Niamh hurried over and saw that the door of the room was opened. She lifted her eyes to look into the room and suddenly displayed a shocked, worried look on her face.
She did not hesitate before running inside. She charged to the end of the bed and picked up Pudding who was lying on his stomach while playing alone on the rug.
“Pudding, why are you here alone?” Niamh picked up the child and felt that it had been a long time since she took care of this child.
Pudding blinked his clear and innocent big eyes. Then, he smiled foolishly at Niamh while looking at her.
“M-Mommy,” the little boy called out childishly.
Niamh felt her heart warming up. She lifted her hand to caress the child’s hair.
“Good boy, Pudding.” Niamh praised. When she wanted to lower her head to kiss the little guy, she remembered that she was wearing a mask, so she got rid of this idea. “Pudding, tell me, why are you here alone? Where are your grannies?”
“G-Gran…” the little boy said the word ‘granny’ ambiguously. His speech was limited since he was only about a year old, after all.
“Pudding, are you hungry?”
Pudding shook his head and pouted. “Mommy, Daddy.”
“Mommy’s here.” Niamh smiled benevolently. However, Kendrick was obviously not in this room and the bathroom was also quiet. There was no noise coming from it at all.
Niamh grumbled in a fit of pique while feeling dissatisfied. “Let’s forget about your daddy. Mommy will play with you.”
She grabbed the toy on the floor while she was at it and turned around to walk out of the room with her son.
Kendrick was standing by the door of the bathroom that was attached to the room, and he was recalling what Niamh said to their son just now. A satisfied grin appeared on his thin lips.
‘Nia.’
Niamh carried Pudding to the living room downstairs and played with the little child while feeling perfectly content.
She could not help but remember what happened to Jackson when he was about a year old. She recalled how Nevaeh had held a fruit knife and slashed his face. When she thought about the blood pouring out of his face back then, she would still feel as if her heart was being slashed a thousand times.
She had three children. She took care of Lillian and Pudding herself the moment they were born, except for Jackson. She had never even fed this child before.
“Mommy, hungry.”
Pudding climbed to Niamh’s feet and blinked his clear eyes at Niamh.
Niamh picked up the little boy and quickly yet expertly made the milk. After testing the temperature, she handed it to the little boy who was waiting for his food.
Niamh’s heart was filled with joy when she watched the little boy holding the bottle while drinking contentedly.
“Not only do you look after my mother-in-law well, but you also know how to take care of my son so considerately, Miss Quinn. How rare.”
Kendrick suddenly appeared and said slowly as he walked over.
Niamh lifted her head to look at him and said in dissatisfaction, “Is this how you usually take care of your son, Mr. Waldburg? You just left such a young child alone in the room?”
Kendrick smiled. He then walked to her side and suddenly sat down.
“If I hadn’t done that, how would I be able to see this motherly side of yours, Miss Quinn?”
“…”
“It’s unfortunate that I got married so early. If not, I’ll surely not miss out on such a wonderful wife and mother like you, Miss Quinn.”
“…”
Niamh suddenly stood up while listening to Kendrick’s words.
She towered over him and glared at the smiling man on the sofa with her beautiful eyes.
“Kendrick Waldburg, are you insane?”
Kendrick pressed his lips together in a smile. His smile became deeper and deeper.
“It sounds much better when you call my name instead of Mr. Waldburg.”
“…”
“Nia.”
“…”
Hearing the word Kendrick uttered, Niamh was completely stunned.
She widened her stunning eyes that were filled with shock as she looked at the man who was slowly standing up. Despite the height difference, their eyes would always meet in the same straight line.
Niamh’s heartbeat was chaotic, and so were her thoughts. However, she had clearly seen Kendrick’s frivolous gaze a second before. Yet, at this moment, it had gradually become affectionate and soft.
“You haven’t forgotten what I said, right, Nia?”
His voice was as soft as the spring breeze as it brushed past her ears.
“That day, after having a candlelight dinner with you and watching the fireworks on the street, I said that no matter how the years change or whether your beauty fades, you’ll always be the most perfect and flawless woman in my heart.
“No matter what you become, you’re the only one I love in my life.”
What Kendrick said that night was spilling out from his lips again.
The corners of Niamh’s eyes started to feel warm uncontrollably.
It turned out that at that time, he had deliberately said those words.
It was because he had long felt that she was his Nia, so he was telling her that on purpose.
“Nia, no matter how ugly or unbearable you look, you’ll always be my Nia. Only you can move me in this world.”
As Kendrick’s words fell, the tears in Niamh’s eyes also came streaming down.
Kendrick bowed his head and pressed his lips gently on the corner of Niamh’s eye that was soaked with tears.
Niamh felt her heart tremble as she closed her eyes softly.
‘It turns out that he already knows.
‘He felt everything and saw through everything from the beginning.’
That was why he got close to her, got intimate with her, and said all those words that sounded frivolous and amorous.
He did all of those because he knew she was the person he loved.
That was all.
Kendrick kissed away the tears in the corners of Niamh’s eyes. He reached out his long fingers and hooked them to the strap of the mask behind Niamh’s ear.
Niamh did not hide from him. She allowed him to take off her mask just like that.
Then, what came into his vision was a fair, pristine, and flawless face with no makeup.
Although Niamh’s face had already been tattooed in his heart, at that moment, a stunned glint still flashed across Kendrick’s eyes uncontrollably.
At the same time, he felt a hint of joy and luck.
It was because he thought of the earlier time when he accidentally saw her face that was full of scars which caused him so much heartache.
Kendrick pulled Niamh into his arms and hugged her tightly.
“Nia, you’ve suffered so much.”
He was in distress. He did not know what exactly had happened to her, but he was sure that those experiences must have been quite painful.
What had happened and what could have disfigured her face like this?
Yet, for Niamh, she felt safe and blessed while nestling in Kendrick’s chest at this moment.
“When did you find out?” Niamh asked with a tearful smile, “You already knew, so why didn’t you expose me?”
“It was the day you looked at me in the rain. At that moment, I felt that my heartbeat was not right,” Kendrick explained, “I couldn’t stand to see you getting caught in the rain, so I gave you the umbrella.”
Niamh was pleasantly surprised and pleased to receive this answer.
It turned out that he had a feeling about her from the very first glance.
“Then, does this mean you’ve already known that the one by your side is a fake?”
“Of course,” Kendrick replied without hesitation. “No other woman can give me the feeling you give me, even if that woman looks exactly like you, Nia.”
Niamh felt as if her heart was filled with honey all of a sudden.
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.