He was exceptionally nice to her mother!
The little princess had always tried to get her parents back together, so she felt instinctively irritated by the sight of Theo.
“Are you here to see Mommy because of something important? We’re eating dinner.”
Theo looked at the displeased expression on the little girl’s face that was a mirror image of her father’s and could not help but laugh, “If you’re having dinner, doesn’t that mean I came at just the right time?”
Nellie’s face fell, she wanted to deny his question, but Bethan was already standing behind her.
The woman laughed lightly and pulled open the door, “Since you’re just in time, why not have dinner with us? Give my food a try.”
Theo did not feel awkward at all, making his way into the house familiarly and sat down beside Neil. “
What a sumptuous meal.”
Nellie rolled her eyes at him internally and returned to the dining table behind Bethan.
The two women, one older and the other younger, sat at one side of the table, while the men sat at the other.
After taking a few bites unhappily, Nellie raised her phone and discreetly took a few pictures of Theo eating beside Neil and sent them to Brettley.
The Morrison Mansion was brightly lit.
Brettley sat on the couch, quietly listening to his grandmother and his father as they reprimanded him.
“Why did you announce you’re getting a divorce all of a sudden! “
“Alice is the mother of your two children, did you get our blessing? Before you announce you’re getting a divorce?”
“And you’re divorcing Alice for Bethan! “
Granny Morrison sat on the couch, rapping the cane in her hand hard against the floor producing loud clicks. “I told you Bethan was bad news! For her, first, you chased Cynthal out, and now you’re divorcing Alice! She chased away one woman after another, she’s a homewrecker! “
The old lady’s words made Adrian frown. “Brettley, what were you thinking? Even if it’s just for the children, you shouldn’t get divorced so easily.”
Brettley lowered his head, playing with the phone in his hands.
A long while later, he raised his head and swept his eyes across his father’s face faintly. “Father. Not long ago, didn’t you keep asking me to marry Hailey Walter?”
Adrian’s expression changed.
He frowned but before he could speak, Brettley’s phone rang.
The photos Nellie sent to him. They were taken secretly.
In the photos, Theo sat at the dining table in Bethan’s apartment, right beside Neil, eating while smiling happily.
(I don’t like him, come now! ]
The man’s face instantly darkened.
Not only did Bethan invite Theo over for dinner, she even asked his two children to accompany him?!
He stood up, his expression dark as a raging storm. “
I’m busy, I’ll be leaving now.”
“Come back! “
Seeing him turn and leave without a second’s hesitation, the old lady was furious.
She rapped her cane harshly on the floor. “How dare you! Leaving while your grandmother and father are talking to you?! “
Brettley continued walking, not even bothering to turn his head. “Since I was a kid, none of you have been able to influence my decisions, this time is no different.”
He only sat here listening to their nagging because he respected them, as his elders, nothing more than that.
Swan Lake Residences.
Theo smiled happily as he ate and conversed with Bethan.
“Since you didn’t go to work today, would you have to work overtime tomorrow?”
He remembered the mission Brettley gave to Bethan was time-sensitive.
Bethan shrugged and nodded.
“Actually, I can help you. I am an artist after all.”
“Uhm uncle, even though designers and artists do share similarities, they’re very different jobs! “
Nellie pursed her lips as she ate. “I can help Mommy, with me here, she wouldn’t have to trouble you.”
Seated beside him, Neil nodded too. “I read from the internet that Master Theo Allen hasn’t produced anything new in more than six months. Laziness is a bad habit.”
Theo was silent.
Why did he feel a strong sense of animosity from the two little children?
Since the conversation surrounding work could not continue anymore, he changed the subject to the press conference.
“Will Brettley Morrison really divorce Alice Peterson?”
Outside the door, Brettley was just about to knock, when he heard Theo’s seemingly joking words.
The man’s raised first paused in mid-air.
Inside, Bethan smiled faintly. “Maybe.” “You don’t seem to care very much?”
She smiled faintly. “Whether they get divorced or not, what does that have to do with me?”
Theo raised his lips in a faint smile, placing a drumstick on his plate. “I thought you liked Brettley.”
“What made you think so?”
Bethan shrugged, her tone flat and emotion less. “No matter who I like, I won’t choose Brettley Morrison.”
Her feelings for him back then ended in nothing but deep, heart-wrenching pain…
Maybe she would fall for many men throughout the rest of her life.
But Brettley was strictly out of consideration.
The woman’s airy voice carried her words straight into Brettley’s ears.
His eyebrows screwed together tightly.
In the house, Nellie quietly sneaked a glance at the clock.
20 minutes had passed since she sent the photos to her father.
No matter how far away he was, he shou1d’ve been here by now!
So the little girl pursed her lips, lifted her phone discreetly and sent another message to Brettley.
“Daddy, where are you?”
The notification ping from his phone rang loudly in the hallway outside.
The few people eating inside stiffened immediately. The sound… came from right outside their door!
Neil was the first to react, jumping down from his chair and walking to the door, opening it.
“Mr. Morrison?”
The little guy looked at the man at the door with confused eyes, then suddenly turned and looked at Nellie, as if remembering something.
The little girl realized her actions had been seen through and bowed her head in shame.
Theo turned and looked at the man standing in the entrance, his eyes displaying a hint of shock but predominantly disdain.
The walls in the apartment building were fairly thin.
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.