“Mommy! I want Mommy!”
The little guy stubbornly kicked his short legs and stretched his little hands in Niamh’s direction. It was as if Kendrick was a stranger to him.
Kendrick also understood this, but it was because of this that he wanted even more to have a good relationship with this little guy.
When he recalled how he also played a part in Niamh’s premature birth, he felt more tolerant toward this willful little guy and cherished him even more.
Pudding was gradually lured by Kendrick after he coaxed him with various toys and snacks.
Niamh smiled at ease and chatted with Eloise with peace of mind.
Eloise was still the same. There were no improvements to her condition. At this moment, she took Niamh’s hand and kept emphasizing, “Sean said that after the house is rebuilt, my Eveline will return, but I won’t ignore you when that happens, Eveline.”
Niamh nodded and smiled. “Okay, I know.”
“It’s good that you know.” Eloise’s expression was serious. Suddenly, she furrowed her delicate eyebrows. “However, will Eveline be jealous if she knows how well I’m treating you?”
She was worried all of a sudden. Then, she turned around to look at Sean who was sitting next to her.
“Sean, do you think Eveline will be mad at me when that happens?”
“No, she won’t.” Sean comforted gently.
Eloise suddenly lowered her head while looking lonely. “Yes, Eveline won’t be angry. Eveline doesn’t even want to care about her mother at all.”
“Ellie, stop thinking nonsense.” Sean patted her on the shoulder and looked up at Niamh. “Eveline, I’ll be busy with the company and rebuilding our house for the time being. I’m going to have to trouble you and have you take care of your mother.”
“How is it troublesome? She’s my mother.” Niamh looked at the sad Eloise while her heart broke into pieces. She was feeling sadness in her heart as well.
She did not know how to get Eloise to go back to normal.
However, she suddenly thought of her symptoms at the time and an idea flashed across her mind.
Would triggering Eloise again make the negative impacts cancel out each other just like what happened to her last time?
Niamh had this idea, so she told Sean and Kendrick about it.
The next morning, they brought Eloise to the original site of Montgomery Manor that was being rebuilt.
The huge house was burned into just its frame after the fire. Niamh felt her heart aching when she looked at it.
She remembered how much pain she was in when she knew that Kendrick was the one who set the fire.
Sean suddenly thought of something at this time. He turned his head and asked Kendrick with a solemn expression, “You seemed to have something to tell me about the fire when we were on the plane back to Glendale. What was it?”
After Sean mentioned this, a trace of gladness flashed across Kendrick’s heavy eyes.
The important memories that he had lost because of the special cigarette Lana made for him at that time were very clear in his mind at this time.
“I didn’t set the fire at that time.”
Kendrick finally had the opportunity to tell the truth. Sean and Niamh looked back at him at the same time.
Sean frowned. “You told me this before. Although you lost your memory and were used by Lana at that time, the fire—”
“Lana asked someone to set the fire in advance. Then, she called me to come here as a scapegoat. Her purpose was to make Eveline think that I set the fire so that the relationship between the two of us would break apart.”
Kendrick’s answer shocked Sean and Niamh.
Of course, they did not question what Kendrick was saying currently because Lana was indeed capable of doing such a thing.
“Kendrick, why did you never tell me about this?” Niamh looked at the man while feeling pity for him. Suddenly, she felt extremely guilty.
He had been burdened with such grievances and even lost her and their marriage because of this, yet he never once defended himself.
“Back then, I smoked too many of the special cigarettes that Lana gave me so I was too confused. I didn’t even know what I had done. I really thought that I was the one who set the fire and you came so coincidentally after I got here.”
After hearing what Kendrick said, Niamh recalled the situation at the time.
When she saw the raging fire in front of her back then, she instantly lost all of her sanity.
She did not even think that it would be one of Lana’s traps that was done with a hidden agenda.
She only thought that Lana took advantage of Kendrick’s memory loss and asked him to set the fire.
However, as it turned out, this was not the case.
“It wasn’t until a while ago that I took a plane to Y Country. There was some turbulence and I knocked my head because I couldn’t stand still. That was when I remembered everything.”
Kendrick took a step toward the ruins in front of him with loneliness and regret in his eyes.
“In fact, I knew about this before Lana sent someone to set the fire. As such, I notified someone and that person was Ryan.”
“Ryan?”
Niamh and Sean were shocked again, but because of this, everything became clear.
No wonder Ryan had become Sean and Eloise’s savior. It turned out that something like happened in between all of these.
“Lana wanted to kill Mom and Dad because you were investigating the affairs of the Stygian Johnsons. She wanted to kill them so that word of this wouldn’t get out,” Kendrick told them the reason behind Lana’s ruthlessness.
Sean knew about this reason from a long time ago.
Come to think of it, Lana was so cruel and cold-blooded that it was almost perverted.
“The two burnt corpses back then were only props. I could tell that those were not human in the hospital, but I wasn’t sure what happened during the process, so I didn’t say anything.”
Kendrick told them the reason he kept his silence.
His passionate gaze landed on Niamh’s concerned and melancholic face. Then, he smiled gently.
“Nia, I’m so sorry for making you so upset back then.” Kendrick lifted his hand and caressed Niamh’s cheek. “I know you must’ve been so heartbroken back then. You couldn’t accept the fact that the man you loved killed your beloved parents, so you had no choice but to break things off with me.”
“It’s all my fault. I shouldn’t have been so arbitrary when making that decision back then.” Niamh blamed herself.
“You weren’t. I would’ve done that as well if I were you.” When Kendrick looked at Niamh, his eyes were filled with intense passion and tolerance.
He felt that he owed Niamh a lot during this time.
He would use his whole life to make this up to her.
“Ah! I found it! I found it!”
Suddenly, Eloise’s exclaims sounded from not far away.
Niamh and Kendrick looked over to see that Eloise had wandered into the ruins unbeknownst to them.
She was squatting there and it was unknown what she had found. She was looking at it emotionally while holding it in her hands.
“I found it! Sean, come look! It’s Eveline!”
Eloise turned back to call out to Sean. She was jumping up and down while waving a blackened family photo in her hand.
Sean walked hurriedly to Eloise and helped her up from the ground.
“Ellie, get up.”
“Sean, look. It’s our Eveline.” Eloise pointed at the figure on the almost completely blurry photo. “Eveline is here.”
Niamh’s eyes welled with tears when she saw what was happening in front of her.
She walked to Eloise and grabbed her hand lightly. “Mom, Eveline is here.”
Eloise looked at Niamh like she understood her but not really. Suddenly, her eyes lit up. “Oh? This Eveline looks almost the same as my Eveline.”
“…”
Eloise was saying that in all seriousness. That statement hurt Niamh’s heart so much.
She was the daughter who Eloise was yearning for every day, but she was treating her as someone else.
“Sean, don’t you think so? She looks almost the same as our Eveline.” Eloise pointed at Niamh. Her beautiful big eyes were filled with curiosity and surprise.
Sean smiled softly. “Yeah, they look the same. Ellie, just treat this Eveline as our Eveline.”
“How can I do that?” Eloise rejected sternly. “We only have one precious daughter. Plus, this Eveline has her own parents too, right?”
After she said that, she looked at Niamh seriously.
Niamh forced back her tears sorrowfully. The reason they were here today was to help Eloise recover.
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.