“I don’t understand you women, “
Luke sneered, ” you and your best friend. Both of you are equally difficult to deal with.”
Upon hearing Luke mentioning Gwen, Bethan lowered her head and straightened her coat.
She asked casually, “Is she still alright?”
All this while, Bethan had been busy working and trying to find a chance to meet Brettley. She has not contacted Gwen for a very long time.
“She’s not too well.”
Luke shrugged. “She’s pregnant.”
Bethan suddenly looked up. “Pregnant?”
“Yes.”
Luke furrowed her brows and fished out another cigarette from his pocket in annoyance.
“Actually, this time I came to Banyan City to look for you. I want you to persuade her.”
Luke lit the cigarette and took a deep puff. “She had the child for a few months already.
According to the time, the child should belong to the monsters that raped her back then.”
Bethan’s blood froze instantly upon Luke’s words. How could this have happened?
Bethan’s voice was hoarse. “Did she… not take any medication after the incident?”
Luke laughed, “Do you think she would have gotten pregnant if she had taken the medication?”
Bethan was rendered speechless.
Luke lowered his head. He sounded a little depressed. “She was heavily injured back then, her situation was complicated. After the incident, you guys were anxious to leave. I only had a bunch of men who knew about nothing with me. We never would have expected such a thing to happen. A few days ago, she kept puking non -stop. We initially thought that it was a digestive system problem, who knew that she was actually pregnant.”
Bethan’s body fumbled.
She thought of the situation back then.
Gwen was targeted by the Walter family back then because of her.
However, at that time, the situation was in too much chaos, even Bethan, as a woman, forgot about the contraceptive pill, let alone the bunch of rough men in Jones Gang.
Bethan bit her lips. Her voice was hoarse. “So how is she right now?”
“The doctor said that her body is not in a good condition, we cannot just simply abort the baby. If not, she might be infertile in the future and it would be a danger to her life. I also felt that she should keep the child for her own sake, but she’s reluctant to do it. She said that she felt disgusted at the thought of the child. She tried to kill herself a few days ago, but I stopped her. She is currently in the hospital under twenty-four-hour surveillance by my men. I got two psychologists to accompany her, but it’s not working very well.”
The more Luke explained, the more annoyed he got.
“I’ve also already told her. Once she gave birth to the child, give me the child. I’m looking to adopt anyway, but she is unwilling. The only reason why I didn’t leave with Brettley is that I wanted to ask you if you were willing to follow me to Sea City to persuade her. This woman treats her emotional well-being much more important than her life.”
Bethan’s face instantly turned pale.
Luke was a man. He would not have understood that if Gwen gave birth to the child…
That meant that it constantly reminded Gwen that she had once been sexually assaulted.
This was not only Gwen. Any other woman would not have been able to accept it as well.
However, if she were to abort the child…
Bethan pursed her lips and considered for a long time. In the end, she took a deep breath. “I’ll come with you.”
Although she has already made the decision to visit Neil and Nellie in summer camp, she could visit them at a later time.
Gwen needed her more urgently at the moment.
“Bethan! “
Suddenly, Bethan heard Theo’s voice coming from the distance. She furrowed her brows and lifted her head.
Theo, at that moment, had already crossed the road with a bouquet of roses in his arms, approaching them.
Bethan furrowed her brows and looked at Luke. “When are you going back to Sea City?”
“Tomorrow.”
“Okay.”
Bethan took a deep breath. She passed a piece of paper with her contact on it to Luke.
“Contact me tomorrow.”
“Why are you so anxious to leave?”
Luke smiled and swept Theo a glance. “Your boyfriend?”
Bethan pursed her lips. “You consider it so.”
“How messy.”
Luke mockingly smiled and directly reached his arm out and placed it on Bethan’s shoulder. Then, he thuggishly looked at Theo, who was coming their way.
“Bro, she said that she’s going away with me tomorrow.”
Theo furrowed his brows and looked at Bethan. “Who is he?”
Bethan helplessly took Luke’s arm off her shoulders. “
A friend.”
“How do you have friends like that?”
Theo swept Luke a cold glance. Then, he stuffed the huge bouquet of roses in Bethan’s arms. “Let’s go. I have been waiting for you for a long time.”
There were people walking in the streets. Luke was still next to her, Bethan felt embarrassed to put the bouquet of roses down, so she could only carry it. She turned to look at Luke.
“Remember to contact me tomorrow.”
Then, Bethan turned around and left together with Theo.
Once they crossed the road, Theo subconsciously turned around to look.
Luke, across the road, was still standing by the bin smoking. He seemed to be troubled by something.
Theo did not like men like Luke, who constantly had a cigarette with them and looked like a thug. “How come I never knew that you had friends like that?”
Bethan turned and swept a glance in Luke’s direction. “
What about it?”
She knew that Theo had grown up in his grandfather’s house in a family of scholars. He was also accomplished in art. Surely, he could not accept a person like Luke, who came from a poor background and looked like a thug.
Theo narrowed his eyes. “Don’t mix with people like that in the future.”
He hated people like that.
Bethan rolled her eyes and laughed, “But, he is a friend of my friend. I’m planning to follow him to Sea City to visit my friend tomorrow.”
Theo stopped in his tracks. “You’re really going to go away with him tomorrow?”
Theo thought that Luke was deliberately trying to trick him a moment ago.
Bethan, who was next to him, nodded. She strode into Bamboo Palace.
“My friend is sick, I plan to go and visit her.”
“But…”
Theo caught up after her. He slowly fished out two tickets from his pocket.
“I have already bought tomorrow’s flight ticket…”
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.