Alice’s slap missed.
“Idiot. Don’t you know how to dodge it?”
Theo hugged Bethan in his arms, heartbroken as he did. After grumbling a little in a low voice, he frigidly raised his head. “Brettley, is this how you and your wife treat your exceptional staff?”
Brettley furrowed his brows. He lifted his hand and protected Alice, placing her behind him. His gaze was cold and arrogant. “This is between us. This has nothing to do with you.”
Theo smiled. “Nothing to do with me? I’ve already said that Bethan is my girlfriend! “
Theo glared at Brettley. “You two brought her out on a business trip, then forced her to drink with Mr. Scott. Now that she’s drunk, you bully her. I’ve never seen such bosses! “
“This is the working culture of the Morrison Group, huh?” he jeered. “Now, I’ve finally seen it all! “
“Go home…”
The drunken Bethan was in Theo’s arms. With teary eyes, she muttered intoxicatedly, “Brettley, I want to go home…”
Theo’s hand that held Bethan stalled a little.
“Brettley, I want to go home…”
Bethan, in Theo’s arms, subconsciously muttered once more.
She sounded wasted in her drunken state. What she said before, only Theo could hear, but what she muttered the next time, everyone heard it clearly.
Mr. Scott was stunned.
Alice’s face started to turn pale, and she cautiously looked at Brettley at the corner of her eyes.
Brettley looked at Bethan, and his gaze was deep. “She’s drunk.”
Theo furrowed his brows and hoisted Bethan upward instantly. He shot Brettley a glare before he walked off with Bethan in his arms.
Brettley’s gaze remained in the direction where they left, brows tightly furrowed, even when they had left.
“It looks like Bethan truly is drunk…” said Alice tentatively as she observed Brettley’s reaction in fear.
Brettley flatly responded before looking elsewhere. He lowered his head and continued eating.
Looking at his perfectly handsome side profile, Alice smiled on the surface, but she inwardly gnashed her teeth.
That way, Bethan’s identity would be exposed sooner or later. She had to remove Bethan from Brettley.
When they got out of the hotel, Bethan kept yelling Brettley’s name throughout the entire journey.
Theo did not know where her hotel was, so he simply brought her to an inn.
When they reached the room in the inn, Bethan started hugging the toilet bowl and vomited into it.
The sight broke Theo’s heart. He passed her some water. “Since you can’t drink, why did you do it?
Even if others force you to drink, you don’t have to bring it upon yourself, right?”
Bethan looked up in a daze, her eyes glazed with tears. “But, today is the first time I get to join in a business event with Brettley after our marriage. His business partner asked me to drink, so how could I not drink? I don’t want to be a burden to him. I don’t want him to think that I’m useless.”
Bethan then retched into the toilet bowl once more. Theo was baffled.
He looked at the woman in front of him and could not help but think back about what she said. The realization stunned him.
“You…”
He reached out and touched Bethan’s back. He gently tapped her. “Bethan Peterson?”
“Hmm”/
Bethan lifted her head and looked at him with tears and confusion in her eyes.
Theo was thunderstruck.
Bethan.
Bethan Peterson.
Also, Neil, Nellie, and Nigel, who was overseas. How did he not think of the connection?
After half an hour later, the intoxicated Bethan finally slept under the care of Theo.
Theo watched as she slept soundly. He took a deep breath, walked to the balcony, and took out his phone to call Nigel.
“I know all about your identities.”
Bethan did not return to her hotel.
Once he bade farewell to Mr. Scott, the first thing Brettley did when he returned to the hotel was to inquire about Bethan’s whereabouts.
He asked the concierge and checked the security footage.
Theo did not send her back.
Brettley furrowed his brows and looked at Lucas. “
Even if we have to dig up the entire Sea City, we have to get her back! “
“Yes.”
Lucas nodded. He was about to leave when Alice blocked him in his way.
“Brettley, we don’t need to go to such lengths just to find her, right? Theo took her away–she’s not missing, per se.”
Alice took a deep breath. She walked over and tugged on Brettley’s arm. “Furthermore , didn’t Theo say it himself? He’s her boyfriend. It’s only normal that they went somewhere else to stay for the night after getting drunk.”
Brettley narrowed his eyes. “He’s not her boyfriend.”
Brettley’s low voice was aloof yet determined.
Alice gently chuckled. “Brettley, if Theo isn’t her boyfriend, why did she not deny it vehemently when Theo claimed he was her boyfriend?”
Brettley furrowed his brows and looked at her. “Why did Bethan not refuse you vehemently when you made her drink? Did she want to drink the alcohol?”
Alice’s face turned a little pale. She wanted to say something else, but Brettley interrupted her.
He took a deep breath. “No matter what, I was the one who took Bethan out on this business trip. She got drunk because of me. If anything is to happen to her tonight, I can’t shed myself of the responsibility.”
Then, Brettley swept Lucas a cold glance. “What are you still standing here for? Go and search! “
Lucas hesitated for a while before he left quickly. Alice inwardly gritted her teeth.
“Brettley, you treat your staff so well…”
“Not good enough.”
Brettley’s voice was cold. “If I did, she wouldn’t have to drink on my behalf, ending up in this state.”
He shot Alice a flat stare. “I hope this incident tonight will be the last time that it happens. You have to remember that no matter what in the future, you can’t gang up with outsiders to coerce our staff to drink.”
Alice nodded obediently. She buried her head in Brettley’s arms and rubbed against him affectionately. “I know what I did was wrong. It won’t happen again…”
Brettley let out a sigh of relief. Then, he turned and went to the toilet.
Alice narrowed her eyes.
She texted Hailey, (Search the entire city for Bethan. She’s drunk tonight. Do her a favor by getting a few men to satisfy her.]
“She’s here! “
“Go, get them! “
That midnight, Bethan was startled awake. The moment she opened her eyes, all she saw was the dark skies and the moonlight.
At that moment, she was on Theo’s back, who was running for his life. There were footsteps following closely behind, too.
She croaked, “Theo– “
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