With a sigh, Gwen proceeded to explain everything to Bethan and Brettley, including how Ben arrived with another woman who was mistaken for her and was taken away. “Someone deliberately caused that traffic jam, knowing you’d get stuck in it on your way here.”
Brettley narrowed his eyes. “This Tyson fellow is far more powerful than I initially thought.”
“Of course!”
Ben, who knelt in silence until now, scoffed when he heard this. “Tyson is one of Luke’s most powerful men! If it weren’t for Luke’s malice and ruthlessness, Tyson would be sitting on the throne by now!
“Initially, Tyson intended to steal the title away from Luke and become king himself, but after discovering that Luke was intending to sacrifice himself for this bitch, he decided to hold back on his plans, but to his surprise, even after Luke died, everyone in the gang was even more willing to bow down to that Sean guy than him.
“He thought things would finally change after Sean left, but those bastards still refused to listen to him, and this finally led him to come up with the idea of capturing Gwen to use as a hostage.”
With that, Ben scoffed and added, “Tyson swore up and down that he would one day become the leader of this gang, and there’s no way you can save Gwen from this fate, no matter how hard you try to protect her. Just because you saved her today doesn’t mean you can protect her forever.”
“What makes you think I can’t?”
Bethan snorted, then shot Ben a murderous look. “Do you think I’m the same as you? I’m not some useless bastard who abandoned Gwen after swearing to protect her for the rest of her life, and I never once committed something so shameless as to bring my new girlfriend to the house I bought with my ex-wife! i “You’re a disgusting animal, Ben Zeller!”
“So what if I am?”
Ben sneered at Bethan and replied coldly,”
What does being a kind person get you? Look what Luke had to go through for this bitch?
“If I didn’t break up with her, she would’ve forced me to give her my heart too! I’ll never be as stupid as Luke was. He’s the leader of notorious gangs in two cities, for God’s sake! How can he be so stupid as to sacrifice his life for a woman? What a joke!”
With that, he glanced at a pale-faced Gwen and said, “Bethan, you said you’d be able to protect her forever, but are you sure you can do that? Not even Luke could pull that off!
“You and Brettley are going to go back to your lives eventually, and you can’t possibly spend the rest of eternity trying to protect her! The only solution is for Luke to come back to life and revive his old gang so that they can bring down Tyson, but we all know that’s impossible! As long as Tyson and Winson are around, they won’t rest until they get their hands on Gwen!”
Brettley curled his lips into a smirk when he heard this. He shifted into a more comfortable position, leaning back against a pillar, then turned to look at Ben. “You say the only solution is for Luke to come back to life?”
Ben narrowed his eyes. “That’s right!”
“Well, let’s see what we can do,”
Brettley snickered, then turned to glance at Gwen, “You okay, Gwen? We should go now!”
Gwen still tried to piece together what Ben said, but at the mention of her name, she snapped out of her stupor and nodded at the mention of her name. “I’m okay.”
Although her neck was still sore from where Ben grabbed her, she could still handle it. They could not afford to waste any more time.
“That’s good.”
Brettley nodded and glanced at the guards standing a short distance away. “Put something in this man’s mouth and hang him from the chandelier.”
Ben’s entire body stiffened when he heard this, he widened his eyes in shock and gaped at Brettley. “What? What are you doing?”
Brettley lowered his head to glance at the time and replied calmly, “This chandelier can barely just hold your weight. If you don’t feel like dangling from there anymore and instead want to struggle, the chandelier with no doubt snap and bring you down with it.”
A glimmer of rage flashed through Ben’s eyes. “The chandelier will bring me down with it! So, I’ll be crushed!”
“That’s right!”
Brettley nodded, “But don’t worry, this chandelier isn’t too heavy to the point you’ll die from the weight. Some minor injuries may be unavoidable, but it’s not too bad.”
With that, he ignored Ben entirely and turned to stare at Bethan and Gwen. “Are we ready to go now?”
Bethan nodded, then strode over to Gwen’s side to help her up.
Brettley, too, sauntered over to assist.
