She looked up and wiped away her tears. “Brettley, what if I change? What if… I try my best to turn back into Bethan Peterson in the past. Would you still want to divorce me?”
Alice’s words turned the room silent.
Brettley furrowed his brows. He picked up the tissue on the table and passed it to Alice. “I do love Bethan Peterson in the past more than the present you. It’s a good thing if you’re willing to change, but if it’s too painful, just forget about it.”
In Brettley’s opinion, it would be extremely challenging for Alice to change back to the gentle and kind Bethan Peterson six years ago.
He did not feel that Alice should change because of him. On the contrary, she has done so many things for him already. He did not want her to suffer just to appease him when their relationship was already coming to an end.
“It won’t be painful! “
Just when Brettley was about to retreat his hand, Alice grabbed onto his hand. Her eyes and tone were equally anxious. “Brettley, believe me, I could do it! I could change into whatever you like. Whatever you want me to be, I’ll become that person. Is that good?”
Brettley furrowed her brows slightly.
Alice’s gaze and her close to manic tone made him rather uncomfortable.
The last time a woman that made him so uncomfortable was the Walters’ Hailey Walter in Sea City. The woman that he had an arranged marriage with since young.
“Brettley, don’t leave me, please?”
Alice grabbed onto his hand tightly. Her tone and gaze were getting more and more manic. “I have wanted to marry you since I was young. I could finally be together with you. I cannot…”
Brettley narrowed his eyes. He lowered his head and looked at her closely, grabbing his arm. “You said you wanted to marry me since you were young?”
When Bethan Peterson knew him, he was almost 17 years old.
She always said that knowing him was the best thing that happened during her teenage years.
Why, at that moment, did she say that she wanted to marry him since young?
Alice tensed at Brettley’s questions. She was in a daze for two seconds because raising her eyes and awkwardly letting him go. “I… got too excited and said wrongly.”
Brettley smiled. He lifted his hand and wiped away her tears at the corner of her eyes. “The agitated way you were just now looked like someone I used to know.”
Alice’s heart was about to pop out. She bit her lips and did not dare to meet his eyes.
“W–Who is it?”
“Hailey Walter.”
Brettley looked at her face. He said with a low voice, “
I’ve mentioned her to you before, she’s a lunatic.”
When he mentioned this word, Alice tried her very best to suppress her reaction, but her face still went pale.
The man that she likes called her a lunatic.
She turned around to clear her throat, then she chuckled self-deprecatingly. “Yes, she is a lunatic.”
Brettley looked at her miserably pale face. “Alice. I hope you don’t become as crazy as her.”
Then, Brettley turned and left.
Alice laid on the bed, looking at Brettley leaving. Her fists were clenched tightly.
Bethantic.
Brettley Morrison called her a lunatic!
She would show him what a lunatic she could be!
She had to stay by his side and get rid of Bethan and the two brats! She has to become his only one in his entire life!
“Sir.”
The moment Brettley came out of the room, Lucas immediately approached him. “Is the missus alright?”
“She’s fine.”
Brettley walked forward for a few steps before suddenly remembering something. He took his phone out and called Jude Smith.
“You said that Hailey went missing?”
Jude perhaps did not expect that Brettley would suddenly ask about Hailey. He was silent for a moment before chuckling.
“Yes. She has been addicted to plastic surgery recently. She has gone all over the world visiting plastic surgery clinics. The Walters got me to locate her recently. I even searched for her in all the plastic surgery clinics in Banyan City
“But, later on, Old Mr. Walter told me that he found her. He told me to stop looking for her.”
Then, Jude teased, “Why? Are you looking for your next candidate after announcing the divorce? Even if you are looking for your next wife, you can’t possibly be thinking of Hailey Walter, right?”
Brettley chuckled. He continued walking forward. “
Since Hailey has been found…
“I’m having a business trip at Sea City next week. Please help me to get in touch with Old Mr. Walter. Tell him I want to see Hailey and treat her to a meal.”
Jude furrowed his brows. “Is the sun going to rise from the west? Please don’t tell me you’re serious? Haven’t you always been…”
“There are things I need to confirm with Hailey.”
Brettley took a deep breath and said in a low voice, “
Please, as a favor.”
Upon hearing his serious tone, Jude could no longer tease him.
After a moment of silence. “Ok. I’ll arrange it for you.”
They hung up. Brettley just came out from the hospital when Lucas chased after him from behind.
“Sir. Did you mention the Walter family from Sea City?”
Brettley furrowed his brows. He turned to look at him.
“Why?”
Lucas immediately passed some documents to him. “
The things that you’ve asked me to check, I’ve got some results. I’ve found out who was paying and controlling the PR company and spammers’ syndicate. It was a man called Richard Walter. It was the same Mr. Walter that spoke with Mrs. Morrison.”
Lucas flipped the documents open and pointed to a line of words. “He is the Walters’ butler in Sea City.”
Holding the documents in his hands, a vein violently popped out on Brettley’s forehead.
The person in the background was Mr. Walter, who had close contact with Alice.
Turned out he was the butler of the Walter family. That meant Alice and the Walters…
He took a deep breath and closed the documents. “
Please get me Banyan City’s best plastic surgeon. “
Lucas nodded furiously. “I’ll do it now! “
Half an hour later, Lucas brought Anne Zimmer carefully into Brettley’s office.
“Mr. Morrison.”
This was Anne’s first time in Brettley’s office. His office was like his personality, empty and cold.
She walked in and sat down on the sofa. “Why did you call me over so anxiously? Did anything happen to Bethan?”
Ann had been busy with a scar-repairing surgery the entire day. She did not have the time to watch the news.
She only just came out of the operation theater and barely had time to eat when she was hauled over to Brettley’s office by Lucas.
“This has nothing to do with Bethan.”
Brettley leaned back on his chair. He looked at Anne’s face calmly. “Can you tell me in detail how advanced plastic surgery has become?”
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