Anne’s death would always pain her heart, a mistake that she would never forgive herself for. She did not want to give up knowing she had the chance to avenge Anne’s death at this moment.
A life for a life. There was nothing wrong with that. Jacqueline should die for killing Anne.
However…
She thought about Sammie. She thought about how guilty she would be when she met Anne in the afterlife…
Bethan bit her lip.
Just as she was about to say something, the door was kicked open with aloud slam.
The loud slam caught the guests by surprise as they looked over at the door.
There stood a group of armed policemen. Some of them rushed to the stage. “Ms. Grace, you’re under arrest for kidnapping and suspected murder. We’re taking you in according to the law.”
Jacqueline had expected the police to arrive. She silently extended her hands out as told.
Click! The police secured the woman in the wedding gown with cold handcuffs.
“Sir.”
Jacqueline looked at her injury after she was cuffed. “Please take me to the hospital.”
The police looked over and noticed she was bleeding. The lead, a policewoman, frowned. “How did that happen?”
“Ms. Bethan here stabbed me,”
Jacqueline curled her lips and sneered. “She tried to kill me. Are you going to do anything about that?”
The female police frowned as she looked at Bethan, “You did this?”
She recognized Bethan. When Anne was kidnapped, she tapped and listened to the conversation between Vanessa and Willow. She was in the loop about Anne’s death and was also aware that Bethan was
Anne’s best friend.
The thing that surprised her was how Bethan would act recklessly by trying to kill someone with a dagger in such an open environment.
Bethan nodded. “Yes.”
“Take her.”
The female police no longer sympathized with her when Bethan admitted to it. “There are many ways to express your anger, and hurting someone else isn’t one of them. You should know the price to pay since you’re much calmer now.”
She looked around and said, “Ladies and gentlemen, we’ll send reinforcements and try to take down everyone’s record as soon as possible. Please do not leave.”
She waved and instructed her colleagues to send Jacqueline to the hospital and Bethan to the station.
“Wait.”
Just when the police were taking Bethan away, Brettley frowned and stepped forward. He held Bethan’s hand lightly and said, “Stay calm. I’ll find a way to get you out soon. Also…”
He took a breath and stared into Bethan’s eyes. “I’ll try to locate John and Sammie too. Both of us are responsible for Anne’s death. I’ll help John and take care of Sammie with you in the future.”
Bethan looked at Brettley with teary eyes. Finally, she nodded. “Thank you.”
Brettley took another deep breath when he knew Bethan was emotionally grounded. He expressed his gratitude to the police guarding Bethan and made way for them to leave.
“Brettley! Are you going to let them take your wife away?” said Celia in a low voice, frowning. “It was all Jacqueline’s fault!”
He looked back at Celia. “It’s not up to us to determine who’s right or wrong.”
After another deep breath, he called Jude. “I have a favor to ask.”
Before the police started to take everyone’s statement, all the people at the wedding received the same message on their phones.
The notification alert sounded across the venue.
They looked at their phones and could not help but to gaze at the man who was standing in the middle of the stage.
Brettley stood tall and straight with an indifferent look in his eyes as if they were not gazing at him.
Someone murmured, “Does Mrs. Morrison…really has that much charm for Brettley to make such a huge sacrifice just to protect her?”
The news of Bethan, Brettley Morrison’s wife, attempting murder at a wedding spread like wildfire through the entire Banyan City.
Everyone was on the edge of their seats, waiting to see just how Brettley, the most powerful man in Banyan City, would help his wife get out of this pinch.
“I saw the news, Daddy.”
Brettley received a call from Nigel not long after he returned to the villa that night. Although he was only seven, Nigel was very mature for his age and calmly explained to his father, “I saw everything about Mommy’s outburst on the internet, but just to save you the trouble, I lied to Neil and Nellie about this, and I configured the internet here at Grandpa, Grandma’s, and Uncle Jim’s place so that none of them would be able to receive the news from Banyan City. Don’t worry, I’ve got it under control.”
Brettley’s heart sank when he heard this. He leaned against the wall and let out a sigh. “Like father, like son.”
It was unbelievable how detail-oriented Nigel was at such a young age.
“It’s just simple hacking. If I didn’t know how to do it, I wouldn’t have been able to do it even if I wanted to,”
Nigel replied, then let out a sigh. “What are you going to do, Daddy? Do you think you can settle all this within a week?
“I’m concerned that Neil and Nellie will realize something’s wrong if they can’t get in touch with Mommy within a week.”
Brettley closed his eyes. “I’ll try my best.”
He had been caught in plenty of tight situations in the past and had been through such treacherous dangers that no ordinary person could even begin to imagine. However, he never once dreamed that one day, his wife would get caught up in such a crisis.
The image of Bethan standing onstage, bringing the dagger down into Jacqueline’s abdomen materialized in Brettley’s mind once more.
This was the version of Bethan he had never once seen before.
She used to be a timid person–someone that would get nauseous and vomit at the sight of a car accident. At that moment, however, she had gone so far as attempting to kill someone amid the rage of losing her best friend!
Brettley used to think that Bethan and Anne were just close friends, and it was not until that day that he finally realized just how much
Anne meant to Bethan–so much so that Bethan passed out and suffered amnesia after hearing about Anne’s death, and so much so that she would be willing to kill the person responsible for Anne’s death in front of thousands of pairs of watchful eyes.
Unfortunately, Bethan never killed anyone before and thus was not familiar with human anatomy. Therefore, no matter how badly she wanted to kill Jacqueline right on the spot, her blade missed her target terribly.
“By the way, Daddy, Uncle John and little Sammie…”
“They’ve gone missing,”
Brettley said before Nigel could finish his question and sighed. “Your Uncle Jude and I have been searching for them all afternoon. They’ve been missing ever since your Aunt Anne passed away this afternoon.”
After retrieving Anne’s body, John and baby Sammie disappeared without a trace, and despite rifling through all the available surveillance footage around the hospital, there was no sign of them at all.
Where could John have gone with an infant and a dead body?
Meanwhile, at the hospital, Jacqueline lay in bed, hooked up to an array of machines and an oxygen mask.
Although Bethan’s attack missed her vital organs, she still suffered significant hemorrhage and slipped into a coma even before reaching the hospital. Even at this moment, she was still in a critical state.
Jacqueline sneered as she lay on the bed, staring up at the ceiling as she breathed in the oxygen through her mask.
Although she was still alive, she could not say the same for Bethan.
‘My dear Fiona, I’ve finally avenged your death!” she thought to herself.
All of a sudden, the door swung open.
A pair of men’s leather shoes stepped into the room, pausing exactly aton her oxygen tube.
Jacqueline’s breath caught in her throat, and she immediately turned around with wide eyes–
The man reached out and yanked off all the wires and tubes attached to Jacqueline, barely keeping her alive, and sneered. “Do you know me, Jacqueline?”
The next morning, Brettley was just about to take a quick nap on the sofa after working the entire night when his phone rang. It was Jude.
Brettley picked up, rubbing his eyebrows in exhaustion. “What’s wrong?”
“Brettley!”
Jude exclaimed from the other end of the line. “Where were you last night?”
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