Nathan lowered his head and looked at Bethan, who was bleeding. “Ms. Bethan, are you alright?”
Bethan lowered her head and shook her head. “I’m fine.”
“I ‘m sorry.”
Nathan sighed. Then, he pulled Celeste away with force.
By the elevator, Celeste took a deep breath and turned to look at Bethan. Her eyes were filled with bone- chilling coldness.
“Theo liked you the most when he was alive. You know that, right?”
Bethan lowered her head and gently nodded.
If she could turn back time, she was willing for Theo to never have met her.
Celeste sighed a long sigh. “What Mr. Morrison said just now was right. You also lost two children, and I can’t push all the blame on you, but Theo is still my only son. I hope that he didn’t die so lonely.”
Then, Celeste raised her eyes and looked at Bethan coldly. “I want you to be with him.”
Celeste’s words silenced the entire corridor.
Anne looked at Celeste in shock with widened eyes, her gaze darting to Bethan before it went to Brettley.
Brettley remained in the same spot. He furrowed his brows hard, but he said not a single word.
In a pin -drop dead silence, Nathan sighed. He raised his hands and pinched Celeste. “What nonsense are you talking about? No matter how much we miss him, Theo is already dead! Ms. Bethan…”
“A posthumous marriage.”
Celeste scrutinized Bethan, who was all skin and bones and on her knees. Although her voice was trembling, she still enunciated,
“I want you to make preparations. After a few days, we’ll have a simple ceremony. I want you to marry Theo. I don’t need you to marry into the Allens, and I also don’t need you to take care of the two of us. I only want you to marry Theo: one is to fulfill Theo’s dying wish, and also as a reminder to you that you’re a married woman. You can’t marry another man in this lifetime.”
Then, she narrowed her eyes slightly and looked at Bethan coldly.
“Are you willing to do it?”
“This is moral coercion! “
Anne angrily looked at Celeste. “It’s true that your son likes Bethan, but Bethan has made it clear to him that she wouldn’t marry him. She wouldn’t be together with him either. They could only be friends.
“Theo likes Bethan and even sacrificed his life for Bethan’s children in the end, and while everyone feels sad about this, you can’t use this as a condition to get Bethan to marry a dead person, living the life of a widower her entire life, right?”
Celeste sneered as she ignored Anne’s words. Celeste lowered her head and looked at Bethan mockingly. “
I’m asking you, Bethan: are you willing to do it or not?”
Bethan, who was kneeling on the ground, closed her eyes depressingly.
“I’m sorry.”
Celeste’s eyes were instantly filled with anger at Bethan’s response.
“Our Theo sacrificed his life for you! I’m only asking you to marry him, to not have any other men for the rest of your life! Would it kill you to not have any men?”
Celeste angrily turned to look at Brettley. “You still can’t let go of your Mr. Morrison, right?”
The more she talked, the angrier she got. “As expected. You still wish to be with Brettley! When Theo was still alive, he said that you told him you’d never be with Brettley. Look what happened! “
Bethan paused for a while.
She lifted her head and looked at Celeste seriously.
“Mrs. Allen. If what you’re worried about is whether I’d marry Brettley or not, I can assure you that I won’t marry him.”
The entire corridor was in pin-drop silence upon
Bethan’s words.
Brettley, who remained silent the whole time as he stood behind Bethan, looked at Bethan with darkened eyes.
Anne pursed her lips and subconsciously looked at Brettley, then looked at Bethan.
An awkward silence hung in the air.
In the end, Nathan pursed his lips. He lowered his head and looked at Bethan.
“Ms. Bethan, don’t mind my wife. She speaks without thinking. You…”
Bethan lifted her head. With a serious gaze, she said, “If I could, I don’t intend to marry for the rest of my life. I want to spend the rest of my life taking care of my children. However, my life hasn’t belonged to me for a very long time. I’ve long agreed to the proposal of another person before Theo. I’ve also told Theo of my marriage, but Theo feels that as long as I wasn’t married, he still had a chance. So…”
Bethan took a deep breath. “You don’t have to worry that I’ll marry Brettley. I won’t make the same mistake twice on the same person. Don’t worry.”
Celeste and Nathan looked at each other subconsciously upon Bethan’s words.
They never expected that Bethan would say such things. They also never expected that their son would be willing to sacrifice his life for her, even when he knew that Bethan had a marriage proposal on hand.
After a long while, Nathan sighed a little. He bent down and gently tapped Bethan on the shoulders.
“If that’s the case, I still have another request.”
Bethan lifted her head. “Tell me.”
“Since you already have a marriage planned, we can’t morally coerce you like what your friend said, but I still hope that when you pay a tribute to your son, you could do it for Theo, too. Also…”
Nathan sighed and continued, “I hope that you won’t be getting married in the next three years. At least, not a grand ceremony…”
Bethan nodded her head heavily, lowly replying, “
Okay. I promise you.”
Although Theo’s death was not her intention, he still died because of her. Bethan knew that Malcolm would understand this.
Upon getting Bethan’s word, Nathan sighed once again before taking Celeste and left.
Once both of them entered the elevator, Anne sighed and helped Bethan up, slowly taking Bethan back to her room.
“They said that they didn’t want to morally coerce you, but they still did it anyway.”
Bethan pursed her lips. “It’s fine.”
Even if Nathan did not say it, she still would not forget Theo when she paid a tribute to Neil. She would not even have a grand wedding, not when Neil’s remains still could not be found.
Their request was also what she wanted to do.
Anne pursed her lips and sent Bethan back to her room. She wanted to say something, but she noticed Brettley standing by the entrance when she looked back.
Anne paused for a while. In the end, she still got up, cautiously left, and shut the door behind her.
The atmosphere in the room was so quiet that it was suffocating.
After a long while, Brettley smiled bitterly. He walked over to Bethan’s bed and sat down by the side.
“You really agreed to Malcolm’s proposal?”
Bethan did not look at Brettley, opting instead to look up ahead. “Yes.”
Brettley lowered his head and asked with a low and hoarse voice, “Why?”
“What do you think?”
Bethan turned her head and looked at Brettley coldly. Since Brettley already knew who she was, there was no need for her to hide anymore.
“Bethan.”
Brettley looked at her, his gaze filled with deep pain.
“I don’t know what misunderstanding happened between us, but I just want to tell you that I — “
“Misunderstanding?”
Bethan laughed out loud. “Since when have I misunderstood you?
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