“No, that’s not enough. I’ll escalate this incident so that everyone in the world knows that the richest person in Banyan City, Brettley Morrison, President of Morrison Group is a shameless and despicable person!
“If you give up and admit your defeat now, you can beg for mercy. I may let you off the hook!”
Brettley scoffed at Dan’s words. “Mr. Howard, it’s such a shame that you’re not a screenwriter. It’s good that you have so many creative thoughts, but those are just wild ideas. I suggest that you should go see a psychiatrist.”
He smirked. “I won’t beg for mercy from anyone, especially you. As for the worst–case scenario you mentioned…”
He raised the corner of his lips and enunciated, “I’ll be waiting for them.”
With that, Brettley hung up without saying anything further.
“Goodness, he’s such a menace!”
Bethan had listened to the entire conversation between Brettley and Dan. She furrowed her brow and looked at Brettley. “Are you..really confident to solve this?
“You don’t trust me?”
Brettley raised his brow and looked at Bethan, Taken aback, Bethan quickly shook her head. “No.You’re the person I trust the most. I’ll doubt anyone else other than you.”
“That’s right.”
He curled up his lips and smiled while waving his hand at Bethan. “Come.”
She walked over as was, and Brettley reached out and pulled her into his arms.
“It’s been over half a month since we’ve been here in Saigen City. Do you miss home?”
Bethan did not answer the question immediately. After a moment of silence, she nodded. “A little bit.”
She was not really homesick. Rather, she missed Nigel, Neil, and Nellie more. While her three kids surfaced in her mind, she could not help but wonder where her long–lost daughter was…
“Bonnie contacted me today.”
Brettley smoothed his wife’s head when he saw the light in her eyes diminishing. “She said Jim is starting to recover his memory.”
“That’s great!”
Lights reappeared in her eyes. “Does that mean Shelly is about to reunite with her family? When that happens, my brother and Bonnie can finally have their wedding!”
Brettley smiled when he saw how excited Bethan was. “What kind of people do you think Shelly’s parents are?”
Bethan never expected Brettley to ask her this question. She paused and thought for a while before chuckling. “I just hope her parents are just an ordinary couple. It’ll be best if their family is a happy one.”
The sentence was followed by a sigh. “I hope Shelly can be lucky like Riley; to be reunited with parents that love her like Thomas and Yannie.”
Brettley curled his lips into a smile at Bethan’s words. “Yes. We’ll go back in a week, and I’ll take you to meet Shelly’s parents.”
Bethan furrowed her brow. “We’re going back in a week?”
Although she missed her children, could they truly finish up Thomas and Steven’s matter in a week’s time?
“Yes.”
With Bethan in his arms, Brettley cocked up his head and looked to the front as though he had the ability to look through the wall and into a greater distance. “I’ll settle all the problems within the week. Then, we’ll go back to Merchant City.”
Bethan still had her reservations. “Are you sure you can solve all of it?”
It was not because she did not believe in Brettley’s capability, but the problems in Saigen City were quite complicated. While Thomas was locked up in prison for allegedly killing his father, Brettley still needed to handle the issues in Howard Group.
That was not all. He had to find evidence to prove Thomas’ innocence and help to arrange Senior Howard’s funeral. A week was just too rushed, and it did not help that Tina and Dan were causing more trouble! Furthermore, the issue with Steven and Gwen was hard to settle too. Gwen wished to sue the Miller family and the Hughes family, but both families were highly notable in Saigen City. Gwen could not take down these two families on her own.
Lastly, there were still many people making a scene outside of the Howard Group… Bethan thought it was just impossible to settle all of those complicated problems within one week “I know it’s hard, but I don’t want to pull it back anymore.”
This morning, Bonnie called to tell him about Jim. She also provided a piece of valuable information, saying, “Jim said he vaguely remembers he carried Shelly out from the room Bethan used to stay in. I…suspect Shelly is Bethan and your fourth child.”
