“Eveline, you found me so quickly. Were you also the one who drove away the reporters at the door? Are you afraid that I would tell them the truth?”
Looking at the triumphant expression on Hannah’s face, Niamh knew that this woman was not someone easy to deal with.
At the very least, Hannah would make a lot of fuss, and it would be enough to disrupt their lives.
“Eveline, I’m going to fight you now until one of us perishes. In short, I won’ t allow myself to be the one losing out!”
Hannah suddenly glared at Niamh, expressing her determination. “Fight me?” Niamh repeated those words with a calm smile.
She walked gracefully to the hospital bed. She had the aura like a queen as she lowered her eyes to look at Hannah.
“Miss Bolton, I don’t know if you have ever inquired about the power and status of Kendrick and me in Glendale. A fight like that won’t work on us. If you continue to make trouble, you’ll only be embarrassing yourself.”
“Heh.” Hannah let out a disdainful chuckle. “ Eveline, are you threatening or scaring me by saying that? I’ve never been scared now that I’ve come this far!”
Niamh nodded. “I know you’re not scared, otherwise you wouldn’t throw your life away. But do you really think that this will achieve the effect that satisfies you?”
“….” Hannah was stunned. She did not understand what Niamh wanted to express.
Niamh parted her lips unhurriedly.
“Hannah, no matter how violent you are, no matter the intensity of the discussion on the Internet, the news will disappear at the end of the day. And you should be very clear that I have a recording of what you said before. If those recordings were released, you’d be the one who wouldn’t be able to get out of this embarrassing situation.”
“…” The smug smile on Hannah’s face gradually crumbled.
Upon noticing that Hannah seemed to be shaken, Niamh followed up and persuaded, “In this matter, my husband is the bigger victim. Although you were sober at the time, you were indeed used by Carter. I hope you can understand that and stop doing things that’ll hurt others and yourself.”
“Hurt others and myself?” Hannah scoffed. She suddenly jumped off the bed as if she was blinded by rage.
“Okay, let’s hurt others and ourselves then!”
After Hannah said that, Niamh saw her taking out another fruit knife from her waist and stabbed Niamh involuntarily.
Niamh was caught off guard. In her attempt to avoid the fruit knife, it slit the back of her right hand.
The sight of blood on Niamh seemed to further excite Hannah, whose red eyes were staring at Niamh. ”Eveline, are you afraid now? You’d dare threaten me? Let me tell you, I’m not afraid of anything!”
Suddenly, the malevolent-looking Hannah lost control of her emotions and pounced toward Niamh. It seemed as if she had decided to die with Niamh.
Niamh did not have time to care about the wound on the back of her hand at the present. She moved to one side quickly and avoided Hannah’s attack.
“Hannah, think about your family before you do anything stupid.”
Niamh exhorted her. The cut flesh on the back of her hand was bleeding more and more.
She needed to do something to her wound right now.
Niamh knew her blood type was rare; it would be troublesome if she lost too much blood.
However, when Hannah heard what Niamh said, she started cackling loudly. “Family? If I had a family, would I go and become a lowly maid?”
Hannah roared out at Niamh. It was clear that she despised her background.
The hand she used to hold the knife was shaking as she aimed it at Niamh, and Hannah’s eyes were filled with hatred.
“Eveline, why is your life so good? You’re the daughter of a rich family. You don’t have to worry about your livelihood for your whole life. You even have such an excellent husband. Your life is so perfect that it couldn’t get better than how it already is, but what about me?”
As Hannah expressed the dissatisfaction in her heart, her eyes reddened.
“My parents only cared about their son. They gave me away the moment I was born. My adoptive parents were good to me, but they’re poor! They couldn’t even afford to send me to school, so I was forced to work when I was still a minor. If I didn’t have the looks, I wouldn’t have been able to enter the gates of the Grays!”
The more Hannah spoke, the shakier her hand that held the knife.
However, as time passed, Niamh’s face became paler and paler.
She tried to talk to Hannah to calm her down, but judging from Hannah’s current state, it would be useless.
