Niamh’s expression changed when she heard the sudden cessation of the conversation.
She turned around hurriedly to hide, but when she turned around, she saw that someone was also walking toward her from behind!
Niamh looked at the man who was running toward her in surprise. As soon as she moved her lips, the man gently covered her mouth.
The man grabbed her slender waist and quickly led her away.
Ryan and a white man walked out from behind the wall hurriedly.
Their subordinates followed behind them and took a flashlight to shine on the ground. It was then they saw a stray kitten hunched over as it stepped on the plastic water bottle and meowed at them.
“Mr. Thomas, it’s just a cat.” His men stepped forward and kicked the kitten away.
The man glanced around before turning around with Ryan.
Niamh stood behind the tree and saw what happened just now.
She was lucky that the kitten had suddenly appeared and resolved her crisis.
However, the kitten was kicked because of her and Niamh felt a little intolerable.
“I know what you’re thinking. You can take this kitten away.” A deep and hoarse voice said from behind her.
Niamh turned around and stared at the face in front of her under the faint moonlight.
“Why? Why are you here?”
“I don’t have time to explain to you now. You should go back first. It’s too dangerous here,” the man said, quickly walking aside after speaking. Then, he handed the thin and almost dying kitten to
Niamh.
“Hurry up.”
“No, I can’t let you—”
“Go!” The man lowered his voice and ordered in a solemn voice.
Niamh held the kitten in her arms and looked at the man who had already turned around. She did not have another choice, so she could only leave.
However, after she left, she felt anxious. Even so, she could not go back without careful planning.
After she sent the kitten to the vet, Niamh went back to Ryan’s place hurriedly. She was worried that he would be back before her.
However, fortunately for her, he was not back yet.
She did not have the mood to do anything else as her mind was occupied by the man she just met.
How could it be?
Why was he there?
Niamh deliberately called Ryan as she was worried about what might happen to this man.
However, the ringtone sounded from outside the door. Ryan was home!
Niamh hung up the phone and looked at the entrance. Then, Ryan walked in with a smile. “Why are you calling me? Is there something wrong?”
“I wanted to ask when you’ll be back and if you want steak.”
Niamh’s reaction was very quick, so Ryan did not suspect a thing.
“Well I’m back now, so you can cook the steak.”
“Okay,” Niamh answered before turning around and going into the kitchen. Niamh breathed a sigh of relief after she saw Ryan heading upstairs.
Since he had come back so quickly, it meant that nothing happened.
Now, she was more certain that Ryan was the real boss behind the Stygian Johnson Gang!
After a while, Ryan changed into his casual clothes and went downstairs. At the same time, Niamh had just finished cooking the steak.
After tasting Niamh’s dinner, Ryan’s smile became brighter. “I hope I can have more times like this with you in the future.”
Niamh cut her steak with a cold expression. “Ryan, you promised that you would help me save Kendrick, but he’s about to be scheduled to go to court soon. Why didn’t you act at all?”
“In a murder case where there’s both human and physical evidence, how will I have the ability to turn it around?” Ryan pretended to look powerless. “Maybe he did kill Lana and you’re just being deceived by him.”
Niamh stopped cutting the steak. “If he’s convicted, will he get the death penalty?”
“It’s possible.”
Clank! The knife and fork in Niamh’s hand fell heavily on the plate.
She raised her head and looked at Ryan with an indifferent expression. Then, her eyes gradually reddened.
“If he’s really sentenced, can you give me the reagent first? I don’t want him to die with the poison still in his body.”
Niamh was begging him with her eyes. The tears that were welled in her eyes rolled down silently.
Ryan looked at Niamh’s tears, his eyebrows furrowing.
“Ryan, if you can’t help Kendrick find the real culprit and can’t give me the reagent, then it seems that I’ve lost all reason to continue staying here.”
After she finished speaking, she got up in tears to leave. However, before she could go far, Ryan’s voice came from behind.
“If Kendrick were to be sentenced to death after they’ve reached a verdict, I’ll give you the reagent.”
Ryan sounded a little reluctant, but he finally agreed.
Niamh stopped in her tracks. She was facing the door when a light glint flashed across her misty eyes.
“Continue dinner with me. You’re Mrs. Jones now,” Ryan demanded with a very overbearing tone.
Niamh stood there and hesitated for a few seconds before turning around, returning to her seat.
“Tomorrow, I’ll take you to see Adam.” Ryan picked up the tissue and handed it to Niamh. “I don’t want to see you crying for Kendrick again.”
“That is the love of my life. Do you think I can be completely indifferent?” Niamh looked bravely into Ryan’s discontent eyes.
He pursed his thin lips. “Soon, he’ll no longer be the love of your life.”
Niamh looked at the self-confidence that burst into Ryan’s eyes and said nothing.
In the early morning, Ryan took Niamh to meet Adam.
Niamh became unconscious halfway through the journey again. Then, they arrived at Adam’s lab without her knowledge.
Adam asked someone to carry a tiny white kitten out. The kitten looked like it was on the verge of dying and was gasping for air.
Adam put the cat on the experimental platform and said, “This kitten has the same poison as Kendrick in its body. It’s not in the fourth stage. It won’t die, but it’ll be in a lot of pain.”
Niamh could not believe that Adam, who looked so gentle, could do such a cruel thing.
“This is the latest reagent I developed. You can see the effects now.” Adam took out the syringe and injected the reagent into the kitten’s body.
After waiting for more than half an hour, Niamh saw the cat slowly standing up, meowing, and even taking the initiative to eat some food.
When she saw this, Niamh felt a chill running all over her body. “Why did you develop such a terrible poison in the first place?”
“In order to make some stubborn people more obedient, this is probably the most direct and easiest way.” Ryan’s answer sounded like he was a demon from hell and there was no humanity in him at all.
Adam handed a box of test reagents to Ryan, but he also looked at Niamh with a wicked smile. “These are the real anti-toxoid test reagents. The ones I gave you before were only experimental products. They could only alleviate Kendrick’s pain for a while.”
Niamh’s heart ached when she heard this. She pulled Adam by the collar, her eyes filled with hatred. “You lied to me again! You’re using him as an experiment again!”
“At least the experiment didn’t fail, right? Without previous experiments, how could an effective reagent be developed?” Adam asked disapprovingly, “Eveline, isn’t this what you want the most?”
Niamh’s hands shook as she forced herself to calm down.
She pushed Adam away and looked at the box of reagents in Ryan’s hand.
She knew that he would not give it to her so easily.
On the way back, Niamh kept looking at Ryan.
Ryan also noticed that Niamh was looking at him. He curled the corners of his lips and smiled. “I’ll give you this after the verdict.”
As he said that, he flipped a switch on the control panel. Then, a colorless and odorless gas came out from the exhaust vent on the passenger seat’s side.
Niamh quickly closed her eyes and leaned back in her chair.
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.