Bethan was actually awake all this while. She could see the detest Jason had for her. She only found it comical.
Back then, he was a murderer who killed for money. At that moment, he became one of Alice’s men and started despising her, a ‘heartless’ person.
“Miss, wake up! “
The driver pushed Bethan a little, and only then did Bethan pretend to groggily open her eyes. “Have we arrived?”
“Yes, your friend is waiting for you outside.”
Bethan nodded. She paid for the ride and gracefully got out of the car. She walked toward Jason.
“You must be tired from working, Ms. Bethan, ” said Jason flatly as they walked together toward the mental asylum.
“You could even fall asleep on such a short journey.”
Bethan smiled rather embarrassingly. “Yes, work has been tiring. Other than work every day, I don’t have the time to think of anything else.”
Jason harrumphed coldly. “That’s good too. If not, having too many thoughts might easily get you killed.”
Bethan calmly smiled and said nothing.
The two of them entered the mental asylum together. The conversation with the doctor went smoothly. They only took an hour then they got to see Bonnie.
Living in the mental asylum all this while, Bonnie has lost a lot of weight.
When she carried her clothes and walked out of the room, the first person she saw was Jason, whom she thought of every day.
“Jason! “
Over the moon, Bonnie immediately rushed over and buried herself in Jason’s arms.
Jason furrowed his brows. He instinctively retreated half a step back.
Then, he sighed and gently hugged Bonnie. “Why are you staying here? If I didn’t come back, what would’ve happened to you?”
Bonnie wiped her tears and laughed. “I knew that you’d come back! “
She remained in Jason’s arms as she smiled and looked at Bethan. “I was right. He did return! “
Bethan was congratulating Bonnie on the surface, but deep down, her heart was cold. After all, she could see that the half a step Jason retreated backward a moment ago was in detest.
From what Zach and Yuri told her previously, Jason got together with Bonnie was completely because of Bonnie’s family.
Bethan pitied Bonnie.
“Let’s have a meal together! “
Coming out from the mental asylum, Bonnie held Jason’s hand, smiled, and suggested, “Jason, no matter what, I think we should buy Bethan a meal. The woman who I swapped places with in the mental asylum has done terrible things to Bethan, yet Bethan was still willing to come to pick me up. She’s truly generous! “
“Is that so?”
Jason smiled and coldly swept Bethan a glance. “In that case, Ms. Bethan, would you join us for a meal?”
“Of course.”
Bethan smiled and gently chuckled. She turned to look at Jason. “We’ve been acquainted for a long time, after all. It’s time to catch up.”
Bethan chose a restaurant downtown.
The restaurant was filled to the brim with people. Bonnie, who just came out from the mental asylum, clearly could not take the noise, evident with her furrowed brows.
“Bethan, why did you pick such a place to have a meal? Wouldn’t it be better if we change to a quieter location to catch up?”
Bethan smiled a little. She picked up her teacup and took a sip. “I thought that you’d like a lively crowd after being cooped up in there for so long.”
Truthfully, there was another reason why she picked this location: Noisy and crammed with people, it was inconvenient to do anything. Bethan was also a little worried that Jason would do something bad to her.
Soon, the food came.
Bonnie, who had been grumbling ever since, finally shut up and happily ate her meal.
“Bethan, you’re not from Banyan City, right? This dish is a Banyan City specialty. Us Banyan City folks have been eating it since young.”
Bethan calmly smiled. “I am indeed not from Banyan City. I’m from Sea City.”
She raised her eyes and looked at Jason. “What do you know of Sea City?”
Jason harrumphed coldly. He ate while saying coldly,
“Sea City? I only know of a Walter family in Sea City. The heiress of the Walter family is rather shameless. She’s been vying for Mr. Morrison of the Morrison family in Banyan City. Even when Mr. Morrison already married Mrs. Morrison, she still didn’t want to let go.”
Jason then picked up his glass of alcohol and took a sip. “Ms. Bethan, don’t you think that this Hailey Walter is rather shameless?”
Bethan almost laughed out loud.
Jason only said this because it was most likely that Alice told him that Bethan was Hailey, right?
Alice’s lie was perfect. Bethan was Hailey, and Hailey was the one that hurt Bethan Peterson back then.
Bethan lowered her head and played with the cup in her hand. “Not only is Hailey shameless, but she’s also foolish.”
Bethan knew clearly that back then, it was Brettley who ordered Jason to kill her.
At most, Cynthal was involved, too.
The accident which almost got her killed had nothing to do with Hailey. However, at that moment, not only did Alice want to pin Hailey’s identity on Bethan, but she even wanted to push the blame of the accident that hurt Bethan Peterson back then on ‘Hailey’.
After being Mrs. Morrison for so long, did Alice forget that she was, in fact, Hailey Walter?
Bethan had only encountered people pushing the blame onto others. She had never once seen someone taking the blame for something other people have done.
Perhaps Jason did not expect that Bethan would say that about herself, which was why he was silent for a while. He smiled. “Ms. Bethan, you also think that Hailey is foolish?”
“Of course, awfully foolish.”
Bethan raised her gaze and smiled at Jason. “When I have the chance, I must introduce to you this brainless heiress of the Walter family.”
Jason was a little baffled. He suddenly could no longer say the things he was prepared to say.
Was Bethan…truly Hailey Walter? Who would insult themself that way?
“I don’t understand what you guys are talking about. “
Bonnie did not like that topic, so she pursed her lips and changed the topic.
“Bethan, when I was in the asylum, I ‘d still watch the news. I saw that you and that great artist, Theo Allen, got together. You’re lucky! “
Bethan calmly smiled. “Theo is an artist that I liked for many years. However, I only used to like him as an artist, and I never thought that he’d be my boyfriend.” “I get it! I get it! “
Bonnie smiled and held Jason’s hand. “Just like me, I once looked up to my brother as a sister, but…later on, I wanted to marry him! “
“Feelings will change! “
Bethan furrowed her brows. She could clearly see the hint of annoyance flashing across Jason’s eyebrows when Bonnie held his hand.
It was strange.
If Jason did not like Bonnie, why would he try so hard to get her out of the mental asylum?
If he did not look for Bonnie, Bonnie would have never known he was back in the country, being locked up and all.
At that moment, he got Bonnie out of the mental asylum, yet he resisted Bonnie getting closer to him.
What was he trying to do?
With a mind full of questions, Bethan immediately contacted Neil the moment she got home.
Zach and Yuri have already reached the summer camp where Neil and Nellie were. They were in charge of taking care of the children’s daily life together with the bodyguards that went there previously.
“You’re talking about Jason and Bonnie? He doesn’t like her for sure.”
When Zach, on the other end of the line, heard Bethan asking about Bonnie, he chuckled helplessly. “Jason has been using Bonnie from the start. Bonnie comes from a wealthy family. Jason initially hoped to get rich by Bonnie, who knew all of Bonnie’s family died, so he abandoned her.
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