Shirley turned to Cathy and requested.
“I’ll give you a handsome reward. On that day, you must stick with me. You’ll do whatever I ask you to do.”
When Adam heard this, he thought it pathetic. “ Shirley, what do you mean? Are you going to attend Carter’s wedding? You’d even want Cathy as your bodyguard?”
Shirley held back her tears. She then lifted her red but beautiful eyes, displaying a meaningful smile, and looked at Cathy, then at Adam.
“She said it, didn’t she? I have the right to choose, and I choose to attend the wedding. Don’t tell me that it’s not allowed?”
“ .” Adam was momentarily speechless. However, he quickly snapped back, “Alright, you want to go, huh? You can go alone. Cathy will not be your maid.”
“ She can do whatever she likes. If she won’t go, I can hire other people. There are a lot of money- minded people who are willing to wait on and serve me.” Shirley’s attitude was firm. She then operated her wheelchair to head toward the stairs.
Seeing Shirley’s figure as Shirley put on a brave front, Cathy felt as if she had seen her old self.
Back then, she had also been this stubborn for Felipe.
However, in the end… Everything went up in smoke.
“Shirley, have you truly thought it through? Are you sure you want to attend his wedding looking like this?”
Adam asked, looking at Shirley’s back. His tone was not as harsh as before, sounding much gentler instead.
“Are you certain that you’d want to torment yourself by witnessing his wonderful wedding ceremony with his beautiful wife, while you’re in a wheelchair, wearing a half-disfigured face?”
Shirley pressed the start button on the wheelchair and turned her back at Adam. After a while, she spoke slowly.
“Back then, I loved to fantasize. I’d even longed to wear a wedding dress so much that I’d dreamt about it. I’d wanted to hold my beloved’s arm and walk into the hall of holy matrimony. I’d wanted to let him see me in a wedding dress. Would he be so shocked and moved to tears like those male leads in movies…”
As Shirley spoke, her voice deepened, and suddenly, she burst out laughing, then spoke in a nonchalant tone.
“Now, I won’t be able to see myself in a wedding dress, but I don’t think it’s illegal to go and see him in a suit, right?”
Her voice gently fell, but when Adam heard that, his heart started to feel extraordinarily heavy.
“Adam, why don’t I make a deal with you?” Shirley turned her wheelchair around.
“As long as you let me attend this wedding without a hitch, I’ll go and surrender myself to the police then. I’ll come clean and tell the police all the selfish things I’ve done.
“In the future, I’ll no longer be needing you to care for me as well. I’ll be spending the rest of my life in prison.”
Shirley smiled and looked at a dazed Adam.
“If you’re not going to speak, I’ll take your silence as consent. It’s a deal then.”
In F Country.
After Niamh had arrived, she did not find a hotel. She instead got into a car and went straight to the small house she had lived in for three years in F Country. She tried to use her fingerprint to unlock the door and realized that the lock had not been changed.
Back then, she had only rented this house, but when she became successful in her career, she bought the place.
She still clearly remembered that she had been pregnant with Lillian here, and she had also lived here for two years with Lillian.
Niamh took out her phone and looked at the screensaver that was their family photo.
“Lily, I’m coming to find you now.”
After Niamh had finished cleaning the house and rested, she called all the friends she knew in F Country, asking them for information about Fabian.
Niamh had thought that this might be difficult because Fabian kept a much lower profile than Yorick and Lana in F Country.
However, when Niamh mentioned Fabian’s name, not only was everyone familiar with the name, nearly all of them spoke with lamentation when talking about Fabian.
“Ah, Fabian has been very active in F Country for the past six months. He seems to come from a family with a powerful background.”
“Fabian Johnson? I know him. His brother Yorick could be considered a person of some status in F Country. However, Fabian’s not the same as his brother. I like that kid.”
“You mean Mr. Johnson? Back then, I worked with him on a project. He’s very decisive and capable in his conduct. He doesn’t seem like a twenty-year- old young man at all.”
