Niamh glanced at Lana. “I said, I have something to tell you.”
A faint smile appeared on Kendrick’s handsome face. “There are no outsiders here. My business is also my girlfriend’s business. If Miss Montgomery has something to say, just say it.”
Kendrick’s contemptuous attitude made Niamh’s heart go completely dead.
Just as she was about to speak, Lana walked over leisurely and leaned close into Kendrick’s side. Her tone was coquettish when she said, ”Kendrick, as your rightful girlfriend, I won’t bother your talk with this Miss Montgomery. I’ll go to the dessert shop downstairs to make a reservation. I’ll wait for you to come down and have afternoon tea with me later.”
Kendrick smiled at Lana softly. “Alright, you go ahead first. I’ll come down and accompany you soon.”
“Alright.” Lana curled her red lips and walked past Niamh with a complacent smile. “Miss Montgomery, I heard that you’re to be married to Ryan Jones soon. Since you can find a man to marry you just after your divorce, your methods sure aren’t simple.”
Lana provoked her arrogantly.
Niamh opened her mouth without urgency, saying, “Speaking of methods, how can I be compared to you, a little mistress who has an audacity that’s thicker than the city walls?”
“…” Lana’s expression suddenly collapsed. “Eveline, you—”
“Lana, you know in your heart what you are. If you want to continue handing me opportunities to shoot you down, then you can just continue to do so.”
“…”
Lana pressed her red lips tightly, her face pale with anger.
Thinking she had set up a trap to deal with Niamh before this only to be completely devastated by Niamh, Lana gritted her teeth and turned her head to smile softly at Kendrick.
“Kendrick, your ex-wife is really like a hedgehog. No wonder you didn’t want her. I’ll wait for you downstairs, so come quickly.”
Lana turned her body, stared at Niamh, and finally left.
Kendrick felt his body was much cleaner then. Just as he was about to open his mouth, he heard Niamh say to him in a cold voice, “Kendrick, I won’t stop you from seeing the children, but don’t you speak nonsense to Jack.”
Hearing this, the man quickly thought of his conversation with Jackson last night.
At that time, the feeling of reluctance that surged in his heart for the child made him blurt out those words.
Niamh looked at the man with a calm face and asked him in a deep tone, “What do you mean by looking for Jack’s grandfather and grandmother? Are you trying to tell me that my parents are still alive, or are you wanting to tell me that you want to atone for what happened to my mom and dad with death?”
Her emotions were gradually and involuntarily skimming the edge of collapse as she looked at the man with sharp furrowed brows.
“Kendrick, let me tell you this, even if you die, you can’t ever atone for my parents! Even if you really die, I won’t forgive you!”
Kendrick seemed to be listening to Niamh’s words calmly, but his right hand that was under the table was clenched till his fingertips turned white.
Niamh’s fists were also clenched as she looked at the expressionless man.
“Stop talking nonsense to my children, or I won’t let you see them again,” she solemnly warned. Seeing that he was still silent, Niamh walked up to him impatiently.
“Do you hear me, Kendrick? I won’t allow you to speak about these things with the children anymore! You’re not allowed to use any negative and decisive means to atone for my dead parents.”
With these last words, Niamh could only choke on her sobs.
Kendrick let go of his clenched hands and stood up unhurriedly. He faced Niamh with a heavy expression, saying in an extremely cold tone, “What I want to do or say is not up to you. If you have time, you should go take care of your fiancé. I’m no longer your husband and no longer your man, so don’t come to me again.”
The words he uttered from his lips were filled with intense dissatisfaction.
His cold eyes had the same dismissive feeling as back then.
Niamh looked at this resolute and stern face without any expectation or light in her eyes.
“Don’t worry, I’ll never come to you again. You’re no longer the one I love. The moment you chose Lana, I had already given up on you.”
“That’s for the best,” Kendrick sneered with the corners of his seductive lips, “I don’t want to be thought of by you anymore. Do you know that in the past few years, I really grew tired of your attachment to me?”
Tired.
It turned out that he had been tired of her love and attachment toward him since a long time ago.
Niamh’s cold heart shuddered again.
At this moment, her cell phone rang. Ryan was calling.
Niamh picked up the call and Ryan’s gentle voice sounded. “I’m downstairs Waldburg Corporation. Will you still take long?”
