Neil rolled his eyes. “I thought that you were afraid that we weren’t sick, so you hoped for us to die earlier. After seeing the photo, I now know that you’re concerned for me. I ’11 reluctantly cooperate then.”
Then, Neil ignored Brettley and rolled up his sleeves, letting the nurse take his blood.
At the sight of him finally cooperating, Brettley let out a long sigh and exited.
Outside in the corridors, Nellie was already on her third lollipop. Upon seeing Brettley, Nellie pursed her lips and remained silent.
Brettley took a deep breath and sat down next to Nellie.
“I heard that your stomach was uncomfortable last night?”
Nellie pursed her lips. She rolled her eyes rather aggrievedly. “If someone were to ask you to drink a couple bottles of milk within an hour, your stomach would be uncomfortable, too.”
Brettley sighed. “How many bottles did you drink?” “Three. Neil drank five.”
Nellie pouted as she sat on the bench with a dissatisfied expression. “That crazy lady said that we have to finish ten bottles of milk, and only then would she not lock us up in the little dark house. She also said that since we’d complain about things like not having snacks and drinks to drink, she’d let us drink until we had enough.”
At the thought of that crazy lady’s fierce expression, Nellie was extremely unhappy. “We tried our very best for a long time, but we still couldn’t finish ten bottles. If it weren’t for Lily secretly helping us with two and a half bottles, she would’ve locked us up for real! “
Brettley was heartbroken and angry at his daughter’s words.
Brettley took a deep breath. “The things you told me, do you have any proof?”
“No.”
Nellie pursed her lips. “Neil previously had a few recording devices, but after scolding us last night, she got people to search our room. She took away all our recording devices and electronic equipment.”
Nellie sighed. “We could only suffer in silence! “
Brettley furrowed his brows. He could still understand that day when Alice forbade the kids to have any snacks and waited for him to have dinner together. She wanted to raise her children with the rules and habits of an upper-class family.
Although what she did was way too much, it was out of deep love for her children.
However, the night before, when she confiscated their electronic devices and forced the kids to drink milk and have snacks, that was clearly just taking it out on them.
It was because he said a few words about her that she took it out on her children. She forced her growing children to drink ten bottles of milk.
It seemed like he needed some time to have a proper talk with Alice.
At that thought, Brettley turned to look at Lucas who was behind him. “When you called this morning, you said that Alice was at the office?”
“Mmh.”
Lucas was silent for a while. “I just received a video from someone anonymous. Do you want to have a look at it?”
Brettley furrowed his brows and took the phone.
The video was Alice kneeling on the ground as she gazed at Bethan sincerely.
“Ms. Bethan, can you forgive me? I promise I won’t come in between you and Brettley’s work. No matter how late Brettley goes to look for you, I won’t make any noise. I won’t try to hurt you anymore.”
Brettley’s expressions gradually turned from calm into raging anger.
Brettley put the phone down and took his phone out to call Alice.
The moment the call got through, a familiar ring tone came from the entrance of the elevator at the end of the corridor.
Brettley subconsciously turned to look.
A tear-streaked Alice looked panicked as she rushed over frantically. “Is Neil and Nellie alright? Why did they have to come for a body checkup?”
Seeing Alice’s tear-streaked and worried look, a layer of detest washed over Brettley.
When he went back home to pick up Neil and Nellie, he even deliberately asked Lily whether Alice knew that the kids suffered the night before.
“After you left last night, Mrs. Morrison entered the room and never came out again. This morning, once she got up, she headed straight down for breakfast and left straight away.”
Lily’s voice still rang in Brettley’s ears. “After making Neil and Nellie drink milk, she never stepped foot in the children’s room anymore.”
Brettley looked at Alice walking over with teary eyes, and he suddenly felt miserable.
She was someone whom he loved deeply; he waited six whole years for her to return to him. However, when she finally did, he realized she had changed tremendously. She was much different than the Bethan Peterson he remembered.
Even at that moment, when he looked at her tears, he could not differentiate if they were real tears or fake ones.
Alice kept saying that she was Neil and Nellie’s biological mother and how the loss of her children for the past six years almost cost her her life.
At that moment, it was her time to spend quality time with her children, but it was only a week yet he already saw her aloofness and impatience toward them.
That was not how a mother who missed their children should act.
“Brettley.”
When he saw her, Alice ran up to him and stood before him. “Brettley, how are the kids? I just reached home when Lily said that you and Lucas took the kids to the hospital.”
Then, she raised her hand to wipe her tears. “I came as fast as I could, ” she wept. “What happened?”
Before Brettley could say anything, Nellie rolled her eyes at Alice and said, “We’re fine. Daddy was worried we might get sick from drinking too much milk. He only gave us a body checkup.”
Upon hearing Nellie’s words, the worry on Alice’s face receded a little.
As long as it was not a DNA test.
Alice coming to the hospital so anxiously was obviously not because she was worried for the kids, but she dreaded that Brettley might find out that something was wrong.
Neil and Nellie promised her that they would not encourage Brettley to take her for a DNA test, but that did not mean Brettley would suddenly have the idea on his own.
At that thought, Alice let out a sigh of relief. She looked at Nellie reproachfully. “I ‘ve already said to not have so many snacks. Look at you both. Not only have you drank so much milk that you couldn’t have your meal, but you also got your body in trouble. You have to listen to me next time. Eat on time and snack less, do you hear me?”
Then, Alice looked at Brettley smugly, vying for credit. “See, Brettley? You told me to let them have snacks before, and this is what happens. I think you shouldn’t bother with them in the future. Let me– “
“Let you continue torturing them?”
Brettley coldly interrupted her before she finished.
Brettley glared at Alice coldly with his deep, endless gaze. “Alice, has Bethan been taking care of your children for the past six years that caring for the kids is a troublesome matter? If that’s the case…”
Brettley sneered, “I ‘d rather let Bethan look after the kids.”
“Yay! “
Nellie applauded excitedly. “Nellie can be with Mommy again! “
Alice’s face turned pale. She grabbed Brettley’s hand. “
Brettley, what do you mean by this?”
“What do I mean?”
Brettley could no longer hold back the anger in his heart. “Alice, what did you say when you first came back? You said you loved your children, that even if they don’t like you, you’d try to win their hearts with your sincerity. You said that you’d take great care of them with all your might, to let them forget about Bethan. What happened then?”
Brettley took out Nellie and Neil’s test report. “The doctor said that if it weren’t because of the medication, the two of them would’ve ended up in the hospital last night already! When Bethan told me that you forced the children to consume stuff so that they wouldn’t have the appetite for dinner, I didn’t believe her! I thought you, being the mother of these two kids, would never go to such an extent! “
“The report is here with me. Should I still lie to myself about you?”
Alice’s face grew pale as she listened to Brettley’s words. In the end, her face lost all of its colors.
She clutched onto the report as she gnawed on her lip.
She got someone to confiscate all of the electronic equipment in the children’s rooms the night before she forced them to drink ten bottles of milk.
She wanted to discipline them for disobeying her.
From what she knew, drinking milk would not kill someone. At most, they would be too bloated to move, but that was it.
Without any recording device, she could retort by saying that the two of them disliked her, so they colluded to accuse her.
However, she did not expect that six-year-old children’s stomachs would be so weak. Drinking too much milk would leave signs of harm on their body!
Alice clutched the report and was silent for a very long time.
After a while, she looked up at Brettley’s face and broke out into loud sobs.
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