“Stop talking.”
Theo’s breath was unsteady as he was running. “They’re looking for you.”
Bethan was rather baffled. She furrowed her brows confusedly. “If Brettley’s men are looking for me, why should we run away from them?”
She got drunk because of Brettley. She was a staff of Brettley’s. Perhaps Brettley was just looking for her to make sure that she was safe?
“They brought a few escorts with them.”
Theo’s voice was filled with helplessness. “I don’t know what the hell is Brettley thinking, but they knew that you were drunk, yet they still brought five or six escorts over looking for you. It’s all fishy to me.”
Bethan’s brain blanked for a moment.
Five or six escorts.
She was an adult. Even if Theo did not explicitly say it out loud, she knew what they intended to do.
Brettley was trying to humiliate her that way while she was drunk!
A cold rage overwhelmed her. Her once intoxicated mind was instantly sobered.
Bethan bit her lips. She reached out and grabbed Theo’s shoulders.
“Why don’t you put me down? I–I…can walk on my own.”
“It’s fine. We’re almost to the main road already. “
Theo took a deep breath. “I contacted my friends to pick us up.”
However, Theo did not expect that the moment they reached the main road, a black BMW stopped there, too.
Lucas got down from the car.
The footsteps behind them got closer. The group of people was almost catching up to them.
They were cornered from both directions.
Looking at Theo and Bethan’s pale face, Lucas leaned against the car door. “Why are you two running?” he chided.
Theo shot Lucas a cold glare. He firmly protected Bethan behind him. “Don’t think that I don’t know what you’re all trying to do! Brettley might look like a decent human on the surface, but the things he does are despicable! “
Lucas furrowed his brows. He did not understand what Theo meant.
Brettley was only worried that Theo would take advantage of Bethan, so he got Lucas to bring Bethan back to the hotel and let people from the company look after her. That was all.
Since when was that a despicable action? Just because he got in Theo’s way, he was despicable?
Lucas chided, “We only want Bethan to follow us back so that someone could take care of her and let her have a good sleep.”
Bethan was shocked by Lucas’ words.
‘Letting someone take care of her so she could have a good sleep’? Did he mean those escorts?
She gnawed on her lip and turned to look behind her
–the pursuers stood in the shadows of the alley behind them.
It was a dead -end front and back. She was trapped.
Bethan shut her eyes. She had lived so comfortably that she forgot what type of person Brettley was.
He was the person that got someone to crash her into the sea just to please Cynthal Peterson six years ago!
That night, she violently slapped Alice twice in front of him. That must have shattered his heart, so this was how he exacted his revenge.
Bethan’s heart grew colder as she fell deep into despair.
Why did she have to fall in love with such a cruel man back then?
“Bethan.”
Seeing how Bethan was almost sober but stood still behind Theo, Lucas furrowed his brows. “I know you don’t agree with Mr. Morrison’s decision today, but he had no choice either. After all, with Mrs. Morrison’s situation, he hasn’t seen her in six years. Now that they’re finally together, he’s definitely more doting and indulgent toward his wife. We’ve known each other for so long, so please don’t make it difficult for me. Go back with me.”
Bethan’s heart sank to the bottom. Her heart grew frigid cold.
She took a deep breath. She raised her eyes and looked at Lucas. “Since we’ve known each other for such a long time, can’t you just let me go?”
Lucas sighed and said, “Mr. Morrison said that if I don’t bring you back tonight, he’s going to dock my pay.”
“What if I don’t go back with you?” scoffed Bethan. “
Are you going to hit me unconscious and take me back?”
Lucas furrowed his brows. “I’ve considered this option.”
The moment he finished, Lucas immediately saw black and passed out. He slumped to the ground.
The group of men that Lucas brought with him was suddenly in a mess. Amidst the confusion, Zach held onto Lucas while Yuri pointed a direction at Bethan. Then, Yuri used his strong arms to hold back the men.
Bethan bit her lips. She immediately pulled Theo along and ran past their car, running frantically into the distance.
She had long hinted at Zach and Yuri with her gaze as she talked to Lucas.
Luckily, Lucas did not bring many men along. Other than the pursuers behind them, the people in front of them were only the driver and two more bodyguards besides Zach and Yuri. Theo ran as Bethan pulled him along.
Under the street lights, he looked at Bethan’s long hair that fluttered in the air. He could not help but think back to that afternoon many years ago. The figure of the girl who chased the kite. How silly of him.
Why did he never realize that Bethan’s figure was so similar to that girl’s…?
The two of them ran for a long time when a black BMW stopped right before them. “Get in! “
The person in the car was Gwen’s boyfriend, Ben.
Bethan furrowed her brows. Before she could say anything, Theo opened the car door and pulled Bethan into the car. “This is the friend that I said will be picking us up.”
Time was pressing and Bethan had no time to ask too many questions, so she immediately got in the car.
Ben took them to a villa residence in the suburbs near Sea City.
“This is Gwen and mine’s new home. There aren’t many people staying in this small area, so it should be safe.”
Once they got out of the car, Ben led Bethan and Theo into the new villa with familiarity. “Gwen heard that someone was drunk, so she has prepared some soup to sober you all up.”
It was then Ben swept Bethan a cold glance. “I just didn’t expect that the drunk friend Master Allen mentioned is you.”
“I didn’t think that the extremely reliable friend Theo referred to would be you, either,” scoffed Bethan.
She took a deep breath, turned, and was about to leave. “Thank you for helping us get out of this mess, Mr. Zeller, but I won’t be visiting your home.”
Although Gwen and Bethan were desk partners in high school, she was no longer that to Gwen but was the mistress who stole Bethan Peterson’s husband.
The two times she met up with Gwen were unhappy incidents. Bethan did not plan to disturb her anymore.
“We’re already here.”
Theo furrowed his brows as he grabbed Bethan’s wrist. “Brettley’s men are still looking for you, too. What if you head out now and they capture you? Why don’t we head in first.”
Bethan hesitated for a while. In the end, she sighed and followed Theo and Ben into Gwen’s house.
They were right.
Brettley’s men wanted to do things to her while she was drunk.
Before dawn, if they caught her, even if she said she was not drunk, they still would not let her go that easily, would they?
Ben and Gwen’s new home was a three-story villa.
Bethan was just changing her shoes by the entrance when Gwen came rushing out from the kitchen in an apron. “Have you picked up Master Allen and his friend?”
“Yes.”
Gwen greeted them passionately, “Master Allen’s friend…”
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.