Seeing him board the car, Bethan suddenly realized the car Brettley was in… had indeed been following them all the way from the hospital. She even noticed this car at the entrance of the hotel and downstairs, outside the hospital.
She thought it was just a coincidence.
But in fact… so it turned out he had been following her since the moment she walked out of the door?
Bethan sent Gwen back to the hospital. It was already past lo p.m. at night after everything was settled.
She released a long sigh of relief after stepping out of the hospital. Everything that happened today seemed like a dream. So cruel that they did not seem like reality.
She always thought, compared to herself, Gwen was lucky and happy. She was happily married to Ben, whom she once had a crush on, and they seemed to love each other. This was more than what Bethan could ever hope for.
But a sudden accident… turned Gwen into a pitiful woman like her.
“Is she okay?”
Suddenly, Brettley’s voice rang out beside her ears.
Bethan pulled herself together, then realized the black car was still parked beneath the hospital.
He sat in the passenger seat with the windows open, looking at her with emotionlessly eyes.
“She cried again, but she’s sleeping now, she’s fine.”
Brettley nodded. “Get in. I’ll bring you supper.”
Bethan rubbed her flattened stomach. She did not have a proper meal at all today.
Brettley brought her to a little restaurant nearby. After settling down in a little private room, she glanced at his right hand that was still hanging from his neck in a sling. “Do you still need me to feed you?”
“No.”
He shook his head, and lifted his spoon with his left hand, “I practiced for a bit, I can manage.”
With that, he threw a glance at her. “Did you lose faith in marriage? After seeing what happened between Gwen and Ben.”
“I’ve lost interest in marriage a long time ago.”
“You haven’t been divorced, why would you lose interest in marriage?”
Bethan laughed, “I’ve been divorced before. My ex- husband was an a**hole.”
Brettley’s hands that were holding his fork and spoon paused slightly. Finally, he laughed lightly, “Because you’re a divorcee and your ex-husband is a jerk, that’s why you secretly kidnapped Neil and Nellie and raised them as your own?”
Bethan raised her glass and harshly gulped down a mouthful of warm water, then shifted her eyes to Brettley. “You can say that.”
Brettley raised his glass as well. “Why didn’t you have any children when you were with your ex- husband?”
“He doesn’t deserve to have children.”
Placing her glass down, Bethan lifted her cutlery and continued eating. “He had an affair when I needed him the most, and even wanted to kill me to please his side piece. What do you think, does he deserve to have children?”
If she was not already pregnant back then, she really did not want to have his children.
He did not deserve them.
Even after she gave birth to them, Bethan staunchly believed the three children belonged to her and her alone.
They had nothing to do with Brettley.
When she said these words, her eyes were fixed straight on Brettley.
Her gaze made him feel confused. As if he was the man who discarded her and hurt her.
He twisted his brows and turned to face away from her. “Then? You let him off the hook just like that?”
Bethan curled her lips up in a cold smirk. “I don’t plan to let him off the hook. But he’s too powerful, I don’t have the means to exact revenge yet.”
Brettley nodded faintly. “If you need any help, you can come to me anytime.”
Looking at him like this, Bethan smiled in a taunting sneer, “Sure.”
Both of them nursed their own thoughts and worries as they ate.
When they returned to the hotel, Bethan immediately spotted Alice who was waiting at the entrance to the hotel. Under the dim yellow glow of the streetlights, her slim and petite figure stood at the entrance, looking especially lonely and pitiful.
When they drew closer, Bethan realized she seemed to have cried, her eyes red and puffy.
The car rolled to a stop in front of the hotel.
Brettley got down first. The woman immediately rushed into his arms, her eyes soft and teary, her voice thick and nasally, as if she had been crying. “
Brettley, you’re finally back! I had a nightmare! “
Brettley laughed at her innocent and silly ways, “Even if you had a nightmare, you don’t have to stand here waiting in front of the hotel in your pajamas.”
He pinched her nose delicately, then slung his arm around her and they both walked into the hotel together.
The moment the doors slid open, he instinctively turned and looked back.
The car was still parked in its original spot, silent and unmoving. Bethan never left the car.
“You’re not leaving?”
In the driver’s seat, Lucas turned and glanced at her helplessly. “Sir and Madam should be back in their room by now.”
Only then did Bethan recover her wits. She glanced at Bethan with emotionless eyes. “Do you have a cigarette? I need one.”
Lucas threw her an odd glance in rebuke. “You smoke?”
“No.”
Bethan heaved out a long sigh, “But I sort of feel like smoking.”
The next day, Bethan was awakened by Lucas’s shouts.
Because of the incident with Gwen, the few meetings in Banyan City that Brettley had scheduled for yesterday afternoon were all delayed.
That was why they had to return to Banyan City as early as possible today. They still had an extensive number of issues to take care of.
Sitting in the passenger seat on the drive back to Banyan City, Bethan gazed deeply at the cityscape. This had been her home for zo years. After she left today, she did not know when was the next time she would return. “According to our reporter on the ground, Dennis Walter of the Walter Group has been accused by many companies of using illegal methods to build a competitive business edge for themselves. If the accusations are indeed true to fact, Mr. Walter might be sentenced to life imprisonment.”
The radio kept replaying the news surrounding the Walter family that happened in the past few days. “
Before the accusations against the Mr. Dennis Walter were raised, the only heir to the Walter Group, Ms. Hailey Walter committed suicide by jumping off a building. The Walter Group is now an empire that has lost its king and is about to overrun…”
Bethan closed her eyes. She wondered whether Gwen had heard about this piece of news. If she did, at least she would feel slightly comforted, right?
At this thought, she took out her phone, intending to check Gwen had sent her any new messages, but instead saw the new status update posted by Ben.
‘Inspecting my injuries at the police station, the Larson family, you better watch out! I will be requesting compensation! ‘
The accompanying pictures were of his injured arm and swollen cheeks as a result of their scuffle the other day.
Bethan knew his injuries must have been Zach and Yuri’s handiwork. She stared at her phone for a long while, then finally liked the two pictures posted by Ben.
“Lucas, please switch off the radio.”
Right then, Alice’s slightly weak voice drifted over from the backseat. “I want to take a nap.”
Then, Brettley sounded concerned when he said, “
Why do you look so pale, are you sick?”
Bethan rolled her eyes at the sounds of them being lovey-dovey and intimate, shifting her gaze to the scenery outside the window.
Lucas hurriedly switched off the radio that was still reporting the news on the Walter family. In the backseat, Alice closed her eyes and gritted her teeth silently, wrapped up in Brettley’s arms.
This was all Bethan’s fault!
She had a fool-proof plan. When she completed her plastic surgery and turned into an exact replica of Bethan, she would go to Banyan City and seek out Brettley, becoming the love of his life.
But she never expected that by the time she returned home, Brettley would already have Bethan by his side, and his two little bastard children.
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.