Niamh looked at the face that had obviously gone through surgery. She seemed a little unfamiliar, but she would never forget those sinister and evil eyes.
She tightened her grasp on the woman’s collar as her beautiful eyes shot at her like a cold and sharp knife. “Lana!”
After Niamh found out who she was, a trace of panic flashed in Lana’s eyes. However, a sinister smile quickly appeared on her face. “How do you feel, Eveline? Are you pissed off? I told you that you’ll get a nervous breakdown if you find out who I am…”
Slap! Niamh refused to give Lana a chance to continue speaking and slapped Lana’s face fiercely. She was furious. “This is for my daughter who you made into a mute!”
Lana endured the pain and turned her face, gritting her teeth. “Eveline, you—”
Slap! Niamh slapped her again.
“…”
“This is for getting someone to kidnap my daughter and almost killing her!”
“…”
Slap! Slap!
Niamh used all her remaining strength to give her two more slaps. Lana’s cheeks were red with clear handprints on them.
“And this is for my husband!”
“…”
“Damn you, Lana!” Niamh’s anger seemed to have been triggered as she grabbed Lana by the neck and tightened her fingers fiercely.
Lana looked uncomfortable. She had her mouth open as if she wanted to cough. Her face was flushed red in an instant.
However, Niamh did not look like she was about to let go anytime soon. “It feels bad, doesn’t it? Do you know how painful it is to be dying? Does torturing others make you feel happy? Have a taste of how it feels to be tortured, then! How does it feel?! Does it feel good now?!”
“Eveli—you… Cough, cough!”
“I can’t believe someone like you got released. Heh.” Niamh chuckled, the temperature in her eyes suddenly dropping to freezing point. “If the law can’t punish you, then I’ll have to do it myself. For my kid and for the man I love the most, I need to avenge them.”
“…”
Niamh’s voice was soft but powerful.
Her gaze became even colder. She could not control her tightening fingers. She wanted Lana to feel the immense pain and suffocation!
Lana saw a cold murderous intent in Niamh’s eyes as she began to panic.
All this time, she had been observing and planning to kill Niamh.
She never thought that one day, Niamh would be the one fighting back and wanting to kill her!
Lana thought that perhaps she had pissed Niamh off too much because the murderous intent in Niamh’s eyes was very clear.
Suddenly, the door to the stairwell was pushed open.
Under the dim lighting, a tall man appeared in the corner of Niamh’s eyes.
“Eveline.”
When she heard someone calling her name, Niamh was a little distracted.
Lana took this opportunity and broke free from Niamh’s hand. “Cough, cough!” Her face was still red as she coughed violently. She grabbed the handrail and ran off in a disheveled state.
Niamh started to chase after her, but Ryan’s voice soon followed. “Eveline, where are you going? You’re supposed to attend the banquet with me as my wife.”
He sounded very unhappy. When Ryan saw how plainly Niamh was dressed and how she had not put any effort into her appearance, he frowned.
“Why are you dressed like this? I told you to wear a white dress. And your makeup…”
“Are you done?!” Like a porcupine that was revealing its needles, Niamh flew into a rage as she rushed toward Ryan. “Do you know who that woman was just now?! It’s Lana!
“My husband worked so hard and endured all that humiliation for the Interpol to expose her and this is what he gets?! Do you think this is what he deserves?!”
Niamh could not control her emotions and felt hurt because everything that Kendrick did had gone to waste!
“In order to bring that perverted woman, Lana, to justice, he deliberately treated his biological daughter coldly and caused her to become traumatized! Now, she doesn’t even acknowledge him as her father! And what did you guys do?! You released Lana?!”
Ryan furrowed his brows as he listened to Niamh’s painful reprimand. “Yorick confessed to all the crimes. The police can’t do anything about it.”
“Heh.” Niamh was filled with contempt and did not want to say another word to Ryan, so she turned and walked upstairs.
Ryan glanced downstairs before following behind Niamh as they walked into the banquet hall.
There were a lot of guests in the banquet hall. Although Niamh was wearing flats and did not have any makeup on, she was tall and beautiful. She did not look any worse than any of the celebrities present.
When they saw Niamh walking with Ryan, many people started whispering among themselves. Some even stepped forward to ask Niamh with an intrigued smile. “Ms. Montgomery, didn’t you just tell everyone that Mr. Waldburg was your husband a while ago? Why are you attending an occasion such as this with Mr. Jones now?”