Gwen let out a huge sigh of relief when she took in the fresh air outside the house. After she got settled into her seat, she turned to stare at Brettley. “Mr. Morrison, when you said you might be able to bring Luke back to life, what did you mean by that?”
“I meant what I said,”
Brettley crossed his arms in front of his chest as he leaned back against his seat, then closed his eyes and ordered the driver to start the car, “you’ll find out when the time comes.”
Gwen furrowed her brows and wanted to ask further, but Bethan stopped her. She winked at Gwen and said, “Ignore him. He’s always trying to appear mysterious.”
With that, she tugged Gwen toward her and placed her head on her shoulder. “Are you tired? You want to take a nap?”
Gwen nodded and obediently leaned her head against Bethan’s shoulder. She was so exhausted from her physical fight against Ben just now that it did not take her long to drift off to sleep.
However, in her sleep, she still managed to overhear some snippets of Bethan and Brettley’s conversation.
“You can’t get in touch with them?”
“That’s right. They’ve lost all contact with the outside world. Wherever they’ve stowed Andy away is surely secretive and difficult to locate.”
“Does that mean all we can do is wait for them to get in touch with us?”
“Theoretically that’s correct, but don’t worry. Once we arrive there, Tara will arrange for the rest of the Moore family to help, and I’m sure we can track them down in no time.”
“I hope everything goes well! What’s going to happen to Luke and Steven?”
“How do you expect me to figure out what’s happening between them if not even they can do so?”
Brettley chuckled, then added, “Don’t worry. I’m sure that neither Luke nor Steven will want to hurt Gwen. They both love her too much to do that.”
“You’re technically right, but even in this modern day and age, I’m sure no one will be okay with the idea of someone dating two brothers simultaneously.”
“They both know that which is why they’re trying their best to keep their distance from her!”
“Keep their distance from her? I see nothing of those sorts. They’re hovering around her all day and all night! All I can see is that they’re lying continually to her face and disrespecting her feelings.”
Gwen could no longer make out the rest of the conversation after this.
She recalled Bethan’s words in her sleepy, groggy mind.
What did she mean? Luke and Steven hovered around her all day and night?
What did she mean? They lied to her face and disrespected her feelings?
Luke and Steven were missing for a long time, so what did Bethan mean by this?
However, before she could dwell on the meaning of Bethan’s words, sleep took her in its warm embrace, and she drifted off once more.
By the time she woke up, they already arrived in Sharnwick
City.
Bethan patted her head gently to wake her. “Wake up, Gwen! We’re here!”
Gwen yawned and glanced out the window through hooded eyes.
Although Sharnwick City and Banyan City were just a short distance from each other, Sharnwick City was considerably less developed than Banyan City.
Gwen did not know what to make of this as she stared out the window.
Was her father entrapped in this city?
He was a frail man and frequently suffered from lung problems. To live in such a place all by himself.
Gwen did not dare to imagine any further.
Just as she was lost in her thought, a woman’s face appeared in front of the window without warning.
This was the face of a young woman she never met before. Not only was she charming and attractive, but she even bore a resemblance to a younger Bethan, so much so that her twinkling eyes were the same as Bethan’s before she got plastic surgery.
Gwen could not help wondering if she somehow went back in time. She stared first at the woman outside the window, then turned to glance at Bethan with a frown. “Is she related to you?”
Bethan pursed her lips. “No.”
Someone rolled down the windows, and Tara looked in, glancing first at Bethan, then at Gwen. “My dearest Bethan, is this your beautiful friend-the one that won the heart of a gang leader to the point he was willing to sacrifice his own life for her?”
“How… How is this possible? Jared is just nearby. Why are we suddenly out of tracking radius?”
Great Diviner’s expression changed. His copper coin divination was limited by distance. If the person were too far away, he would not be able to divine the person’s location.
The sudden fall of the copper coins proved that Jared was already too far away from them and had exceeded the regulated range.
“D*mn it! Are you putting on an act to dupe us? He was right ahead just now. Yet, you’re now claiming that he’s suddenly too far and had gone beyond the range. Are you playing me for a fool?”
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.