“Hiss.”
Niamh lifted her hand to clutch her head in pain. At the same time, she felt as if her face had been burnt by fire and she was in excruciating pain.
“Ah!”
Niamh could not help but yell out in pain. The maids who came over after hearing Niamh called the doctor immediately.
“It hurts…” Niamh’s eyes were red, and she could only utter two words shakily.
The doctor gave her some anesthetic when he saw her in so much pain. Then, Niamh fell unconscious almost immediately.
The doctor removed the gauze on her face carefully. When the maids saw Niamh’s disfigured face, they could not help but turn their heads away.
However, when they turned around, they greeted the man respectfully when they saw him walking over. “Mr. Carter.”
The man ignored their greetings out of habit. Then, he walked gracefully and calmly to the side of the bed. When he saw the degree of Niamh’s facial disfigurement, he could not help but furrow his thick eyebrows.
“Can her face be fixed?” he asked. One could not tell his emotions from his slow voice.
“The Royal Hospital has the best medical team in the country, so the recovery will not be an issue. However, it’ll take up a lot of time.”
The man’s long and narrow eyes landed on Niamh who was sleeping. “Try your best to get her face back to how it used to look.”
“Roger, Mr. Carter.” The doctor agreed.
The man nodded slightly. Before he turned around, he looked at Niamh again.
Niamh stayed in bed for another two days. In those two days, she could only lay there and watch the doctor operate on her face.
Her heart was filled with unknown fear. She did not know what her face would look like, and at this moment, the thing she wanted the most was to have Kendrick next to her. However, this somehow had become a luxury.
Niamh knew she could not be weak. She knew her body belonged to her and no one would suffer for her, so she needed to be strong.
After receiving an afternoon’s worth of treatment, Niamh finally got up to eat something. Her face was still covered with a heavy layer of gauze.
The doctor would change her dressing twice every day. Whenever he did, he would give her some anesthetic because the pain was truly unbearable.
The sun in the late autumn was warm. Niamh finally had the mood to go downstairs for a walk.
When she was in the courtyard, she saw the man that they called Mr. Carter sitting outside the glasshouse in the garden. He was holding a European-styled teacup as he enjoyed his tea.
He had a good temperament, and perhaps his features looked outstanding, so they added an extra bit of charm to him.
Niamh was about to greet the man when she saw his entourage handing him a laptop. “Mr. Carter, here’s the video information. This man is Kendrick Waldburg.”
After she heard that, Niamh retracted her outstretched foot back.
‘Kendrick?
‘Is that man watching a video related to Kendrick?
‘Why is he watching that?’
Niamh was curious, and an uneasy feeling surged from the bottom of her heart.
When she was trying to figure out why this man was watching a video on Kendrick, she noticed that the man had spotted her.
His narrow black eyes stared straight at her like the moon in the night. They looked so cold yet so deep.
“Come and sit here.” The man parted his lips and invited her over.
Niamh wanted to understand more of what was going on, so she went over to sit down.
The maid who was serving the man poured Niamh a cup of tea and handed it to her politely with a smile.
Niamh held the teacup in her hands and felt the warmth spreading from her palms to her heart.
To be frank, she was pretty lucky. At least her life was saved.
As for Ryan…
Niamh’s eyes became bleak. At the end of the day, a life was lost in front of her and she could not be completely unmoved.
“Are you thinking about your dead friend?” The man’s charming voice fell lazily into her ears.
Niamh came back to her senses and lifted her head to look at the man who had seen through her.
“I don’t know your name yet. How should I call you?” Niamh changed the topic, but her tone was still weak.
The man took a sip of tea and parted his lips lazily. “You can call me Mr. Carter like they do.”
Niamh nodded and continued to thank him. “Thank you for saving my life, Mr. Carter. Thanks for asking someone to take care of me and treat my face.”
The man looked probingly at Niamh’s stunning eyes that looked like limpid autumn waters. Then, he moved his eyes away coldly. “Your face won’t be healed in just ten days or half a month. You have to be prepared to fight the long fight.”
He lowered his head to look at the video on the laptop as he said that to Niamh.
Niamh clenched her fists as she had already expected this outcome.
Back then, she had a bloody scar on her face because Nevaeh slashed her. She used so much time before it recovered, let alone the injuries she was facing now.
However, she had a huge urge to go home in her heart. She wanted to see Kendrick, her children, and her family.
“Who is this woman?”
While she was spacing out, Niamh heard the man asking curiously.
She lifted her head and saw the man pointing at the laptop with his long, thin fingers while asking his entourage.
His entourage lowered his hand and looked at it. Then, he replied respectfully, “Mr. Carter, that’s Kendrick’s wife, Eveline Montgomery.”
“Eveline Montgomery?”
The man shifted his gaze to Niamh after he heard that.
“You told me your name’s Eveline Montgomery that day.”
“…”
When she was met with the man’s cold and suspicious gaze, Niamh felt nervous for no reason.
Initially, she did not want to hide her identity, but when she realized that the man was investigating Kendrick, she needed to.
When she was about to find a reason to overcome this, she heard the man’s entourage saying, “Oh, her name is Eveline Montgomery too? It must be a coincidence.”
“Coincidence?”
“Yeah, Mr. Carter. I just got news this morning that Kendrick sent his children to school with his wife, Eveline. There are some photos here too.”
That person said and pulled up the photos from the album on the laptop.
The man lowered his head and flipped through the photos one by one.
Niamh could not endure this. She got up to go over so that she could have a look at the photos.
The man was looking at the photos when he lifted his head to look at Niamh. When he saw the sharpness in Niamh’s eyes, he said coldly, “Why are you so excited?”
Niamh suppressed the sharpness in her eyes and answered as if it was nothing. “I’m just curious what the person with the same name as me looks like.”
The reason sounded reasonable, so the man did not suspect a thing. Then, he turned his eyes back to the photos.
“What do you think about this woman with the same name as you? Do you think she’s good-looking?”
Niamh looked at the woman in the photo who had undergone plastic surgery to look like her. There was a hint of disdain in her eyes. “So-so.”
“So-so?” The man had no expression on her face, but there was a hint of playfulness in his eyes. “Then, I guess your true face must be out of this world. If not, why would this kind of beauty look so-so to you?”
“…”
Niamh was speechless for the time being. Then, she heard the man asking.
“Then, what do you think about the man in the photos?”
Actually, Niamh’s gaze had never left Kendrick’s body. When she heard the man asking that, she started admiring Kendrick brazenly.
“He’s so handsome and looks so charismatic. He’s the most good-looking man I’ve ever seen.”
“The most good-looking man you’ve ever seen?” the man asked. There was a hint of change on his emotionless and handsome face.
He placed the laptop to one side and got up slowly. His eyes that were like the silver and cold moon met Niamh’s calm ones.
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