She gasped hard and looked at him with expectation in her misty, damp eyes.
Time passed quietly, and when she saw that Kendrick was ignoring her, Niamh smiled bitterly before slowly putting down her weak hand.
At that moment, Kendrick suddenly reached out and took her hand.
His touch seemed to have injected a surge of strength into Niamh’s body and mind.
She opened her increasingly weary eyes in surprise and saw the cold man.
“If it hurts, just scream.” The man’s tone was cold, but there was warmth at the corners of his eyes.
The corners of Niamh’s eyes were hot with tears as she held Kendrick’s hand tightly. She was finally able to release the emotions that she had been suppressing for a long time.
She never imagined that she would have to face such a difficult delivery without the help of medical staff and that the baby would be delivered prematurely.
In the chaos, Niamh heard the cries of a child.
She breathed a sigh of relief as tears streamed down her face. All of her strength was instantly drained.
Before she could take a look at the baby who she had just given birth to, Niamh heard Karen yelling violently, “My child, stay awake! Why is there so much blood?! Eveline!”
Niamh no longer had the strength to open her eyes again and passed out.
She started dreaming a long dream in which Kendrick broke free from her hand and abandoned her.
Amidst the pain, Niamh suddenly opened her eyes and woke up.
“Eveline!” Eloise, who had been staying beside Niamh’s bed, saw that Niamh had woken up. She held her hand in distress and stroked her haggard cheeks. “Eveline, I’m so glad that you’re awake… I’m so glad…”
Niamh recalled what happened before she fell asleep and tried to feel her abdomen.
The child had already been born.
“Where’s the baby?” she asked weakly, but she was fully conscious.
“And Jack, where’s Jack?”
“I received the message you sent to me before you went to Kendrick. I was worried that something would happen to you, so I went straight to the address that you sent me to look for you. When I arrived, I found out that you’ve given birth prematurely.
“The baby is asleep in the incubator at the moment. The doctor said that the baby’s organs aren’t fully developed yet, so we’ll have to keep the baby here for observation for a period of time.” Eloise soothed her. “Jack is fine. No one kidnapped him. He came back by himself.”
“He came back by himself?” Niamh wanted to understand what happened.
Lana had tricked her on purpose. The truth was that Jackson was fine. Lana just wanted to trick Niamh to come to the villa.
However, Lana had achieved her goal. She was inducted into labor, bled heavily, and almost died along with her premature baby.
Fortunately, Lana suddenly had something to attend to and left early.
The most fortunate thing was that at the last moment, Kendrick stretched out his hand to her.
However, when she remembered how cold he looked as he ignored her, Niamh could not help but feel horrible.
When Eloise saw that Niamh was getting sad, she wiped away her tears with her heart aching. “Eveline, you’ve had to suffer again.”
Niamh smiled calmly. “Aa long as the kids are fine.”
She touched her belly and felt like she had no energy left within her.
“By the way, Mom, is the baby a boy or a girl?”
Eloise tried to create some anticipation. “Do you want a boy or a girl?”
Niamh parted her pretty pale lips and smiled slightly. “As long as it’s a child with Kendrick, I don’t mind having a boy or a girl.”
Eloise was initially very happy, but when she heard her answer, her eyes got wet again.
She squeezed Niamh’s hand and said, “Back then, you held this same belief and risked your life to give birth to his child too, didn’t you?”
Niamh smiled without denying it.
Back then…
Back then, she loved Kendrick so badly that she would not mind if it meant dying for him.
She did not think there was anything different now too.
She still loved him a lot.
“It’s a boy,” Eloise told her as she teared up and laughed. “An ugly boy.”
Niamh smiled as well. “When he grows up, he’ll be handsome. I bet Jack was ugly when he was born too,” she said , suddenly turning silent.
She had never seen how Jackson looked like when he was born…
Niamh spent more than half a month in the hospital to recuperate from her injuries and for her postpartum confinement.
Although they found a caregiver, Eloise and Sean took turns taking care of her every day, sometimes bringing Jackson and Lillian along with them.
That day, Eloise and Niamh had just finished watching the child in the incubator together and were heading back to the ward when they passed through the corridor and unexpectedly saw Karen walking out of Niamh’s ward. She looked cautious and had a bag with her. After she came out, she turned around and walked in the opposite direction.
Niamh did not understand why she was there, and Eloise called out to her, “Karen? Did you just come out of the ward? What did you secretly do in my daughter’s ward?”
Karen, who was called out, hid the bag in her hand behind her with a guilty conscience.
“I’m just passing by. I just went in to have a look,” she replied indifferently.
“Then what are you holding? If it’s nothing, why are you hiding it?” Eloise questioned her, her dislike for Karen evident on her face.
“It has nothing to do with you,” Karen said, quickly glancing at Niamh before turning around and leaving.
“You…” Eloise wanted to find out what happened, but Niamh grabbed her before she could.
Back in the ward, Niamh saw a flask placed in front of the hospital bed.
In the past half a month, every time she came back from watching the child, there would be a flask on the table.
Niamh remembered that Karen loved testing out food recipes and had always been proud of the food she made.
Although Niamh and Karen had always been tit for tat and never got along well, she knew how Karen’s food tasted like.
It tasted like her cooking.
When Niamh recalled how anxious Karen was for her as she guarded her and even called Niamh her child, Niamh felt relieved.
Karen was not a bad person.
She was just too easily provoked.
All the misunderstandings and distance between them were caused by outsiders’ instigation.
One month later, Niamh reached the end of her postpartum confinement and her body was fully recovered. However, she was still worried about her son who was still in the incubator.
On the other hand, she was even more worried about Kendrick.
He seemed to have been brainwashed by Lana. Not only had he completely forgotten her, but he was even being used by Lana to do her illegal business biddings.
After she got better, Niamh told Sean and Eloise that it was okay for them to go back after dinner. She stood outside the nursery and looked at the little baby through the glass window.
‘Baby, promise me that you’ll be healthy.’
Niamh raised her hand and gently placed it on the glass window. When she was staring at the baby, a handsome figure was suddenly reflected on the glass window.
She was stunned for a moment. When Niamh saw the figure approaching from behind, she turned around swiftly.
“Kendrick,” Niamh said with joy, “Did you come to see our baby?”
Kendrick looked at Niamh who was smiling and walked to the glass window indifferently. He looked at the newborns lying in the incubator in the nursery. His thin lips parted slightly as he asked, “Which one is yours?”
His tone was so weak that one could not tell any emotions from it.
Niamh smiled and told him, “The second in the last row, the smallest one.”
There was a beam of joy in her beautiful eyes as her slender fingers pointed at the little infant who was fast asleep. “It’s a boy. He’ll probably look like you in the future.”
“How can your son look like me?” The man’s words suddenly felt like a basin of cold water that was poured over Niamh.
She looked at the cold man in surprise. “Kendrick?”
“Are you still dreaming about that? Your husband Kendrick is already dead,” he said bluntly without mercy, his harsh words piercing Niamh’s heart like an invisible ice pick.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
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