“After Michael was in prison, Celie kept on complaining to Adrian that he failed to protect their son.”
Brettley turned to look at the sky outside the plane. He sneered, “Adrian felt annoyed and broke up with her. After that, Celie tried to get a share of their wealth. However, she found out Adrian had been lying to her all these years when she was at the Civil Affairs Bureau.”
Bethan was startled. “Adrian has been lying to Celia all these years? About what?”
Brettley turned around and looked at Bethan’s face seriously, “Their marriage certificate is fake.”
Bethan widened her eyes, “The marriage certificate is fake?”
“Yes.”
Brettley nodded and his voice sounded quite helpless and happy, “I really don’t want to admit that he is my father. I thought he did not love my mother. But…”
He sighed, “I just didn’t think he didn’t love Celia too after being together with her for more than twenty years. He was just pretending to like her.”
“He lied to Celia by telling her he had special service because he was the young master of the Morrison family. He could let the people from the Civil Affairs Bureau go to the house and register their marriages. Celie felt superior to have that special service so she agreed…”
Bethan furrowed her brows and cut off Brettley. “So the people who helped to register their marriage were fake?”
“Yes.”
Brettley took back the wedding invitation from Bethan. He glanced at the groom’s name. “Adrian lied to Celie. He hired actors to be people from the Civil Affairs Bureau. The marriage certificate is fake too.” “All the time, he knows granny will never pass the family’s wealth to him and I will give him money because he is my father. Being a member of the Morrison family, the family will never desert him as long as he is alive. However, he knew neither me nor granny will give him more. The amount we give him is only sufficient to let him live. So he was afraid Celie will take away part of his wealth when she left him. That’s why he put on a show and lied to Celie for more than twenty years.”
Bethan was so shocked that she did not know what to say. She always knew Adrian was a bad person… However, she thought Adrian was only ruthless to Brettley. It never occurred to her that he had this sort of bad intention toward Celie who had been beside him for more than twenty years and the mother of his son, Michael.
This man…was far more cruel and ruthless than she imagine.
She furrowed her brow as she looked at Brettley. “Celie did not fight back?”
“Of course, she did.”
Brettley raised his brows, “Who else do you think I hear this from?”
Bethan paused. “She looked for you?”
“Yes. Brettley closed his eyes. “Since she was not officially married to Adrian, she failed to get any money after they broke up. She went to look for Adrian but he refused to see her. He even asked his bodyguard to hit her.”
“After a few times, Celie stopped and came to me instead. Since I was not in Banyan City, she went to the company to cause trouble and looked for Jude too. I only know about these when Jude looked for me last night.”
After that, he waved the invitation card, “But I never expect to receive this after knowing what happened last night.
Bethan’s jaw dropped. A split second later, she furrowed her brows as she glanced at Brettley. “Does this mean that not long after Adrian split up with Celia, he found a new girlfriend and is now planning to get married?”
Brettley nodded. “A month, in fact.”
Adrian and Celia had broken up only a month ago.
Bethan was even more astounded by this. “It took only a month for him to split up with Celia, get together with this new girl, and decide to get married?”
This was even faster than Sean and Denise.
However, Sean and Denise were youngsters who had never been in love before, so Bethan could large understand how they felt; to find two warm hearts in the cold Saigen City would easily make anyone want to devote their lives to each other.
However, Adrian’s situation with this woman named Jacqueline Grace was entirely different; he had split. up with his girlfriend of over twenty years, Celia, and started dating Jacqueline within the same month.
On top of that, Brettley had mentioned before that Celia had continued to pester Adrian throughout this time. To be able to find a new girlfriend to whom he was planning to get married to within such a short time…was an amazing feat for Bethan.
“I never thought he’d be capable of doing something like this too.”
Brettley narrowed his eyes, as though. he could sense Bethan’s surprise, and turned to gaze out the plane window. “Otherwise, I wouldn’t have. been in such a rush to bring you back to Banyan City.”
The truth was, he had yet to settle everything in Saigen City. After all, he had just finished helping Gwen and Sean take care of the Hughes and the rest….
They had yet to find Kate, and they still had to deal with Tina.
