When Brettley hung up, Bethan still dressed his wound with a clean bandage. As she concentrated on dressing his wound, she calmly asked, “You haven’t had any food, too?”
“Yes.”
Brettley’s voice was calm. “I had a business meeting with the local gangs in Sea City this morning. Once I got the news, I immediately rushed to Ben’s house. Do you think I’d have the time to eat?”
Bethan pursed her lips and said nothing.
After a while, she took a deep breath. “Is Ben’s leg…alright?”
She still remembered how Ben knelt on the floor when she got downstairs. The marble floor was covered in his blood.
“Nothing much.”
Brettley lightly furrowed his brows. “The local gang only cut him open a little.”
Bethan paused a little. “D–Did…you get them to do i bill
Brettley swept her a glance. He did not answer her question.
“I initially thought that you didn’t get along well with Ben and his wife. I was afraid that they’d hurt you in their home, and that was why I rushed over to look for you. Who would’ve thought.”
Brettley swept Bethan a glance. “Not only were you not hurt, but you were also living comfortably in their home. I’m curious.”
Brettley changed into a more comfortable position on the sofa. He fixed his gaze on Bethan. “Gwen always had a conflict with you every time she met you. She’s Alice’s best friend. She’d want to beat you up on Alice’s behalf every time she saw you.”
“Why did she choose to protect you this time?”
Bethan turned her head aside; she did not dare to look at Brettley. “As I said, it’s because of Theo.”
Brettley’s gaze was too aggressive.
His dangerous gaze made Bethan feel as if her secret would be exposed the very next second.
“Do you think I ‘d buy that?”
Brettley sneered. “Theo is indeed an artist that Gwen and Ben like, but the main reason they like Theo is because of Alice.
Because Alice likes him, the two of them got to know Theo’s work and like his art.”
Brettley looked at Bethan’s face. He wanted to see what sort of person she was from her face.
“Ben and Gwen wouldn’t have betrayed Alice because of Theo.”
Bethan bit her lips. She did not know how to answer at that moment, so she took a deep breath and turned to look at him. “You haven’t told me. Did you get those men to hurt Ben?”
Brettley looked at her. His gaze was ice-cold and ambiguous. “What do you think?”
Bethan wanted to say that she thought that Brettley was the one who ordered them to do so.
However, she wanted to see what sort of lie he could come up with, so she chuckled. “What I think is not the truth. It’s just like how I thought you would not get me to drink at an event like last night, but I still drank in the end, isn’t it?”
Brettley’s gaze fiercely stalled. After a moment, he turned his head away from her and averted his gaze.
“I didn’t get those men to do it.”
His tone was cold and indifferent. “Those people are the local gangs of Sea City. Ben is a local businessman and is also the son-in-law of Andy Larson. The Larsons had a feud with the gangs, so the gangs were just finding a reason to take it out on Ben.”
He cleared his throat. “I got in touch with the gangs mainly to look for you and Theo. I didn’t know that you two would be in Ben’s house. I was also not clear that Ben and the local gangs had a feud going on.”
With those few sentences, he cleared himself of any responsibility for Ben’s injury.
Bethan looked at him. After a while, he smiled. “Mr. Morrison, you sure are a tradesman. You have principles.”
His principle was that at no time was he responsible for anything.
Brettley could hear the sarcasm in her tone.
He said nothing. He put on his shirt and leaned back on the sofa, scrolling through his phone.
The room fell in instant silence.
Bethan also had nothing to do, so she sat on the other end of the sofa and started using her phone, too.
She tapped the Sea City local news notification. She initially wanted to see the changes of Sea City for the past few years, but the moment she clicked on it…
It was a photo of her and Brettley.
The location of the photo was the room where she was with Brettley at that moment.
The photos were of her, either lying on Brettley, or clutching her chest with her hands while looking at Brettley, or having both her hands around Brettley’s neck.
The headline wrote, (Heiress of Larson Group, Gwen Larson Reveals That Brettley Morrison is a Wife- Cheating Playboy! ]
The report even stated in detail that when Bethan and Brettley were doing those actions in the photo, Brettley’s wife, Alice, was next door.
Everyone on the internet berated them. Bethan almost saw black.
Those photos. If she recalled correctly, those were the photos taken with the pinhole camera!
Gwen and her father set up the pinhole camera. However, Gwen already knew her identity the night before…
Bethan browsed through the news once more. The more she read them, the more suffocated she felt.
The news not only stated Gwen’s name, but there was even a voice recording of her.
She played the voice recording with trembling hands.
At that instant, Gwen’s calm and emotionless voice rang out throughout the room. “That’s right, I’m the one who exposed them. I’m willing to bear legal responsibility for thèse photos that I published. As for whether Bethan and Brettley are having an inappropriate affair, l’ll hold a press conference tomorrow and explain everything to everyone clearly.
“Tomorrow, nine in the morning, in the small auditorium near Sea City’s Ocean Ray High School, I’ll hold a small press conference. I welcome all friends who are concerned about Bethan interfering with Brettley’s marriage to attend. I ’11 answer all of your questions.”
The recording ended there.
Bethan gasped as she held her phone tightly.
Gwen just reunited with her the night before. She knew that Bethan was Bethan Peterson from back then, so why…?
Also, the small auditorium near Ocean Ray High School. Ocean Ray was where she and Gwen attended. The small auditorium was once their most favorite place.
Back then, Gwen and she had a coming-of-age ceremony at that auditorium. After the ceremony, they each left for university and had never contacted each other ever since.
The small auditorium was the last place Bethan and Gwen had crossed paths.
Alas, Gwen abruptly planned to hold a press conference at that auditorium, accusing her of being the mistress in Brettley and Alice’s marriage…
Bethan closed her eyes. Her heart was smashed to pieces.
Unfortunately for her, Brettley’s sneers rang in her ears. “Didn’t you say that you became friends with Ben and Gwen because of Theo?”
Brettley changed into a more comfortable position as he held his phone in one hand, scrolling through the news expressionlessly. “This is the friend that you mentioned?”
Bethan bit her lip harshly and said nothing.
She had no more strength nor the mood to talk.
On one hand, she was emotionally exhausted, and on the other hand, she was famished.
She changed into a different posture and laid on the sofa listlessly as she helplessly curled up into a ball.
Brettley furrowed his brows and looked at her in front of him.
The sunlight shone through the curtains from behind her. The exceptionally bright sunlight shone on her side profile, but it was as if she was hiding in the shadows.
She had a thin body and an emaciated face. Her lips were still bruised from the bite he bit her a moment ago. It was bright, yet sad.
She was like an injured small beast as she curled up on the sofa silently.
He looked at her. His eyes gradually darkened. Truthfully, he felt strange, too.
An hour ago, Gwen was still anxiously taking Ben to the hospital. How did she manage to shift her focus from Ben to Bethan in a mere hour?
Moreover, when he brought men to Gwen’s house, Gwen courageously blocked him at the entrance.
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