So, don’t carry such delusions that I’m doing all this for you. I did all this for myself.”
He lifted his legs, but paused when he was at the door. “Luke will transfer Gwen to another hospital today, to somewhere no one can find her. So if you would like to visit her, tonight is your last chance. You’ll be following me back to Banyan City first thing tomorrow morning.”
Leaving these words behind, he lifted his foot and left.
The door slammed shut behind him with a bang.
Bethan looked in the direction he left and was caught in a daze for a long while before recovering her wits.
Sucking in a deep breath, she tapped the necklace hanging around her neck. “Nigel, did you hear that?”
Even though she had switched off the necklace just now, Nigel could activate it from afar.
According to her understanding of the little guy, he would definitely not lay back and quietly wait for her to contact him.
The moment the words left her mouth, the little guy’s voice drifted out of her necklace. He sounded slightly depressed. “I did…”
Bethan raised her lips and laughed self-deprecatingly, “So, don’t be like Nellie and still think there’s any hint of a possibility between us. It’s impossible for us.”
After ending the call with Nigel, Bethan hesitated in her room for a long while but finally mustered her courage and went to the hospital.
Brettley was right.
Luke did indeed protect Gwen very well. Even when she wanted to meet Gwen, his subordinates guarding the door had to report to their superiors and onward, before they finally obtained Luke’s permission and allowed her into the ward.
When Bethan arrived at Gwen’s hospital ward, Gwen was climbing down the hospital with her father, Andy’s help.
Seeing Bethan arrive, Gwen’s pupils shrunk slightly, then she raised her eyes and smiled at her softly. “
You’re just in time.”
She smiled and sat in the wheelchair. “Luke Jones said I’ll be transferred to another hospital tomorrow. I want to make a trip home, to pack up some of my stuff and bring it over there.”
With that, Gwen looked at Bethan calmly. “Since you’re here, please accompany me home. I don’t want my father to still be taking care of me when I’m already an adult.”
Bethan pursed her lips, walked toward her silently, and took the wheelchair that Andy was pushing. “
Alright.”
She pushed Gwen out of the hospital ward, entered the elevator and headed downstairs.
A black Cayenne was parked downstairs.
In front of the Cayenne, Luke leaned on the car bonnet elegantly, smoking a cigarette. Seeing them arrive, the man extinguished the cigarette in his hands, walked to the wheelchair and heaved Gwen up into his arms, placing her in the backseat. Then, he folded up the wheelchair skillfully.
Bethan stood on the spot, looked at his smooth and skillful actions, her lips could not help but raise into a smile. “I never expected Leader Jones would do something like this personally.”
Luke closed the booth and swept his cold gaze across at Bethan. “I was born unlucky. I’ve done all sorts of jobs before I joined a gang.”
With that, he stood up directly and entered the car, climbing into the driver’s seat.
It looked like he was prepared to be their driver.
Bethan was surprised. Someone like him… would escort Gwen personally?
Looking at the man from behind as he drove, Bethan completely believed Brettley’s words, that Luke would protect Gwen as best as he could.
The journey was quiet.
When Bethan arrived at the villa with Gwen, the villa was quiet.
Bethan thought Gwen just returned to pack some clothes and some personal items, but unexpectedly…
When she was almost done packing her luggage, she carefully placed her and Ben’s wedding album into the suitcase. Looking at Gwen’s gentle movements, Bethan’s heart ached slightly.
In her heart… Gwen must still be missing Ben, right?
That made sense. Since high school till now, for more than ten years, Gwen had been having feelings for Ben. It wasn’t so easy to forget a relationship with more than ten years’ history.
Just like her feelings for Brettley…
At this thought, she sucked in a deep breath, reached out and grabbed Gwen’s hand. “One day, all of this will become history.”
Gwen closed her eyes, nodded silently, not saying a single word.
A long while later, when Bethan wheeled Gwen out of the villa, a car was parked at the entrance to the villa.
It was Ben’s car.
The car door opened and Ben walked out, together with a… a beautiful young woman.
Bethan’s eyes widened in shock.
Gwen’s eyes were filled with disbelief too.
The woman walked toward Ben with gentle footsteps and hooked her arm through Ben’s. “Why do you want to come back here? It’s so late already.”
Ben planted a soft kiss on the woman’s cheek. “I remember there are still some valuable items here. We should take them first, before that woman comes home.”
With that, the two of them turned and saw Bethan who was standing at the entrance to the villa. And Gwen, sitting in the wheelchair in front of Bethan.
Ben’s entire body stiffened slightly. Gwen turned pale as a ghost.
The woman lifted her eyebrows condescendingly. “
Dear, who are they?”
Ben frowned. “My ex-wife, and her friend.”
The woman glanced at Gwen, dragging out her words. “So she is the woman who has been sullied by a few men. The one who can never be clean again. She isn’t very pretty either. They’ll take anyone they can get, won’t they?”
Bethan’s hands held onto the wheelchair handles tightly.
Gwen raised her head and fixed her eyes on Ben as if she did not hear the woman’s words. Her voice was cold and distant, without an ounce of warmth. “Who is she?”
Ben frowned but did not say anything.
Gwen raised her voice, but the chill in her tone persisted, “Ben Zeller, who is she?! “
“I am Ben’s girlfriend. “
The woman laughed lightly, leaning her entire body on him, “But don’t misunderstand, he didn’t cheat on you. We just confirmed our relationship today. That’s all because yo-“
Gwen closed her eyes. “Ben Zeller, are you mute?”
Only then did Ben frown, his voice displaying his displeasure. “Isn’t it the same, whether I ‘m the one who says it or Clover says it? Clover is my girlfriend, we only decided to be together this afternoon. We already finalized our divorce this morning, you have no right to interfere in my private affairs.”
Gwen started laughing coldly, but as she laughed, her tears started to fall.
Bethan’s hands clenched into fists.
Ben pursed his lips, dragged the woman named Clover behind him and strode into the villa. When he walked past Gwen, she reached out instinctively and held onto his wrist.
He shrugged her off coldly. “Gwen Larson, we are divorced now. You are no longer worthy of me.”
With that, he raised his legs and left. Gwen’s hand hung in mid-air.
“Ben Zeller! “
When he walked past Bethan, she sucked i n a deep breath, forcing the two words out of her lips.
Ben frowned but before he could turn to look at her, Bethan’s fist had landed square on his face.
Bethan funneled all of her energy into this punch.
Ben was knocked backward by the impact, blood seeping out of his nostrils.
“You’re strong.”
Beside them, Luke chuckled coldly as he watched on. Then, he reached out his long arm and dragged Gwen’s wheelchair to the side.
Subsequently, he folded his arms across his chest and leaned on the wall and watched the scene unfold in front of him.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.