Steven furrowed his brow in bewilderment. Back then, did Kate not go to Merchant City simply to ask for medical help? Why did she get involved with a business giant like Brettley Morrison? However, he nodded. “Alright, I’ll keep that in mind.”
Meanwhile, at the hotel.
Bethan shot up, waking up from a nightmare. She immediately rushed to Gwen’s room, only to find her room empty. She immediately took her phone to dial Gwen, but Gwen’s phone rang in the room. She realized that she did not bring her phone with her. Bethan panicked and anxiously dialed Brettley’s number. “Brettley, Gwen is missing!”
Brettley and Thomas rushed to Bethan’s hotel early in the morning. The other person being pulled along by Thomas was the groggy Yannie. The moment he entered, Brettley furrowed his brow and asked, “What happened?”
Bethan bit her lip and recounted the incident that happened in the restaurant the night before. “I thought she fell asleep after an entire night, so I went to rest for a while. I never thought I’d fall asleep like that… When I woke up, I couldn’t find her anymore!” “Don’t worry, she won’t go missing.”
Thomas furrowed his brow. “I’ve already gotten people to check on the security footage of the streets, and my men are sweeping the entire city. We’ll find her.”
Then, he turned to look at Bethan. “Did anything happen last night? Why would she suddenly think of Luke suddenly and drink so much wine?”
“I…think I know why.”
Yannie carefully raised her hand up like a student caught making a mistake. “Yesterday afternoon, when we were at the ski area playing, we bumped into Denise Hughes. She…” 1
Yannie was silent for a while before continuing, “She asked me whether I was skiing because of you, Thomas. She also said that a person like me will forever have a distance from you, that no matter how hard I try, I’ll never be able to enter your world.”
Thomas could not help but furrow his eyebrows at Yannie’s words.
Denise Hughes was at it again.
The last time, Denise and his stepmother brought Yannie to the house and bullied her while he was not around. He had not settled that score with them yet, yet Denise was already attacking Yannie again. Upon Yannie’s words, Bethan recalled the incident. “She’s right. Yesterday at the ski area, I did see Yannie and Gwen with a stranger.”
However, when she went over, that woman left. Gwen and Yannie did not tell her about it, so she did not know what happened.
Thus, their gaze landed on Yannie.
Feeling their gazes, Yannie felt a huge pressure on her. She bit her lip and tried to recount the incident that happened the day before in full.
“Gwen stood up for me when Denise was bullying me. She took a knife out and intimidated them with it. Later, when they saw Bethan coming over, they left.”
Thomas could not help but sneer at Yannie’s words. “The Hughes family sure knows how to judge a person.”
They bullied Yannie when they saw her, only retreating when they saw Gwen with her knite, leaving only when they saw Bethan. That meant that they knew that Bethan had Brettley supporting her. They could not afford to offend her.
In a way, that proved that his decision to take Brettley with him back was the right one. At least, even a spoiled heiress like Denise knew Brettley’s name. Yannie furrowed her brow and continued recounting the incident the day before. “Before they left, Denise said…”
She took a deep breath and said, “She said that Gwen’s knife was a fake one, because there was only one knife of that sort in the entire world, and it was with her brother. Gwen’s one was an imitation that’s what she said, at least.”
Brettley could not help but furrow his eyebrows upon hearing that.
“If that’s the case, we’ve found the reason why Gwen is sad.”
He looked at the wall in front, his gaze distant. “If I remembered correctly, Gwen’s knife belonged to Luke.”
Bethan came to a realization. “So, you’re saying that Gwen felt terrible upon hearing that Luke’s knife was a fake, and that’s why she drank so much wine?” .
“Mhm.”
Brettley nodded and gently patted Bethan’s shoulder. He wanted to say something when Lucas called him.
“Sir, we found Ms. Larson!”
Brettley furrowed his brow. “Where did you find her?”
“At…”
On the other end of the line, Lucas looked at the disheveled – looking Gwen. “At the dump station at the south of the city. We were searching for her when someone suggested looking at the dump station because Saigen City has a cold climate, and many drunkards would feel cold when wandering the streets. These people either hide in any empty house they could find, or they’d lose it and hide in trash bins because…”
Lucas cleared his throat. “Because the trash bin is against the wind. So, I got them to look at each dump station, and we found Ms. Larson.”
Brettley was silent. How did that work?
He looked up at the anxious faces of the other three and said in a suppressed tone, “Take her to The Spring Resort and wash up. Get a few more people to serve her.”
“Understood!”
Brettley had just hung up when Bethan excitedly rushed over to him and grabbed his hand. “Have we found her? Where is she?”
