Actually, Fiona understood what Bethan said just now. But she needed an opportunity to make this request from Brettley. Bethan was too important to him. She did not want Bethan to continue staying beside him.
Sooner or later, something would happen.
Brettley narrowed his eyes and faintly pulled his hand out of Fiona’s grasp. “Is it Bethan you don’t trust, or me?”
His low, cold voice made Fiona bite her lip. “That’s not what I meant, I…”
“Since I agreed to your request and chose to be with you, I won’t abandon you so easily. I made you a promise. Bethan is just my ex-wife, besides, you saw us with your own two eyes, we’re like fire and ice, why are you still worried?”
“But Brettley… “
Fiona lowered her head and whined pitifully, “Maybe this is my first time being in a relationship, so I feel very insecure… It’s my fault, my mindset is wrong, I’ll try to change my mindset…”
Her lower lip turned pale from how hard she was biting on it. “I just don’t understand, there are so many talented jewelry designers in the world, why d o you insist on hiring Bethan…”
“Because she is the mother of my children.”
Brettley frowned slightly, then turned and stood at the side of the bed, looking at the night view outside the window, a whirlpool of emotion in his eyes.
“Don’t worry, sooner or later, she’ll leave with the children. I just want to use work as an excuse to keep her in the city a little while longer. After all, once she’s gone, I might never see the children ever again.”
Fiona was startled by his words. She narrowed her eyes and studied him from the back. He had poured in so much time and effort just to see Bethan a few more times. And he claimed it was all for the children? He knew well enough what was the true reason!
However, even though those were her thoughts, the expression on her face was still soft and gentle. “I understand. Brettley, I’m sorry…I misunderstood you.”
She sighed, her eyes bright with tears, “Will you forgive me, please? I only considered how uncomfortable I felt seeing you and Bethan together, I forgot about the fact that you’re a father…”
Her weak tone made Brettley feel slightly irritated, though he was not entirely sure of the reason himself.
In the beginning when he first met her, his heart ached upon hearing the critically ill woman’s weak voice, pitied her for being wrecked with diseases since she was a child. But after spending more time together…
Every time he heard her talking in this tone, he would feel uncomfortable. Maybe it was because he found out she was not as nalve as she seemed, so his attitude toward her changed?
At this thought, he sighed, then turned and approached her, laying her down on the bed and tucked her in gently. “You should sleep, you need to undergo an operation tomorrow.”
“Brettley.”
When he retracted his hands and got ready to leave, Fiona bit her lip, reached out, and held his wrist. “
Can I…make a request? After my body recovers from the surgery… Can I do what Bethan did, and have your baby?”
Brettley’s hands that were tucking the bedcovers around her paused mid-air. He frowned, gently reaching out a hand and patted her head. “That’s silly. Your health is in such a poor condition now, becoming pregnant now? Are you trying to worsen your condition?”
Fiona lowered her head, a flash of urgency passing through her eyes. She almost forgot, in Brettley’s eyes, she was a critically ill woman.
She bit her lip, her head lowered, her voice faint as she said, “But Brettley, I really want to give you a child. A child of our own. This way, someone will remember me after I die and pray for me on my death anniversary.”
Brettley narrowed his eyes, smiling as he said flatly, “
I ‘ll remember you and pray for you even without a child.”
With that, he stood up. “It’s late, you should get some sleep.”
Fiona watched as he stood up and pursed her lips tightly together. “Brettley, do you…think I’m not good enough for you?”
She bit her lip, tears streaming down her cheeks quietly. “You said you would accompany me through my last days, you agreed to be with me. But in fact… like everyone else, you hate me and look down on me, don’t you?”
Brettley narrowed his eyes, then turned and looked at her indifferently. “Why do you say that?”
“Because… “
Fiona sniffed, a hint of a sob in her voice. “We’ve been together for so long , but you… never slept with me. You even rejected me when I suggested giving you a child. But you used to say you didn’t have feelings for Ms. Bethan, that you weren’t very close to her when the two of you got married. But Ms. Bethan gave you three children, and one that was miscarried… You didn’t reject her, but you rejected me so swiftly… “
Brettley closed his eyes and snorted, “Fiona, I promised to treat you well and I intend to keep it. By right, I’ in now your boyfriend, I can do such things with you. But you know your own condition. You were so agitated when Shannon McCartney accused you of drugging Bethan that you fell sick. When you saw Bethan being beaten at the seafood market, you were so agitated your breathing quickened and you kept coughing. Sleeping with you would be much more strenuous. I didn’t engage in those activities with you for your own good.”
