“How is it impossible?”
Jude sighed.
He took Brettley’s phone from his pocket and found the order from the night before.
“Here, have a look!”
Bethan narrowed her eyes and took over the phone to have a look.
It was an order for red roses. It had a huge amount. The order also stated to send over all the roses from the neighboring cities.
The address…
Was her office.
She did indeed receive the roses that morning.
Bethan felt thunderstruck. Her body stiffened that she could not even move.
How could this happen? How could Brettley send her roses?
What was he trying to do?
“He thinks that you’ll be happy that way.”
Perhaps Jude noticed Bethan’s confusion, he sighed and said, “After leaving your place last night, Brettley immediately went drinking with me. He said that you told him that he has never once liked you. You never noticed nor felt the things he did for you. Later on…”
Jude sighed.
“He drank too much and became what he is now.
“He ordered the roses when he was drunk. He said that he made you unhappy and upset. He made you cry, but you told him once that this way would cheer you up, so he did accordingly.”
Bethan held onto the phone. She felt as if her blood froze.
She remembered…
When she just got married to Brettley, she has said to him many times that she was envious that other girls could receive roses from their boyfriends.
She also said that if she were to receive roses from Brettley, she would be so happy she would forget all of her problems.
However, every time she said that Brettley would look at her coldly. Then, he would call her childish. He said that she’s already an adult, why was she still pretending to be an underage girl, hoping to receive roses.
Later on, Bethan no longer brought that up in front of Brettley.
She never would have thought that after so many years have passed, Brettley still remembered them.
He even thought of using this way to cheer her up when he was drunk. Bethan bit her lips hard.
After a while, she looked at Jude mockingly. “You’re lying to me again.”
She had been lied to once previously.
Jude told her how much Brettley loved her, how much he liked her, and what he did for her.
However, what happened?
When she went to look for him under the pouring rain, she saw him carrying Fiona.
“I will never fall for it again.”
Jude gasped.
“Bethan, I have never lied to you! “
It was Brettley who was the one that had always been lying to her!
Bethan sneered. She sized Jude up.
“They say that the current head of the Smith family was an honest man who rarely lies to others. From what I could see, you are completely different from what the people are saying.
“But it’s true too. Since you could become good friends with a pathological liar like Brettley for so many years, what they said must only be rumors. “
Then, Bethan went around Jude and was about to leave.
She only took a few steps when Jude, behind her, furrowed his brows and called after her.
“Hold up.”
Jude furrowed his brows and chased after Bethan. He pulled Bethan back to the stairwell.
“Bethan, must you be so harsh in your words? Brettley has his own difficulties, maybe there are many things he did not tell you and your kids, but his feelings for you are real. I’ll say it once again, I have never lied to you! “
Then, Jude took his phone out, unconvinced. He showed Bethan the video he took of Brettley being drunk the night before.
“Look at this man! When he’s utterly drunk he is still calling out your name! “
Bethan looked at Jude coldly. She was not willing to look at the video on his phone.
Jude panicked. He directly stuffed his phone into Bethan’s hands.
“You can not look for all I care! “
Bethan held onto the phone. She was about to return it to Jude when she heard a drunken man’s voice coming from the phone.
“Bethan…
“I’m sorry…
“In this life, the person I’m most sorry for is you…”
The instant Bethan heard Brettley’s hoarse voice, Bethan froze.
She gripped the phone. Although she was unwilling, she still lowered her head and picked the phone up.
The video on the phone is of Brettley sitting in a booth at the bar. He kept downing strong alcohol bottle after bottle.
He kept drinking while yelling her name and apologizing to her.
He made her lose two of her children.
Looking at how red Brettley’s face was in the video and how he kept repeating those words, Bethan felt as if a storm was happening in her heart.
She was drenched and suffocated.
Looking at how Bethan was slightly relaxed, Jude immediately opened his mouth.
“You kept saying that other women are more important than you in his heart! Listen up! Is he calling for Cynthal, Alice, or Fiona? He has always been calling out your name! “
Bethan pursed her lips. She gripped the phone so hard her knuckles turned white.
She sniffled her nose and looked at Brettley in the video. Listening to his voice, she had mixed feelings.
It turned out, he knew everything.
He knew that he was guilty. He knew that because of him she lost two of her children. He knew he deserved it.
However…
“Look at this man, “
Jude sighed and said in pain, ” his old illness has relapsed, but his illness was because back then when you went missing, he thought you had died. He drank himself sick!
“Bethan, if you have any guilty conscience, you should not say harsh things to him and even curse him to his death when he drank until like this because of you! “
Then, Jude directly snatched the phone back from Bethan.
“I ‘ve already said what I needed to say. If you still think that Brettley never had you or your kids in his heart, then you can bring your children back. I won’t stop you.”
Bethan closed her eyes. She felt a little dizzy.
When Jude said all that and even showed her the video, Bethan’s frozen heart hurt once more.
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