When she saw Bethan, her smile immediately vanished.
She glared at Bethan coldly. “Why is this woman here?”
Ben turned around and took off his coat. “She is Master Allen’s friend.”
“Tsk, tsk,”
Gwen scoffed. “It looks like you’re a pro, Ms. Bethan. First, you seduce someone’s husband and steal my high school best friend’s husband, now you’re targeting Master Allen?”
Bethan paused for a while.
After a moment, she smiled gently and looked at Theo. “Now you know why I don’t want to come? “
Theo did not expect that it would be this way when Bethan and Gwen met.
He gently cleared his throat and protected Bethan, placing her behind him. “Gwen, please don’t say that. It’ll hurt Bethan.”
Gwen harrumphed coldly, and she rolled her eyes at Bethan. “Did she not know it would hurt others when she stole other people’s husbands?”
Then, she raised her eyes and looked at Theo. “
Master Allen, I respect you a lot as a painter. When you said that you wanted to look for my high school friend, Bethan Peterson, I was willing to help you, too. That was why we became friends, but how dare you get yourself acquainted with Bethan’s love rival? If you’re friends with her, I can’t invite you into my house as a guest.”
Theo turned around and held Bethan’s wrist. He smiled. “How sure are you that Alice is Bethan Peterson?”
Alice rolled her eyes. “Master Allen, are you trying to tell me that Alice and Bethan Peterson aren’t the same person, all because of this woman? How could I possibly not know the person that I sat next to during high school?”
Theo chuckled. “Tell me, then. Other than Alice’s face, what else could she prove that she’s Bethan Peterson?”
Theo’s words not only made Gwen furrow her brows, but Bethan’s entire body stiffened, too.
Looking at how sure Theo was…
It was like he already knew that Alice was not Bethan Peterson. When Bethan was on the phone with Nigel previously, he said that Theo merely suspected her, but it seemed that he had become all too sure.
Could it be…
Bethan subconsciously wanted to retract her hand. Theo merely furrowed his brows and gripped tighter. He turned to look at Bethan. “I know everything.”
Bethan was thunderstruck. He knew everything? How could he know?
He…
“Other than her face, Alice’s husband, Brettley is proof that she’s Bethan Peterson, “
Gwen harrumphed coldly. “How could a husband not recognize his wife?”
Bethan’s heart skipped a beat at Gwen’s words.
There were truly husbands in the world that could not recognize their own wives.
Theo smiled. “What if Brettley is wrong?”
Then, he crossed his arms at his chest and looked at Gwen. “When you met up with Alice, did you bring up anything about high school? How did she reply to you?”
Gwen was stunned.
This time after reuniting with Alice…
Alice told her that her brain was injured due to the accident six years ago, so she could no longer remember the past.
At that time, Gwen was still somewhat disappointed. She thought that Alice would have at least remembered her, but Alice did not remember her at all.
If Gwen did not tell Alice that she was her high school deskmate, Alice would not have even remembered who Gwen was.
At that thought, Gwen furrowed her brows. “What on earth are you trying to say?”
Theo chuckled gently. “Don’t you feel that the aura of this woman behind me is quite similar to Bethan Peterson?”
Bethan closed her eyes helplessly.
Theo seemed to be dead set in revealing her identity. She was rooted where she stood; she did not know whether to stop him or just go with the flow.
Gwen was her desk partner in high school, and she was also her best friend. However, when they graduated from high school, they went their separate ways and stopped contacting each other.
She never expected that Gwen would angrily come after her and stood up for Alice after meeting with Alice, who pretended to be Bethan Peterson, after not meeting for so many years.
Although Gwen was targeting her, Bethan knew that Gwen still cared for her.
It was hard to conceal her emotions. She had suppressed her emotions for far too long. Every day, besides her three children, she could only confide in Anne.
Facing Gwen and Ben, both of whom were her good friends for many years, she suddenly did not know whether she should reveal her identity.
Gwen and Ben looked at each other, then they subconsciously looked at Bethan at the same time.
After a while, Gwen looked at Bethan’s face with hesitation. “Y–You’re…Bethan Peterson?”
Bethan could no longer hold back her tears at those words.
She turned around and forced her tears to stop. “I’m not.”
“You are.”
Gwen bit her lip. “Back then, I only told Bethan Peterson about how I liked Ben.”
The more Gwen spoke, the more she was sure. “Ben also told me that night. Bethan Peterson was the only person that knew he liked her.”
Gwen took a deep breath and pounced right at Bethan, hugging her in her arms.
“I should’ve guessed it sooner! I should have! “
Bethan could no longer hold back her tears. She raised her hand and patted Gwen’s back. “Can you help me keep a secret?” she pleaded softly.
Gwen nodded as tears streamed down her face. “
Mmh! Don’t worry! Ben and I won’t tell anyone! “
Then, Gwen looked at Bethan’s flawless face. “W– Why have you changed to a different face?”
Bethan smiled. “Because I fell in love with someone I shouldn’t have fallen in love with.”
“Come in and have some tea.”
Ben was rather excited, too. He poured the tea and got the three of them to come over.
That night, Bethan and Gwen chatted for a long time. It was at three in the morning when Gwen could no longer take it that she went upstairs to sleep.
Bethan and Theo were arranged in the guest room on the third floor.
Two separate rooms with two separate balconies.
Unable to sleep, Bethan went to the balcony to look up at the stars. It was a coincidence that Theo was also there by the balcony.
The two of them were separated by a railing. After greeting each other, Bethan could no longer hold back the question that baffled her the entire night.
“How did you know I was– “
“You said it yourself.”
Theo interrupted her before she finished. “You really can’t hold your liquor. You got drunk and started calling for Brettley.”
Bethan shuddered. She knew that her alcohol tolerance was not great, so for the past few years, even if she had to drink, she would control her alcohol intake so she would not get drunk.
Other than Granny Morrison’s birthday banquet previously, this was the second time.
The last time, she was lucky that she did not slip up in her drunkenness. This time, her luck was not so great.
“Don’t simply take any alcohol in the future. “
Theo calmly looked up at the skies. “If it’s hard to say no, you can call me for help while drinking. They call me the thousand-drink guy.”
Looking at his side profile, Bethan chuckled a little as she gazed at his side-profile before she, too, turned to look at the starry sky. “Thank you.”
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.