Before he could explain and warn Niamh, he sprinted toward her and hugged her tightly from behind.
Niamh did not know why Kendrick was suddenly hugging her, but she heard him make a muffled groan by her ear.
She turned her head in confusion and saw Kendrick’s eyebrows furrowed, but he was still looking at her with a gentle gaze.
“What’s up with you?” Niamh looked at him curiously when she caught sight of a big red patch on Kendrick’s back.
Niamh got up suddenly, her face stricken with panic. “Kendrick, what’s wrong?!”
Lana saw this scene through the binoculars. She ordered again in dissatisfaction, “Go on, until she gets hit.”
The sniper obeyed and fired again.
Kendrick sensed the danger and used his body to block a bullet for Niamh once more.
Kendrick was shot in the leg, and Niamh’s eyes were stained with fresh blood.
“Kendrick!” she exclaimed.
Jackson hurriedly raised his hands to cover Lillian’s eyes while comforting gently. “Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid.”
Kendrick hugged Niamh’s shoulder in pain and returned to the room.
Ken immediately sped up the yacht after he noticed something unusual.
However, more and more bullets hit the yacht. Soon, the yacht began smoking and leaking oil, showing signs of an impending explosion.
Ken quickly reported to Kendrick, “Mr. Waldburg, the yacht is about to blow up.”
Kendrick’s gaze darkened. Although the loss of blood had made his breathing weaker and weaker, his tone was still strong and domineering. “Take Nia and the two kids onto a life raft. Quick!”
However, Niamh turned a deaf ear to his words. She took a small medical box and ran to Kendrick’s side to treat his wound.
“Nia, quickly take the kids and go!” Kendrick pushed her away with great effort, but his gaze was full of reluctance. “Go, Nia. As long as you’re safe, I’ll feel at ease.”
“I’ll never go! Don’t tell me what to do, Kendrick!” Niamh shouted in a whisper at the man in tears. She turned her head and yelled at Ken, “Take Jack and Lillian right away! Go!”
Seeing that the situation was pressing, Ken hurriedly went to prepare the life raft.
Kendrick was shot twice—one in his back and another in his leg. The dark red blood was flowing continuously out of the man’s wounds.
Kendrick’s face paled visibly. He even began to appear drowsy and tired.
“Kendrick, don’t sleep. Hang in there, I won’t allow anything to happen to you!” Niamh’s voice trembled, her hands that were holding the gauze also trembling severely.
She wanted to treat his wounds, but she could not do anything well.
Looking at her who was full of tears, Kendrick raised his hand strenuously and gently wiped the tears that flowed from her eyes.
His voice was still so nice, but his breathing was extremely weak.
Niamh picked up the blanket on the bed with teary eyes and pressed hard on Kendrick’s wound, but the snow-white blanket was soon dyed red.
She was at a loss and did not know what to do. Hot tears fell on the man’s face drop by drop.
Kendrick’s blood-stained hand tightly gripped Niamh’s. “Don’t cry anymore. Be a good girl and leave with Lillian and Jack.”
Niamh shook her head, her gaze determined. “I’ll never leave!”
“Nia…”
“Kendrick, you must hang in there. You still haven’t seen the birth of the child in my belly. You still haven’t heard Lillian call you ‘Daddy’. I won’t let anything happen to you!”
Kendrick’s tired eyes looked at Niamh’s slightly protruded stomach. His thin lips moved lightly. “Lillian…”
Niamh wanted to call Lillian over, but Ken rushed in at this moment. “I’ve prepared the life raft! The yacht has caught on fire. I’m afraid it’ll explode soon. Mr. Waldburg, you…”
Kendrick held Niamh’s hand, his pale face full of seriousness. “Go, Nia. Take the kids and go.”
However, Niamh kept shaking her head. “I won’t go.” She gripped Kendrick’s hand tightly. “Kendrick, I’ll accompany you.”
“I don’t want your company, I want you to go. Nia, listen.”
“No…”
“Nia, I’ve let you down too many times in this life. If there’s a next life, I’ll love you and protect you from the beginning till the end…” His dizzying eyes stared at her affectionately. He exhausted his last bit of strength to break free from Niamh’s hand that was unwilling to let him go. “Go!”
He struggled to push her away. “Ken, take the mother and children and go!”
“Kendrick!” Niamh fell onto the deck, still thinking of going to him. However, she was pulled back by Ken.
“Don’t look for Adam anymore. He’s not a good person.” He looked at the woman who was full of tears and said weakly, “Find a man who really loves you for the rest of your life. I won’t simply get jealous anymore.”
He lifted the corner of his lips and gave a gentle smile at the end.
“Eveline, I love you.”
After Kendrick said these last words, his hand fell heavily onto the deck as his charming eyes closed tiredly.
Niamh’s heart seemed to have been stabbed by a thousand knives. The searing pain paralyzed all of her senses.
Other than the bright red that stung her eyes, he seemed to have turned gray in her eyes.
“Kendrick! Kendrick!”
Niamh let out a gut-wrenching cry, but the man did not respond anymore.
He was leaning against the door frame, his snow-white face bloodless.
She broke free from Ken with all her might, ran back to Kendrick, and hugged him so that he would be leaning in her arms.
“Kendrick, you promised me that you’ll give me happiness. But how can I be happy without you?
“Can you wake up?
“Kendrick, don’t sleep, I beg you…”
Ken helplessly looked at Kendrick who had lost consciousness. He could only try his best to live up to Kendrick’s entrustment and carried Lillian and Jackson onto the life raft first, then he returned to the yacht to look for Niamh.
However, Niamh was hugging Kendrick and did not want to let go. Ken had no choice but to forcefully pull Niamh away.
“Don’t pull me! If you guys want to go, just go! I must accompany him!” Niamh roared in a broken voice, not wanting to let go.
“Madam, have you forgotten about Young Lady Lillian and Young Master Jack?” Ken persuaded, saying, “They can’t lose both their father and mother.”
Niamh was stupefied, as if just remembering the two children.
“Hurry up, the yacht is really about to explode. You must live well and avenge Mr. Waldburg.”
Avenge.
Niamh looked at Kendrick who was lifeless with tearful eyes. She bowed her head and kissed him deeply.
“Kendrick, I love you too, you hear me?”
She had no other choice but to abandon him in the yacht cabin, get onto the life raft, and gradually move away from the yacht that was burning in the middle of the sea.
Not long after, the yacht exploded. The violent shock seemed to hit Niamh’s heart. It was so painful that nothing could possibly hurt more.
“Kendrick!”
She yelled his name heartbrokenly while facing the yacht that had exploded into pieces. In the next second, she lost her consciousness and fainted…
The ocean waves, the beach, and the young man.
Niamh ran barefoot toward the boy who was standing on the shore and smiling gently at her. As she ran though, he suddenly disappeared in front of her eyes.
“Ken!”
She shouted toward the endless sea, but only the sound of the ocean waves responded to her.
“Kendrick, Kendrick!”
Niamh suddenly opened her eyes and saw two pairs of pure, beautiful eyes staring at her.
“Mommy, time to wake up.” Lily’s pleasant voice followed.
“Mommy, are you alright?” Jackson asked with concern.
Niamh looked at the two cute little faces and remembered what happened before she fainted. Her eyes suddenly became panicked.
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.