Even though Tina had been constantly picking on Thomas and his mother, Eanne, Brettley could not deny the fact that Tina had been the mastermind behind his mother, Rianna, going blind.
If it were not for Adrian, he would have remained in Saigen City to settle these inconveniences first before returning.
He had not managed to do anything for Rianna before her passing, and now that the opportunity arose to punish the person involved in her demise, Brettley could not pass on the opportunity so easily.
However, the priority now was Adrian.
Brettley curled his lips into a sneer at the thought of the wedding.
According to Adrian’s usual habits, Brettley was not the only one he had gone to great lengths just to deliver the invite to. It was likely that Adrian had done the same for the rest of their relatives.
Therefore, most of the Morrison family would be at the wedding, and this was the perfect chance to expose what Adrian had done to Rianna in the past.
Initially, Brettley had planned on threatening Adrian with the evidence, but now that Adrian was hosting a wedding where anyone and everyone would be there, Brettley knew he could not let this opportunity slip by.
At the thought of this, Brettley turned to glance at the woman next to him. “Do you still remember our wedding?”
Bethan paused and immediately recalled their wedding.
Even though she had been happy, her joy at that time was tinged with sorrow and sadness, because she knew that Brettley was not marrying her out of true love.
He had done so simply to retaliate against his arranged marriage to Hailey Walter.
Bethan shrugged at this. “I don’t remember much from it.”
With that, she turned to stare at him. “What about you? Do you remember what our wedding was like?”
Bethan initially thought Brettley’s answer would be the same as hers.
After all, when they got married, it was only her pining after Brettley, and Brettley was just using her to retaliate against his family.
He did not love her at that time, so she would not be surprised if he did not remember much about their wedding.
Thus, she did not expect much from his answer at all, but to her surprise…
Brettley curled his lips into a smile at this. “Of course I do. I still remember the dress you wore that day; it was a white bedazzled dress.
“At that time, Cynthal had not shown her true colors, and you two were still two peas in a pod. Initially, she had picked out a white satin strapless dress for you, but you thought it wasn’t glamorous enough. You even said…”
He reached out to pull her into his arms and pressed her head against his shoulder. “You said that since you’d only get married once, the dress you wore had to be gorgeous and glamorous so that you’d remember it for the rest of your life.”
With that, he gently pinched Bethan’s nose teasingly. “How can you forget that when it happened not even ten years ago? I guess you were lying to me when you said you’d remember our wedding for the rest of your life, huh?”
The smile in his low, melodic voice made Bethan blush. She lowered her head and bit her lip, avoiding Brettley’s gaze. “I was young and naive at that time. I didn’t mean to lie to you, it was just an offhand comment.”
Brettley pinched her nose playfully once more. “I can’t believe I still remember all your offhand comments.”
Bethan pouted at this. “You didn’t love me back at that time, did you? If so, why do you even remember all of this?”
“Since when did I say I didn’t love you back?”
Brettley sighed and tightened his embrace, then said rather wistfully. “If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t have agreed to get married to you to spite my father.”
At that time, he had plenty of other ways to spite Adrian, marrying a woman against Adrian’s wishes was at the bottom of the list.
However, at that time, not even Brettley himself realized that he was in love with Bethan. He thought he had agreed to her idea as a result of rash decision-making, but looking back at it all…
He had fallen for Bethan the moment he laid eyes on him, but not even he himself had been aware of it.
This was why they had wasted so much precious time and even led to Cynthal coming in between them. At the thought of this, Brettley sighed and added, “If only I had realized my feelings toward you earlier.”
“Well, it’s not too late now either.”
Bethan closed her eyes as she lay against his chest, listening to his steady heartbeat and the sound of his even breathing, accompanied by the familiar scent of his body. “I thought you and I would never meet each other again. I even thought that…I’d spend the rest of my life hating your guts.”
“That’s all in the past now.”
Brettley sighed and gently stroked Bethan’s hair.
“Yes, you’re right.”
Bethan nodded. After a long time, she lifted her head to look at him. “Why are you bringing up our wedding all of a sudden?”
Brettley smiled and picked up the wedding invite. “That’s because I intend on gatecrashing a wedding with you.”
Bethan paused and lifted her head to meet his gaze. “Are you sure about this?”
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
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