“My daughter was made mute by that psychotic woman. How can you have me continue pleasing that woman calmly?”
The man smiled kindly. “Kendrick, we’ve all seen it. You handled it well.”
‘Handled it well?’
Kendrick found it ironic. Only he knew how much pain he was enduring.
He suddenly regretted his decision to join IBCI.
After a few seconds of silence, Kendrick calmly parted his lips. “There seems to be a person behind Yorick. Based on my understanding of Lana’s words, Yorick seems to be very fearful of this person.”
The man paused when he heard the words, then said, “This man is our colleague.”
“Colleague?” Kendrick’s eyes narrowed. “Who’s this person?”
The person hesitated with difficulty before saying, “It’s not convenient to disclose his identity for the time being. This is for the sake of your safety and the mission.”
Kendrick did not want to push them for the answer. He knew the rules as well, so he did not ask any more questions.
It was just that he really did not expect someone to have had already penetrated into the Stygian Johnson Gang and was even able to make Yorick obey his orders. Despite the person’s influence, he was still unable to uproot the Stygian Johnson Gang, which showed how solid the foundation of the Stygian Johnson Gang was.
After Kendrick left the cafe, he drove to the gates of the kindergarten where Jackson and Lillian were studying.
He waited until the end of school, but he still did not see the brother and sister duo coming out from the kindergarten.
Feeling puzzled, he got out of the car and went to ask their teacher in charge.
The teacher in charge recognized Kendrick’s face and spoke a little apprehensively, “I’m really sorry about this, Mr. Waldburg. It’s because I didn’t look after Lillian well that she suffered a fright.
“Mrs. Waldburg said Lillian isn’t able to come to school these days. Jackson has also given a notice of absence.”
After hearing her reply, Kendrick’s mood became extremely heavy all of a sudden.
He drove to Waldburg Manor, parked the car far away, and walked to the door.
Coincidentally, the moment he arrived at the gates, he happened to see Jackson and Lillian playing in the yard.
There was a pure smile on Lillian’s delicate and cute face, but the only thing she did was smile. She was not communicating with Jackson at all.
She only communicated by either patting on Jackson’s hand or using her finger to point ahead. Her little pink mouth had not moved at all.
Kendrick’s thin lips were pressed tightly together. His eyes were already heating up, and his Adam’s apple was trembling as he sniffled.
Lillian really could not speak anymore.
Kendrick clenched his fists and blamed himself painfully.
He felt he had no right left to face this child again.
He asked himself, ‘What have I given this child?
‘Nothing at all.’
Never had he given her fatherly love or care.
He had never been a qualified father.
Kendrick felt guilty and blamed himself. As he was about to turn away and leave, a small ball rolled to his feet suddenly.
He looked down and caught a glimpse of Lillian running happily in his direction.
She came to pick up the ball, but when she saw Kendrick, Lillian’s approaching footsteps gradually stopped.
In those big and bright eyes, there were unexpected defensiveness and insecurity.
Kendrick was heartbroken. He picked up the ball and passed it to Lillian. However, Lillian looked at Kendrick and only shook her head. She pressed her lips tightly, turned, and ran away.
The instant the child ran away from him, Kendrick felt as if the color of the sky had turned gray.
“Lillian.” He called out the child’s name and walked toward Lillian with the ball in his hand. However, Lillian resisted and hid behind Jackson while shaking her head, not saying anything.
Kendrick could even notice the disappointment in the way Jackson was looking at him.
“Daddy, why are you helping the bad woman who bullied Mommy to bully my younger sister?” Jackson questioned him seriously.
Obviously, the bad woman Jackson was referring to was Lana.
Kendrick did not know how to explain it. He was a man with too many heavy missions and burdens on his shoulders, yet he could not take care of his own little family.
After thinking about it, he knelt down and looked at the two children with a gentle smile, handing the ball over. “Lillian, this is your ball, take it.”
However, Lillian did not respond. Instead, she raised her clear eyes and looked behind Kendrick carefully.
Kendrick noticed the abnormality. He stood up straight and looked over…
In fact, Kendrick already knew who had come over when he heard the familiar footsteps.
The moment he looked back, it was indeed Niamh he saw.
This was the woman he wished he could merge with into his own blood and life.
Niamh did not even spare Kendrick a glance, however. She walked straight to the two children. With a gentle and loving smile on her face, she touched the two cute and rosy faces. “Jack, go on in with your sister. Mommy will bake a cake for both of you in a while.”
Jackson nodded obediently. He held Lillian’s fair and tender little hand with his own small hand, glancing at Kendrick before turning away.
After watching the two children enter the house, the smile on Niamh’s face gradually dissipated.
“How dare you still come to see Lillian?” Niamh mocked him sarcastically. “Have you seen it now? Lillian can’t speak anymore. Are you satisfied with your girlfriend’s master plan?”
Kendrick did not respond to Niamh’s words. He only walked past her and gently put the small ball that was in his hand at the doorstep.
After leaving the ball, he walked off indifferently.
Niamh walked over to pick up the ball and threw it to Kendrick’s back.
The small ball was very light, but it felt as heavy as hundreds of pounds when it hit Kendrick’s back.
He stopped and heard Niamh’s approaching footsteps.
“There’s no one here now, Kendrick. Can’t you tell me now? Why on earth are you staying with Lana?” Niamh’s tone was obviously less aggressive and had turned softer.
“I don’t believe that you can really be so unfeeling. Even if you really don’t love me anymore, you wouldn’t be so cold to the children. The more you’re being so deliberately ruthless, the more suspicious it seems.”
Niamh walked up to him and looked at the man’s cold expression, her gaze sharp. “Kendrick, answer me. If you’re facing troubles, it’d be good enough if you just blink as a response.”
After she finished her sentence, the air went silent for a bit.
After a long interval, Kendrick smiled and raised the corners of his lips. “Eveline, you asking me this means that you still miss me and are hoping for something from me, right?”
He asked her in reply, a similar mocking expression appearing on his handsome face.
“You’re already a bride-to-be who’s going to marry another man. Stop having any more fantasies about me. Instead of us torturing each other, it’d be better for us to let each other go. You go be Madam Jones and don’t bother with who I’m with.”
“Is this the truth in your heart?” Niamh asked earnestly. Her eyes were shimmering as she still held the last glimmer of hope toward him.
Kendrick looked at the pair of beautiful eyes blankly and nodded when he thought of the few remaining days he had left.
“Eveline, I really loved you.”
‘So, so much.’
Once he was done talking, he brushed past her.
Niamh smiled and chewed on what he said—‘loved’.
It was merely ‘loved’.
After returning to the car, Kendrick began to cough non-stop. The tissue he used for wiping up was dyed with a large patch of dark red blood.
His hands that held the steering wheel trembled involuntarily as well.
The poison developed by Adam was really destructive.
However, he would rather die than rely on the cigarettes given by Lana.
He leaned back into the car seat tiredly, tears wetting the corner of his eyes.
‘Lillian, Daddy is sorry.
‘I hope that before I leave, I can still hear your sweet laughter and hear you happily call me ‘Daddy’.’
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.