While glancing at Jacqueline who was standing behind Adrian, he added, “As a matter of fact, I need to thank Ms.
Grace.
Without this wedding and the invitation, I’d never rush back in such a hurry to settle all of these.
Thank you for offering this opportunity.”
“You’re welcome.”
Jacqueline smiled brightly in her white wedding gown.
“I have my purpose, too.There’s some personal matter I’d like to settle with you and Ms.Bethan later.”
She then looked at Bethan.
“Ms.Bethan, how are your friends lately?”
She deliberately emphasized the word ‘friends’ heavily.
Bethan’s heart pounded as the image where Anne got kidnapped appeared in her mind.
She bit her lip and forced herself from panicking and being consumed by anxiety.
“All good.”
As she said that, she stared at Jacqueline, hoping she could figure out where Anne was from her eyes.
‘It seems like she’s the one who orchestrated the kidnapping.
She used Adrian and the wedding to force us to return to Banyan City and also kidnapped Anne to force us to attend the wedding…
What is she trying to do?’ she thought.
“That’s good.”
Jacqueline smiled peculiarly as she gazed at Bethan.”Let’s settle your grievances with Adrian for now; we’ll talk later.I have a big gift waiting to give to you, Ms.Bethan.”
Those words did nothing but push Bethan to the edge.She furrowed her brows as she looked at Jacqueline while muttering, “Don’t you dare do anything.”
Jacqueline curled her lips and pretended like she did not hear a thing.
She turned around and looked at Celia.
“Aunty Celia, what else do you have? You better hurry up.I didn’t know Brettley prepared a program for us tonight, so I didn’t include this in the schedule.If you don’t hurry, there won’t be enough time.”
Celia looked at Brettley with a confused look.
Brettley looked back at her and hinted at her to continue.
This was when Celia took a deep breath and passed the thing in her hand to the emcee.
“Please play this recording.I know what I said isn’t enough, so I brought evidence.”
This time, Celia did not hesitate and gathered all of the evidence she had into this recording, including the thing Adrian said to her and how they plotted to frame Rianna…to the extent that Adrian encouraged Michael to hurt Granny Morrison a year ago. In it was also how Adrian used Brettley’s name to borrow money from people half a year ago.
Celia recorded nearly everything Adrian said to her in the house. Adrian’s face paled as he heard the recording. He bit his lip and clenched his hands into fists, and the nerves on his face protruded.
“Celia Giles! How dare you do this to me? Did you record every single damn word I said to you?”
Celia sneered, “Record? Do you think I’m that free to do it?”
She gazed at him and shot him a cold smirk. “Have you forgotten there are surveillance cameras in the house? I was afraid you’d steal the money and spend it, so I changed the hard disk to anew one every month for the past years. I’d simply run through the old footage once and leave it at the warehouse. It wasn’t long until the warehouse was full of all these hard disks.”
She smiled coldly and continued, “Can you remember? The warehouse is the one you said you give to me out of charity–the same one you chased me into with all that rubbish in it! I took all of the hard disks inside with me, thinking that if you changed your mind, then I wouldn’t bother. You insisted on breaking up with me and throwing me out of the house, so I’ll show the public who you really are by sharing this footage with everyone.”
She glared at Adrian condescendingly. “I gave you a chance, but what did you do?
“You sent people to beat me up a repeatedly and disallowed me from coming close to you! Adrian Morrison, you deserve everything happening now! This is your karma!”
Her ruthless words deeply shook Adrian. Unconsciously, he stumbled a few steps behind. His mouth was wide open and his face was pale. He looked at Celia as if he had something to say, but there was not a word he could utter.
For many years, he had been plotting against Rianna and Celia. Never in his wildest dreams, however, did he think he would end up being ruined by Celia, an uneducated country woman!
“Blergh!”
He took another step back and spurted out a mouthful of blood before staggering and falling with his head leaning back.
‘I’m doomed… I’m finished…’
He thought tonight would be the day that he marked a new life as he married Jacqueline, the opportunity for him to be a proud man in the city, especially how astounding it would be for a late middle- aged man to marry a girl over 20 years younger than he was.
Yet, it was never in his plan that…everything he had would be ruined in this wedding! Brettley cutting ties with him while his dark past was revealed… His debtors surely would be hot on his trails while Brettley would have no plans on forgiving him…
Even if he was not killed by his debtors or Brettley decided not to go after him, he would never be able to hold his head high anymore as everyone would be talking about him.
He closed his eyes and looked at Brettley in despair. At this point, he could only place his hope with Brettley, hoping that he would feel sorry for him and help him, knowing his status as his father.
He deliberately fell toward Brettley. If the man still cared for him…
Slam!
Brettley merely frowned and took a step back, resulting in Adrian falling head-first to the floor. The back of his head hit the stage, and it was so painful that his face scrunched.
Even so, Brettley did not even lay an eye on him.
The almost nonexistent father-and-son bond was surely gone at this point.
Brettley was never ever going to look at his father again.
“Mr. Morrison, you’re a cruel man.”
Jacqueline sneered as she glanced at Adrian who fell. “I guess that the news about what a caring and loyal person you are is just fake.”
Brettley waved his hand to ask the staff beside the stage to carry Adrian, who passed out on the floor, away.He gave Jacqueline a cold look.
“Do you truly believe I’m that kind of person without the things that happened just now? Do you really think I don’t know what you’re up to? After how hard you try to get close to Adrian and also throw this extravagant wedding?”
It just never occurred to Jacqueline that Brettley would so harshly and openly expose her.
She was stunned but that did not stop her from giving a cold look to Brettley.She smiled.
“I can tell you’re not stupid after all.”
Brettley squinted.
“Do you think I won’t investigate you after knowing you and Adrian are getting married? Especially when you and Fiona look so alike?”
As she felt her senses settling down, Jacqueline’s lips curled into a smile.She gave Brettley a look and said, “That’s true.But…”
She looked at Brettley again before looking at Bethan.
“If you two are so capable, you should have known why I insisted on having you two attend this wedding…Why, then, didn’t you two protect your friends?”
Those words struck Bethan, alarming her.She bit her lip.Her eyes were full of hatred and anger as she glared at Jacqueline.
“You kidnapped Anne after all!”
When she saw the photo and the request from the kidnapper at the door, she guessed that it was Jacqueline, but she tried to be optimistic and thought that it could have been Adrian’s debtors instead.
After all, Adrian did offend too many people.
All of them were waiting for her and Brettley to show up so they could collect their money from Brettley and her.
Among those debtors, some of them knew Anne was her close friend.
She thought that these debtors kidnapped Anne with the intention to force her and Brettley to show up so they could collect their due.
Bethan even thought if the kidnapper was Adrian’s debtor and that his purpose was to collect the money…
She was willing to pay ten times the money Adrian owed just to guarantee Anne’s safety.She was willing to pay any price.
Friends and families were far more important to her and Brettley when compared to money! However, Jacqueline’s words struck down Bethan like lightning.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.