Niamh adjusted her emotions and replied, “Ryan, I’ll head down right away. Please wait for me for a few minutes.”
“Don’t worry. If the one who’s waiting is you, I won’t ever feel tired after waiting.” Ryan’s profession of his love for her fell into Niamh’s ears and also into Kendrick’s.
He turned around without any surprise and looked straight out of the window casually, but he could not help but look toward the door downstairs.
He vaguely saw a silver-white car parked at the entrance. It was Ryan Jones’ car.
Kendrick was in a daze when he suddenly heard Niamh’s audible warning coming from behind him.
“Kendrick, you’d better not think that Lana will still have a good life to live. With every passing day that my parents’ grievances are not avenged, she’d better not think of continuing to be at ease.”
His gaze changed when he heard those words, and when he looked back, Niamh had turned around and was walking toward the door. He quickly stepped forward and grabbed her wrist.
Niamh was caught off guard, and Kendrick grabbed her waist when she lost her balance.
She raised her gaze sharply, her beautiful eyes meeting his cold and deeply electrifying ones.
The moment their gazes met, a subtle and warm current flowed through the tips of their hearts, but this feeling was soon destroyed by their indifferent gazes.
“Eveline Montogmery, don’t mess with Lana,” he warned, but this was actually a piece of kind advice to her.
However, he also expected that Niamh would not listen to him anymore. She would only misinterpret this sentence as him defending Lana.
Sure enough, Niamh’s eyes became sharp and piercing. “You allowed her to provoke me yet again, but I can’t fight back? Kendrick, did I underestimate your lack of feelings for me, or were your acts of loving and protecting me before just a big joke?
“Don’t misunderstand either. It’s not that I want to provoke Lana, but it’s that she keeps trying to destroy my life in order to get you. She has even killed my parents. Do I have to wait for her to come at me again and harm my child?”
Niamh pushed the frowning man away.
“I don’t know why you want to be with this woman, but at least I know that it’s because you don’t love me that you can hold other women in your arms.”
She was disappointed and left without stopping.
Kendrick watched Niamh’s figure walking away and endured the pain of being eaten away by the toxins. He did not return to the desk until the figure in his pupils disappeared. Then, he took out a painkiller from the drawer and swallowed it.
He observed the security footage of the building’s entrance, and it did not take long before Niamh got into Ryan’s car and they left together.
Kendrick continued looking at the screen even when she had left, his eyes looking gloomy.
‘Nia, how could I not love you?
‘How could I?’
‘You’re the woman I have engraved into my life—into my bones and blood.
‘It’s just that destiny has to arrange things like this, arrange for you and me to have no future together.
‘I don’t regret meeting you in this life. Only you have allowed me to gain true happiness.’
…
Niamh was seated in Ryan’s car. Looking at the empty ring finger on her left hand, she inevitably remembered her separation and reunion with Kendrick over the years.
She was suddenly confused. In these years, had Kendrick ever really loved her?
Surely he had.
That was why he was able to protect her at all costs back then.
That was why when he had hugged her to sleep previously, he would show a pure childlike smile.
‘But Kendrick, what wrong step did we take that things have turned out this way between us…’
Her heart ached silently. Ryan stretched out his hand suddenly and gently held hers. He did not say anything and just gave Niamh a warm look.
“I want to make the wedding matters a little simpler. What do you think?” Ryan asked for Niamh’s opinion gently.
The Joneses were a famous family in Glendale. Now that Ryan was getting married, the wedding was bound to be a sensation.
Niamh thought that this might be the case because she had been married twice, got divorced twice, and had three children. Ryan’s father and mother would probably feel ashamed, so she wanted to keep a low profile. Hence, she just nodded in agreement. However, she then heard Ryan say, “That’s not what I meant. I’ve considered that you might return to Kendrick’s side in the future, so keeping a low profile would also be better for you.”
This answer surprised and moved Niamh, but it also made her feel guilty.
“Rye, I’m not being impulsive in wanting to marry you, neither is it to go against Kendrick.
“Maybe fate and timing are important. Kendrick and I have been going around in circles for so many years, and in the end, we’ve reached the point of severance. Perhaps this is my destiny as is his.”
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.