Other factors?
Before Kendrick even thought deeper into it, Niamh appeared in his mind.
‘Nia, three months have passed. I wonder how you’re doing recently?’
Someone hurried past Kendrick this moment. The person had bumped into his shoulder and knocked the medical record card as well as the examination report he was holding to the ground. “I’m sorry, I’m in a hurry.”
The man apologized and ran away.
Kendrick was dissatisfied that his thoughts had been interrupted so suddenly. He squatted down to pick up the fallen objects.
“Sir, these are yours.”
A woman’s soft and gentle voice rang in front of him. Then, she handed over the medical record card that Kendrick had dropped.
Kendrick raised his eyes and was about to thank her when the woman in front of him suddenly took his arm and moved him back.
“Be careful, there’s a car,” she kindly informed.
After Kendrick stood firm, he immediately withdrew his arm. “Thank you.”
“You’re welcome.” The woman had a friendly tone. She looked at Kendrick closely with a pair of beautiful, almond eyes. “Sir, are you unable to see?”
Seeing Kendrick did not answer, the woman hurriedly apologized. “I’m sorry, sir, I didn’t mean to offend you.”
Winston had driven over just then and saw a woman talking to Kendrick. He got out of the car and walked over, “You are…”
He was halfway through speaking when he saw the woman’s face and was stunned.
The woman smiled and handed over a business card. “Hello sir, this is my business card.”
Winston looked away, took the business card, and glanced back up. “Felicity Walker, psychiatrist?”
“You’re a psychiatrist?” Kendrick raised his brows faintly.
Felicity nodded and smiled. “Yes, I’m a psychiatrist and my uncle works here. I’m here to see him this weekend, so I won’t disturb you anymore.” She turned around after speaking.
Although Kendrick could not see it, he noticed Winston’s strangeness.
“What’s wrong? Is there something about this woman?”
Winston shook his head quickly and glanced in the direction Felicity was leaving in. He then opened the passenger’s door. “Nothing. You should get in the car.”
Although there was something up, Kendrick did not ask again. “It’s still early, so send me to Waldburg Manor. I want to see Jack.”
Winston acquiesced knowingly and sent Kendrick to a place not far from the gates of Waldburg Manor.
“You head back first. I want to be alone for a while,” Kendrick said and got out of the car silently.
Winston did not try to persuade him and drove away alone.
Kendrick had come here often in the past three months, but he would not enter the gates of the house. He would just stand under a tree not far from the gates, looking toward one direction.
Three months had passed.
‘Nia, do you still think of me occasionally?
‘Probably not.
‘Why would you think of a scumbag like me?’
Kendrick laughed at himself, touching the ring on his ring finger and twisting it gently.
He had lost a little weight in the past three months, but he did not expect that even his fingers would be thin.
In a daze, the wedding ring slipped from his fingers.
Kendrick’s gaze suddenly changed. He heard a clink as the ring fell to the ground.
He crouched down quickly and tried to look for it around him, but there was nothing but dust and dead leaves.
His eyebrows knitted tightly as his expression grew more anxious.
It was also at this moment that he realized what Niamh must have felt when she was lying on the ground, looking for something in a panic.
This wedding ring was the only token he had left of his bond with Niamh.
For him, it was a piece of treasure—the only one.
He was looking for it all flustered. A moment later, he unexpectedly heard familiar footsteps approaching him through the fallen leaves.
“Are you looking for this ring?”
The sound in his ears put a sudden stop to Kendrick’s search.
He felt a touch of surprise as he gently lifted his eyes that could no longer capture any light and color. “It’s you? When did you return to Glendale?”
“Yesterday.” There was suddenly light in Kendrick’s bleak eyes after he received that answer.
He slowly stood up, facing the man before him. “Is Nia back with you too?” Felipe looked at Kendrick who was blind, then looked down at the wedding ring he had just picked up.
He played with it with his fingertips with interest, only to lift his lips. “Yes, Eveline came back with me too.”
As he spoke, Felipe saw the joy in Kendrick’s eyes. He smiled, saying, “Eveline and I are here to bring Jack back to F Country this time.”
His answer had very simply and decisively shattered the shade of joy on Kendrick’s face. “Eveline doesn’t want to see you again, so you’d better not appear in front of her, especially with the way you are now.”
“With the way I am now?” Kendrick laughed lowly. “Are you afraid that I, a blind man, would steal Nia from you?”
Felipe’s sharp brows knitted into a frown unhappily. “Kendrick, you were not a qualified husband before and I hope you can be a qualified predecessor now. A qualified predecessor should be the same as dead.”
Kendrick’s gaze sank, and without answering Felipe’s words, he stretched out his palm nimbly. “Give me back the ring.”
“I can give the ring back to you, but you’d better remember what you said and don’t bother Eveline again.”
“I know what I’m doing, I don’t need you to tell me that.” Kendrick’s voice had become colder. “Give it to me.”
“Eveline and I will return to F Country in a week. I will have someone send you the ring then.”
Hearing this, it was obvious Felipe did not want to return his ring now.
Kendrick frowned. As he was about to reach out to pull at Felipe’s collar, he suddenly heard the sound of a car coming from a distance.
“Eveline is back,” Felipe said leisurely, smiling at Kendrick whose expression had changed slightly.
“You should stand behind this tree now and never show up again in Eveline’s sight. Otherwise, this ring will disappear. Also, you don’t want Eveline to be unhappy, right?”
Felipe’s tone was threatening. Smiling, he turned around, put Kendrick’s wedding ring in his pocket, and walked toward the approaching car.
After the car stopped, Felipe, ever the gentleman, opened the car door for Eveline. There was a small smile on his gentle and handsome face.
“You’re back.”
“Felipe.” Niamh smiled and nodded. Kendrick, who had already stood behind the tree, suddenly heard the voice he had been thinking of day and night. There was suddenly a sweetness in his heart even though she was calling another man’s name.
“Nia.” Kendrick quietly smiled. However, he heard Niamh call out softly in the next second, “Lily, we’ve reached grandma’s house.”
Lily? Kendrick was lost and in a daze as he felt a rush in his heart.
As Niamh’s voice sounded, a cute and beautiful face appeared in the car like a fairy.
When Lily saw Felipe, her pink and tender baby face burst into joy. “Dad!”
“Lily has been such a good girl.” Felipe stooped down and hugged Lily in his arms. He then turned and walked side by side with Niamh to the Waldburgs’ gate.
Standing silently behind the tree, Kendrick felt Niamh’s footsteps getting closer. The early autumn wind was blowing and a familiar fragrance circled lightly at the tip of his nose.
It was Niamh’s scent.
Kendrick’s heartbeat quickened. To be able to hear Niamh’s voice again and to be able to get close to her again… He knew he should be happy.
Yet, Lily calling Felipe ‘Dad’ led a thorny flower to bloom in his heart.
He had always believed that Lily was his and Niamh’s biological daughter.
However, the paternity test had revealed that they did not have a father-daughter relationship.
Furthermore, Niamh had always emphasized that Lily was her and Felipe’s daughter.
“Mom, can I really see Brother Jack later?” Lillian’s tender voice was like the clear spring in a mountain stream—it was extremely sweet.
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.