“Aren’t you afraid something is going to happen to Bethan if she continues to think too much?”
“She won’t,”
Brettley furrowed his brow and answered.
Immediately, he added, “If she does, there’s nothing I can do.”
He was not about to let the same thing happen again.
Even if…
Even if Bethan continued to blame herself, he could only console her after Bethan got out of jail.He could not possibly break the promise he made to John.
“Fine! You’re not going to look for him, are you?”
Jim furrowed his brows vehemently, seeing Brettley’s indifferent attitude. “I can track him down myself. I’ll use my family’s power and those from
Craig Group to track him down!
“Even if he’s at the other end of the world, I’m going to track him. I want him to tell Bethan himself that Bethan bought him time and took the blame for him!”
Right after that, he walked out angrily. Bam! The door to the study slammed shut.
Brettley remained seated on the chair as he looked in the direction where Jim left. His hand reached for his aching glabella.
“Daddy.”
Suddenly, the door opened again. This time, the person who entered was Neil. He looked like something was bothering him.
He walked in, closed the door, and climbed on the chair across from Brettley to sit. “Did Uncle John really kill that bad woman?”
Brettley was stunned. Neil must have been standing outside for long enough to overhear the conversation between him and Jim. He frowned and walked over to pick Neil up from the chair. “Is it important to you if Uncle John was the murderer?”
Neil frowned and pushed Brettley away uncomfortably. He was seven years old, a young man, and he should not let his father hold him like that anymore! However, his strength was incomparable to Brettley’s.
Most importantly… It did not feel that bad to be held by his father. Well, he preferred Bethan to hold him, but this was nice too.
He paused, stopped struggling, and looked up with his big eyes. “
It’s not important to me, but Uncle Jim is right too. If Mommy knows Uncle John was the one who killed the bad woman, she won’t feel so bad anymore.”
Brettley curled his lips. He reached his hand out to pat Neil’s head.”
But have you thought of what’s going to happen to Uncle Jim if he returns and the police discover him? They’re going to catch him. Sammie will lose her mother and her father.”
Startled, Neil fell quiet. ‘Daddy is…right.’
After a moment of silence, he looked up. “Then, do you have any ways to make Mommy feel better?”
“Yes.”
Brettley curled up his lips and pinched Neil’s nose. “The people Mommy worried about the most are you three and Shelly. You’ve done a good job taking care of your brother and sisters. You can still do it without Mommy around, can you?”
Neil continued to say nothing and give it a thought before nodding. “I understand.”
“And…”
Brettley gave Neil a peck on the forehead. “Even if your Mommy is serving her sentence, she still can read or watch the news in jail.”
Neil paused. “I got it!”
He jumped off and said, “I’ll look after my brother and sisters and we are going to be at our best–so good that the news will report about us! Mommy is going to know we’re doing very well, even when she’s in jail.”
Brettley smiled and gave him a thumbs-up. The little guy ran off with excitement.
When the door was once again closed, he could finally put away the smile on his face.
All of a sudden, his phone rang. It was the boss of the logistics company.
“Mr. Morrison, your friend has reached his destination. The car I arranged for him is back. Are you sure you don’t want to know where he went?”
Allin all, Jim and Bonnie did not track down John.
A month later, Bethan’s case for intentionally causing harm was scheduled for hearing in the court in Banyan City.
Brettley and the Landry family had used all possible means to help with the case, and every guest who attended the wedding had given their affidavit to prove that Jacqueline was the one who instigated Bethan to result in her reckless and impulsive action.
Despite that, it did not help much because the action was done in public.
Eventually, she was unable to escape the legal sanction for intentionally causing harm to another person.
As a result, Bethan was sentenced to a four-month jail.
Since she was already in jail for one month previously, the remaining sentence she needed to serve was three months.
Time passed swiftly.
In the blink of an eye, Bethan finished serving her time in jail.
On the day she was released, Charles, Rosalyn, Jim, Bonnie, Theo, and Rachel were patiently waiting at the entrance.
Bethan had her hair cut.
The moment she walked out from the gigantic iron gate, she looked at her family and friends.She took a big breath of fresh air, and a bright, joyous smile was on her face.
However, she realized something was wrong.
Brettley was not there with everyone.
The most important man in her life was absent during this moment.
She bit her lip and slowly walked toward Jim to accept the bouquet from him.
After some hesitation, she asked, “Where’s Brettley?”
It just did not make sense for him to miss out on this moment.
During the time she was serving, Brettley would visit her every two weeks to encourage her and ask her to wait persistently for her freedom.
The last time he came to visit was exactly two weeks ago.
He told her excitedly that he was going to prepare a big party to celebrate her discharge and to welcome a brand new future and life, but…
He was not present at this important moment when she was released from jail.
Did he got tied up with something more important? When Bethan asked that question, everyone’s expression grew solemn.
Bonnie looked somewhere else, not daring to look at Bethan.
Jim remained silent, while Theo and Rachel lowered their heads.
Their reactions shocked her, and her heart started to pound heavily.She bit her lip and looked at Rosalyn, who was sitting in her wheelchair, and at Charles.
“Dad, Mom.Did anything…happen to Brettley?”
Charles frowned.
He looked at her daughter, sighed, and said nothing.
Rosalyn forced a smile onto her face.Her hand reached for Bethan’s hand as she said, “Nothing happened to him.Let’s go home.We’ll talk about this when we’re back in the house.Alright?”
An explosion went off in Bethan’s head.She staggered a few steps and looked at her family and friends in disbelief.
“Tell me, what happened to Brettley?”
‘He loves and cares for me so dearly.If nothing happened to him, he won’t ever miss coming to pick me up!’ she thought.She bit her lip.Suddenly, something Brettley said struck her mind as she remembered it.
Two weeks ago, Brettley told her he needed to go out to the seas for a business meeting a week after his visit to her.She even joked and asked what sort of business required him to go out to the sea to meet someone.
Brettley did not answer.
All he said was he would bring her a present when he returned.
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