“Are you awake?” Yui suddenly appeared before Felipe and called out gently.
“I saw a lot of people chasing after you yesterday. I didn’t dare interrupt, so I quietly followed behind instead.”
Felipe stared at the dressed wounds. “You were the one who saved me yesterday?”
Yui’s eyes flashed as she nodded. “Yeah, I did! I majored in medicine back in school!”
Felipe stood with difficulty, prompting Yui to help him. However, Felipe only evaded her. Reaching into his pocket, Felipe threw a card at Yui’s feet. “200,000, for saving me yesterday. Don’t follow me again.”
200,000?
Yui stared at the card by her feet in awe.
Just like that?
She would have an infinite amount to spend if she stayed by his side!
What more was that the man was handsome and loyal. How could she not fall for him?
…
Kendrick woke to receive notice of Felipe’s incident the night before.
Seeing Niamh still asleep, Kendrick quietly got up and left for the location where Felipe had gotten hurt.
All he saw was a pool of diluted blood and no Felipe.
He was about to investigate further when Niamh suddenly called to ask where he had gone.
Kendrick immediately sped back to the villa and was met with the two kids in the living room, eating the breakfast Niamh made them.
Watching the two obedient siblings, Kendrick felt his heart grow warmer.
Having sent the children to kindergarten, Kendrick then brought Niamh to the company.
The knowledge of Felipe being chased for his life shocked Niamh, but she could not think of who would do such a thing.
Niamh felt upset whenever she thought about Cathy, so she decided to start working at Kendrick’s new company for the time being.
She called it ‘going to work’, but as the president’s wife, she decided when she wanted to clock in.
They had just alighted the car and walked into the building when the female receptionist approached Niamh with a bouquet of bright red roses.
Kendrick instinctively stepped in front of Niamh. “What’s with the flowers?”
Seeing Kendrick’s cold expression, the receptionist stuttered while saying, “Mr. Waldburg, a man came in and passed us this bouquet just now, saying that it’s for Mrs. Waldburg. He also said…”
“What did he say?”
Kendrick pressed on as his expression darkened.
The receptionist stammered, “The man said, every rose for Mrs. Waldburg represented his—”
“His feelings.” A man’s voice sounded from afar. “Aren’t your hiring qualifications a little too low, Kendrick? How could you have a stuttering receptionist?”
Kendrick was already pissed to know that a man had come to send Niamh roses.
Yet now when he heard the arrogant voice, the flames of fury within him quelled instead.
Niamh turned around to see Fabian walking toward them carefreely with his hands in his pockets. His silver locks were grandiose and eye-catching.
“Are you trying to provoke me by sending this to my wife, Fabian?” Kendrick asked teasingly.
“Don’t be so quick to get jealous, President Waldburg. Roses don’t always have to mean that way,” Fabian replied meaningfully.
Niamh glanced at the bouquet and counted there to be a total of 30 flowers.
She smiled faintly. “30 roses. Young Master Fabian, is it in remembrance of our encounter?”
“My lady knows best.” Fabian smiled and nodded at Niamh before turning to glance arrogantly at Kendrick. “Keep up, President Waldburg.”
Kendrick opted to ignore Fabian, not wanting to fight with a puppy.
Niamh helped defend Kendrick, saying, “However, roses do more often come with deeper meanings. Perhaps you should opt to send roses to the girl you fancy, Young Master Fabian. I’m sorry that I cannot accept your flowers, for I will only accept roses from my husband.”
Kendrick’s mood immediately lightened and his adoration for Niamh grew.
Fabian pouted hurtfully as he spoke in a coquettish tone, “No one has ever rejected my flowers before. You’re the first one, my lady.”
Niamh had no desire to chat with Fabian as he was after part of the darker societies in F Country. She only maintained contact because he had saved Lillian in the past.
“Why are you here in Glendale, Fabian?” Niamh asked.
Fabian schooled his carefree expression to a meaningful smile. “I came to see how despair looks like on Felipe.”
Niamh and Kendrick shared a look. “You know what happened to him?”
“Of course I do. I also know that he was chased by his own men after trying to dismiss his forces, even suffering a few bullet wounds. He’s missing as far as I know.”
Kendrick immediately thought of the blood he saw that morning.
Felipe’s wounds were hardly light.
“Why would he suddenly think to dismiss his forces?” Niamh asked curiously.
“They say it’s because of a woman. I thought that it might be you, my lady, but it doesn’t seem like it now that I’m here.”
Seeing the confusion on Fabian’s expression, Niamh had a hypothesis.
Could it be for Cathy?
Had Felipe woken up because of Cathy’s death?
Yet what could he do now? Cathy was not coming back.
Nothing he did could ever change the fact that he had killed Cathy.
Niamh thought to herself and strode away, only to have a delivery boy appear behind her with a cart.
Watching the cart closing in onto Niamh’s belly, Kendrick frightfully reached out to pull her into his arms.
“Nia, watch out!”
The delivery boy was on the phone. Realizing he had almost gotten into an accident, he frantically apologized.
Kendrick’s heart had not calmed, and his expression darkened.
Seeing him close to exploding, Niamh accepted the apology and sent the delivery boy away.
“I’m alright. Don’t worry, relax.”
Niamh comforted the man.
However, Kendrick remained staring heavily at Niamh with a solemn look in the corner of his eyes.
“Of course, I’ll be worried. I can’t bear to see you hurt at all, not even a scratch.”
Fabian third-wheeled by the side.
He was about to ask how Lillian was doing when a woman walked over.
She had a grey bob and was dressed in clothes that hugged her seductive figure. Walking over, she gave a friendly smile and introduced herself.
“Hello, I’m Lana Johnson, Fabian’s elder sister.”
It turned out Fabian had an older sister as well.
Neither Kendrick nor Niamh wanted to be too close to the Johnson family, so the man wrapped his arms around Niamh and turned.
“The Waldburg boys are just more alluring than the other.”
Lana quirked her red lips with interest as she stared with a joyful smile in the direction Kendrick and Niamh left.
Walking Niamh to her office, Kendrick asked curiously, “How did you know what those 30 roses represented, Eveline?”
“You always used to get 88 roses for the person in the cemetery, so I searched it up.”
Kendrick was stunned.
The 88 roses were a testament of his will to make up for the past, as well as how he felt then.
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.