With that, he headed out without a single look backward. “I ‘in not a good father. I indirectly caused the deaths of two out of my four children. That’s why I don’t plan on asking any other woman to bear my child for the rest of my life. I’m sorry.”
He closed the door to the ward behind him.
Fiona lay on the bed, biting her lip as she listened to the sound of his footsteps drifting away into the distance. She should not have listened to that woman’s advice and put on an act as a critically ill patient. Even if she did act as a critically ill patient, she should not have chosen a weird disease that would be triggered whenever she grew emotional!
Now that she had brought herself into this mess, he rejected her request to sleep with him easily with just a few simple sentences.
Fiona gritted her teeth in anger.
No!
Even if she had to make him drunk, she would do it. She was determined to have his child! Otherwise, what if one day her feigned illness was exposed, she would lose all hold on him.
Leaving Fiona’s ward, Brettley strode into the elevator. The moment the elevator doors closed, he shut his eyes and took out his phone, his face pale as a ghost. “Lucas.”
On the other end of the phone, Lucas heard the other man’s hoarse voice and sighed involuntarily. “Sir, I’m already waiting for you at the entrance to the elevator upstairs. Don’t worry.”
Only then did Brettley heave out a sigh of relief and ended the call. He leaned on the walls of the elevator helplessly, his eyelids fluttering shut.
After being in a coma for three whole days, after he awoke and even before the doctors had time to check his current condition, he immediately rushed to Orchard Manor to seek out Fiona.
He knew very well that Fiona had been locking herself in her bedroom at Orchard Manor for the past few days not because her condition had worsened, but because she did not want to donate her bone marrow to Nigel.
At the end of the day, Fiona donating her bone marrow to Nigel was a business deal between Fiona and himself. On the surface, Fiona looked soft and gentle, relying on him for everything, but in actuality, she remembered everything clearly.
He was only in a coma for a few days and already she wanted to destroy their agreement and refuse to donate her bone marrow to Nigel.
Brettley knew everything, but for Nigel’s sake, he had no choice but to submit to humiliation and do everything that Fiona wanted him to do. Of course, that did not include giving him a child that she mentioned just now.
With a ding, the elevator doors opened.
“Mr. Morrison…”
Lucas stood outside the elevator waiting for him. By the time the two words left his mouth, he saw Brettley leaning against the elevator walls, his complexion was pale as a ghost, as if he had already fainted.
Lucas widened his eyes in shock.
It cannot be!
Brettley had been in a coma for three days and the moment he woke up…he fainted again?
Lucas did not dare dawdle, he yelled for an assistant to wheel a bed over and called the doctor at the same time.
Luckily, Brettley was just physically exhausted, it was nothing serious. He just needs a good night’s sleep and he will be fine.
After running a round of tests, the doctor’s diagnosis was dire. “You were in a coma for three days, your body is so weak, but the moment you wake up you run out and even carry someone…
You’re rushing to your death.”
With that, the doctor sighed and gave him some reminders then turned and left.
After the doctor left, Lucas glanced at Brettley and could not help himself from saying, “Sir, get some rest. Tomorrow…”
He raised his head. “Tomorrow both Young Master Nigel and Ms. Blake are undergoing operations, who will you be accompanying?”
Brettley closed his eyes, his low voice calm and indifferent as he said, “Fiona.”
Nigel had Bethan and Nellie to accompany him. While for Fiona, he was the only one she had in Banyan City.
Lucas opened his mouth to say something then paused. This happened several times before he finally sighed and said, “Then what about Young Master Nigel? It’s a major operation, aren’t you going to visit him?”
“No.”
Brettley’s voice was ice -cold, without a hint of warmth. “I can’t leave Fiona.”
Lucas sighed, “I’m afraid both Young Master Nigel and Bethan will misunderstand.”
Brettley raised his lips in a smile. “Let them.”
Outside the door, Bethan eavesdropped on the conversation between the two men, then quietly lowered her hand that was about to knock on the door.
For the past few days, she had been taking care of Brettley in this hospital ward and had accidentally left behind a few of the items needed for Nigel’s operation tomorrow. She thought Brettley would spend the night with Fiona, that was why she took the elevator to this floor, intending to take the items and leave without alerting Brettley.
But she never expected to hear his cruel and heartless words.
So it turned out Fiona was undergoing an operation tomorrow too. She did not know what operation the other woman had to undergo, but she knew…
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