“Yeah, Ms. Montgomery, don’t you feel sorry toward Mr. Waldburg for being with Mr. Jones right now?”
Niamh knew these people were provoking her on purpose, so all she did was smile. She did not want to respond, but Ryan had walked over to her.
Niamh thought that Ryan was about to introduce her to them as his wife, so she tried to avoid him. When she did, she suddenly felt a familiar grasp on her shoulder.
She was taken aback and looked up. When her eyes met the man who was holding her, she was surprised to see a pair of tender and smiling enchanting eyes.
‘Kendrick?!’
Niamh could not describe how she was feeling at this moment.
The moment she met Kendrick, her upset heart seemed to instantly calm down. The rhythm of her heartbeat gradually became more relaxed because of this man’s appearance.
On the other hand, Ryan’s mood was completely opposite to that of Niamh’s.
When he was about to declare to everyone that she was his wife, Kendrick had appeared unexpectedly.
Kendrick’s icy gaze glanced over at Ryan before he looked at Niamh once more. His delicate eyes were sweet like warm honey as he said unhurriedly, “Darling, there were barely any parking spaces left. Sorry for being a little late.”
Niamh immediately understood what Kendrick wanted to express. She smiled widely and approached the man’s embrace. “Kendrick, you got here right on time.”
Kendrick looked up with his cold eyes and glanced at the women beside Niamh. “Oh, really? I was worried that if I was a second later, some nosy and idle people would be giving you trouble.”
“…”
“…”
Those women could clearly tell that Kendrick was talking about them.
They had wanted to mock Niamh but did not expect to receive such backlash. They were extremely embarrassed.
Niamh leaned into Kendrick’s arms like a tiny lovable woman and said a little coquettishly, “Kendrick, when you were parking just now, I ran into Mr. Jones and came in with him. But it’s nice to know that these beautiful ladies care so much about you that they would even accuse me of being with Mr. Jones without considering how you’d feel.”
“…” When the women heard Niamh’s words, they looked even more embarrassed.
Kendrick smiled and said, “Sure enough, there will always be nosy people in this world.”
As he said that, he glanced at Ryan as a mysterious smile appeared on his handsome face.
“Mr. Jones, I’d like to apologize for all the criticisms you got as well as your damaged reputation after pretending to be a married couple with my wife. You were just doing your job as a member of Interpol, after all.”
Kendrick’s tone sounded very sincere to the people listening, but Ryan certainly did not see it that way.
He knew that Kendrick was making a pre-emptive attack. He was setting the scene so that everyone knew that Ryan and Niamh had never been a real couple!
At that moment, Sir Calver, the man of the night, walked over to them.
The gray-haired old man walked steadily and was in good spirits.
When he saw Kendrick and Ryan, the old man said proudly, “Two of Interpol’s outstanding, young, and promising rare talents!”
The other guests in the banquet hall also leaned over to watch.
The old man patted Kendrick’s shoulder and exclaimed with satisfaction, “I thought that Mr. Waldburg was just a rich young man in Glendale, but little did I know, you’re a far-sighted man who did a fantastic undercover job that not everyone could have done.”
He looked at Niamh with admiration and said, “Mrs. Waldburg also had to go through a hard task. In order to work with Interpol to complete the undercover mission, she had to bear such unbearable infamy. Such a great and righteous behavior is worthy of praise.”
When Niamh heard that praise, she felt a little bad.
The truth was, as long as she could be with Kendrick, she would not mind facing any hardships.
The old man then praised Ryan, saying, “Mr. Jones is also one of a kind. With elites like you guys in Interpol, I’m sure there will be fewer and fewer evils in this world.”
When he said that, Kendrick smiled lightly at Ryan who was smiling brightly. “Sir Calver’s right. Mr. Jones had the most difficult task. He merely got an order to protect my family, but in the end, he was misunderstood by everyone that he was having an affair with my wife. In truth, Ryan never had a wife to begin with.”
As Kendrick said that, he tightened his hug on Niamh. His gaze was sharp when he continued, “And my wife merely had to go along with it for the sake of my job and take on the empty title of being Mrs. Jones for half a year. The truth is, Eveline has always been Mrs. Waldburg. That is one thing that has never changed.”
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.