Bethan swept her a cold glance.
Alice did not back down. On the contrary, she got more aggressive. “It would be better if you were the one who was ruined today. Ben and Gwen would not get a divorce then. You… anyway you’re still single, and it’s not like you have never slept with other people’s husbands. This for you should be a piece of cake, right? Brettley really shouldn’t have rescued you last night. He should have rescued Gwen instead.”
Then, Alice sighed, “Gwen sure is unlucky. If she did not know your true identity, at most she would just follow me around, beating and scolding you. It’s too bad that you had to tell her your true identity. Your relationship with her has gotten better, but look at what happened? Bethan, just admit it, you’re bad luck. You’re the one that caused Gwen to get hurt.”
Alice kept provoking Bethan non-stop. Bethan could finally no longer take it.
She lifted her head and glared at Alice angrily.
Alice laughed arrogantly, “What? Have I mentioned something triggering? Are you angry? I dare you to hit me. Have you forgotten the last time you hit me, you…”
Slap!
Before Alice could finish her sentence, Bethan gritted her teeth and violently slapped Alice.
Alice was instantly shocked by the slap.
The next second, Alice stood up angrily. “Great. How dare you slap me! “
Alice raised her hand and slapped Bethan.
Perhaps Bethan was too sad, her reaction was rather slow.
Although she did try to avoid the slap, she could not avoid it fully. She still received the slap squarely.
Seeing how she could not avoid it, Alice harrumphed coldly. She raised her hand once more.
“That’s enough.”
Right when Alice was about to slap Bethan another time, a large hand grabbed her wrist.
Bethan and Alice raised their heads simultaneously.
The person who was holding Alice’s hand wasn’t anyone else but Brettley who had left not too long ago.
Seeing him here, Alice immediately retracted her hand and dove into his arms, sobbing like a baby, “
Brettley, I knew Bethan was in a bad mood, so I tried comforting her. But, who knew she would slap me instead! “
As she spoke, she pointed to her red and puffy face. “
See! I was furious, so I slapped her too, but she still wanted to slap me so I…”
Brettley held onto her gingerly, raised his eyes and looked at the palm print on Bethan’s face. “I know you’re in a bad mood, but still you can’t go around hurting people.”
Bethan raised her eyes and looked at him coldly without speaking.
Brettley sucked in a deep breath, saying coolly, “I went to the police station just now and took care of everything. The one who kidnapped Gwen is Liam Clark’s subordinate. The Old Mr. Walter is the mastermind, the police have already summoned him for questioning.”
Hearing the man’s words, Alice, who was snuggled in his arms, stiffened immediately.
She hurriedly disentangled herself from his arms. “
Old Mr. Walter… has been captured by the police?”
Brettley hummed in reply, “When I left, he was in the police station recording his statement. He fully admitted to kidnapping Gwen.”
The man lifted his eyes and glanced in the direction of Gwen’s hospital ward. “Even though it was bad that he ordered Liam to kidnap Bethan, in the end, Bethan wasn’t hurt so I didn’t report this to the police.
“Firstly, Old Mr. Walter is an old friend of my father’s. Secondly, once Liam Clark is out of the picture, the Walter family will soon fall. That’s enough punishment for him.”
With that, Brettley could not help but sigh, “But now, he’s crossed the line. Gwen Larson is Andy Larson’s only daughter and Andy has been working for the Walter family all these years. But because Gwen spoke out for Bethan, Old Mr. Water can ignore Andy’s staunch loyalty all these years and order his men to do this to her…”
He lowered his eyes and shook his head. “Maybe Hailey’s death was too big of a blow to him? In his current mental state, perhaps making him confess and be punished by the law is a way of protecting him. Otherwise, who can guarantee that he won’t do such appalling things again in the future.”
Alice gritted her teeth harshly.
Last night when after Old Mr. Walter’s plan to harm Bethan failed, Alice called him secretly, asking him not to act rashly.
Even if the Walter family fell, they still had her. In the future, once she and Brettley were back to being a loving couple, she would somehow find a way to stealthily help the Water family rise to power again.
She remembered he promised he would do so.
And now, just one day later, why would he start taking action against Gwen?
Anyone with brains would know now wasn’t the time to stand out and cause trouble again, especially since the enemy had found out about weakness last night.
Why would Old Mr. Walter do this at such a crucial time like this?
Bethan lowered her head. “I still don’t understand… Why would Old Mr. Walter…”
“Because he wanted to kill her and silence her forever.”
Before Bethan could finish her sentence, Bethan was coldly interrupted.
The person who spoke was Luke Jones, who was currently standing at the entrance to Gwen’s hospital ward. The man swept his gaze across at Bethan faintly. “I know Liam and his men too well. If their aim is revenge or they just wanted to destroy someone, they would employ more cruel methods that will keep her alive and yet make her wish for death. But they were determined to kill her. If my men didn’t get there in time, she would be dead by the time they finished what they had planned.”
With that, the man shrugged and approached them. “
So, Gwen knows something about the Walter family, doesn’t she?”
The moment the words left his mouth, both Bethan and Alice paled simultaneously.
Alice knew something, but she was not too sure…
Meanwhile, Bethan was thinking about the ‘love letter’ Gwen gave her last night.
She vaguely remembered, last night Liam got her letter, took a photo of it and sent it to someone, then burned the letter.
She did not know the contents of the letter.
But instinct told her… if the Walter family wanted to kill Gwen to silence her, it must be related to the letter!
At this thought, she jumped up as if crazed, then rushed Gwen’s hospital ward and pushed the door open. “Gwen! “
She bolted in and grabbed Gwen’s hand. “Do you remember? I gave you a letter last time. Do you remember what was written in the letter?”
Gwen looked at her, confused. “What letter?”
Bethan stiffened immediately.
She bit her lip. “We went out drinking last night, you got drunk, and I sent you home. Then, you gave me a letter and asked me to open it only after I got back to Banyan City… What did you write in the letter?”
If the Walter family did this to Gwen because they wanted to silence her by killing her, then the only way to prevent her from becoming a target again was to expose this secret to the world!
That’s why Bethan kept the door to Gwen’s hospital ward open on purpose, questioning Gwen in front of Brettley, Alice, and Luke.
But she was surprised Gwen forgot everything.
She looked at Bethan with a face full of confusion. “Did I…drink with you yesterday?”
Bethan bit her lip, insisting on reminding her. “Then is there any secret you would like to tell me? About… the Walter family?”
Gwen laughed, “The Walter family is the richest family in Sea City, the top of the top. How could I possibly be privy to their secret?”
With that, she threw a glance at Bethan as if Bethan was a monster of some sort. “Are you sick, why are you saying nonsense?”
Bethan frowned and was about to continue her questioning when Andy, who was standing beside her, sighed, “Ms. Bethan, did you forget? Just now, the doctor said Gwen’s head was hit by a strong blow, she suffered a concussion and lost some short-term memories…”
Then, the old man sighed, “She doesn’t remember anything of what you said, please stop asking.”
The light in Bethan’s eyes dimmed.
She glanced at Gwen again, a sea of emotions and words were trapped in her chest, struggling to escape, but she could not utter a single word.
“Bethan, please leave. I need some peace and quiet.”
Gwen’s eyes swept across at Bethan faintly. “And don’t stay in the corridor, I heard every word of your conversation in the hallway. It’s too noisy.”
Bethan paled.
The ward was enveloped in silence.
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.