Bethan lowered her head. She clasped her hands together. “Yes.”
If she were to deny at this moment, according to Brettley’s character, he might interrogate Gwen.
Rather than throwing this difficult for Gwen to handle, Bethan would rather answer Brettley herself.
Bethan lifted her head and looked out of the window. “
Gwen and I were online friends more than ten years ago.”
Luke, sitting by the passenger seat in front, raised his eyebrows. “Online friends?”
“Yes.”
Bethan took a deep breath and raised her head. “We used to play an online game called Lost. We knew each other from there and became best friends later on.”
Bethan guessed that Gwen must have casually mentioned to Luke that they were best friends for more than ten years. She would not tell him the truth of how they knew each other. After all, that involved her true identity.
Therefore, Bethan casually mentioned an online game that she had once played with Gwen when they were still in school to become the reason that they met.
Luke was rather surprised. “The two of you don’t look like people who would play online games.”
Bethan smiled. “There are so many more things you don’t know about us.”
She yawned and turned to look out of the window. “
Gwen and I became good friends in the game back then. It was only that I knew how she looked but she did not know about me.
“The last time when I was in Sea City, she did not like me at first. Later on, when she knew of my identity, we became friends again.”
Using this relationship of online gaming friends, Bethan directly went with the flow and explained her conflict with Gwen previously.
Brettley was playing with the ring on his finger. His gaze was deep.
“I see.”
Bethan pursed her lips. She did not know whether Brettley bought it or not.
Anyway, after visiting Gwen this time, she had to explain this matter to Gwen clearly.
“Actually, I also have played Lost before.”
After a long while, Brettley raised his head and gazed at Bethan coldly. “Which section do you play at?”
Bethan was stunned for a long while before coming to her senses. “I was at… Section One.”
“What a coincidence. I also play Section One.”
Brettley smiled and swept Bethan a cold glance. “Such a coincidence.”
Bethan felt extremely sheepish.
She had indeed played Lost with Gwen for some time, but the people in the game who knew them knew that they were a pair of real-life best friends.
If Brettley were to investigate this, her identity might be exposed…
Bethan secretly clenched her fists tightly.
It looked like using games as a cover was not a good choice.
However, who would have expected that a man like Brettley had also played such a game before too?
At that thought, Bethan smiled. She raised her hand and yawned. “Luke, how long till we reach Sea City?”
Luke looked at the time. “About four hours.”
Then, he swept Bethan a concerned glance. “If you’re really tired, sleep for a while. We’ll reach by noon.”
Bethan nodded. She turned and looked at Brettley rather apologetically. “If you have played Lost before, perhaps we might have even known each other online many years before. Let’s catch up once I wake up.”
Then, Bethan yawned and directly leaned back on the leather seat. She closed her eyes and pretended to sleep.
Actually, Bethan could not even fall asleep.
She squinted her eyes and looked at Brettley through the crack of her eyes.
Brettley looked at her with a darkened gaze.
His eyes had so many emotions that she did not understand.
Bethan did not dare to react in case Brettley saw through her. She remained that way peeping at him until the car reached the freeway.
She indeed did not have a good night’s sleep the night before.
On one hand, she was worried about Gwen, on the other, she was concerned about Theo.
Bethan finally could not help but close her eyes. The moving of the car put her to sleep.
While being groggy, she seemed to have heard Luke teased. “You have been looking all the way. Is it really that nice to look at?”
Brettley, next to her, seemed to have replied to Luke something, but Bethan did not catch it.
Her consciousness started to blur.
When she woke up, the car had reached Sea City.
“You’re up?”
Luke’s aloof voice came from in front.
Bethan furrowed her brows and slowly opened her eyes. The car was very quiet.
The driver has gotten out of the car, smoking. Luke still remained seated in the passenger seat in front, scrolling through his phone while looking at her.
Bethan furrowed her brows and subconsciously turned sideways to look.
“He’s gone.”
Before she could have a good look at Brettley’s seat, Luke said flatly, “Didn’t he previously acquire the Larson family’s estate and eat away at the Walter family’s business bit by bit? Once he reached Sea City, he was taken away to the office for a report presentation.”
Luke lifted his hand and touched his cheek. “What on earth is going on between you two?”
Brettley refused to be in the same car as Bethan. Brettley only got in the car after a good deal of persuasion from Luke.
Still, Brettley watched Bethan sleep throughout the entire journey.
Bethan, on the surface, was icy and distant toward Brettley, but the first thing she did when she woke up was to look for him
No matter how he saw them, they looked like a pair of lovers who had a falling out.
“Nothing is going on.”
Bethan lowered her eyes and looked at the time. It was almost noon.
“When can we see Gwen?”
Luke pressed a button and winded the car window down. “Anytime.”
When all of the windows were down, only then did Bethan notice that the car was parked at the entrance of the hospital.
She furrowed her brows. “So… you were waiting for me to wake up?”
Luke smiled. “When Brettley left, he saw how sleepy you were. You probably did not have a good night’s sleep. He got me to let you sleep a little longer if I wanted you to help me look after Gwen. Since he had already given instructions, how would I dare wake you up?”
Bethan had complicated feelings.
She took a deep breath and was about to get out of the car when her phone rang.
It was from Theo. “Bethan, did you go to Sea City with Brettley?”
Bethan’s hand that was holding her phone tightened slightly. “How did you know?”
On the other end of the phone, Theo sucked in a cold breath. “So, you really went to Sea City with Brettley?”
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.