Brettley looked at Bethan’s bloodshot eyes and saw her wrinkled clothes from sleeping on them the entire night.
“Have you not taken a shower yet?”
Bethan furrowed her brow and looked at him strangely. “Of course! I’ve been caring for Gwen the entire night.”
She did not plan to fall asleep, having planned to rest for a while. She just did not expect that she would fall asleep.
“Alright, I have a suggestion.”
Brettley looked at Bethan, then at Yannie. “I’ll send you two to The Spring Resort right now. You two go take a good shower with Gwen and rest.”
Bethan initially wanted to refuse, but she suddenly came to her senses. Brettley said to take a good shower with Gwen and was instantly elated.
– If she was going to be with Gwen at the hot spring, that meant that Gwen was located!
“I’ll go pack up!”
Saying that Bethan turned around and returned to her room. Going to the hot spring was one of the things they wanted to do on their Saigen City trip! Seeing how excited Bethan was, Thomas could not help but smile. “She looks so energetic that she doesn’t look like someone who had cared for a drunkard the entire night.”
Then, he lowered his head and looked at Yannie, who was standing next to him. “Learn from her. Don’t be depressed all day.”
Yannie lowered her head and nodded a little.
After a while, she looked up and carefully said, “Mr. Morrison, where did your men…found Gwen?
Brettley massaged his glabella and swept a glance at Bethan’s shut door. Inside, Bethan perked her ears up while packing “My men…found her at the dump station,” replied Brettley. “She seemed to have been drunk and wasn’t sober. Since it was too cold outside, she hid in a trash bin to stay away from the wind. She was sent to the dump station outside the city.”
Hearing that Gwen was, of all places, found in a dump station, Bethan froze amid packing up her things. A moment later, she came to her senses. This explained why Brettley got Lucas to send her straight to The Spring Resort. No wonder he got her and Yannie to accompany Gwen.
Gwen had spent the night in a trash bin.
Bethan, though shocked at first, then found it amusing. Gwen was always a clean freak, a knowledge that Bethan had known her for so many years. Gwen had always been clean and tidy.
However, she did not expect that…a clean freak for almost her entire life would get into a trash bin when drunk!
Bethan could even imagine that when Gwen woke up, she would be so shocked she would not dare to admit that she crawled into a trash bin.
At that thought, Bethan quickly packed up. After getting everything ready, Bethan soon pulled Yannie along, about to leave.
When they were by the door, she suddenly remembered something and turned to look at the men. “Do you guys have anything on today? If not, do you want to join us?”
The hot spring was something relaxing. Bethan could see that for the past few days, ever since they reached Saigen City, Brettley and Thomas had been tense and on edge. Brettley had said that he would accompany her to relax a little once they were in Saigen City, but ever since they arrived, he had been busy. He could barely take the time out to meet her, let alone have fun with her.
Thus, she thought that if they had nothing going on that day, they could come along and relax. However, Brettley refused her the moment she asked the question. “You three go have fun.”
He smiled. His gaze seemed to go past Bethan into the distance. “We have a meeting with the Hughes family today.”
He lowered his gaze. “We’re going to meet Steven Hughes, the brother of Denise Hughes, the one Yannie mentioned. I want to see who this person is that claims to have the real knife.”
Looking at the coldness in his gaze, Bethan understood that Brettley was, in fact, enraged on Luke’s behalf.
Yes, Luke had already passed, but the item he left behind for Gwen was slandered and called a fake. As Luke’s best friend, it was normal that Brettley was a little angry, but Bethan was not planning to advise him against it. “Have a fruitful discussion, then.”
She smiled and looked at Brettley before turning around and pulling Yannie along. When they were by the lift, Bethan pressed the button, though her eyebrows were still pressed together.
“Wait for me a while.”
She stuffed the things in her hands to Yannie, turned around, and strode back to the room.
At that moment, in the room, Brettley and Thomas were already sitting on the sofa, discussing the things they were going to talk about with the Hughes family that day. Bethan’s sudden return stopped their discussion abruptly.
Brettley looked up at her with a smile. “What is it?”
Bethan realized that it was a little inappropriate for her to suddenly return. She had interrupted their discussion. However, since she was already back, she took a deep breath, walked over to Brettley, bent down, and kissed him on the forehead. “If you’re going to settle the score with the Hughes family, count me in.”
If Denise’s words truly meant that she slandered Gwen’s knife, and it made Gwen lose it and suffer that much…
Catelyn hoped that the Hughes family would pay for what Denise did. “Okay.”
After Bethan kissed him, Brettley chuckled and gently hugged her. If Thomas was not there, he would have hugged her and kissed her for a while more.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
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