Alice sniffled a little as she croaked, “Let me know how it goes. If it’s Bethan, I’ll be willing to apologize to her in person.”
“Hmm.”
Brettley paused for a while. Just when Alice was about to hang up the call, he called after her, “
Where are Neil and Nellie?”
That took Alice by mild surprise.
“T–They should…should be at kindergarten?”
“Is that so?”
Brettley lifted his head and looked at the calendar on Bethan’s coffee table. It clearly stated that it was a Sunday.
Neil and Nellie’s kindergarten always had one day off per week on a Sunday so that the kids could be closer to their parents.
Alice, as their parent, was already in Banyan City for almost a week, yet she knew nothing of that. It was hard to imagine that this was a mother who said she loved her kids.
Brettley furrowed his brows. The scene of Bethan leaning by the door and admonishing him last night appeared in his mind.
“Don’t bother with the kids’ food today. Let Lily handle them.”
Alice, at the other end of the phone call, paused for a while. She instantly understood. The two rascals must have ratted her out to Brettley.
They might be young, but they were smart!
Although Alice was rather dissatisfied, she still sounded gentle, “Why? Are they unhappy with their mother? I’m just looking after them…”
Brettley wanted to say something else when the bedroom door in the distance opened.
He furrowed his brows and ended the topic. “Just let Lily handle it today. Leave it to her. We’ll talk more when I get back.”
Brettley hung up the phone and looked in the direction of the bedroom.
Bethan was still in her pajamas. She crossed her arms a t her chest. “You’re up. Why are you still not leaving? Are you waiting for me to cook breakfast for you?”
The morning sun shone on her face and made Bethan’s face seemingly glow.
Her slightly tousled hair made her face seem even smaller.
Her face was as huge as a palm, yet those beautiful black eyes were filled with hatred toward him.
Brettley furrowed his brows. “Bethan, don’t forget that I ‘m still your boss. Don’t ask me to leave like that.”
He hated when people do that. The night before, she kept provoking him, that was why he completely lost it. He…
Bethan rolled her eyes. “What? You think you can boss me around again just because you put your pants on? Why didn’t you recall I’m your employee yesterday night when you were being inappropriate to me? “
Brettley frowned.
The incident the night before.
The memory seemed so surreal to him.
Sure enough, if there was a first time, there would be a second time as well. The last time, he could use the excuse that he was drunk, so he mistook her for Bethan Peterson.
What was Brettley’s new excuse? He was not drunk.
He was well aware the entire time that she was Bethan and not Bethan Peterson.
However…
Ding, dong! The doorbell abruptly rang.
Accompanied by the doorbell was Theo’s concerned voice. “How are you? Are you feeling better? I brought you some breakfast. Come and have some.”
Theo still remembered how Bethan felt depressed due to Nellie’s call.
“Bethan?”
Brettley furrowed his brows. He was about to get up and open the door, but Bethan held him back.
“Don’t embarrass me! It might not be embarrassing for you, but it is for me! “
She bit her lip and pushed Brettley into the bedroom.
“If you dare come out, I ‘ll immediately publicize the footage of Alice at the art gallery! “
Bethan then closed the bedroom door. She also placed Brettley’s shoes behind her luggage.
With all that done, Bethan took a deep breath and opened the door.
“You’re up?”
Theo chuckled gently. He entered the Bethan could not stop him in time. She could only follow him sheepishly.
“You’re up early.”
“I get up early every day, so I can bring you breakfast every day in the future.”
Theo chuckled lightly. He immediately noticed the blanket and its wrinkles on the sofa.
“You slept on the sofa last night?”
Bethan paused for a while before she immediately nodded. “The bedroom is still pretty much in a mess. I haven’t tidied them up, so I slept on the sofa.”
Theo calmly responded. He placed the breakfast on the coffee table. “You have some breakfast then. I’ll go help you tidy up your messy bedroom.”
Theo got up and headed to the bedroom, but Bethan immediately pulled him back. “There’s no need to trouble you. Why don’t you…have some breakfast with me? Eating alone is quite boring.”
Theo hesitated a little. He looked at the closed bedroom door, then the pair of men’s shoes behind the luggage.
In the end, he laughed a little. He sat opposite Bethan on the sofa.
“Okay, I’ll sit and accompany you.”
Bethan inwardly sighed in relief. She smiled and ate breakfast while she chatted with Theo.
Brettley silently listened to their conversation from At first, he was very keen on what their topics were, but as they started to talk about their art and design sketches, he lost interest.
He turned around and sat on the bed, carefully looking around at Bethan’s bedroom.
Her bedroom was not as messy as how she told Theo–it was extremely clean and tidy.
Bethan was a hardworking woman. She tidied up her bedroom while he was asleep the night before.
A violet bedspread and a white ceramic desk.
On her desk was a photo of her and Nellie. Below the photo was a photo album.
He curiously went over and flipped the photo album open.
There was not a single photo of Bethan and the two kids.
There were only photos with her and Nellie, her and Neil, as well as Nellie and Neil.
There were a lot of photos of Neil.
Also…
Brettley furrowed his brows. He carefully looked at Neil’s photo. Half of the photos were of Neil making weird faces. The other half was of him being mature, completely different from Neil at that moment.
Brettley smiled a little.
This boy had two types of faces.
However, when he flipped to the photos behind, he could not smile anymore.
The back of the photo album had many photos of Neil in a striped hospital gown, lying on the bed with a pale face.
Some were of him forcing a smile while he was on a drip.
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