“Ladies and gentlemen,”
Brettley said, curling his lips into a smile as he gazed out at the crowd below him. “I’m sure you all can tell just how much, or rather, how little, Adrian Morrison cares about my mother
“Even though she didn’t die, he declared to the public that she had and claimed that she passed away while giving birth to me, and this has led to me living my entire life in guilt and shame.
“However, on the same day of her funeral, he spent the night with another woman at a hotel.”
The color drained from Adrian’s face upon hearing this. He never thought, not even in his wildest dreams, that Brettley had come here to sabotage his wedding!
His face was etched with both fear and anger Finally, he clenched his fists and shot Brettley a murderous glare. “Nonsense! Your mother died because of you! The reason you’ve come here today to tamish my name is that you want to disown me for marrying Jacqueline and evade responsibility!
“Well, let me make this clear-none of this is enough evidence, and your mother did die because of you all those years ago! Don’t you dare try to make yourself feel better! You’re the reason she died!”
The audience erupted into more activity as soon as Adrian said this.
Everyone turned to gaze at Brettley with looks of contempt.
A moment later, Brettley chuckled. “Well, I certainly don’t only have these as my evidence. Mr. Morrison, you claim that none of this is enough proof, but what if I have more?”
Adrian sneered at this. “What else can you possibly have?”
“Me.”
The entire room fell silent when they heard this woman’s voice.
Everyone turned to gaze in the direction of the voice.
At this moment, Celia walked into the room, dressed entirely in white.
“Who’s that?”
“I think that’s Adrian’s ex-wife, Celia something…”
“Is that Celia Giles, the name of the woman written on the hotel records from just now?”
“Yes, I think that’s her! she’s the one who slept with Adrian the day of Rianna’s memorial!”
Celia finally reached the stage among the audience’s whispers and alighted the steps until she was standing directly in front of Brettley.
“Adrian, you claimed that Brettley does not have sufficient evidence to prove himself, didn’t you? Well, do you think I’m enough proof?”
The entire room erupted into a flurry of activity at this.
Adrian turned to glance at the woman standing in front of Brettley, his face pale, and said in a trembling voice. “Celia, you and I have been together for over twenty years, and we’ve been through thick and thin together. How can you…”
“Thick and thin together?”
Celia sneered at this. She gazed coldly at the cowering man before her. “Well, that’s what I told you when you chased me out of your house, but what did you do to me then?
“Not only did you give zero shits about our twenty years together, but you even ordered your guards to beat me up!”
As she said this, Celia hurled the stack of documents she had been holding in her hand toward Adrian’s face. “If you want more proof, this is the medical report from when I got admitted to the hospital after your men beat me up! Now everyone can finally see how you treated me in the past!
“If Mr. Brettley Morrison hadn’t asked Mr. Jude to help me, pay for my medical bills, and give me someplace to stay, despite the conflict we’ve been through in the past, I would’ve ended up with the same fate as Rianna by now!”
When the folder struck Adrian’s face, the contents fell out, spilling sheets of paper all over the ground. which were picked up by the audience at the first row. They glanced at them and gasped. “I can’t believe how cruel Adrian was to Celia!”
According to the injury report, all of the wounds Celia had sustained were deep and painful, and it was clear that the people ordered to beat her were hoping to kill her!
The color drained from Adrian’s face.
He turned rather hastily and tried to hide behind Jacqueline’s back. “Jacqueline, you should know by now that I’m not this kind of person.”
Jacqueline could not help snickering at this. The truth was, she had been eavesdropping from next door when Adrian gave orders to his men to beat Celia up
Adrian was far more ruthless than anyone could ever imagine, but since this was the man she was about to marry, she had to tolerate this, despite knowing what an asshole he truly was.
Therefore, Jacqueline sighed and lifted her head to meet Celia’s gaze. “What proof do you have to say that Adrian had sent these men to beat you up? How am I supposed to believe this isn’t your way of getting revenge? Besides…”
She gazed coldly at Celia’s aging face. “Do you honestly have no idea what you did in the past to deserve this?”
“What is she trying to say?”
Brettley glanced coldly at Adrian as a sneer crossed his face. “Mr. Morrison, do you honestly think that Jacqueline, a beautiful woman in her twenties, would be willing to marry a man more than twice her age? Do you think you won her over with your irresistible charm somehow?”
