“Don’t move! Do you want the entire back of your hand to swell up?” Brendan furrowed his eyebrows, took a step forward, and clutched her wrist. 

Deirdre wanted to struggle free, but Brendan immediately said, “Don’t blame me for doing something to you if you insist on moving!”

Hearing that, Deidre didn’t dare to move an inch. Her eyes were clouded with fear and bewilderment as she uttered hoarsely, “What the hell do you want from me?”
 
She truly didn’t understand his intentions. She had already lost everything she held dear. 

‘What else does he want from me when I have already lost my face, the one that looked similar to Charlene’s?’ thought Deirdre inwardly.

Brendan clenched his fists tightly and said in a cold, mocking tone, “Deirdre, you should check your reflection in the mirror. Did you really think that I’d still want to see you? I’m only doing this to find my child. I would li

Steven hung up the phone and assumed a guilty expression. Next to him, Charlene was filing her nails when she darted a look at Steven and said in a carefree manner, “Steven, you and I are in this together. If you don’t handle this matter thoroughly, both of us will end up meeting a bad end when Brendan finds out that we’ve been involved in this. Do you understand?”

Steven nodded with difficulty. He had always abided by Brendan’s orders, and Brendan had ordered him to obey Charlene’s instructions. However, he had not expected that the situation would grow more and more serious until it could not even be dealt with properly. 

Deirdre was disfigured, she had lost her child, and her eyes were now blind. 

“That damned Deirdre is still creating problems even after being disfigured and blinded!” Charlene clutched the nail filer so tightly that it cut her palm and made it bleed. Her eyes were filled with resentment when she said, “She’s still trying to seduce Brendan and use her disability to gain the upper hand. If I let her off now, what will happen in the future?”

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Brendan left to get himself a new phone and smoked a cigarette before he returned to Deirdre’s room. 

The nurse was administering medication to Deirdre, who endured the pain and asked, “Ma’am, have you seen my phone?”

“Your phone? You didn’t have your phone with you when you were brought here in an unconscious state.”

“Ah… Can I borrow your phone for a moment then?”

Before the nurse could respond, Brendan suppressed his anger and asked, “What are you going to do with the phone when you’re blind?”

Deirdre turned a deaf ear to him and continued to plead with the nurse. “Can I please borrow your phone for a moment?”

Brendan was infuriated for no apparent reason. He cast a look at the nurse, and the latter left in a hurry. Brendan stepped forward and asked, “What are you going to do with the phone? Are you going to call Sterling? You’re so horny that you can’t even stand being away from him for a day.”

Deirdre lowered her gaze and clutched the blanket tightly. “I’m only planning on notifying him because he gets worried.”

‘You really are going to call up Sterling.’ 

Brendan was furious. ‘If I don't arrive in time, I’m going to have to watch you two talk flirtatiously to each other on the phone, right?’

He caught Deirdre off guard when he chuckled and said, “Deirdre, you flatter yourself. Who would worry about you in your current state? Perhaps Sterling is already sleeping with another woman in the clinic!”

Deirdre furrowed her eyebrows. She understood that she could not have a normal conversation with Brendan, so she lay down on the bed and covered herself with the blanket. 

Brendan was infuriated even more when he saw that Deirdre had turned a deaf ear to him. 

‘She wasn’t like this in the past. 

‘She used to be delighted for a long time after chatting with me and being with me in the past. What made her change? Is it Sterling?’

Brendan clutched her wrist abruptly and said, “Why are you pretending? Get up! Tell me what happened to your face and eyes! Also, I want to know all about our child!”

Upon saying that, he felt so furious that he blurted, “I bet you love Sterling so much that you killed our child after he was born so that you could continue to date him, right?”

Clap!

The loud slap stunned Brendan, whose right cheek hurt. 

Deirdre’s entire body was trembling, and she shouted in exasperation, “Leave!”

She felt an anger that she had never felt before, and she spared no effort in reaching for something in her surroundings and throwing it at Brendan. 

“Leave! Leave now!”

‘How can he possibly be so cruel and do something so monstrous yet keep trying to put the blame on me!

‘Am I supposed to go through this without putting up a fight?’

Brendan was not a patient man to begin with. He was so infuriated by Deirdre’s actions that he used his strength to pin her down against the bed, his hands clutching hers. “Why are you throwing a fit? Do you feel the pain now? Did I say something wrong? Where is our child?”

‘Where is the child?’

Deirdre shut her eyes in sorrow. She then opened her eyes again and said, “You’re right. I didn’t want him, so I had an abortion. Are you pleased?”

Brendan was stunned for a moment. Soon, his face turned solemn, and he uttered with his teeth gritted, “You finally admitted it!”

Brendan punched a wall when Deirdre was sent to the hospital. He punched it so hard that he began bleeding from his knuckles, yet the anger in his heart was not vented. 

‘Run away? Why is she still trying to run away?

‘She wanted to entrap me with the child two years ago. She was so loving and unwilling to part with me at the time, so what changed?

‘What the heck happened!’

“Brendan! Are you alright?” Charlene came rushing over and held his hand when she saw the blood on his knuckles. She instructed a nurse to bring over a bandaid. “You’re not even concerned that your hand is bleeding. What’s the matter?”

“I’m fine.” Brendan pulled back his hand. “Why are you here?”

Charlene would never reveal that Steven had called to notify her, of course. She made up an excuse and said, “My friend, who was having a checkup at the hospital, saw you and notified me.”

She took a glance at Deirdre,

“Don’t move! Do you want the entire back of your hand to swell up?” Brendan furrowed his eyebrows, took a step forward, and clutched her wrist. 

Deirdre wanted to struggle free, but Brendan immediately said, “Don’t blame me for doing something to you if you insist on moving!”

Hearing that, Deidre didn’t dare to move an inch. Her eyes were clouded with fear and bewilderment as she uttered hoarsely, “What the hell do you want from me?”
 
She truly didn’t understand his intentions. She had already lost everything she held dear. 

‘What else does he want from me when I have already lost my face, the one that looked similar to Charlene’s?’ thought Deirdre inwardly.

Brendan clenched his fists tightly and said in a cold, mocking tone, “Deirdre, you should check your reflection in the mirror. Did you really think that I’d still want to see you? I’m only doing this to find my child. I would like to meet him and introduce him to my family. I promise that I won’t lay eyes on you even once from

Chapter 17 He’s Dead, Just as You Wished