“Hold me, sir! I came in a boat. You just have to swim forward!”The man turned around and saw that Deirdre was still far away. He roared, “Miss McKinnon! Here!”Deirdre rowed the boat with the paddle upon hearing the voice. The man supported the unconscious Ophelia to reduce Brendan’s burden.The man waited for the boat to come nearer before he crawled into it. Then, he pulled up Ophelia and Brendan with his teeth clenched.Brendan was already exhausted, yet his first response was to perform CPR on Ophelia to help her to spit out the water she choked on.The weather was awful. The people on the boat were trembling, and their teeth were chattering in the cold. Brendan removed his coat to cover Ophelia’s body. When everything ended, he looked toward Deirdre and found her eyes wide open and bloodshot. She was so anxious that she did not dare to breathe loudly. “Why did you come? Aren’t you cold?” Brendan slumped against Deirdre’s body and said, “Good thing you came.”Deirdre
Sam had been tricked as well. He had taken his people to search the building opposite, assuming that someone was hiding and watching them from that building. Unfortunately, the second floor had been empty when he searched the place. Let alone a suspect, he could not even find a waiter there.In other words, it was a case of diversion. Had Deirdre not been there, Brendan would have died in the sea. “The ship…” Deirdre suddenly spoke. “Not only did someone shove my mother into the sea, but the ship also stopped there on purpose. It is obvious that they could have saved my mother first.”“Right!” Sam gave the order, “Dominic, investigate this quickly. No one is allowed to escape from the ship.”The man named Dominic nodded and left. Sam took a glance at Deirdre and found that her face was already ghastly pale after being in the cold wind for quite some time without any shelter, especially when she was on the sea.“Miss McKinnon, I’ll stay here. You should get some rest. It’s too
Ophelia was the woman who worked arduously every day just so she could afford to send Deirdre to school.It was a waste that the unforeseen event happened before she could have the time to enjoy her golden years. Deirdre’s eyes welled with tears, and she placed the woman’s palm on her forehead. In the next moment, the palm moved once. “Mother!” Deirdre was overjoyed. “Are you awake?”Ophelia opened her eyes and stared at the ceiling for a while. Soon afterward, her gaze landed on Deirdre’s face and became focused gradually. “Deirdre?”Her voice was tainted with excitement and eagerness. “Deirdre? Is that you?”“It’s me! Mother!”Deirdre spread her arms and hugged her mother. The mother and daughter hugged each other and cried for a long time. When they recovered from the emotional moment, Deirdre rubbed her eyes and took a seat. She had way too many things to tell her mother and too many questions that needed to be answered. “Where have you been over the years, mother? W
At the same time, Brendan was regaining consciousness as well. He had always been a healthy man. Even though he had endured extreme cold from the incident, he could still open his eyes and sit upright while coughing. “Sir!” Sam was on the phone when he noticed Brendan and hastily hung up the call. He served a glass of warm water to Brendan. Brendan took a sip while subconsciously glancing around the room with his dark eyes. Sam noticed the situation and explained, “The caretaker can’t get here in time, so Miss McKinnon is taking care of Madame McKinnon.”“Hmm.” Brendan finished the glass of water. He knew that this would happen but was still slightly hopeful in his heart.Now that he thought about it, he realized that he was nothing compared to Ophelia. “What happened to the restaurant that I assigned you to check out?”Sam narrated the sequence of events that happened to him truthfully to Brendan. Brendan furrowed his eyebrows. “It was a diversion?”“I think so. They s
Brendan understood what she meant and cracked a grin of understanding with his pale lips. “I understand,” he said nonchalantly and hid his smile, yet he made Deirdre blush. She could only change the topic of conversation.“Don’t you find today’s incident very strange? Sam was diverted by someone while the remaining people went chasing after Connor. When you were left alone in the end, my mother was shoved from the ship by someone. It felt as if everything was prepared for you.”“I know,” Brendan said in a hoarse voice, letting out a few coughs. He furrowed his eyebrows as he pondered and said, “I believe that they wanted me to drown in the sea. After all, I would have already been physically exhausted to swim my way there, let alone return with Ophelia. Everyone would assume that this was only an unforeseen accident. However, they planned for everything except you being in the car.”“Yes.”Deirdre thought about this as well. They had planned for Brendan’s reluctance to let Op
“It is because my father’s identity is not important to me. He’s just a stranger bound by the ties of kin to me. Moreover, my mother is back now, so I can totally get the answer I need from her. As such, I turned her down.”Deirdre’s gaze was solemn, and her eyebrows were tightly furrowed. It was as if she was in a very bad mood when she thought about her father. Soon afterward, she lowered her head and made up her mind. “However, I figure that those people are not only targeting you. They may be targeting me as well. I need to figure out my father’s identity to prevent my mother’s incident from happening again.”Brendan pondered for a moment and held her hand to assure her. “Do anything that you want to do and leave everything else to me.”Deirdre held his hand back. At present, they were no longer bound by complicated relationship matters. They were cooperative partners.Deirdre immediately set out to prepare for this matter, and her first priority was to get some answers fro
“Do not let anyone take it away?” Deirdre was confused. “Who’s taking it away?”“Those captors of mine, of course.” Ophelia spoke in a calm and composed manner, “Think about this. Those people captured me and then freed me. It signifies that I’m not their target, but it’s either you or Brendan. If that really is the case, isn’t your child a thorn in their flesh?”Deirdre came to understand the situation. “Mother, I also came to see you today because of this matter.”She became serious, and Ophelia had no choice but to become serious as well. “What’s going on?”Deirdre was conflicted but said, “Do… Do you still remember my father?”In the next moment, Ophelia’s face turned ghastly pale, but Deirdre could not see it. She kept quiet for a while before she said, “Your father?”“Hmm!” Deirdre explained, “Don’t worry, mother. I’m not planning to look for him after so many years, but the female accomplice working with those people told me that those people knew my father. Hence, I’m w
Brendan furrowed his eyebrows deeply. “So, you’re saying that your mother wasn’t reacting in this manner because the memory was triggering to her?”“Yes!” Deirdre inhaled a deep breath. “If she really did resist the memory, she would have reacted in this manner a long time ago. Hence, I suspect that those people wanted something from my mother, so she kept her memory hidden deep subconsciously. In the end, she would react so intensely even when she thought about it.”At the thought of Ophelia's hardships there, Deirdre’s eyes were filled with guilt and remorse.In an instant, Brendan held her hand to comfort her.“I’m fine.” Deirdre calmed down. Brendan said, “If that is the case, don’t bring this up to her anymore. She is innocent in this matter and is involved unwillingly. Let her live her life in peace now that she is back.”“Hmm… However, since those people hurt my mother so terribly, they won’t let me off so easily. Hence, I can’t just do nothing while I await my doom…”De