“You must get yourself checked in the hospital first, right? I’ll take you.”Brendan extended his hand while Deirdre avoided him nonchalantly. “Send me to Village Alnwick. That is the place where I should be.”“Deirdre—”“Consider that I’m begging you.” Deirdre furrowed her eyebrows tightly, and her head was throbbing. “You don’t need to put on an act in my presence. Brendan, I understood how merciless you are from the moment you decided to return to Neve after learning about my abduction.“Even though I knew it all along, you still managed to be a little crueler than I had imagined. It is a good thing that I didn’t put much hope in you from the start. That’s all. Let me go back and rest for a few days first so I can calm myself down.”There was a change in Brendan’s dark eyes at last. A tinge of melancholy flashed past his eyes, and he cracked a smile that pained one’s heart. “Is that how I am to you? Selfish, heartless, merciless, and someone who will cast you aside first when
Deirdre knew that Glenna was comforting her, so she cracked a smile to appease Glenna. “Thank you.”She wanted to adjust her mentality, but the events that had taken place in the past few days were complicated. “I shall make a move first.”Deirdre leaned against the door and slid to the floor upon entering the villa. She felt as if all her energy was drained from her body, leaving only an empty, flat husk. She had only discovered that she did not even have someone to vent to after losing Kyran. She could not express everything that happened, but she could only bury everything in her heart until it decayed and turned into a puddle of mud. Two days later, Deirdre was back to being her usual self and accepted Glenna’s invitation to have a meal. Glenna’s friendliness was overboard in the past few days. She went from addressing Deirdre as Miss McKinnon to Deirdre in less than half an hour. In fact, she had even told Deirdre about everything regarding herself. It was Deirdre’
Declan walked toward them, and Glenna was already incapable of taking her eyes off him. He was so good-looking that she could only describe him as breathtaking. “Miss McKinnon.” Declan nodded toward Deirdre courteously, then turned his head to look at Glenna. He cracked a smile and said respectfully, “You’re Glenna, right? I frequently sought your help to handle many tasks previously. Thank you for taking the trouble to do those tasks.”Glenna was at a loss for how to behave herself. Her usual high spirits and enthusiasm vanished at this very moment, and she felt muddle-headed. Deirdre cleared her throat, and Glenna was jolted back to reality. She rubbed her palms anxiously at all times and answered, “It's… It’s no… No trouble…”Declan smiled. “You sounded very extroverted on the phone. I didn’t expect you to be so shy in person.”Deirdre could not refrain from chuckling aloud. Glenna was an extrovert, but she would shrivel up when she was in the presence of someone she fancie
Deirdre suddenly began shaking, and the feeling of disgust radiated all over her body. She covered her mouth.Declan hastily stepped on the brake.“What’s going on? Are you alright?”Deirdre recovered from her shakiness and shook her head.“I’m alright.” She said, “Just getting a little motion sickness. Please continue to drive.”Declan said concerningly, “I shall drive slower then. You may let me know if anything.”“Sure.”Deirdre hugged herself tightly, yet she still could not withstand the coldness that chilled her to the bone. The car stopped after half an hour. Deirdre tucked a strand of hair on her face behind her ear. “Are we here?”“Hmm, we’re here. I’ll send you into the house and pay a visit to the village.”Declan was about to remove his seat belt when Deirdre said smilingly, “It’s fine. I’m not fully blind, and I can still tell where the door is. Go ahead and get busy with the Village Alnwick project.”She removed her seat belt and got out of the car while she w
Deirdre was caught in a daze for a moment, but she cleared her head soon enough. ‘Brendan’s tricks are growing cruller with time, and now he has learned to seek pity too?’She would feel sorry for him at this point if she was her past self, but she felt nothing other than hatred now. She said nonchalantly, “What does your well-being have anything to do with me? Go to the hospital if you’re unwell, Brendan. I’m not a doctor and can’t help you. If it’s inconvenient for you to send the phone to me, I’ll seek Mr. King’s help to get it from—”“I won’t hand it to him.” Brendan took a deep breath and concisely interrupted her. Deirdre was stunned and furrowed her eyebrows. “What are you doing, Brendan?”Brendan repeated himself by saying, “Come see me.”“No!” Deirdre roared aloud, her ghastly pale face flushed in anger.The customers in the convenience store looked over at her. She forced herself to calm down with great effort by clenching her fist tightly. Only then she found he
It would be inappropriate, indeed. In the end, Deirdre took the call, but her tone was icy cold. “What the h*ck do you want, Brendan? Are you only pleased after tormenting a person to madness?”Brendan chuckled bitterly. “I’m sick, Deirdre. I’m feeling very ill and have no one else with me. I just want to see you. Even if you don’t care about me, will you not fulfill this request of mine?”After exhaling a breath, Deirdre fell silent while Brendan said, “You can call me despicable or shameless, but I’ll return the phone to you if you come. Otherwise, not only will I destroy the phone, but I won’t agree to get a divorce either.”Upon saying that, Brendan gave her the hotel address and ended the call concisely. Deirdre suppressed the shakiness of her hand as she returned the phone to its spot. “What’s going on?” The storekeeper was extremely anxious. Deirdre shook her head. “It’s done. Please charge me for this call as well.”After leaving the store, her mind was blank.The
It was by no means serious, but external wounds were usually the most painful type of injuries anyone could suffer. Even a little brush on a gash could make one think a sharp, thin blade was peeling their skin. Brendan took a deep breath to calm himself before finishing the entire glass of water. Deirdre placed the glass back on the table.He took another gulp of breath before stating, “The phone’s in the drawer near the headboard.”Deirdre felt her way to the cabinet near the bed and pulled the drawer out. The phone was where he said it would be—a revelation that surprised her since she had not expected him to make it so easy.Then her surprise faded immediately into the same stony face she had reserved for him since the beginning. “Seems like there’s no more reason for me to be here. Goodbye.”She turned on her heels and started toward the door.“D-Deirdre.”His voice came out almost like a frail whisper. She stopped dead in her tracks but did not spare him a glance. Bren
“I had nothing to do with the abduction at all,” said Brendan. “But you won’t believe me if I say that, will you?”The mirthless self-mockery in his tone was so stark even Deirdre felt her heart droop. Doubt crawled into her chest like an invasion of ants—she clenched her hands into fists as a burst of desire to leave seized her.He was back at it again. Back to that idiotic, wounded, “woe is me” pretense. Would he ever quit!? If she stayed any longer, she might just fall for it and be scammed by that stupid innocent look he was making. “Excuse me.”With that, she marched out of the room. Deirdre helped herself with the help of the wall until she felt her chest finally relaxing and she could breathe again. She closed her eyes.She opened them as soon as she finally regained the strength to stand. Remembering where the elevator was, she headed in its direction. There were others inside, and they asked her where to go. She replied through her pale lips, “The ground floor, thanks.