Being shoved abruptly, Bethan, coming to her senses once again, saw Brettley drenched by hot coffee.
The coffee seemed to be burning hot. There was still steam coming off from his body.
This scene would be extremely haggard if it were any other men.
However, he was Brettley Morrison. Even if he were drenched by coffee, he still looked regal and arrogant, so much so that others could only envy him.
Still, from the way he furrowed his brows tightly, he should be feeling terrible.
Bethan furrowed her brows. She hesitated for a moment, but still rushed forward and helped him in the end.
Whatever. Seeing how he was Nigel and Nellie’s biological father and how he ended up like that because he protected her, Bethan felt that she should not just sit and do nothing.
She held onto Brettley and swept the crowd a cold glance.
“Those who don’t wish to die, make way! If Brettley truly gets hurt by this, none of you here will be able to escape! “
Bethan’s tone was cold and stern. The entire corridor was silenced.
Those that were gossiping about Bethan and Brettley all shut up. They did not dare say anything after that.
After all, if Brettley truly was hurt and he held them accountable for it, no one there would be able to take it!
The crowd instantly made way for Bethan and Brettley.
When the both of them walked past the crowd, Lucas rushed into the cafe with Zach, Yuri, and a group of bodyguards.
“Sir! “
Looking at Brettley, Lucas widened his eyes and immediately ran over.
“I ‘m fine.”
Brettley furrowed his brow and said, “I just got lightly burned by coffee. It’s fine.”
Lucas shook his head. “How could it be fine? Wasn’t Ms. Blake also burned by Ms.– “
Before he could utter Bethan’s name, his gaze landed on her face. He stopped talking.
Brettley furrowed his brows even tighter. “I’ll just get Bethan to send me to the hospital. Take your men and round up everyone there. Check upon them. See who’s the mastermind behind this.”
When Brettley just arrived, there were only a few people in the cafe.
Why was the small cafe filled to the brim after chatting to Bethan for only a while?
Also, Bethan was wearing a mask and a cap. Why was she so coincidentally recognized by someone once she left?
These people were clearly sent there, and they came prepared.
Brettley wanted to know the perpetrator.
There was a hospital less than a kilometer away from the cafe.
To prevent Brettley, who was drenched in coffee, from garnering attention, Bethan took off her ash- gray trench coat and put it over Brettley.
Brettley initially refused. He thought that it was inappropriate for a man to put on a woman’s trench coat.
However, he did not expect that…
Although it looked like a women’s trench coat on Bethan, it also looked like a men’s trench coat when it was put on Brettley.
Brettley furrowed his brows and walked while holding onto Bethan and furrowing his brows.
“Where did you get this from?”
“I got someone to specially make it. It’s for men, “
Bethan replied calmly as she walked.
“Nigel, Neil, and Nellie were fatherless when we were abroad. When they were at the amusement park, they were also unhappy, because other kids would mock them for not having a father.
“Malcolm would pretend to be their dad to cheer them up when he had the time. When he wasn’t free, I ‘d put on this men’s trench coat to pretend as if I was wearing their father’s trench coat and take them out to play.”
Brettley slightly furrowed his brows at Bethan’s words. “Was there use in doing that?”
“Of course. “
Bethan sneered. “When I was abroad, I had many types of men’s outerwear. Time after time, I ‘d wash them and hang them on the balcony.
Others would think that there’s a man at home. It’d be safer.”
Brettley slightly furrowed his brows once more.
“You lived in an ordinary residential building when you were abroad?”
Bethan laughed. “What do you think, Mr. Morrison? Do you think I would have lived in a huge mansion with my three children?”
Brettley furrowed his brows.
“I thought you and Malcolm were close. He would’ve at least–“
“At least give me a mansion?”
Bethan laughed.
“Mr. Morrison, do you think Malcolm owes us? He had offered a mansion to me, but why should I stay there? To treat me and help me take care of my three children, he has already sacrificed a lot. How could I possibly accept his kindness with peace of mind?”
The truth was, ever since Bethan gave birth to her three children and after she recuperated, she had been working hard ever since.
She earned quite a lot, but most of it was used to pay her debts.
Malcolm did not owe her anything, and neither did the Quinn family.
Brettley, who had been frowning hard because of the burns, slightly relaxed his brows upon Bethan’s words.
“That meant that you and Malcolm have never had “Does that have anything to do with you, Mr. Morrison?”
Bethan coldly interrupted Brettley.
“How rare of you to ask that. You kept changing women, one after the other, yet you still dare to ask me whether I did anything with other men. Why?
Are you suddenly interested in me, the woman you never once liked?”
Brettley’s heart sank miserably upon Bethan’s words. He never liked her? Was this woman…
Was his love for her too reserved, or was she too dense?
However, all that was no longer important.
“Since you’re so interested in my private affairs, I can tell you this.”
Bethan turned and looked at Brettley coldly.
“Malcolm angered the entire Quinn family when he saved me. I promised Granny Quinn that once I settle everything here, I’ll return abroad and marry Malcolm. Then, I’ll use the rest of my life to repay the sacrifices Malcolm has made for me.”
Then, Bethan looked at Brettley. “Are you happy with this answer, Mr. Morrison?”
Brettley’s deep gaze gradually dimmed. After a while, he turned.
“What did Malcolm sacrifice to save you? Is it money? I can repay him ten times or even a hundred times over. Why do you have to repay with the rest of your life?”
Bethan laughed.
“Mr. Morrison, who are you to me that you repay others a hundred times over? Also, there are things that money can’t be used to repay.”
Bethan wanted to continue saying something when she looked up and noticed that they had already reached the hospital.
She helped Brettley in, helped him register, and brought him to the doctor’s consultation room.
“Thankfully for this burn, you came in time.”
In the doctor’s consultation room, after the doctor dealt with the red patch on Brettley’s back, he could not help but tease, “If you were to come any later, the red patch would go off by itself. My medication would be useless then.”
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