Ryan had helped her with so many things throughout this period, so how could she let other people gossip about him?
However, the most important thing right now was that Niamh was also confused about whether that person was Kendrick.
Ryan could sense Niamh’s hesitation and conflict. He said softly, “The reason I married you is to protect you and your family. If that’s really him and he’s back, then I’ll hand you back to him.”
When Niamh heard that, she looked at the smiling man with no words to express her gratitude toward him. Her eyes were already filled with tears.
“You think that’s him too, right?” she asked in a shaky voice.
Ryan frowned in doubt. “Seems like it. He looks almost the same as Kendrick.”
Niamh shook her head lightly. No, he did not just look like him.
There were no two people in this world with the same features. No…
Niamh’s heart started racing. At this moment, she heard the man’s voice that was as clear as day coming from the crowd. He said, “Everyone, even though I’ve changed my image, don’t worry, I’m still the same man you know. I’m the current president of Waldburg Corporation, Kendrick Waldburg.”
The man’s seductive voice sounded hoarse when it fell into Niamh’s ears. At that moment, Niamh felt as if her heartbeat had gone into overdrive.
Tears escaped her eyes and drenched her face.
“Kendrick, you’re still alive. Kendrick…”
Niamh could not control her emotions anymore. She placed her wine glass down to walk over to that man.
However, Kendrick turned around at the same time. He had received a phone call and was walking toward the door.
“Go. He must’ve missed you,” Ryan smiled and said magnanimously.
“Thank you, Rye.” Niamh thanked and lifted the hem of her dress before walking in the direction where Kendrick left.
Ryan looked at her back and felt a hint of loss in his heart.
‘Eveline, even though the main reason for marrying you was to protect you, you have no idea that I’ve started to develop selfish reasons.’
Niamh walked out of the venue and walked along the red carpet in the corridor.
‘Kendrick, where did you go?”
‘Are you just an illusion that I conjured?
‘No, you can’t be. You must be around here.’
Niamh felt anxious. She looked around in hopes of finding Kendrick.
He looked so real just now, but now it was as if he had vanished and disappeared into thin air.
‘Kendrick.’
Niamh continued walking in confusion. When she walked past the staircase, a familiar hand reached out and grabbed her thin arm.
‘Kendrick!’
Niamh felt her heart stop for a second. Before she could see clearly, Kendrick pulled her into the staircase.
The man’s tall body towered over hers while his amber eyes were staring into Niamh’s confused and delighted ones under the dim lighting.
Niamh widened her eyes and lifted her hand to caress the face that was fairer than before.
“Kendrick, is that really you?”
She ran her fingers across his face shakily.
Before Kendrick could answer, she leaped into his arms and held his waist tightly.
“Kendrick, you’re still alive! This is great!
“I missed you, Kendrick. I missed you so much…”
Niamh poured out all of her longing and passion in her mind from these six months as she held him tighter and tighter.
She was so scared that she might be hallucinating again. She was scared that he would disappear from her sight, so she needed to hold him close and not let him disappear from her world again.
Even though she did not know why his appearance had changed so much, the feeling and the warmth of this hug told her that this was the man she loved the most.
The cold scent on his body was gone and was replaced with a faint smell of grass.
This refreshing and clean smell was soft and pure. When she took in more of his new scent, she felt like she was going to be obsessed with it.
Kendrick lowered his head to look at the woman in his arms. The joy of reuniting flashed across his eyes, but there was a subtle glint in his eyes.
He lifted his hand and caressed Niamh’s hair. “Don’t cry, I’m not dead,” he said in a calm voice. He sounded different than before.
Niamh removed herself from his arms reluctantly and lifted her teary eyes to look into the man’s gaze.
“Kendrick, what happened? What’s going on with that grave? Why did you become like this?” Niamh looked at him pitifully. She could not stop her tears from falling.
Kendrick lifted his hand to try to wipe away the tears from Niamh’s face. He did not explain anything. He merely smiled and lifted his finger to tuck Niamh’s hair behind her ear.
He placed his cold palm gently on the back of her neck as he moved his face closer to hers. “I won’t leave you again.”
“Kendrick…”
“Eveline Montgomery, you’re mine.”
After he said that, he leaned down and kissed Niamh on the lips.
Niamh opened her teary eyes and was stunned for a few seconds. However, she was submerged into the man’s gentle kiss soon after. She could feel him pulling her emotions arbitrarily…
The second Niamh closed her eyes, Kendrick opened his and looked at the exit of the staircase.
Ryan appeared in his vision at the same time and their eyes met.
Kendrick smirked slightly and continued to hold Niamh to deepen the kiss.
The party ended two hours later, and during this period, Niamh kept holding Kendrick as they sat on the staircase.
She did not want to let him go, and she did not feel that time had passed until Ryan sent her a message telling her it was time to leave. When that happened, Niamh remembered something.
“Kendrick, I need to go out with Rye. I’ll come to you after,” she said while getting up.
Kendrick grabbed her wrist and slowly stood up as well. “If you don’t want to never see me again, come home with me.”
Niamh stopped in her tracks to look at the man with a serious face.
Home.
He told her to go home with him.
Niamh felt her heart getting warmer. She lifted her hands again and held him.
“Okay, I’ll go home with you. Kendrick, let’s go home.” She had tears in her eyes as she circled her arms around his neck. Her heart was filled with longing for him.
He was not dead. He was back.
She did not want to lose this man anymore despite there still being a gap between them due to Eloise and Sean.
However, Kendrick had already ‘died’ once. The pain of loss made her realize how much she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him.
Niamh sent Ryan a message telling him that she would be going back with Kendrick. Aside from texting back [Okay.], Ryan did not say anything else.
Niamh felt remorseful when she saw this one-word reply.
Even though her marriage with Ryan was fake and he said he only married her to protect her, now that it had come to this stage, she kept feeling like she owed something to that man.
Kendrick noticed Niamh looking at her phone absent-mindedly. He frowned.
After they got back to Waldburg Manor, it was already late.
Everyone in the house had fallen asleep, including the children.
Niamh held Kendrick’s hand and they walked back to their bedroom. The moment they got in, Niamh held him. “Kendrick, I’m so happy that you’re able to come back to me once again.”
Kendrick did not say anything when he heard her heartfelt words. Instead, he just held her gently.
Niamh lifted her head to look at his emotionless face.
“Kendrick, what happened to you in these six months? Why did the color of your hair and eyes change? Even your voice… It’s different from before. Is it because of the poison?”
Niamh felt her heart breaking again when she asked this question.
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.