“Eveline, I’ve finally found a man I can depend on, so why are you trying to ruin me? I’ve had physical contact with Mr. Waldburg. And that’s an undeniable fact. If you don’t let me see Mr. Waldburg and if you won’t let him take responsibility for me, I’ll make sure neither of us will win.”
After saying that, Hannah decided to make a move against Niamh.
Niamh lifted her hand to grab Hannah’s hand, but Hannah was cunning. Hannah knew that Niamh would try to stop her, so Hannah suddenly lifted her leg to kick Niamh’s stomach.
Niamh was caught off guard, but at this moment, the door of the room was pushed open abruptly.
A tall and lean figure sped toward Niamh’s side.
Niamh caught a whiff of the familiar and calming scent, then at the same time, she was pulled into a warm hug.
She knew Kendrick was here, and when she was about to lift her eyes to look at him, Hannah used this chance to point the knife at her again.
However, the knife did not get in contact with Niamh ; Kendrick was holding it tightly in his hand instead.
Hannah did not see how Kendrick intended to protect Niamh, but she had not expected him to stop her sharp knife with his bare hand for Niamh.
“That’s enough!”
Kendrick pushed the knife away.
Hannah, still holding onto the fruit knife tightly, stumbled backward from the force. Unable to stabilize herself, she fell to the floor with a thud.
“Kendrick, your hand…”
Niamh’s heart ached as she held Kendrick’s bleeding palm. At this moment, she was completely oblivious to her own wound.
The same goes for Kendrick. There was only Niamh in his eyes.
Looking at Niamh’s pale face, he held her anxiously.
“Nia, let’s go.”
Niamh nodded. From the corner of her eyes, she looked at the baffled Hannah before following Kendrick to the door.
“Mr. Waldburg!” Hannah yelled at Kendrick’s back.
“Mr. Waldburg! I came all the way from St. Piaf for you. Please don’t ignore me so heartlessly! Mr. Waldburg!”
Hannah’s ear-piercing voice came over repeatedly.
Kendrick turned a deaf ear. He only wanted to take Niamh to tend to her wounds as soon as possible.
However, at this moment, the reporters who had been chased away came back out of nowhere.
They swarmed forward to interview Kendrick. They wanted to know more about his relationship with Hannah, but before they could get close, they were frightened back by Kendrick’s austere eyes.
In Glendale, Kendrick was someone they dared not offend.
Kendrick quickly brought Niamh to the outpatient services where a doctor quickly tended to the wounds on their hands.
The sight of the gauze on their hands broke Niamh’s heart, but at the same time, she did not know if she should laugh or cry.
“I wanted to take care of this myself, yet I still implicated you in this.” Niamh sighed softly, gently caressing Kendrick’s hand. “Does it hurt?”
“Don’t say nonsense like that. We’re husband and wife. Even if we’re talking about implications, I’m the one who has implicated you.”
Kendrick held Niamh’s hand to his lips and kissed it.
“Nia, I was the cause of this, so let me take care of it.”
Niamh knew that Kendrick was scared that she would get hurt again because of this, but if she allowed Kendrick to get in contact with Hannah, Niamh felt that this would become even more serious.
However, she saw determination in Kendrick’s eyes.
“Nia, you should go home. I’ll go find her now and explain this to her.”
“Kendrick.” Niamh grabbed him and her expression was solemn. “She’s very emotional now, and there are so many reporters that this matter might escalate into something worse. If you really want to talk to her, you should do it at a later time.”
Kendrick understood what Niamh meant, but he wanted to tell Hannah his stance right now.
“Nia, listen to me. Go back now and leave the rest to me, okay?”
After the man’s gentle words had fallen away, he turned around and left.
Niamh could guess what Kendrick was going to do. As such, she quickly followed him and grabbed his hand.
“I want to be with you no matter what we’re facing,
Kendrick.”
As Niamh said with emphasis, she lifted her beautiful and alluring eyes, looking straight into Kendrick’s eyes.
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.