Niamh walked past Kendrick. Her eyes were calm and she did not even look at him.
Kendrick felt a dull ache in her heart again as he reached out his hand to grab Niamh. “Nia.”
Niamh stopped walking. Her voice was cold and there were no emotions when she spoke, “Let go.”
“Nia, Lily’s death doesn’t seem to be so simple. That human trafficker is just a scapegoat.”
Kendrick looked at Niamh’s icy side profile and saw her turning her head slowly. Her beautiful face was covered with a layer of frost while her eyes were red and swollen.
He felt as if a knife was being stabbed into his heart. He could not bear to see her looking so devastated and haggard.
“Nia…”
“Why did you take Lily out? Lily isn’t related to you in any way. Why did you keep looking for my daughter?” Niamh asked coldly.
“Nia, Lily is our daughter. The reason I wanted to hang out with her is that I found out that she’s my daughter.”
Niamh looked at him with animosity and swung his hand away from hers forcefully. “Kendrick, do you think I’ll believe this ridiculous lie? I know my own child very well!”
“No, you don’t. Nia, you lost your memory and you can’t remember anything that happened before. Felipe is just lying to you. You were never intimate with him. This whole time, you belong to me.”
Kendrick held Niamh’s shoulders as he started losing control of his emotions. Then, his eyes became solemn.
“Nia, I’ll prove to you right now that Lily is our child.”
Kendrick took out his phone hurriedly and opened the electronic copy of the paternity test result that he saved.
“Nia, look. This is the paternity test I did with Lily. Lily is our daughter.” He held the phone in front of Niamh to prove that he was telling the truth.
Niamh lowered her eyes, her vision quickly blurred by tears.
“Nia, do you see it?” Kendrick asked carefully.
However, the moment he finished asking, Niamh lifted her hand and pushed his hand away.
The phone fell to the wet floor with a loud smack. Then, the screen smashed into a million pieces.
Kendrick felt his heart getting smashed at the same time as well.
Niamh looked at him frigidly. “I don’t want to see you again.”
Her tone was firm, and she walked away without turning back.
Kendrick stood in place dispiritedly. As he looked at her cold back, tears escaped from the corners of his eyes.
On the smashed screen, that beautiful smile invaded his vision and pained Kendrick’s eyes.
“Lily…”
‘I’m sorry, Lily.
‘I didn’t get to protect you.’
As he blamed himself, he saw a black figure approaching him from the corner of his eyes.
“Kendrick, how dare you come here? Even though Lily was kidnapped by human traffickers, it still can’t change the fact that you killed my daughter indirectly.” Felipe pushed all the blame onto Kendrick. “If you still have an ounce of humanity, please stay away. Don’t let Eveline see you again in case she can’t stop herself from killing you.”
“Felipe, you know damn well who Lily’s birth father is,” Kendrick said with a sharp glint in his eyes. “I’ll find the real murderer who killed my daughter. Just you wait.”
He promised solemnly and walked away in the rain.
Felipe watched Kendrick’s back silently and tightened his grip on the umbrella.
After they took care of something in the station, Felipe sent Niamh back to Montgomery Manor.
He knew Niamh did not have the mood to discuss anything with him right now, so he would not force her. Then, he went back to his place alone.
Nevaeh had been waiting for him in the study.
When she saw Felipe, she waited for his orders patiently.
“You’ll go to F Country with the child on the flight this afternoon. Then, come back after you fix your face.” Felipe’s voice was cold and his tone was emotionless. However, he had a murderous aura around him.
Nevaeh did not want to go back to F Country, but she did not have the right to say no.
Cathy walked in with a cup of tea. When she saw the face that was similar to Niamh’s, she furrowed her brows together.
“Get out,” Felipe asked Nevaeh to leave.
Nevaeh walked out of the door timidly. Then, she looked at Cathy with the corner of her eyes.
Cathy placed the tea in front of Felipe. “Why did you do that? You like Evie so much. Shouldn’t you hope that she won’t be sad? Why did you—”
“It’s not your place to ask me that.” Felipe interrupted her coldly. There was a devious and dark look on his face that did not go with his handsome and elegant features. “If you want to stay by my side, you need to know your place.”
“Get out,” he then asked her to leave, refusing to look at her for even another second.
Although they had been intimate, she was still nothing to him.
Cathy turned around sadly. After closing the door, she stood by it and looked at her flat stomach.
She lifted her hand to touch her stomach. Then, a pleased smile blossomed on her face.
After Cathy left, Felipe picked up the colorful shell that he had been keeping for years.
“Eveline.”
He called out to Niamh’s name as a cheeky face appeared in his mind.
He would not forget how a ray of light had appeared in his dark life after he met her by the beach.
“I won’t let you go back to Kendrick again. You’re mine.”
He held the shell as a wave of emotions appeared in his eyes.
That day, the reason he said he wanted to bring Niamh to clear her head in the equine park was to prevent her from having any contact with the outside world so that his plan would carry out smoothly.
He knew he could not hide the fact that he had drugged Niamh, so he needed to admit it.
He also knew that Niamh would not want to go back to F Country with him as he could sense that she started to develop feelings for Kendrick again. That was why he planned to create a conflict between Niamh and Kendrick by involving Lillian in an accident.
However, Niamh told him that she would go back to F Country with him out of the blue. This shocked him, but when that happened, it was already too late for him to stop his plan.
He was left with no choice but to let Niamh suffer the pain of losing a child.
From the looks of it now, it was good that he did not stop the plan. Even if Niamh refused to go back with him, at least her relationship with Kendrick was utterly destroyed.
She would not forgive him now.
She would not forgive a man who lost her most treasured child.
…
After Kendrick went home, he locked himself in his room and kept looking at the security footage of the dessert shop.
He suspected that Felipe was the one behind it. Since Lillian was not his daughter, that was why he was able to do it.
Plus, if no one deliberately planned this, how would it be possible that none of the cameras captured Lillian?
The only person who could do this was Felipe.
Kendrick looked at the footage again and again. As he looked at the lively and cheeky child in the video, his vision became blurry again.
His daughter. He did not even get the chance to hear her call him ‘daddy’ before she left him forever.
What hurt him more was that he could not see his daughter for the last time before she was turned into ashes.
Kendrick held a bouquet of sunflowers and came to the cemetery.
The words ‘Lillian Waldburg’ on the tombstone stabbed his heart like a knife.
“Lillian.”
His fingers caressed the words on the tombstone. The cold sensation under his fingertips made him remember the time he lost Niamh.
This seemingly familiar pain felt like a net that trapped his heart, making it difficult for him to breathe.
‘Why are you here?”
He heard Niamh’s voice from behind him. He stood up after being taken aback.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
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