However, these were no longer within Shirley’s consideration. Ever since she got over him, she had no intention of becoming his pawn ever again, always cautious around him—an obedient pawn who carried out his every order without dignity or self-esteem.
Shirley’s eyes were red as she glared at Carter, who wore a dark expression on his face.
“You killed my brother and Cathy. I’ll make certain that you’ll pay for this, Carter Gray!”
Shirley bitterly spat out every word through gritted teeth, expressing her determination.
Carter turned his face over, frowning as he met Shirley’s gaze which burned with hostility and rage.
“What do their deaths have anything to do with me? Shirley, has the excessive sadness affected your brain?”
“Do you really have nothing to do with it? Carter, how can you act like it’s none of your business?
Would this have happened if you hadn’t brought Adam and Cathy here? Would they have died in the fire if you hadn’t confined them to this house?! “
Shirley’s questioning and reproach left Carter momentarily speechless, unable to refute.
Everyone thought Carter would fly into a terrible rage. Ada was also looking forward to it. However, they only witnessed Carter’s kind tone as he explained.
“There’s something very wrong about this fire. It’s definitely arson. I’ll investigate it thoroughly.”
“It was certainly the result of a human act, and you are the murderer,” Shirley said furiously, glaring at him. She turned her wheelchair around suddenly and headed for the main door.
Carter was left in a daze after being scolded and accused by Shirley.
When he noticed that the servants were looking at him, his gaze darkened, and before he spoke, the servants avoided his gaze in a hurry.
Ada took this opportunity to leave with everyone else in case Carter noticed anything was amiss.
Carter walked over to the burnt ruins after everyone had left. He could not believe this was an accident.
A thought also came to his mind at that moment. Now that Adam was dead, there would be no one who could heal Shirley’s face and legs.
With a grave expression and a foul mood, he went back into the house.
He immediately went to look for Shirley but discovered that she was not in her room.
He asked all the servants, but they neither saw nor knew where she had gone after she left the scene earlier.
Carter had been suppressing his anger all this while, but he was unable to hold it in for much longer.
As he was about to go out in search of Shirley, Ada ran over frantically.
“Carter, this is bad.”
“Carter, this is bad!” Ada rushed up to Carter in a panic.
Carter could sense that Ada was referring to Shirley.
“Do you know where Shirley went?” Carter asked directly.
Ada nodded repeatedly. “I wasn’t paying much attention at first, but it struck me when you couldn’t find Shirley.”
“Get to the point.”
“When I was returning from the scene of the fire earlier, I vaguely saw Shirley heading down the street to grab a taxi.”
Upon hearing this, Carter strode out hurriedly.
It was a rare sight to see Carter worried and anxious, and it made Ada’s heart feel a lot lighter.
She was grateful for her own decisiveness. Otherwise, she would have been even more pained at the present.
In reality, she had seen Shirley hailing a taxi by the street earlier, but Ada deliberately waited for a period of time before telling Carter. She wanted Shirley to have a head start so that Carter would have a difficult time finding her.
Carter drove his car along the route Shirley might have taken, but he was unable to find her.
Night fell, and under the dark blue moonlight, it began to drizzle, bringing a chill to this spring night.
The gate of Waldburg Manor.
Shirley had been sitting in her wheelchair for half an hour; she did not leave despite the rain.
Karen and Eloise were in the living room teasing Percy in their arms, glancing out the French windows from time to time.
“Karen, is that woman really what you described?” Eloise asked uncertainly.
As the rain grew heavier, Eloise could not help but feel sympathetic.
” She’s already been outside in the rain for half an hour.”
“Even if she sits in the rain for an entire day, she doesn’t deserve our sympathy, ” Karen’s attitude was firm and cold.
“Eloise, you’re probably unclear about many things since you were unwell previously, but Kendrick and Eveline had told me all about Shirley.”
Karen’s heart burned with rage at the mention of the incident.
“This woman was the reason Kendrick’s hair and eye colors have turned to what they are today.”
“So, this is the woman who made Kendrick like this,” Eloise was shocked.
“Not only did she harm Kendrick, but she also harmed Eveline.” Karen glared out the window with displeasure. “She developed such a harmful thing. I really have no idea what she was thinking. And now she has come to deliver the anti-toxoid test reagent. How could anyone believe that?”
Karen was full of doubt about Shirley’s appearance.
Eloise, however, seemed to waver. “Do you think she has developed a conscience? She appears to be really sincere.”
“Eloise, don’t believe her.”
Karen had misgivings about Shirley’s appearance.
“Even if she had the anti-toxoid test reagent, Kendrick and Eveline aren’t here, and we can’t get in touch with them either. For now, let’s leave that woman alone. Perhaps she’s even pretending to be disabled. Our family has been harmed so many times by people with ill intentions. We must not let our guard down.”
Eloise agreed with Karen’s words.
It was indeed prudent that they kept their guard up, so they stopped paying attention to Shirley and focused on taking care of her grandchild instead.
As the rain grew heavier, each raindrop grew in size, crashing down one by one.
Shirley remained motionless, waiting on the same spot as she looked ahead, allowing the rain to soak through her hair and clothes.
There were only tears running down from her eyes down her face, a silent accompaniment to the raindrops.
It was raining before her eyes, but she seemed to see a bizarre flame burning furiously, devouring everything in the end, including the only relative she had in the world and the girl who had been caring for her—someone whom she had been eager to befriend.
This was retribution.
Shirley’s heartbeat trembled as she grasped the anti-toxoid test reagent in her hand.
She was not aware that Niamh and Kendrick were not in Glendale. All she wanted to do now was deliver the anti-toxoid test reagent that could clear the poison in Niamh’s body.
She knew, however, that Niamh and Kendrick would have difficulty trusting her.
They trusted Adam and Cathy, but now… ‘Addy, I was wrong.
‘I already knew earlier that I was wrong.
‘But I lacked the courage to admit my mistake.
‘And you did not even give me a chance to apologize. ‘Addy.
‘Cathy.
‘I know that your greatest hope was for me to hand over the anti-toxoid test reagent to Eveline.
‘Don’t worry. I won’t let you down again.’
Shirley held the anti-toxoid test reagent tightly and hid it in her sleeve. The rain continued to pour as she remained motionless.
Kendrick had just gotten off the plane with Niamh. They were getting into the car, ready to head home, when Kendrick pulled out his mobile phone to find several missed calls, all from Karen.
Karen would rarely make that many calls to him on a normal day. The number of missed calls now made Kendrick feel that something was wrong.
He immediately called Karen back, who picked up the phone quickly.
Knowing that Kendrick had just gotten off the plane, Karen immediately asked, “Have you found Lily? Have you brought her back with you?”
Recalling what Fabian had said, Kendrick pondered for a while before he replied, “Lily didn’t return with us. But don’t worry, her physical condition is stable. I’ve temporarily entrusted Lily to a friend because there are better doctors over there with better medical facilities.”
When Karen heard his reply, she was relieved.
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.