Bethan helplessly rubbed the middle of her brows. “Get a room, you two.”
Gwen blushed. “Bethan, what do you plan to do next?”
“No plans.”
Bethan shrugged. “It will still be the same from the beginning. Get pregnant and cure Nigel.
Then we’ll see about it.”
Gwen sighed, “When I heard the news that you married Brettley, Ben and I were still happy for you. We thought that you had married a great man. Who would have thought…”
Before she could finish her sentence, Gwen’s phone rang. She furrowed her brows and picked up. “Dad, what’s going on?”
Andy, on the other end of the line, said something when Gwen’s face instantly turned pale.
After a while, she hung up. She looked at Bethan closely. “Hailey Walter is dead. She jumped off a building.”
Bethan felt every ounce of her muscle stiffened. Hailey Walter… was dead?
She killed herself?
Bethan retreated a few steps back.
More than an hour ago, Hailey was still having lunch with them. How did she just… die like that?
“Perhaps she felt shameful and did not want to go overseas?”
Gwen sighed, “Hailey is a proud lady. She would not be able to withstand such humiliation.”
Bethan thought it was unbelievable.
In the dining room a moment ago, Hailey seemed to have accepted Old Mr. Walter’s arrangement. She even went up to pack her bags, why so suddenly…
Hailey’s memorial service was done in a simple manner. It did not feel in line with the amount of grief Old Mr. Walter felt of losing his beloved daughter.
The Walters explained that because this happened too suddenly and it was also a little embarrassing, so they decided to do it in a simple manner.
Bethan followed Brettley and Alice to pay their respects. “How dare you still come! “
Upon seeing Bethan, Old Mr. Walter’s emotions erupted in rage. He reached out and pointed at Bethan’s face angrily.
“If it were not for you, my daughter would not have jumped! Bethan, you owe the Walters a life! “
Bethan lowered her head. “My deepest condolences.”
Although she did not think that she was wrong in this matter, the dead deserved some respect. She was not willing to have a head-on confrontation with Old Mr. Walter at Hailey’s memorial service.
“Condolences? How could I possibly accept them from you! “
Old Mr. Walter glared at Bethan angrily. “What Hailey did to you was just a small matter! How dare you get Brettley to make things difficult for her, forcing me to send her out of the country.”
In a full-blown rage, Old Mr. Walter shrugged off his servants who were supporting him. He immediately rushed to Bethan and grabbed her by her shirt’s collar, shaking her violently.
“She jumped because she was not willing to go out of the country. She found it humiliating! Why couldn’t you just bear with whatever she did? If you would have bear through it, she would not have died! You killed her! “
Bethan was shaken by Old Mr. Walter. She was dizzy. Deep down in her heart, she was telling herself to not be petty with a grieving old man.
However, the nonsense he was saying made Bethan infuriated time and again.
What did he mean that if she were to bear it, Hailey would not have died?
If she were to bear it, she would have died herself! Just because Hailey was weak, why was she to be blamed?
Seeing how Bethan had no response, Old Mr. Walter got even more aggravated.
He angrily raised his hand and slapped Bethan fiercely.
“Uncle Dennis, that is enough. “
Just when Old Mr. Walter’s hand was almost by Bethan’s face, Brettley calmly stepped forward and immediately grabbed Old Mr. Walter’s hand.
“We are all very sorry for Hailey’s death, but how much this has to do with Bethan, I’m sure you are clear about it too. In other words, just because you didn’t look after your daughter, how could you blame Bethan for that?
Then, Brettley flung Old Mr. Walter’s hand away. “
But, I do remember something. Before Hailey’s death, she called me. She said she wanted to tell me something, but she was interrupted by you, Uncle Dennis. “According to the time of her death and her call with me, she jumped down in less than ten minutes after the call with me. What happened in between?”
Old Mr. Walter’s face instantly turned terribly pale. Alice’s expressions did not look too good either.
After a while, Old Mr. Walter wiped away his tears. “
Brettley, what do you mean by that? Do you think I would hurt my own daughter?”
Brettley’s gaze was flat. “I said nothing of those sorts. I only want to know, since before Hailey jumped, you saw her and talked to her. As her father, did you notice her mood swings? Or perhaps you didn’t even notice her emotions?”
Old Mr. Walter’s expressions turned uglier upon Brettley’s words.
“W-What… what are you trying to say?”
“What I mean is,”
Brettley smiled and said, “Hailey’s mental health is too weak. Perhaps you did not pay attention to her mental well-being. The last person Hailey saw before she jumped was you, Uncle Dennis. That meant that you were the only possible person to stop her from jumping. You can’t blame anyone else.”
Brettley smiled aloofly. “That’s all I want to say. We are here to pay our respects. Not argue with each other.”
Then, under the stunned gaze of everybody, Brettley turned around and pulled Bethan away.
Watching the both of them leaving, Old Mr. Walter gritted his teeth hard.
No wonder Alice treated Bethan as her main rival. Brettley’s favoritism toward her was too obvious.
At that thought, he turned to look at Alice, who was nearby.
Alice inconspicuously shook her head at him. Then, she smiled and approached him.
“Uncle Dennis, don’t be angry at Brettley. He is just trying to protect his staff.”
Brettley dragged Bethan out of the memorial service and directly into the car.
In the backseat, Brettley closed the car door and furrowed his brows tightly.
“I ‘m sorry. “
Bethan moved her body toward the car door a little. “I was just quite shocked that a person suddenly died, so I followed you to pay my respects. I never would have thought…”
“It’s not your fault.”
Before Bethan could finish her sentence, Brettley calmly interrupted. “Hailey’s death is not that simple.”
Bethan paused a little. She subconsciously raised her eyes and looked at him. “What do you mean?”
Brettley swept her a glance. “As I said just now, Hailey called me before she died. She said that she had something important to tell me, but before she could tell me, Old Mr. Walter interrupted her. Then, she hung up the phone. At first, I thought that they were putting on an act, they wanted to let Hailey stay in Sea City. I never would have thought…”
Brettley’s eyes narrowed a little. “The Walters are hiding something from us. I deliberately mentioned the call to Old Mr. Walter. If Hailey’s death had nothing to do with the call, he would not have avoided it.”
Bethan was so stunned she was rendered speechless.
After a while, she turned and looked out of the window. “Perhaps, you are just overthinking this? No one would… kill their own daughter. No matter what their children do, a parent would not be able to kill their own flesh and blood.”
Perhaps, Bethan might not understand the feeling a parent has for their children previously, but after giving birth to Nigel, Neil, and Nellie, she was sure that no parents on this earth would be that cruel.
Brettley smiled. He looked at her mockingly. “You’ve never had any children, how would you know that parents would not be able to kill their own children?”
Bethan furrowed her brows. She instinctively retorted, “How would you know whether I had children or not? I…”
She was halfway through her sentence when she suddenly remembered her current identity.
Thus, Bethan cleared her throat and turned her head aside. “It’s true. I never had any children.”
Brettley squinted his eyes and looked at her suspiciously for a long time at her reaction.
After a while, Brettley sneered, “There might be another possibility.”
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.