“So you’re saying…”
Thomas smirked and looked at Yannie in disdain. “Even after I told you about my aunt, you still don’t believe me and rather believe in Brettley. Is that correct?”
Yannie paused. Obviously, she felt Thomas was upset. She took a deep breath and wanted to explain to him.
“I don’t mean that. I just think there’s a misunderstanding between you and Mr. Morrison, so–“
“There’s no misunderstanding,” interjected Thomas curtly.
“I guess I’m wrong.”
Yannie was startled for a moment before joy filled her eyes.
“So you admit?”
“Of course.”
Thomas opened the car door remotely. With a darkened gaze, he sneered, “I should’ve known.”
He continued sarcastically, “I should’ve known when there was a rumor about you and Brettley. I kept telling myself that there’s nothing between you and Brettley, but now…”
His eyes looked serious.
“I finally know the rumors aren’t wholly unfounded. Even after I told you about my aunt, you’re still defending Brettley, taking his side! From the looks of it, your relationship with Brettley is closer than the relationship between Brettley Bethan. Well, I’m sorry for getting in the way.”
Yannie’s eyes widened instantly. She stared at the man in front of her and was at a complete loss for words. After a while, she bit her lip and said, “Thomas, after everything that I told you, is this the conclusion you have? Is it?”
She had tried so hard to explain to Thomas that he had misunderstood Brettley and hoped he was not biased toward Brettley, yet he brought out the rumor between her and Brettley to say she was selfish and that there was something going on between her and Brettley! It seemed as though this was the image he had of her. The prejudice he had toward Brettley was far greater than the time they had spent together over a month. She even naively thought he was a good person when she went to visit Riley with him.
She sniffled. “Thomas, I think I was wrong too. I shouldn’t…
“I shouldn’t think that both of us have feelings for each other.”
Suddenly, Thomas felt irritated to hear what Yannie said and to see tears that were about to leak from her eyes.
Thomas furrowed his brow and leaned back on the car seat. He closed his eyes and ordered. “
Get out of the car!”
Yannie bit her lower lip and looked at him for one last time. Then, with eyes glossed with tears, she hissed, “Fine!”
She opened the door, got down from the car, and left without looking back. “Sir, I…”
The driver furrowed his brow when he saw Yannie walking off angrily. “Do we need to go after her?”
This irked Thomas. “Why should I do that? If she wants to leave, then let her!”
After that, he exhaled deeply. “Drive to the bar.’
The driver stayed silent for a while before replying, “Sir, you can’t drink anymore with your current condition. Why don’t we…go after Ms. Yannie and explain it to her?”
Thomas smiled bitterly.
“Explain what?”
He told her the hatred he had for Brettley because he wanted her to understand him and hoped that she would take his side. The result was not what he wanted.
The people Yannie cared about were still Brettley and Bethan. To her, everything he said could not overcome the kindness Bethan and Brettley gave to her. To her, anyone else was more important than he was!
This was the first time in Thomas’ life that he felt so strongly defeated. He took a deep breath and instructed coldly, “To the bar.”
The driver could not do anything else and turned the car around, heading to the nearest bar. Nonetheless, he texted Yannie after Thomas got out of the car.
Yannie was standing in front of Brettley’s house when she received the message from the driver. She raised her head and looked at the grand, luxurious mansion in front of her. After much hesitation, she decided to enter.
Brettley and Bethan were good people, but so was Thomas. She believed that this was all a misunderstanding they were tangled in, and they could all be a whole family if this was brought to light.
She took a deep breath and wanted to enter the house, but there was a notification alert on her phone. She furrowed her brow and took out her phone to look.
It was a message from the driver.
[Mister Howard is in Dark Night Bar. His stomach has just recovered, Ds}!–dlh his liver is still recovering. I’m afraid something might happen to him.] Yannie bit her lip when she saw the message. She wanted to reply but did not know what to type.
Should she go look for him?
