Gwen frowned and glared at Luke anxiously. “Aren’t you going to help?”
Luke laughed lightly, “Who should I help? Your ex– husband or your friend?”
Gwen paused violently, for a second, loss for an answer.
On the other side, Ben finally recovered from the pain. He glared at Bethan furiously. “Are you out of your mind?”
“You’re the one who’s out of his mind! “
Bethan gritted her teeth harshly. The anger and heartache that had accumulated throughout the day exploded in an instant. She did not know where the strength that allowed her to punch Ben until his nose bled came from.
But she knew Ben Zeller definitely deserved it!
She clenched her hands tightly into fists, glaring at Ben viciously. “Gwen has loved you for so many years! You’re just a student from a poor village, she’s the only daughter of the Larson Group. She overcame all the hurdles and obstacles in her way and married you, but now, after something like this happened to her, are you even a man!?”
As she spoke, another punch landed squarely on his jaw.
Ben was knocked a few steps backward from the impact. The woman who was named Clover was so intimidated by Bethan that she hid herself far, far away.
Ben wiped at the blood seeping out of his nose, feeling slightly dizzy. But still, he scoffed coldly, “
Bethan, are you sure you want to fight me?”
He was still a man after all. Even though he was feeling slightly dizzy from the impact of her punches, a slim and petite woman like Bethan was no match for him!
He wiped the blood from the corners of his lips, raised his hand and swiped in her direction, a gust of wind accompanied his raised hand.
Instinctively, Bethan wanted to duck, but he was too fast for her.
She bit her lip, covering her face with her hands and braced herself for the impact of his slap when Ben’s wrist was locked by someone. A man’s low, familiar voice rang in her ears. “Hitting a woman is not something to be proud of.”
Hearing the man’s voice, Bethan, who was already prepared to be hit, paused slightly.
Brettley?
When she retracted her hands and looked in the direction of the voice…
Standing in front of her, the towering man was holding Ben’s wrist in his first.
The veins on Ben’s forehead protruded violently, it was obvious he was using all his strength, trying his best to plant his fist on Bethan’s face.
But Brettley firmly controlled him with just a single hand. As if effortless.
Bethan was stunned for a second.
“Bethan! Come here! “
Gwen’s voice rang out behind her. She paused, and hurriedly stepped back to stand beside Gwen.
Gwen held her hand, massaging it, and said, confused, “When did Brettley arrive?”
“He has been following us since we left the hospital.”
Beside them, Luke still had his arms crossed over his chest as he leaned on the wall, his gaze flitting toward Bethan. “He must’ve been worried something would happen to her.”
He stretched lazily. “If I didn’t know Brettley was married, I would think he’s pursuing her. Last night when we went in to save her, he didn’t even bother negotiating with me, everything was acceptable as long as I saved her.”
As he spoke, the man chuckled, “And yet he’s a businessman. Doesn’t he know his enemy can easily catch hold of his Achilles heel when he does things without regard for anything else.”
Luke could almost confirm now that Brettley’s Achilles heel was…
He looked at Bethan again. She was pretty, but not enough to move cities. Not to the extent where Brettley would be willing to disregard everything for her, was she?
Bethan’s face paled at the man’s words.
Gwen glared at Luke in rebuke. “Pursuing her? Don’t talk nonsense! Not even when the end of the world is upon us.”
Bethan repeated her last sentence. “Yes, he would never have feelings for me, not even when the end of the world is upon us.”
Back then, she stayed beside him every day, taking care of him meticulously. And yet he never had feelings for her, not even slightly. In the end, he even discarded her.
Back then, it was Cynthal, and now it was Alice.
He was actually a fickle-minded man, easily falling out of love.
She believed he was only so nice to Alice now because he was touched that she ‘gave him two children ‘.
When he grew tired of her…
He would discard Alice ruthlessly, just like how he discarded her back then.
Even in a different body, she still failed to touch his heart.
“Mr. Morrison, this is between me, Bethan and Gwen, it has nothing to do with you! “
In the distance, Ben could not overpower Brettley, so he shrugged his hand off harshly.
He glanced at Gwen coldly as he took the tissue Clover passed to him and wiped at the bloodstains on his face. “You shou1d’ve told me earlier if you don’t want to get a divorce. This morning, you signed the papers so readily, I thought you were really a woman who knows her value. Who knew at night you would come here and stop me, and even ask your friend to punch me?”
Gwen’s frown deepened. “I didn’t know you would come here.”
With that, she sucked in a deep breath and shifted her gaze to Bethan. “Can you hand me my suitcase?”
Bethan nodded and dragged the suitcase over. Gwen laughed bitterly and unzipped the suitcase.
Besides the wedding album that Bethan just saw, the inner pocket of the suitcase was filled with her and Ben’s wedding photos. With trembling hands, Gwen took out the photos one by one and threw them onto the ground.
“Today, I kept telling myself, you’re a traditional man. Your mindset tells you that you can’t accept such a wife. It doesn’t matter, even if we get divorced, I will still cherish the memories you gave me. But now…”
The woman closed her eyes, tears falling from the corners of her eyes. “I was wrong. I ‘in the only one who has been treasuring these memories.”
“You divorced me this morning, in the afternoon you’ve already found a girlfriend, and now at night you bring your new girlfriend to your old home. Ben Zeller. You’re not worth the time that I spent crushing on you.”
With that, she sucked in a deep breath, turned and looked at Luke who was holding his lighter, getting ready to light himself a cigarette and watch the show. “Can I borrow a light please?”
Luke shrugged, walked over and bent down, held his lighter, and ripped out Gwen’s prettiest solo portrait, then lit the rest of the photos on fire.
Finally, he handed the photo he ripped out to Gwen. “
For commemorative purposes.”
Gwen shook her head. “Just burn it.”
She did not need to commemorate something like this.
Luke raised his lips in a faint smile, looked at Gwen with a mild interest in his eyes and slipped the photo into his pocket.
The photos were lit aflame.
Amidst the roaring fire, Ben laughed coldly, “Even if you didn’t burn them, I would.”
Gwen closed her eyes tightly, but remained silent.
When there was nothing left of the photos but a pile of ashes, she held Bethan’s hand. “Let’s go.”
Bethan nodded and helped her into the chair with Luke’s assistance. Beside them, Ben snorted, turned and got ready to leave. But he had just taken a few steps away when he was stopped by Brettley.
He frowned. “What else do you want, Mr. Morrison? “
Brettley laughed coldly, then called out behind him, “
Zach, Yuri! “
The two tall and burly bodyguards immediately rushed to him. “Mr. Morrison! “
“Did the two of you see how he tried to hit Bethan just now?”
“Yes, we did! “
“I ‘ll leave him up to you.”
With that, he turned and boarded a car that was parked in the near distance.
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.