Niamh’s eyes curved as she smiled. “Why would I lie to you? You’ll get to see Brother Jack in a while.”
“Great, I want to give my favorite lollipop to Brother Jack.” Lily happily patted her cute little hand.
The sound of clapping hands reached his ears, like a metronome hammering in his heart. Each click made Kendrick’s heart ache.
He could clearly feel Niamh walking less than a yard in front of him, accompanied by laughter.
He imagined the smile on her face at the moment and imagined her gentle, kind side while being the good wife and mother she was. He imagined that she would be sleeping peacefully in the arms of another man every night. Kendrick’s eyes were practically blown red by the wind.
He turned around quietly and drifted away from Niamh…
When Lillian first met Jackson, the two little babies were very friendly with each other. Now knowing that the other party was their own sibling, they were especially happy.
Although the two words ‘close relatives’ had vague meanings to them since they were young, their happiness was real.
Sean and Eloise had prepared a gift for Lillian early on.
Looking at such a beautiful and lovely little doll, the husband and wife blushed happily.
They thought these two children got along very well even though they were from the same mother but different fathers.
Niamh looked at the two siblings who were playing happily and could not stop Kendrick from popping up in her mind.
Seeing that Felipe had gone aside to make a call, Niamh sat next to Eloise. “Mom, has Kendrick’s leg injury from before healed?”
Eloise was looking at the two children when she suddenly heard Niamh’s question.
“He got injured from saving me. It’d be best if he’s fine now.” Niamh hurriedly explained.
Eloise nodded to express her understanding. “His leg injury has healed, but his eyes…”
“Grandma, Grandma!” Two little babies suddenly ran over happily, interrupting Eloise’s unfinished words.
After being interrupted, Eloise suddenly remembered Kendrick’s instructions.
She could not say anything.
She could not let Niamh know about his blindness.
Niamh’s attention was also drawn to the two of them, but she also noticed that Eloise was not done speaking.
When Felipe returned from his call just then, Niamh got up and immediately said, “Felipe, I want to take this opportunity to visit Grandpa again.”
Of course, going to see Old Master Waldburg meant that she might meet Kendrick.
Kendrick refused in his heart, but of course, he could not deny what Niamh wanted.
He smiled softly. “It’s not convenient for me to accompany you. Do send my regards to Grandpa for me.”
“Alright.” Niamh nodded, an inexplicable expectation suddenly surging from the bottom of her heart.
Under the setting afternoon sun, she coaxed the two little kids to sleep before driving to the villa.
After getting out of the car, she walked slowly through the gates.
Everything here still gave her a sense of familiarity.
Kendrick had originally been sitting in the yard with the old man to soak up the sunshine when he suddenly received an unfamiliar call. He found that the call was from Felipe.
Felipe told him that Niamh would be coming to visit Old Master Waldburg and asked him to avoid her and leave.
Niamh was coming. That made Kendrick’s heart beat disorderly.
He immediately got up and groped around for a familiar route. He wanted to go back to the house, but as soon as he turned around, he sensed an additional figure not far in front of him.
“Nia?”
“Nia?” he called out tentatively, his nervous heart beating rashly in his heart just like the day he met Niamh in college. He actually felt on edge.
Kendrick did not know whether he should be happy or not. God had given him a chance to see the most beloved woman in his life again, but he could not see anything.
Niamh looked at the handsome face in front of her, her delicate eyebrows becoming a little less cold and a little more gentle.
She walked toward him calmly. “It looks like your leg is alright.”
Hearing Niamh’s voice, Kendrick’s heart was filled with incomparable satisfaction.
It was just that her words had slightly startled him.
Could it be that Nia had come here specifically to see if his injury was healed?
Thinking of this, a smile overflowed from Kendrick’s lips, but he was only happy for a few seconds when Niamh’s cold voice followed, “I have nothing to do with you anymore, so I don’t want to owe you any favors.”
Kendrick’s heart went cold, but he kept a smile on his handsome face. “Nia, you’ve never owed me anything. I, on the other hand, owe you too much.”
“You don’t owe me anything. If it’s a life, you’ve already paid it back last time. If there’s anything you owe to me, it’s a divorce certificate. You still owe me that.”
Niamh walked toward him. “I’ll be staying in Glendale for a week. I hope that you can take half a day to follow me to the town office, Mr. Waldburg.”
After listening to Niamh’s words quietly, Kendrick nodded with a smile, unsurprised. “Okay.”
His answer sounded very straightforward. It was as if he felt no more nostalgia.
Niamh’s heart sank somehow. She looked at Kendrick’s beautiful, soft face. His pink lips were slightly parted.
“Alright, it’s a must.”
Kendrick responded with a smile, hiding his reluctance and nostalgia in his heart without a trace. “I have something to do. Grandpa is still in the yard. You can go and talk to Grandpa for a bit,” Kendrick said, about to turn around.
Niamh suddenly found it a little strange. Although Kendrick had looked in her direction, his sight and focus did not stop on her.
It seemed that he did not look at her even once.
Niamh watched Kendrick turn around and walk slowly into the house, feeling puzzled.
His left hand dangled in front of him, and his ring finger looked bare.
He seemed to have taken off the wedding ring.
However, Niamh was not sure since she was not able to see it clearly either.
Even so, Niamh still felt a sense of emptiness in her heart.
“Ma-Niamh.”
The old man’s call came from the side, and Niamh looked over again to see the old man maneuvering the wheelchair toward her.
Niamh was a little surprised. “Grandpa, you can move your hands?”
The old man looked at Niamh with a narrow eyebrow raised, his gaze loving.
“When did you come back?”
“Yesterday,” Niamh replied with a smile. She realized that Old Man Waldburg’s speech was also sharper and sharper.
“Will you be heading back still?”
“Well, I’ll be staying here with Felipe for a week.”
Speaking of Felipe, the old man’s expression suddenly changed.
He stretched out his not very flexible hands tremblingly and gently held Niamh’s.
“Niamh, are you truly unable to give Kendrick another chance?”
Niamh pondered for a few seconds. She then knelt down and picked up a dead leaf from the ground.
“Grandpa, leaves don’t go back to their branches after they’ve fallen. Kendrick and I are just like this leaf here. We can’t go back again.”
Standing at the entrance, Kendrick heard Niamh’s words and felt as if a cup of bitter wine had been poured down his throat. The sour taste spread to the bottom of his heart.
‘That’s right, we cannot go back.’
Nia, who had loved him the most, no longer loved him.
Kendrick laughed at himself bitterly before going upstairs quietly.
In the yard, the old man sighed and said meaningfully, “These dead leaves might not go back when they leave the branches, but come spring the next year, new branches and leaves will grow.”
Niamh was not a fool. She of course understood what the old man meant.
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.