He fixated his frosty gaze on Adrian’s face and said in a tone as cold as ice, “Do you think Jacqueline would have even given you a second glance if it weren’t for the fact that you’re Adrian Morrison, father of Brettley Morrison?”
Brettley’s tone was so sarcastic that some of the audience could not help snickering at this. The truth was, everyone knew that a woman in her twenties would never willingly marry a man twice her age, not unless she had ulterior motives, and especially not since Adrian was such a useless man.
When he was younger, he relied on Grandpa and Granny Morrison, then after he married Rianna, she became the head of the family, while he eventually became dependent on Brettley, their son.
Not only that, but he even changed his name to Adrian just so he could repay Rianna for helping him support the family.
His name Adrian was a portmanteau of Rianna’s name, and this symbolized that his entire heart belonged to her and only her.
Many years had passed, and this name became even more ironic in the setting of his wedding to another woman more than 20 years his junior.
The irony became even more apparent after Brettley and Celia exposed the truth about his involvement in Rianna’s murder.
“What nonsense!”
Adrian, who was still under the delusion that he still possessed charming qualities despite being in his mid–fifties, could not believe his ears at all. He glared at Brettley and snarled, “Brettley, don’t try to discount Jacqueline’s love toward me! You can’t possibly understand our everlasting love, so don’t try to criticize us!”
Bethan could not help chuckling when she heard this. “Mr. Morrison.”
She curled her lips into a smirk and turned to glance at Adrian. “You’re perhaps the only person in this room who truly believes that Jacqueline is marrying you for true love.”
Although Bethan and Brettley had been married for many years, she still remembered that when they got married, Adrian refused to attend the wedding because he was upset at Brettley for disobeying his wishes to marry Hailey Walter.
Not only that, but after that, Adrian rarely returned home, so Bethan was reluctant to address him as her father–in–law. ‘Mr. Morrison’ was the more appropriate term when it came to their relationship.
“What are you talking about?”
Adrian shot her a murderous glare. “What right do you have to speak here?”
“She’s my wife, of course she had the right to speak.”
Brettley furrowed his eyebrows as he stepped forward, shielding Bethan behind his back, and said coldly, “Mr. Morrison, now’s not the time to explore the true meaning of your and Jacqueline’s marriage.”
With that, he tapped on his phone, and the news of Rianna arriving in Banyan City with Eanne the year Brettley turned five appeared onscreen.
The color drained from Adrian’s face when he saw this. He stepped backward and stared at Brettley in shock. “Where… Where did you get this?”
Was Eanne not dead at this point? Not only that, but her husband, Carl, was murdered not too long ago by his own son.
Therefore, none of this information should have been available to anyone at all, so how did Brettley manage to get his hands on this?
“Did you honestly think that as long as Eanne and Carl died, the truth would never surface? Brettley sneered as though he could sense Adrian’s exact thoughts, then tapped on his phone again.
Another piece of news about Rianna appeared onscreen.
This time, the evidence was even more concrete-this was a record from Rianna’s taxi ride at the airport, where she had hailed a taxi to Morrison Mansion.
Then, the visitation records of a mental asylum were displayed, which showed that Rianna had been admitted, and Adrian visited her multiple times after her admission.
This was followed shortly by Rianna’s death certificate, which showed that her cause of death was suicide
Everyone fell silent upon seeing this as they finally pieced together the truth of Rianna’s death.
It turned out that she had not died while giving birth to Brettley two decades ago, but instead, had taken her own life in a mental asylum in Banyan City when Brettley was five
“I obtained these records from Carl Howard, my uncle-in-law, Brettley declared as he glanced first at Adrian’s pale face, then at the crowd below him.
A dark expression crossed Adrian’s face when he heard this, and he staggered backward in fear. “How could this be…”
He had made a trip to Saigen City when he heard of Eanne’s death, and at that time, she was killed by Tina, Carl’s mistress.
Adrian threatened Tina with the evidence of Eanne’s murder and forced her to help him destroy all evidence that would point to his involvement in Eanne and Rianna’s demise. Not only that, but he even met up with Carl and warned him not to try anything shifty, and at that time, Carl promised up and down that he would not breathe even a single word about this.
Because of this, Adrian was confident that no one else in the world would find out about Rianna’s true cause of death.
Brettley had always been under the impression that his mother died during childbirth, and even Eanne had died Carl, on the other hand, promised not to tell another soul, not to mention that their son, Thomas, was so young at that point that he would not remember a thing about this. This should have never come to light, but….
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