“Myself?”
“Won’t you? Your goal is to obtain the right to rule in St. Piaf. What can a good-for-nothing like me do for you? If I’m useful, you wouldn’t have married that devil for the right to rule.”
When Shirley mentioned this, a look of remorse appeared on Carter’s face. However, there was no longer any use for remorse.
Ada killed Adam and Cathy, and this was an irredeemable tragedy.
“Carter, I’ve made myself clear. The relationship between us ends here. The child in my womb is gone as well. This also means that God doesn’t want us to be together.”
Carter’s expression changed when he heard this.“ God didn’t take back the child. You’re the one who wanted to end your life. You didn’t care about the child, and you only wanted to die.”
There was a slight urgency in Carter’s tone. He also became somewhat annoyed.
“I don’t care whether you’re willing or not. I’m bringing you back to St. Piaf. You have no choice. ”
“Heh.”
Shirley peered coldly at Carter.
“Just you wait and see whether I have a choice or not.”
“……” Carter was stunned. He inexplicably saw the suicidal glint in Shirley’s eyes again.
However, he remembered her expectant gaze when he pushed open the door and entered earlier.
Carter looked at the entrance again and frowned helplessly. “I’ll ask someone to pick you up an hour from now.”
After he spoke, he turned around and walked out. Shirley looked at Carter’s back figure, closed her eyes, and sighed.
She pressed the call button again, and the nurse from earlier reappeared.
Shirley asked hurriedly, “May I know if you made that call for me? Did they say when they’ll be arriving?”
“I’ve told your family to come and pick you up just as you instructed, but they didn’t give me a precise answer just now, ” the nurse said honestly.
Shirley’s heart sank when she heard that.
“Thank you, ” she thanked the nurse weakly, and the expectant look in her eyes gradually shattered into pieces.
She had said that she was Kendrick and Niamh’s family. She hoped that they would come to pick her up soon, but it was just wishful thinking that her feelings were reciprocated.
She had hurt them so badly. Why would they come and help her?
As Shirley despaired, Kendrick and Niamh appeared before her.
Shirley looked at the approaching husband and wife, and she felt an indescribable feeling in her heart.
“I didn’t think that you’d come.” Shirley’s eyes were filled with gratitude, as well as regret.
“Enough with this prattle. Why have you called for us?” Niamh asked bluntly.
“Carter’s going to take me back to St. Piaf in an hour. I don’t want to have any further contact with him, so I was hoping that you could take me away from here.”
Shirley looked pleadingly at Niamh.
“ I don’t have anyone else in this world anymore, and I don’t have friends. I also know you don’t see me as your friend, but this is my wishful thinking. Please help me this one time, for the sake of Cathy and Addy.”
Niamh looked at Shirley’s sincere expression and revealed a friendly smile.
“We’ll help you, not for Cathy or Adam, but you.”
When Shirley heard that, she looked blankly at Niamh, then slowly realized what Niamh had meant.
Shirley felt tears prickling the corners of her eyes. It was the first time someone trusted her.
“Thank you,” Shirley sobbed as she thanked them.
Niamh and Kendrick, wasting no time, then completed all the relevant procedures to discharge Shirley.
Since Shirley had multiple bone fractures and was paralyzed from the waist down, she could only leave on a stretcher.
However, when they were about to leave the room, Carter appeared.
“So, it seems that you were waiting for them.” Carter lifted his arrogant eyes and peered at Niamh and Kendrick.
“Did you think they can take you away?” As soon as Carter’s words left his mouth, a few burly bodyguards appeared at the entrance.
“Shirley, I’ve said I’ll take you back to St. Piaf in an hour, so I’ll definitely take you back. No one can stop me.”
Carter’s eyes stared into Shirley’s horrified eyes.
When Carter gestured to the bodyguards to take Shirley away, Kendrick’s tall figure stepped in front of the stretcher domineeringly.
“And no one had ever taken away someone I wanted to keep.”
Kendrick calmly lifted his cold, resolute face.
As his voice fell away, the atmosphere in the room became oddly tense as if shots had been fired, filling the room with an invisible smoke.
Shirley saw the situation. She certainly did not want to be the reason Carter causing any trouble for Kendrick and Niamh.
Without hesitation, Shirley spoke, coldly refusing Carter.
“Carter, I am neither your toy nor your maid. I have the right to go wherever I want. I won’t leave with you no matter what. Don’t appear in front of me ever again or I’ll call the cops.”
Carter’s eyebrows knitted tightly together when he heard what Shirley said.
A few seconds later, he burst into laughter.
“Are you going to make friends with your enemies now? Shirley, I didn’t kill Adam and Cathy, so why do you insist on blaming me?”
When Shirley heard that, she did not want to speak any further. She looked at Niamh and asked her for help. “Take me away.”
Niamh nodded to show that she understood. “ Kendrick, let’s go.”
“Wait.”
Niamh and Kendrick were about to take Shirley away when suddenly, Camille came through the door to stop them.
Niamh knew Camille was not an unreasonable person, so she walked over and politely smiled at Camille.
“Madam Gray, you’re a reasonable person. I hope you can respect Shirley’s decision. She doesn’t want to go back to St. Piaf with you.”
When Camille heard what Niamh said, she gave a n understanding nod.
“Don’t worry, Mrs. Waldburg. I’m not here to stop you. I’m just here to ask Miss Brown a question. ”
Miss Brown.
Shirley, lying on the stretcher, had mixed feelings when she heard how Camille addressed her.
Camille had never addressed her like that.
This way of addressing her distanced the two of them, making them strangers.
Shirley was still lost in thought when she heard Camille asking, “Miss Brown, are you absolutely sure you don’t want to go back to St. Paif with us? Are you sure that you don’t want to see Carter ever again, and that you don’t want to have anything to do with the Grays?”
Camille sounded very gentle, but Shirley felt that these questions were oddly heavy.
She felt Carter’s stare upon her the entire time. His gaze had never before felt so hot and deep.
However, Shirley, still avoiding Carter’s gaze, merely looked at Camille and gave her a firm answer. “Yes.”
“Okay, ” Camille answered with alacrity. She then turned to look at Carter. “Carter, promise me that, from now on, you won’t disturb Miss Brown ever again.”
Carter’s expression visibly changed when he heard what Camille said.
Evidently, this was not the outcome he had wanted.
When Camille saw Carter staying silent and not speaking, she urged him once again.
“Carter, did you hear me? Do not disturb Miss Brown. Miss Brown is right. We don’t have the right to decide where she goes. You’re not related to her anyway.”
As Camille’s voice fell away, Carter’s face further darkened.
“Thank you for understanding, Madam Gray,” Shirley thanked Camille and looked at Niamh.
“Mrs. Waldburg, please take me home.”
“Okay, Kendrick and I will take you home now, ” Niamh answered, and she lifted her eyes to look at Camille amiably. Niamh then took Shirley out of the room with Kendrick.
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.