For some reason, he always enjoyed seeing her happy from the time he knew her.It made him very happy whenever Gwen was in glee.
After laughing to herself for a while, Gwen lowered her phone to look at her phone and replied, [What you said he did to you, he did to me too.]
[I rejected him, though.]
[Luckily, Brettley sent the bodyguard to protect me.Otherwise, he would’ve really gotten to me today! ]
After reading the message, Bethan jumped out of her chair and quickly sent a voice message.
“Did he do anything to you? Are you alright? Did you make a police report? If he did something he shouldn’t have, you should report him to the police!”
Brettley and the three kids stopped what they were doing and looked at Bethan, surprised by her anxious expression.
After a while, Neil frowned and looked at Brettley.
“Who is Mommy talking to?”
Brettley did not hide the truth from his kids.
“She’s talking to Aunt Gwen, if I guessed right.”
“Is Aunt Gwen in danger?”
Nellie bit her lip worriedly and added, her voice sounding endearingly cute, ‘Do we need to send someone to protect her?”
Brettley did not answer.
On the other hand, Nigel curled his lips into a smile.
“There’s no need for that.I can hack into the surveillance system of the city where Aunt Gwen is later at night and try to find a way to torture the bad guy.”
“Yay!”
Nellie clapped gleefully.
“Nigel is going to do his things again! He’s super amazing!”
“Oh, and I’m not?”
Neil’s lips thinned into a line as he flicked Nellie’s forehead.
He did not exert strength into it, yet the dramatic Nellie began to weep, a tear leaking out of one eye, as her doe-like eyes reddened.”Neil hit me! How could you do that?”
Neil pursed his lips and placed a slice of cake in front of Nellie.
He woke up early in the morning to bake the cake because Nellie said she was craving it last night.
What other options did he have? Shelly was still an infant and did not know anything yet.
Thus, Neil could only continue to spoil Nellie.
“Oh my!”
Nellie’s eyes enlarged as the cake drew her attention wholly, though tears still clung to her face when she started to smile.
“You know, you’re very amazing, too! “Sigh! You’re totally different from Daddy.
His cooking isn’t good, but not yours, Neil.Your cooking tastes like Mommy’s! “Nigel and Neil are very amazing! Daddy is the only one in the house that isn’t amazing!”
Nellie blabbered her compliments before digging into the cake Neil offered her.
Brettley massaged his glabella after witnessing how fast his daughter switched up.
“Alright, I’m not amazing.”
After all, Neil was his daughter and he could not bear to scold her, so he went along with whatever she said.
Right then, he looked at Nigel and asked, “Are you really going to hunt down the man who bullied Aunt Gwen through the city’s surveillance?”
Nigel nodded and replied seriously, “But don’t worry, I won’t be too obvious.You and Mommy mustn’t get involved in this.This is between us and that man.”
Once again, Brettley massaged his glabella helplessly.He turned to look at Bethan, who was still sending voice messages to Gwen.
“Hey, are you going to do anything about your three precious darlings?”
The three kids were kind kids that were nonetheless capable of causing trouble.
Bethan was too busy to deal with him.
Upon hearing that, she frowned and looked at him.
“I was the only one looking after them for the past six years.You’ve only been looking after them for less than a year, and you’re caving?”
She pointed upstairs with her finger.
“If you think they’re very hard to look after, you can go find Shelly.All she can do now is cry and fuss.She can’t say anything that’s going to make you angry.Go to her!”
After that, she continued to chat with Gwen and ignored her husband.
Helplessly, Brettley looked at Bethan and his three kids.He sighed and went upstairs.
“I’ll go take a look at Shelly.”
He was not there when the triplets were born into this world.
Thus, he reckoned he could at least take care of Shelly while she was a baby.
Bethan pursed her lips, and she giggled when she heard Brettley going upstairs.
After a while, she started to be curious and thus resumed responding to Gwen.
[Gwen, you said you’re eating in the same restaurant with Brettley’s friend.Did you see his face?]
[I’m sensing something weird going around.Basically, I’ve seen all of Brettley’s friends.After marrying him for so many years, I knew everyone in his life…]
[But I never heard of a friend whose face was disfigured.The one that’s keeping you safe, I mean.]
{You never heard of him?]
Gwen frowned and peeked at the man who was sitting behind her.
Lowering her head, she continued to text Bethan.
[Is this man really a bodyguard Brettley hired or Brettley’s friend?]
Gwen believed Bethan when she said the man was Brettley’s friend, yet all of a sudden, she said she never heard about this man before.
How peculiar.
Theoretically speaking, Brettley made it very clear to differentiate his friends from other people. He would not make a silly mistake by calling a bodyguard his friend.
If this man was Brettley’s friend…why did Bethan not know him or heard of him before?
Brettley and Bethan were so close to each other that Brettley would voluntarily inform Bethan how many men and women were attending the dinner and who they were when he had no choice but to bring his clients out for dinner.
There were no secrets between them.
If the man behind her was Brettley’s friend, Bethan should have and would have known.
[He specifically said the man was his friend.]
Bethan frowned while replying.
[If he said he hired a bodyguard, I wouldn’t be wondering about this now. I just think something fishy is going on.]
[Why don’t you try to get close to the man and see if his face is disfigured and if he’s really Brettley’s friend?]
Gwen rejected Bethan’s suggestion immediately.
[It doesn’t matter if he is or isn’t Brettley’s friend. His face is covered, so it’s obvious he doesn’t want anyone to see his face. Ishould respect that.]
[Unless he takes off his mask to reveal his face to me, I won’t pry at him.]
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.