Upon noticing the smirk on Carter’s face, a sudden burst of intense pain surged in Shirley’s heart.
She really did not want Carter to be like this at all. Shirley’s eyes turned red against her volition. “Answer me, Carter.”
Carter looked away and tossed the phone onto the bed.
“Yes, I did it, ” he admitted without taking it seriously. Nonetheless, the expression on his face suggested intense emotions. “I initially had everything under control, but you and Eveline taught me a lesson.”
Carter said in a leisurely tone, walked over to the bed, and sat down slowly. He picked up the tableware and prepared to feed Shirley.
“I thought I had lost horribly, but I didn’t expect another unexpected thing to happen.”
His cold eyes stared at the close—up photo displayed on the phone screen.
It was the maid named Hannah Bolton.
Carter laughed in a deep voice. “Kendrick is certainly very attractive. He made the maid fall in love with him the moment he came to our place. I had been thinking of a way to deal with Kendrick. I wanted to make Kendrick face more distressing and uncomfortable things, and she happened to show up.”
As he spoke, Carter picked up the spoon and took a spoonful of oatmeal, and slowly brought it to Shirley’s mouth.
However, Shirley did not appreciate the kindness. She lifted her hand to push Carter’s hand away and glared at him sternly.
“Go on. What the hell did you do to Kendrick?”
Unbothered, Carter continued to play around with the bowl, then he parted his lips and said, “You still care so much about him.”
He seemed jealous, but at the same time, he was also mocking himself. He then spoke again.
“ I didn’t do anything. I merely took advantage of the situation for my benefit.”
“Be more specific,” Shirley insisted coldly.
Carter raised his eyebrows and smiled. He then brought the spoon with the food to Shirley’s face again.
“If you want to know the details, eat.”
Shirley did not want to accept Carter’s kindness, but she still chose to compromise at this moment.
When Carter saw that Shirley was eating again, the smile on his face looked more pleasant now.
While feeding Shirley, he said, “That day at the Royal Palace of St. Piaf, I had let the maid stay with Kendrick. I was already prepared. As long as Kendrick ate something, no matter if it’s a drink or a snack, he will consume the hallucinogen you developed back then.
“Despite his vigilance, he still fell into my trap. But even if he hadn’t eaten anything, I’d still have other ways to make him get in contact with the hallucinogen.”
Carter’s face looked extremely confident as he spoke.
He had been obviously confident with his plan, but he had not expected Shirley to know how to break his hypnotism, and that had completely halted his original seamless plan.
His dreams and ambitions had been stopped abruptly.
He was angry, but he did not blame Shirley.
He fed Shirley another bite and leisurely continued speaking.
“When the hallucinogen started to affect Kendrick’s consciousness, I had someone take him to the room in which the maid was already waiting. Just like Kendrick, she was also exposed to the hallucinogen without her realizing.”
After hearing this, everything became clear to Shirley.
“You confused them both, making them think that they had intimate contact with each other.”
Shirley concluded with certainty, and her eyes were looking at Carter with more disappointment.
“Carter, you’re irredeemable.”
Carter paused as he was scooping the food. “I’m irredeemable?”
He chuckled lightly. “You’re the one who’s crazy.”
“I’m crazy?”
“If you weren’t crazy, why would you help Kendrick? I f you weren’t crazy, why would you help Eveline? Have you really forgotten how our child died?”
Carter’s expression suddenly darkened.
“Don’t tell me that since you’re the one who developed the test reagent, you only have yourself to blame. It was Kendrick’s fault! He injected the
APX69 anti-toxoid test reagent into your body. That’s why our child couldn’t be born. You directly caused this tragedy! ”
Carter immediately became emotional at the mention of the child.
His gaze was suddenly covered in darkness as if the violent winds of a raging storm were upon them.
Shirley calmly looked at the angry Carter, and then her eyes gradually turned cool and distant.
“Heh, hehe.” Shirley laughed. “You still couldn’t understand how the child died.”
When Shirley said this, emotions flashed abruptly in Carter’s eyes. “What are you trying to say?”
Shirley stared at Carter coldly from the corner of her eyes. “Listen, Carter. I chose to fall from the stairs because I hate you and I don’t want to have anything to do with you anymore.”
Shirley’s eyes gradually turned wet and red as she spoke, and then warm tears fell from her eyes.
“Carter, do you think that I couldn’t have saved this child with my ability? Of course, I could have, but I didn’t want to. Because the child was yours, I don’t want it. Do you understand?”
Upon hearing Shirley’s answer, Carter’s eyes flickered sharply.
He stared dazedly at Shirley who had said this, and upon seeing the tears in her eyes, his vision gradually became blurred.
“ I won’t believe it.” After a long while, Carter said this in a trembling voice.
He denied but his eyes were firm.
“Shirley, I trust that you genuinely despise me and don’t want to see me again, but I will not believe that you could give up on your flesh and blood unless you already know that the child won’t come into this world. Don’t think I’ll forgive Kendrick because of this. He ruined my family, so I’ll ruin his family in turn.”
Bang!
After he said that, Carter slammed the cutlery on the nightstand and turned to leave in rancor.
Shirley wanted to stop him, but after moving her lips, she did not know what to say.
In truth, Carter understood her very well, but what use did it have?
Judging from this current situation, they were destined to walk toward tragedy, and there would be no way to turn back anymore.
After going downstairs, Carter, filled with rage, grabbed the phone to call Fabian.
He knew Fabian had blocked his number, so Carter changed his number.
Soon after, Fabian answered the call.
Fabian felt that something was wrong when he saw this unfamiliar number. He could already guess who it was, and as expected, he heard Carter’s voice a second later.
“I’ve blocked your number. You should know that I don’t want to have anything to do with you anymore.”
“Are you really going to let Kendrick off the hook like this? Can you really let go of your brother and sister’s death?”
Carter began to provoke and instigate Fabian again.
He waited for Fabian’s answer. After a long moment, Fabian’s voice came from the other end of the phone.
“Carter, I’ll say it one last time. I don’t want to have any contact with you anymore. I don’t need you meddling in my family affairs.”
Fabian said with emphasis and then hung up the phone.
As Carter listened to the busy tone from the other end of the line, his fingers around the phone tightened one by one.
An unmistakably chilly hatred filled his eyes. After a while, he called again.
When the call connected, he simply requested the person on the other end of the line in a commanding voice. “Prepare me two tickets to F Country for tomorrow. Be quick.”
After he said that, Carter looked at the dimming mobile phone screen, and the corners of his lips were slowly lifted into a sly smile.
“Kendrick, it seems that you can only feel the fatal blow if I give an eye for an eye.”
He said with a cold smirk on his face and then turned back to Shirley’s room.
Shirley had been sitting silently on the bed, thinking about what was going on dispiritedly. Suddenly, she saw Carter coming back into her room. She had thought that Carter came looking for her, but then she saw Carter walking to the closet and began to pack.
Sensing something was up, Shirley asked directly, “ Where are you going? Aren’t you going to go back to apologize to your grandpa? Are you planning to hide like this for the rest of your life?”
Upon hearing what Shirley said, Carter slowly stopped packing and turned his head and looked at Shirley, his eyes conveying a reluctance to be defeated. “Why should I apologize? How am I wrong? My biggest mistake was that I trusted you too much.”
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
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