“Shirley, if you’re able to, you could keep on enduring it and suffer. If you can’t stand it anymore, get me the anti-toxoid test reagent. Otherwise, don’t even think about seeing the sun again in this lifetime.”
As he was about to leave after speaking, he happened to hear a customized ringtone.
He looked askance at Shirley, who could not speak at all, then walked to a side, answering the phone.
“Nia.”
He spoke first, gently calling out to Niamh.
Niamh’s gentle and pleasant voice responded from the other end. “Kendrick, won’t you be coming to the hospital tonight? Is there still work at the company?”
Kendrick turned to glance at Shirley, then walked toward the basement door. “I’ll be done soon. I’ll head over in a moment. You should lie down and rest if you’re tired. Where’s Lily?”
“I’m not tired yet. Lily’s already asleep.”
“I’ll head over now.”
“Take your time. Drive carefully,” Niamh reminded him.
Kendrick felt a warmth in his heart, but he started to feel uneasy again at the thought of Niamh suffering from the poison very soon.
After hanging up, he walked back to Shirley.
“Have you properly thought about what you’re going to do?” he asked bluntly.
Shirley held her arms and, with great effort, lifted her eyelids.
“There’s no anti-toxoid test reagent.”
Shirley’s voice trembled as she spoke.
“The ones I gave you back then were only half-complete. They could only briefly alleviate the symptoms.”
“What did you say?” Kendrick’s eyes immediately darkened.
Shirley chuckled bitterly. “Kendrick, you could have the half-complete products, but it’s best if you let me go. Otherwise, you’d only be helplessly watching the woman you love most continue to suffer.”
“Heh.” Kendrick chuckled coldly in disdain. “If there’s no completed anti-toxoid test reagent, what is your worth to me? Do you think I need you for the half-complete test reagents? Your brother Adam’s much more talented and capable than you.”
Kendrick’s praise for Adam seemed to strike at Shirley’s vulnerable spots, and the expression on her face instantly changed.
“Nonsense! I am more talented and capable than him in this!” Shirley defended herself passionately. “I’m smarter than him, and I have a better chance of becoming a medical scientist than him. They didn’t even give me a chance! It’s their fault! It’s all their fault!”
She was suddenly growling and snarling. Her facial expression turned malevolent, showing how much this mattered to her.
No longer interested in Shirley’s mad ravings, he turned and left.
“Kendrick, get me out of here!
“This is illegal imprisonment!
“Without my anti-toxoid test reagent, Eveline could definitely not endure it!
“Kendrick!”
Shirley’s heart-rending screams continued, but they were eventually cut off by the basement door.
Kendrick drove back to the hospital as if nothing had happened. The moment he saw Niamh and Lillian, he felt relieved.
Niamh was oblivious to the fact that Kendrick had gone to find Shirley, nor did she know that he had injected Shirley with the same anti-toxoid reagent poison as the one from which she was suffering. However, she inevitably found it curious that there was some dust on Kendrick’s coat.
“Kendrick, did you just come from the office?”
“Yeah, I just finished my meeting.” Kendrick did not look Niamh in the eye as he casually came up with a lie.
“Is the meeting room so filthy? Why is there so much dust on your clothes?” Niamh patted the dust on Kendrick’s shoulders with suspicion. She had wanted to help him tidy his clothes when, much to her surprise, she felt a woman’s earring in Kendrick’s pocket.
“Kendrick, why do you have this in your pocket?”
Niamh brought the earring in front of Kendrick. Of course, she was not suspicious nor was she questioning him. She just felt that this was a little strange.
When Kendrick saw the earring, his mind went straight to Shirley.
He figured that it had fallen into his pocket when he brought Shirley into the car.
Kendrick did not know how he should dodge the question. He figured Niamh would not believe any excuses as to why he had a piece of woman’s jewelry in his pocket.
Upon seeing Kendrick hesitating as though he did not know how to answer her, Niamh felt a little worried. “Kendrick, what’s the matter with you? Who does this earring belong to?”
Kendrick knew he could not hide this anymore, and he really did not want to lie to Niamh either.
“It probably belongs to Shirley.” Kendrick did not hide it anymore.
“Why is Shirley’s earring in your pocket? Did you go to find her?” Niamh’s expression became anxious as her heart started beating frantically. “Kendrick, d-did you do something to her?”
Ken felt remorseful when he saw Niamh’s worried expression.
He held Niamh’s shoulders and when he was about to tell her what was going on, someone pushed the room door open all of a sudden.
Lillian was sleeping but when she heard the noise, she woke up abruptly.
Kendrick looked at the man who barged through the door in displeasure. “Why are you here? Don’t disturb my daughter’s rest. Get out.”
Niamh looked at Carter in dissatisfaction and quickly walked to Lillian to comfort her.
However, Cater did not leave. Instead, he strode over.
His expression was cold as he questioned in an icy tone.
“Kendrick, where did you hide Shirley?” Carter asked, going straight to the topic.
Niamh detected something fishy when she heard this. “Carter, why are you asking this?”
“Why don’t you ask your husband what he did?” Carter asked with eyes filled with hostility.
Kendrick went over and protectively pulled Niamh behind him. “Carter, don’t you think that you’re being pathetic by asking this? What did I do? Have you asked yourself what you’ve done? What kind of shameful things have you asked Shirley to do?”
After Kendrick asked that, Carter seemed to fall into momentary silence.
It seemed that he did not have anything to refute.
Kendrick walked over to him, and their two pairs of eyes that were beautiful in their own way met. Their hostile gazes crashed into each other savagely mid-air.
“Carter, I did to Shirley what you asked her to do to my wife. What she’s enduring now is nothing compared to what my wife and I had to endure.”
When Carter heard Kendrick’s answer, there was a look of anxiety in Carter’s eyes.
“What the hell did you do to her?”
“Why? Are you worried? Are you worried that something will happen to the chess piece you’re manipulating?”
“Kendrick.”
“I won’t tell you where she is, just like how she refuses to hand over the anti-toxoid test reagent to me.”
Kendrick’s tone was decisive. The aura emanating from his cold eyes completely overpowered Carter at this moment.
Carter saw the overwhelmingly strong aura in Kendrick’s eyes and felt his determination to save Niamh with the anti-toxoid test reagent.
“Kendrick, if you want the anti-toxoid test reagent, you should let Shirley go. Without her, you won’t be able to get the anti-toxoid test reagent!” Carter said in a warning tone while looking a little impatient.
However, this time, Kendrick remained very calm. He chuckled softly and carefreely, saying, “Shirley has already told me that the anti-toxoid test reagent hasn’t been made. So even if she’s standing here, it won’t be of use.”
“So you won’t let her go, huh?” Carter was slowly losing his patience.
“You can go now. Don’t disturb my daughter’s rest.” Kendrick chased Carter away coldly.
Carter pressed his lips together tightly. He looked at Lillian who was blinking her clear wide eyes and then looked at Niamh while saying, “Kendrick, don’t regret this.”
“The thing I regret the most is that I only waited till now to teach that vile woman a lesson.”
‘Vile woman.’
Those two words pierced Carter’s eardrums. He felt that they sounded abnormally ear-piercing.
Carter did not continue questioning Kendrick and turned around to leave with a cold expression on his face.
After Carter left, Niamh immediately comforted the little princess and put her back to sleep. After Lillian was asleep, she looked at Kendrick before the two of them walked out of the room.
“Kendrick, is that true? Did you kidnap Shirley?” Niamh asked directly.
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.