At that moment, she recalled how cold and remote Thomas was when he shouted at her to get out of the car.
She hesitated.
After a while, she exhaled deeply, put away the phone, and entered Brettley’s house.
Inside, Bethan was busy cooking dinner for her children. It was not long since she returned home. She had been busy lately and did not have the chance to have dinner with Nigel, Neil, and Nellie.
Since she had the time today, she decided to reward them. After all, she would be traveling to Europa with Gwen in a few more days, and she did not know when she would be back after being apart from her children. “Bethan.”
Suddenly, Yannie’s voice came from the door. She was standing at the kitchen door, looking uneasy.
“Is Mr. Morrison at home? I…I wish to talk to both of you about Thomas.”
Bethan, who was cooking, paused. “Brettley’s out working.”
When Bethan returned, she had called him and asked if he was coming home for dinner. It was rare for her to cook dinner, so she had hoped he could come home to eat dinner with her and the children.
Alas, Brettley said he had already made an appointment to meet a business partner in Dark Night Bar tonight. Thus, Bethan could feel sorry for him for missing out on her delicious food this time. She was not a person who would disrupt Brettley’s work arrangement because she wanted him home to have dinner together.
Despite that, she did not expect to see Yannie here, looking for him. She thought for a while and walked to the door while taking off her apron.
“Why don’t I call him and ask him to come back now?”
Yannie shook her head immediately.
“No, it’s fine. It’s the same as telling you, too.”
Bethan and Brettley were a married couple, and they loved each other very much. Yannie trusted Bethan to relay every single word she said to Brettley. She did not want to bother Brettley from work because of her and Thomas. Bethan nodded and started to record with her phone while leading Yannie to sit on the sofa.
Yannie took a deep breath.
“Bethan, I know for a fact that you and Brettley don’t have a good impression of Thomas…but there’s a reason why Thomas did what he did.”
She looked at Bethan and slowly told her about what Thomas said regarding his and Brettley’s mother without leaving any parts behind. She even told Bethan how Thomas said Bethan and Brettley deliberately took Riley to be their own daughter after Brettley and Bethan’s baby died during birth.
All the while, Bethan sat quietly and listened. In the end, she raised her head and looked at Yannie. “Hey, Yannie, do you still not know about…your baby?”
Yannie, who was talking about Riley with Bethan, was caught off guard by the question. “My baby?”
Her baby was dead right after she gave birth three months ago, and she struggled for a whole few months to get past it. She did not know why Bethan would suddenly mention this.
“Yes.”
Bethan looked at Yannie’s puzzled look. She took a deep breath said solemnly,”
Yannie, Riley…is your daughter.”
Clank!
The glass in Yannie’s hand fell to the floor and shattered, the glass–shattering sound snapping Yannie awake. She hurriedly scrambled to squat and clean the mess, apologizing as she did, when Bethan stopped her. Bethan called for the maid to clean up the mess and dragged Yannie back to the sofa.
“Yannie, I know it must be hard for you to accept this, but…Riley is really yours and Thomas’ daughter. My daughter was kidnapped on the day she was born, but the people who kidnapped her got stopped by another group of people. So…the person who kidnapped my daughter was afraid that he couldn’t accomplish his task, so he went to the hospital and took another baby.
“He took the child from the same hospital you gave birth to, Yannie. That child…is Riley.”
She took out a DNA paternity report from the bag behind her. “This is the result of the test 1 got today. Riley is your daughter.”
The news was like a bomb that exploded in Yannie’s brain.
‘How could… How could that be? Riley is my and Thomas’ daughter?’ She bit her lip. The scene where Riley smiled at her when she and Thomas visited Riley appeared before her eyes..
Yannie remembered how angry she was when Thomas said Riley was her daughter. She even reprimanded Thomas and asked him how many women he had before.
In addition…
Yannie looked down at the white shirt with puffy sleeves and mint green long skirt. When Thomas passed her this outfit, he said it was prepared for Riley’s mother.
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