Niamh held the phone as she heard the people on the other end of the line commenting on Fabian. Suddenly, she felt as if the Fabian they mentioned was not the man she had known back then.
In the past six months, Fabian seemed to have changed a lot. It could be said that he was now a completely different person.
If he truly had changed, would Lillian be in danger now?
Niamh suddenly was uncertain about Fabian, but in her memory, Fabian’s radiant and friendly smile was still in front of her.
Despite all the information Niamh had gathered on Fabian’s current situation, no one knew where Fabian stayed.
However, Niamh still got a piece of an important clue.
Niamh went to bed early that night. The following morning, she followed the address that was given to her and arrived at a certain office building in the city center.
It was still early, so Niamh sat in the building’s lobby and waited.
Around 8:30 am, staff began streaming through the entrance as they went about their work. Niamh kept her gaze in the direction of the entrance the whole time, waiting for the familiar figure to appear.
It was nearly 10 am, but the person she wanted to meet had yet to appear, and Niamh could wait no further.
The thought of Lillian’s illness upset Niamh’s steady heartbeat.
She had heard that Fabian started his new company here. That was why she had to come here and wait for the opportunity to run into him.
Niamh decided to leave, but she was also worried that she might have failed to notice him earlier. It could also be that she missed him because Fabian had gone straight to his office from the basement, so she planned to go upstairs for a look.
However, as she was getting up to walk to the elevator, a familiar figure appeared in her line of sight.
“Fabian.”
She shouted at Fabian who came through the entrance.
Upon suddenly hearing this voice here, Fabian, alarmed, turned toward the source of the voice, not expecting that it was truly Niamh’s voice.
When he saw Niamh, he slowly stopped walking.
He did not intend to run away but gave Niamh, who was striding toward him, a level look instead.
“Fabian, where is my daughter? Where is she?” Niamh asked directly.
Fabian looked at the impatient look on Niamh’s face and calmly said, “She’s fine.”
He responded with two simple words.
“Fine?” Niamh thought this ridiculous. “Fabian, I want to see my daughter.”
“You won’t be able to see her,” Fabian rejected, and his expression was abnormally cold. “You should go back now, Mrs. Waldburg. You’re just going to waste your time by staying here. You won’t be able to see your daughter.”
He walked past Niamh when he was finished speaking. However, before even taking two steps, he heard Niamh’s cold voice from behind.
“Fabian, are you forcing me to call the cops?” Niamh turned around and looked at him. “Do you want me to inform the police of your crimes of kidnapping my daughter and threatening her safety?”
As Niamh walked toward Fabian who had his back against her, her sharp eyes betrayed a look of remorse.
“Fabian, could it be that you want to walk the same path that your brother and sister had taken? Are you going to keep testing the limit that shouldn’t be tested?”
As Niamh’s voice fell, Fabian turned around abruptly.
He stared straight at Niamh, and at this moment, his eyes no longer showed the friendliness and gentleness from back then. Niamh caught sight of a flash of enmity, rage, and conflict in Fabian’s eyes.
Conflict. He was conflicted.
The look in Fabian’s eyes only calmed down seconds later.
The corners of his lips curled up slightly into a soft smiley.
“Since you have flown all the way here to find me, I couldn’t very well dismiss you, Mrs. Waldburg.
There’s a decent cafe nearby, would you do me the honour of having a drink together?”
Fabian was Niamh’s most direct and only way in finding Lillian, so of course, Niamh agreed.
There were not a lot of people in the café during the work hours.
Fabian ordered a cup of black tea latte for Niamh.
“If I recall correctly, you like black tea, Mrs. Waldburg.” Fabian addressed Niamh in an unfamiliar and distant manner.
Back then, he always had a frivolous smile and would Niamh’s name affectionately and intimately.
However, it seemed that there was no returning to those times.
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.