Her hopeful voice still lingered in Brettley’s ear. After cuddling with Bethan, he used the meeting as an excuse to leave Bethan. As he left the office, he placed strands of Bethan’s hair and his hair into Lucas’ hand. “Send this back to Merchant City and give it to Bonnie immediately.”
Everything was just an assumption. To know if Shelly was truly their child, they needed the result of the paternity test. He must not tell Bethan this until evidence was released. He did not want to disappoint her if the presumption was wrong.
At the entrance of a cafe in Saigen City. Denise looked at the address provided by Nigel. Once she confirmed she was at the right place, she took a deep breath and pushed the door to enter.
There was a man dressed in black with a cap sitting at a table by the window. He was having his coffee and looking outside the window. “Hi.”
After a deep breath, Denise walked over. “Are you the uncle Nigel mentioned?”
Finally, the man returned to his senses and stood up. He reached out his hand for a handshake. “Hi. My name is Sean Wheeler.”
Looking at the handsome man with dark skin and a rather ‘unruly’ personality, Denise frowned. “So you’re Nigel’s uncle?”
Nigel’s uncle had to be either related to Brettley or Bethan…but this man’s temperament was far different from them both!
“Yes.”
Sean curled up his lips and smiled. He pointed at the seat in front of him and hinted to Denise to sit.
Once Denise sat down, he waved his hand at a waiter to order a beverage for Denise. After the beverage was served, he looked up and took a good look at Denise before talking, “Nigel asked me to come to go look for Riley with you. Where is she now?”
Denise picked up the hot beverage and felt the warmth radiating from the glass. “She’s in my brother’s mansion in the countryside now. I think my brother has gone to help Brettley and is not in the mansion now, but…”
She looked at Sean. “There are people guarding the mansion. Do you…”
After taking a good look at Sean’s thin figure, she frowned. “Don’t you have any helper? If you are alone… I don’t think there’s any way to save her.”
It was not because she did not believe in him, but Sean was just too thin. Steven knew how important Riley was because he knew she was Thomas and Yannie’s daughter. He had to look after Riley very well just because he wanted to stay on Thomas’ good side. Therefore, the people he arranged to guard the mansion must be very good with their job.
Could such a thin, fragile–looking person like Sean be able to rescue Riley? She doubted it.
“I alone am enough.”
He curled up his lips and smiled. Before he stood up, he picked up coffee and finished the remaining. “Let’s go. Lead the way please.”
Denise furrowed her brow in disbelief. “It’s really just you only?”
“Of course.”
He curled up his lips and walked to the counter to pay his check. After that, he went outside.
Denise’s eyebrows furrowed. Despite being full of doubts, she still followed behind him.
“Mister, it’s not that I don’t believe in you…”
As she got into Sean’s car after leaving the cafe, she could not help but clarify herself with a frown, “It’s just that those people my brother hired are not simple, so…”
“So you still have no faith in me.”
Sean raised his brow and smiled. He glanced at Denise. “I’m not as bad as you think.”
Denise bit her lips at what Sean said. “I–“
“It’s fine,”
Sean cut her off. “So, where should I go?”
After a moment of silence, Denise got out of the car and walked over to the driver’s side. “I’ll drive.”
“Are you sure?”
Sean looked at the slender woman and thought about his SUV. “This car isn’t like the normal car you drive.”
It was Denise’s turn to taste doubt from the other party.
She sneered and opened the door to the driver’s seat. “I’ve driven this type of car numerous times. Step out.”
Sean smiled and got down when he saw her sweet face suddenly look so domineering. “I rented this car. If you damage it, I won’t be able to pay for it.”
“Don’t worry. I can afford it,”
Denise replied.
By the time Denise finished talking, Sean was leaning back in the passenger seat with a cigarette in his mouth. “If you take down your family, then you’ll no longer be the young miss of the Hughes family. Without that identity, can you still afford it?”
The atmosphere of the car became dead silent as Sean spoke his mind. There was only smoke and silence filling up the closed space. After a while, Denise looked at Sean with a bitter smile. “Did Nigel tell you all of that?” “Half from him, and half from my own doing,”
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.