After a long while, he admitted by saying, “Yes, I did a great disservice to you.”Deirdre opened her eyes in surprise. She kept quiet for a while before she said, “I was thinking about how you managed to convince the victim’s parents to lie alongside you. What did you give them that was so good that they would go against their conscience?”She could still remember the married couple’s hatred and grumblings when she surrendered herself to the police. They were supposed to wish to execute the murderer badly.Brendan looked at the woman’s distancing figure. He wanted to stretch out his hand to touch her, but he pulled back his hand. “The reason is simple.” Brendan removed his jacket and lay with Deirdre. It felt as if that was the only way he could be closer to her. “I gave them enough money for them to live without any worries for the rest of their lives.”“That’s all?”Deirdre smiled, but he did not explain further. The victim was already dead, after all. The victim’s parents
Deirdre did not understand why Brendan would disguise as Kyran to deceive her and wondered whether Brendan had feelings for her at some point as well. Yet, she denied those thoughts when he reconnected with Charlene once again.It was just another one of Brendan’s tricks. On the other hand, Deirdre felt her chest tighten and ache when she heard Brendan use the word ‘love’ repeatedly. Nonetheless, she calmed down instantly and cracked a smile in contempt. “What trick do you have up your sleeve again?”Brendan’s gaze dimmed as he looked at her changing expression. “Don’t you believe what I just said?”Deirdre’s mind was a chaotic mess. “I don’t know if I should believe you because you’ve deceived me way too many times. You have such a close relationship with Charlene and also…”She tried to clear her head with great effort. “If you really want to make Charlene plead guilty to her crime, why did you reject me in the hospital? You could have totally straightened the situation by no
Brendan headed downstairs and walked over quickly upon hearing that. His dark eyes were locked on Deirdre’s face, and he was relieved to see she did not look too ill.“Belly hurts? Since when? Why haven’t you told me that?”Deidre shoved at him. How could she tell him that? Apart from constantly ignoring each other, she did not feel the pain so obviously in the past two days, but the pain grew stronger yesterday when the man indulged in…Deirdre found it embarrassing just by thinking about it, and she did not wish to speak to him more.The doctor said, “I shall examine you briefly, Miss McKinnon.”“Sure.”Deirdre sat on the sofa while the doctor auscultated her. He noticed the marks on her neck during the process and let out a cough. “Uh… Frankly, it doesn’t seem like there’s anything unusual with your body based on the auscultation, Miss McKinnon. I think that it is possible…”The doctor wanted to speak but stopped himself. Brendan grew anxious. “What is it?”“It’s…” The
Mrs. Engel let out a few dry laughs, “Nothing. I’m worried we will run into those people again when we go to the grocery store.”Brendan gave her an assuring gaze and said, “Don’t worry. Just bring her with you.”Mrs. Engel knew that Brendan must have something prepared. She nodded, and just when she was about to turn around, Brendan said, “Oh yeah, don’t forget to buy a chicken.”He did not like the feeling when he saw the chicken in the trash.“Mr. Brighthall… Don’t tell me that you still want Mrs. Brighthall to cook chicken soup for you in her current state?” Mrs. Engel asked, her voice thick with disbelief.If that was really what Brendan wanted, she was perturbed by his low level of emotional intelligence.Brendan’s face sank slightly, and he replied, “It’s none of your business. Just listen to what I told you to do. Besides, don’t tell Deirdre that I’m the one who asked her to go out.”Mrs. Engel nodded.When she returned, Deirdre was already standing in the living room.
“Are you going to beat us up like what you did yesterday?” snarled Mrs. Engel, shielding Deirdre behind her.Deirdre placed her hand on Mrs. Engel’s arm and calmed her down.“It’s okay. I can handle this.”“Mrs. Brighthall…”Deirdre took a step forward. She lowered her head to mask the complicated emotions in her eyes.She did not know what Brendan was trying to do at all. Did he want her to remember these people’s anger so that she would be grateful to him for saving her from her misery? ‘Well… It does seem like something he would do,’ Deirdre thought sarcastically.“After that, she raised her head and said, “Yes, it’s me. What do you guys want? If you want to know more about the news, I can explain about it.”The person standing at the front said, “Explain? No, we don’t need that. You don’t have to explain to us at all. It's just a misunderstanding. I'm really sorry for doing that to you yesterday, Miss McKinnon. We felt bad when we watched the press conference. It's a good
Deirdre did not know if she should trust Brendan or not.After they went back into the car, Brendan looked into the bag and asked, “Mrs. Engel, where is the thing I asked you to buy?”Mrs. Engel smacked her forehead and said, “Oh gosh, I was so confused by them that I forgot to buy it.”“Go buy it now.”Mrs. Engel got out of the car, and Deirdre looked at Brendan in confusion.“What did you ask Mrs. Engel to buy?”“You’ll know about it later.”Deirdre was stumped. There were only vegetables and groceries in the grocery store. She did not know why Brendan had to make it so mysterious. -In a villa, the man narrowed his eyes dangerously as he watched the whole process of Sam going into the hotel room and capturing the people in it.One of his men standing beside him gnashed his teeth and said, “I can’t believe Brendan could still foil our plan despite his injuries. I should have killed him when we were on the mountain!”The man tapped his finger on the table and asked, “So, a
At that time, the only person he cared about was Deirdre. When he was hungry, he would order her to serve him the food regardless of how tired she was. At that time, he felt as if he was doing her a big favor by just talking to her.‘So, this is how her life was… So, this is how she felt…’He had been in there for less than ten minutes, and he was already this tired. One could imagine how tired Deirdre was in the past.“Brendan?” Deirdre knocked on the door again when Brendan did not respond. “Come out now. This isn’t something you can do. If you want some chicken soup, I can give the recipe to Mrs. Engel and ask her to make it for you.”Brendan never expected that he would be defeated by something so trivial as cooking, while he was the alpha in the business circle. It took him a lot of effort to cut the chicken into pieces. After that, he said, “It’s okay. I’m almost done.”‘He’s almost done?’ Deirdre was skeptical. “Open the door now.”Brendan hastily cleaned up the kitche
Deirdre did not know what Brendan had put into the soup, but it tasted just as she expected. It was bitter and salty. “How is it?”Just as Deirdre was about to spit it out, the man sitting next to her asked, his voice filled with expectation, and he looked just like a kid asking for a compliment.In the end, she swallowed it and said, “It’s not bad.”“That means it’s tasty.” Getting a compliment from someone like Deirdre, with superb cooking skills, meant that the soup tasted really good. With that thought in mind, Brendan said, “You should eat more since you’re pregnant. If you like it, I’ll cook for you every day.”Deirdre lowered her head and munched on the meat.Brendan looked at her for a while and got himself a bowl of soup as well. He frowned and spat it out as soon as he put it into his mouth. “What the h*ll is this!?”“Chicken soup,” replied Deirdre. “No, this isn’t chicken soup. The soup you made for me doesn’t taste like this,” Brendan said as he took Deirdre’s b