Kendrick did not continue to search for who it was as he was more worried about Niamh who had yet to regain consciousness.
He entered the ward and was met with Niamh’s eyelids twitching as if she was about to wake.
“Nia.” Kendrick strode toward the bed to grab her hand.
Niamh blinked open her exhausted eyes and with her blurred vision, she stared at the man’s worried expression.
“Kendrick…” she called his name weakly. She tried to sit up, but her head felt heavy.
Kendrick reached out to wrap an arm around her shoulders. “Don’t make such big movements yet, Nia.”
Limp, Niamh leaned against Kendrick’s embrace as she finally sat up.
She had no idea what happened to her except the fact that she felt weak. She looked up to meet the man’s gaze that was full of concern. “What happened, Kendrick? Why did I suddenly faint? I was fine moments before, wasn’t I?”
Kendrick lifted his hand to caress Niamh’s hollow cheek. “Your leg somehow got cut and you lost a lot of blood.”
Her leg got hurt?
Niamh was confused because she could not remember when she got herself hurt.
When she tried to focus, she found that the outer side of her left thigh was indeed in pain.
“Chupse.” She sucked in a painful breath.
Kendrick frowned as his heart hurt for her. “Does it hurt a lot?”
“Yeah.” Niamh nodded, not trying to look strong.
She felt exhausted, and at that moment, all she wanted to be was a lady he could dote on. All she wanted was to be comforted and held in his warm arms.
Kendrick’s heart clenched at how weak she looked. He tightened his arms and kissed her between her brows.
“Where did you even go today, Nia? How do you not know how you got hurt?” Kendrick did not tell Niamh that she had been filmed and the videos of her had gone viral online. He did not want her to worry about something he had already dealt with. Moreover, he was curious about where she went.
Niamh looked down guiltily, knowing that she could not tell him.
“I went to the office but never expected that someone would try to steal my bag on the way back. I must’ve gotten hurt while I was chasing the thief,” she explained. It was not a complete lie.
Kendrick knew that one call was all it took for him to clarify if Niamh had gone to the office at all, but he did not want to resort to such methods.
Niamh’s mind was somewhere else as well, so she changed the subject. “I’m a little hungry, Kendrick. Could you buy me something to eat?”
“What do you want to eat?”
“I’ll eat anything my husband buys for me.” Niamh’s eyes turned into crescent moons as she smiled.
Placing a kiss at the corner of her lips, Kendrick turned around to help Niamh sit properly on the bed before he left.
Just as Kendrick left, Niamh pushed her exhausted and weak body up to reach for her bag by the side.
Her memory seemed to have returned. Her left leg did indeed seem to have touched something when she was in the river. Now that she thought about it, it must have been a rock that gave her the gash.
Niamh thought to herself as she opened her bag.
However, after a round of rifling, all she found were her keys, wallet, and lipstick. The most important anti-toxoid test reagent bottle was gone!
Niamh’s heart raced frantically. She searched again but came up empty-handed.
“How could it be gone?” She was confused. Thinking about the moment she jumped into the river until she got back up on shore and drove back to the manor, she remembered checking her bag and the bottle of anti-toxoid test reagent was still there. Where was it now?
She needed to inject Kendrick with the anti-toxoid test reagent today. She could not lose the anti-toxoid test reagent now!
Niamh threw the covers off and got off the bed, ignoring the pain.
Anxious, she searched the entire room but it was to no avail.
“Did Kendrick take it?” Niamh could only think of such a possibility.
Panicking, she reached for the phone by her pillow and was about to call Kendrick when the hospital room door opened.
“Were you looking for this, Eveline Montgomery?” A woman’s voice sounded by the door.
Niamh spun around to see the woman behind the threatening calls whom she had met in the hospital basement the other day.
The woman was slim and wore a pair of sunglasses just like the other day.
Niamh did not have the mind to think deeper into who this woman was for her eyes were locked on the antidote in her hands.
“Why do you have my things? Give it back to me!” Niamh ignored her injury and marched over to snatch it back.
The woman curled her red lips and side-stepped out of Niamh’s path.
Niamh’s body was weak. She reached out to hold the wall for support as she took a deep breath to regulate her condition.
“Tsk. What a pity. Not only did you give your body away, but you also gave your life just for this antidote. What a great sacrifice you’ve made for Kendrick,” the woman sneered.
Niamh spun around, her pale complexion turning dark. “Shut your mouth and all that nonsense it’s spewing. Give my antidote back to me!”
Niamh did not want to fight with this woman for she felt that this woman knew of the trade she had made with Ryan. This woman had come prepared, or she would never try to steal the antidote.
Yet Niamh had never done anything by the lines of giving her body away!
Walking back to grab his phone, Kendrick arrived at the hospital ward and was about to push the door when he heard the voice of an unfamiliar woman sneering inside.
“Stop pretending already, Eveline Montgomery. I saw you. You and Ryan met secretly by the hospital entrance when your daughter was admitted to the hospital. He brought you home and when you two were done, he brought you back to the hospital too. How kind of him.”
Niamh had not expected this woman to have seen them back then. She had no idea why this woman had her eyes on her either. “Who are you?”
The woman smirked sinisterly and waved the antidote in her hands. “You’ll know the answer to that in due time. The question now is whether you want this or not?”
Of course, Niamh wanted the antidote back, but it was obvious that this woman did not have any good intentions.
“I’ll give it to you if you want, Eveline. Although, we’ll have to see if you can catch it or not!”
The woman scoffed before suddenly raising her hand to throw the antidote at the balcony.
Niamh’s heart lurched. “No!”
Niamh shouted to stop her, but it was already too late.
That woman was dead set on throwing the antidote away!
Niamh leaped to catch the bottle, but it flew out the balcony and down to the ground.
She reached out to catch it only to touch the air. “No!”
Seeing the scene from the small window on the door, Kendrick slammed open the door and ran toward Niamh.
The woman in sunglasses was shocked to see Kendrick rush in.
Seeing that Kendrick did not realize her presence at all, she was relieved but also displeased.
Kendrick shot toward Niamh’s side and pulled her into his arms in shock as he watched her reach out to catch the antidote.
“Nia! What are you doing?” Kendrick cupped her face as hurt swirled in his eyes. He was staring at her frantic and reddened eyes. “What is it? Why are you so nervous?”
Niamh could not answer Kendrick’s question. Pushing him away, she ignored the injury on her leg and ran out.
Kendrick turned around to find that the woman had disappeared.
Without thinking too much into it, he dashed after Niamh.
The sky had darkened long ago and the scarce streetlamps could hardly light up their surroundings.
Niamh seemed to have forgotten the fact that she was a patient as she ran to the area directly below her hospital ward. Disregarding her injury and the dirt, she began to rifle through the flower bed.
There was no wind and with the weight of the bottle, there was no way it would have been blown away by the wind.
It had to be here somewhere.
Niamh looked up, and for a moment, she realized that she had no idea which level her ward was on.
With no way to decide, her only option was to pray that the antidote had fallen into the flower bed. For if it fell onto the ground, then the bottle would surely have shattered.
No way!
It could not shatter!
Niamh continued searching as the back of her hand began to bleed after the leaves cut into her. However, she did not realize it as her mind was solely on searching for the bottle that had been tossed out of the balcony.
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