Suddenly, she felt something warm trickle out from beneath her.
She knew what that was.
Despair and hopelessness engulfed Bethan’s entire being, and she could not even hold onto her phone anymore. Her phone fell onto the ground with a thud.
Bethan saw a man make his way over to her, then bend down to pick up her phone.
The man ignored Malcolm’s worried cries coming from the other end of the line and hung up the call. Then, he reached out his hand toward her. “Ms.
Bethan.”
Bethan looked up and, despite having tears in her eyes, made out the man’s face.
Jason gave her a sinister smile and said, “Mr. Morrison asked me to check on you and see if the miscarriage was successful. From the looks of things, it was.”
Bethan stared at Jason’s face in shock. “Are you saying.. that Brettley sent you here…?” she uttered through clenched teeth.
“Of course.”
Jason kneeled and stared back at her impassively. “If not for Mr. Morrison, how did Luke’s men manage to spike your drink with abortion pills? If not for Mr. Morrison, would I even be standing here in front of you?”
Bethan clung onto the hem of her shirt tightly, partly out of weakness due to blood loss and partly out of despair. “How dare he… Did he know…”
“Mr. Morrison knows the baby belongs to him, so he asked us to get rid of the baby. He said that if you want to leave Sea City, it’s fine, but not with his child.”
Jason’s words were like a sharp knife, stabbing into Bethan’s heart and splitting it right apart.
‘Brettley. Did you know that by causing my miscarriage, you’d lose two children…?’
Nigel…
Tears streamed down Bethan’s face uncontrollably, and she closed her eyes feebly. “Brettley Morrison… I won’t forgive you for this…”
The color drained from Bethan’s face, and she slumped onto the floor, unconscious.
Jason narrowed his eyes and chuckled. Then, he took out the hospital discharge form from his pocket, dipped Bethan’s finger into a pool of blood on the floor, and pressed it onto the paper. After making sure he had gotten a clean imprint of Bethan’s fingerprint, he turned around and left the scene.
It was a long time until one of the airport’s cleaners stumbled upon an unconscious Bethan. “Help!
Someone has passed out–“
On the top floor of the hospital.
Alice stood at the edge of the rooftop, clutching a fruit knife against her neck. She took a few steps back, her wary gaze remaining fixed on the man before her.
“Brettley, I’m giving you two choices right now. Either you give me the divorce agreement papers right now, or I kill myself right here! “
Brettley was standing at the entrance of the stairwell and furrowed his brows when he heard this. “What use will the divorce papers do you?”
His penetrating stare aimed straight at her as he said the next sentence, “You’re not Bethan Peterson.”
Alice immediately froze when she heard this. Then, after a moment, she curled her lips into a smirk. “
You knew?”
Brettley sneered at her. “How long did you think you could hide it from me?”
Alice’s personality was entirely different from the Bethan Peterson he knew six years ago. Brettley had always thought that being away from him had changed her, which was why Bethan Peterson was acting so differently than before.
However, time and time again, she continued to do things that were beyond his imagination, without any regard for boundaries at all.
Yesterday, after discovering that she spiked his food, Brettley could not help but suspect that this woman before him was not Bethan Peterson at all.
The Bethan Peterson he knew would cherish and protect him with her own life. How could a person like this be willing to hurt him just to get her hands on their divorce papers?
Therefore, last night, Brettley ordered Lily to collect some of Neil, Nellie, and Alice’s hairs and nail clippings from Blue Bay Villa and sent them for a DNA matching test.
He received the DNA report the moment he walked out of the stairwell where he had kissed Bethan.
Neil and Nellie had no blood relation to this woman, who called herself Alice, at all.
This woman was either someone who happened to look identical to Bethan Peterson or…someone who deliberately changed her appearance to assume Bethan Peterson’s identity.
“Well, it’s no use now, even if you found out, “
Alice interjected him coldly. “Bethan Peterson is someone else now, and now, legally, I’m Bethan Peterson! “
She glared at Brettley and ordered, “Give me the divorce papers right now! “
Alice was fully aware that as soon as Brettley found out she was an imposter, nothing could be salvaged anymore. Nothing would be the same anymore.
However, she did not mind that as long as she was able to stall Brettley. That was her true intention.
The longer he stayed here arguing with her, the better.
Soon… He would receive news of his children’s passing–all three of them!
Since she could not win Brettley’s affection, Alice decided Bethan could not, either.
She wanted to use Neil and Nellie’s lives, as well as the baby in Bethan’s womb, to drive a wedge between Bethan and Brettley, one that would last the rest of their lives.
If all three of their children were dead, Bethan and Brettley could not possibly get back together ever again.
As soon as she thought of this, Alice lifted her head to stare at the night sky above her and could not help letting out an evil cackle.
Six years.
She spent six years trying to turn herself into Bethan Peterson, but in the process, both her father and Liam were in jail, while Richard and Yvonne were just barely getting by.
She had gone all-in and even caused the Walters to go broke as a result, yet in the end, she still did not manage to win over Brettley.
Alice was tired of trying. Even though she and Brettley were not meant to be, she would still use her last ounce of strength to break up Bethan and Brettley!
As soon as she thought of this, she raised her head to gaze at him. “Brettley, tell me, what’s so special about Bethan Peterson? I loved you for so many years, yet I became the person you hated the most in the end. Tell me, why are you so dull-witted?”
Brettley’s entire body stiffened when he heard this. He paused for a long while, then finally narrowed his eyes at Alice and spat out her real name slowly, “
Hailey Walter.”
He clenched his teeth. “It’s you. I shou1d’ve known.”
“I didn’t think you’d remember me.”
Alice laughed so hard that tears started to form in her eyes. “
Brettley, you know better than anyone how much I love you, right? I love you more than any other woman in the world.”
She flung the knife away and clawed at her face. “I turned myself into this just for you. I can’t even remember what my real face used to look like anymore. I did so much for you. What else do you want from me?”
Alice stood at the edge of the balcony, tears streaming down her face, though it was unclear whether it was from sorrow or all her laughing. “
Brettley, I love you so much, but it doesn’t matter anymore. You and Bethan’s two children will be dead soon, and Bethan’s baby is dying, too. You’ll lose everything you’ve ever known.”
She stared at Brettley with a deranged expression. “
You’re going to lose everything you have with her very soon.”
Brettley’s brows furrowed when he heard this, and he immediately glared at her. “What are you talking about?”
“You still have no idea?”
Alice cackled again and said, “The baby in Bethan’s womb doesn’t belong to Theo. It’s yours! Theo has never even touched her! “
Brettley stared at her incredulously. “What do you mean?”
“Oh my god. You still have no idea, do you? “
Alice crowed. “Bethan is Bethan Peterson, your wife. She’s the woman whose face and identity I stole. She loved you so much that she returned to your side after six years, along with your two children, so how could she possibly have slept with another man?
“Her and Theo’s so -called scandal was all part of my plan. You investigated what happened and discovered that the person who had sent Theo to Bethan’s room that day was my subordinate, one of the Walters’ men. Did you forget that?”
Alice let out a sigh and slumped onto the ground, still laughing sinisterly. “Although I’ve always wanted to sleep with you, somehow, even if you were drunk, you still refused to touch me at all. All you wanted was Bethan.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
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