Instead of falling into a fit of rage, Kendrick smiled at him.
“A marriage certificate is just a piece of paper, Ryan. I’m sure you’re well aware of who Eveline’s actual husband is.”
Displeasure tinted Ryan’s expression. He was about to speak when Niamh suddenly walked over.
Without hesitation, she went to stand next to Kendrick and looped her arm with his, showing a sweet smile on her face. “Let’s not waste our time on people who don’t matter, sweetheart. Let’s go home.”
“Yeah, let’s go home.” Kendrick wrapped his arm around Niamh’s shoulders as they both walked into the elevator without sparing Ryan another glance.
Watching the elevator doors close, anger sparked in Ryan’s expression while his gaze remained calm.
“You’ll come looking for me, Eveline Montgomery. Unless you want him to die.”
…
On the way back, Niamh thought of the words Ryan said to her.
She did not want to compromise with that man, but…
Niamh turned to look at the man in the driver’s seat. ‘I know you won’t want me to return to Ryan’s side.
‘You’d rather die than have me go to another man, wouldn’t you?’
Feeling Niamh’s gaze on him, Kendrick turned his head. “You keep looking at me. How can I help you?”
Suppressing the unease and worry, Niamh smiled. “My husband is so handsome, so I can’t help but look at you.”
Kendrick smiled and teased. “Is that why you’re so smitten with me? Because of my handsome looks?”
Niamh responded with a smile. It was a reply that Kendrick was well aware of.
It was a surprise that Karen was the happiest person to know that Niamh and Kendrick had gotten back together.
She had been filling the dinner table with flavorful dishes every day for a while now, waiting for Kendrick to fetch Niamh home so that the entire family could have dinner together.
However, in comparison to the two boys, Kendrick’s attitude toward Lillian was still cold.
Kendrick was guiding Jackson through homework after dinner when he felt a warm hand on his palm.
Looking down, he was met with Lillian’s gemstone-like eyes blinking at him as she smiled.
The warm smile was reflected in Kendrick’s eyes, warming his heart for a quick moment before the warmth slowly vanished.
He tried to pull his arm away, but the child tightened her grip and reached out with her other hand to stuff something into Kendrick’s palm before she made a run for it.
Staring at the adorable figure for a moment, Kendrick then unfurled his palm to look at what Lillian had stuffed inside.
This was a small heart folded from red paper.
It seemed to be nothing special.
However, for this little girl to want to give this little red heart to him, she probably had her own thoughts about it.
Kendrick thought silently, but when he raised his eyes, he saw the little girl standing by the door frame with only her small head revealed. Her lively eyes blinked, looking as if she was waiting for Kendrick to discover something.
When Kendrick turned over the little heart, he saw a few words that had been not so neatly written on the paper.
[Daddy, Lillian will be good.]
Seeing this sentence, Kendrick felt that he really deserved to die.
His little princess thought that her father ignored her because she was not being good, so she said she would be good and hoped that Kendrick could accept her.
A feeling of pain silently engulfed Kendrick’s heart. He looked at the red heart in his palm, then at the child who was smiling innocently. He then gently put the heart on the coffee table.
After he put it down, the smile on Lillian’s face disappeared.
The little girl pursed her small mouth. Unable to speak, she could only leave quietly.
“I’m sorry, Lillian.”
Kendrick looked in the direction the little girl had left in and apologized softly.
‘Lillian, you’re a good baby, but Daddy doesn’t want you to lose this parental love just after having it for a short while.
‘When you grow up, you’ll completely forget this ruthless and cold-blooded father. You’ll have Felipe as the best father in your mind.’
He picked up the little heart that Lillian had folded herself and cherished it in his palm.
…
Likely due to having been given the cold shoulder, Lillian was unable to make her mind stable and forget what had happened. As such, she also became depressed in these few days.
When she was in kindergarten, she became a little more absent-minded.
During a class activity, two nasty little boys laughed at Lillian in front of her face and pushed her around. “We don’t wanna play with a little mute.”
“Mute people don’t know how to laugh. We’ll be unhappy if we play with her!”
Lillian knew that the mute they were speaking of was herself and she frowned. Her big eyes held the same unbending stubbornness as Niamh.
These children pushed her around, but she did not bother with them. She just sat in her seat alone and painted quietly.
Lily’s indifference had likely caused dissatisfaction in the two nasty little boys, so they walked over and snatched the paintbrush as well as drawing paper from Lillian’s hands.
“Look at what the mute girl drew.”
“Hey, it’s ugly.”
“The little mute can’t speak and can’t even write words. We don’t want to be friends with such people!”
Lillian ignored the humiliation of these people and got up to get her painting back, but the two boys did not return it to Lillian. Instead, they went around her in circles.
“Does the little mute want to take the painting back? Then call us ‘brother’!”
One of the two boys put his hands on his hips arrogantly and with great panache.
Lillian pursed her small cherry blossom pink mouth and walked straight to the boy. She reached for the drawing paper, but the boy pulled hard and the drawing paper immediately tore into two pieces.
Lillian watched her ‘My Daddy’ that she had just drawn getting torn into two pieces and suddenly clenched her small fists.
With a power that she did not know where it came from from, she grabbed the collar of the little boy who had taken the lead in bullying her and pointed at the torn painting as if she was saying ‘Return the picture to me!’.
The little boy did not expect Lillian to have such a reaction and was also stunned.
In fact, he liked Lillian very much and wanted to be friends with her, but Lillian was always quiet like an exquisite doll. She rarely played with her classmates, so he thought of using this method to interact with Lillian.
Jackson was also in the activity class right now. When he went out to go to the bathroom, he had deliberately passed by Lillian’s class to take a peek when he saw such a scene.
A boy with a flat head was crying and wiping his tears while the teacher comforted him. At the same time, she was criticizing Lillian that she should not have done what she did.
Jackson hurried in, saw the torn paper in Lillian’s hand, and gradually understood something.
However, the kindergarten teacher was still criticizing Lillian. “Lillian, they just wanted to play with you. They didn’t mean to ruin your painting. How can you bully your classmates?”
The boy cried harder. “Teacher, Lillian is so fierce! I just wanted to be friends with her.”
“Do you hear them? Lillian, they didn’t have bad intentions.” The kindergarten teacher continued to comfort the little boy.
When Jackson saw Lillian staring at the aggrieved boy, he felt that things were definitely not that simple.
“Teacher, my sister wouldn’t casually bully others. Have you checked the surveillance to see what happened?”
The kindergarten teacher knew that Jackson and Lillian were brother and sister, but she did not expect Jackson, a child, to say such things.
She froze for a moment before saying solemnly, “Lillian’s brother, I’m a teacher. I will judge who is right and who is wrong. Regardless, your sister was not in the right. How can a girl be so rude?”
“So girls can only be bullied? Even if others say bad things, girls still have to smile and say, ‘You curse well and fight well’?”
The moment the teacher was done speaking, a cold, rhetorical question sounded from the door.
As soon as the kindergarten teacher looked up, she saw a tall figure coming in through the door.
With a sullen expression, Fabian walked to Lillian and crouched down. Looking at the tears the little girl was trying to hold back in her eyes, he got up quickly and looked at the kindergarten teacher with dissatisfaction. “Take out the surveillance footage immediately! If it turns out to be this brat who was picking a fight, I won’t just let this matter go.”
“…” The kindergarten teacher’s expression changed. “Who are you?”
“I’m Lillian’s family.” Fabian gave such an answer without hesitation, then said sharply, “Get the surveillance footage immediately!”
“…” The kindergarten teacher was shocked by Fabian’s aura and immediately got out to get the footage.
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.