yvonne both accusing Niamh.
Before the police’s questioning, Niamh admitted calmly, “Indeed, those were my words.”
“Please follow us to the police station for an investigation. We’ll let you go accordingly if we conclude that you’re innocent.”
“Alright.”
Niamh followed behind the police officers in a dignified manner.
Brushing past Kendrick, she halted and questioned ironically, “This is your unbridled trust?”
The corner of her lips quirked prettily as she chuckled. The sight of her blossoming smile was reflected in Kendrick’s eyes. It reminded him of a blooming rose—beautiful, casual, and perhaps extraverted in its own way.
Yvonne’s eyes swam secretly with mirth as she watched the police bring Niamh away in their car.
Karen reverted to her energetic self as if the dark clouds had lifted. When she turned to see Kendrick making the move to leave, she immediately ran up to stop him.
“Now do you see her true colors, Kendrick? You can’t possibly yearn for such a woman, right? So what if we’ve framed and hurt her in the past? The Waldburg family doesn’t owe her anything. She deserved it!”
The fact that she truly believed herself not to have done any wrong had Kendrick’s brows knitting tightly.
Not wishing to deal with Karen, Kendrick walked away again.
“Where are you going, Kendrick? You can’t possibly still be wanting to defend this woman?!”
“I want to be alone,” he stated coldly and left without looking back.
In fear of angering Kendrick, Yvonne made sure to cozy up to Karen now that he had left. “Don’t be angry, Aunty Karen. Kendrick loves Niamh, so it makes sense that he would be upset now. Let’s just leave him be for a while.”
Karen huffed but held her tongue.
Niamh was brought to the police station, and Kendrick had not returned home ever since.
Yvonne made up an excuse of wanting to accompany Karen, so she stayed the night.
When the care worker wheeled Old Master Waldburg to the dining table for dinner, Yvonne looked up to see the old master’s scornful gaze drilling into her.
She reciprocated with a glare. ‘Just wait until I send you off for good tonight, old man!’
The old master glared back indignantly before parting his lips. “Ni…amh…”
He uttered Niamh’s name clearly albeit with difficulty.
His enunciation was getting clearer by the day. This old man had to go as soon as possible!
Yvonne was deep in thought when Karen’s displeased voice shot out. “Stop calling for Niamh left and right, Old Master. The b*tch has already been taken away by the police. She even admitted that she was the one who hit my head! She stole my valuables too. I’ll make sure she never gets out of jail!”
The old master’s expression changed drastically at that. “Not…”
He forced the words out with difficulty and hard work. “Not… Niamh!”
Yvonne’s heart skipped a beat in fear that the old master would continue to force his words out, so she got the care worker to immediately bring the old master away.
Karen did not care, and with neither Kendrick nor Winston at home, she had nothing to fear.
After dinner, Yvonne waited patiently until the dead of the night when she dressed herself in the same clothes she had worn to the nursing home when she pretended to be Niamh. With both the wig and the mask, Niamh would be the one charged even if she were found out.
Having been seen last time on the cameras, Yvonne made sure to keep the lights off as she tiptoed into the old master’s room.
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.