He nodded at her, indicating to her to leave with Neil.
Only then did she suck in a deep breath, hold the hand of each child, and lifted her legs, and headed upstairs to the children’s room on the first floor.
The sound of the door to the children’s room being closed drifted downstairs.
Only Brettley and Granny Morrison were left in the living room.
The old lady glared at Brettley coldly. “Why did you allow the kids to leave with her? So what if she misses the kids, I miss them too! “
Brettley raised his eyes and looked at the old lady in front of him with faint eyes. “Weren’t you living happily enough even before you knew you had great- grandchildren?”
With that, he glanced in the direction of the first floor.
“To us, the two children are unexpected surprises, but to her…they’re a family whom she can’t live without, built over the past six years.”
He did not know why Bethan took him and Bethan Peterson’s two children. Maybe, like what she said, because she met a useless man and gave up on marriage, that was why she took the children and raised them as her own. But, since he and Alice decided to forgive her for her transgressions all those years ago, now they should also understand the love they had for each other after spending every day together for the last years.
Granny Morrison rolled her eyes.
“Those that didn’t know would think Bethan was the one who gave birth to the children.”
Brettley lifted his lips slightly in a wry smile. “
Granny, you can’t just say things like that.”
Six years ago, the only woman in his life was Bethan Peterson. Where could he have met Bethan?
The old lady pursed her lips. “Was I wrong? You care more about Bethan than your own father. Alice on the other hand, in the past they didn’t seem close, but now she acts like she’s his daughter! “
With that, she could not help it and glared at him. “Go upstairs and take a look at your father! “
Brettley raised his teacup again and drained the cup, then placed the cup down elegantly and headed upstairs.
When he reached the first floor, Alice was just shutting the door to the guest bedroom behind her.
Seeing him come upstairs, she laughed lightly, “
Adrian is asleep. Don’t worry, I’ve comforted him, he won’t lose his temper at you anymore.”
Brettley narrowed his eyes. “I need to talk to you.”
With that he turned and entered the study. Alice followed him in.
“You knew my father and grandmother were here, that’s why you deliberately asked Bethan to come over, am I right?”
After closing the door behind them, Brettley asked her directly.
“You know full well how close my father is to Dennis Walter, close enough that he’111ose his mind when he sees Bethan, and you brought her over at a time like this… I thought our trip to Sea City this time would make you stop acting out, make you realize there’s no reason for conflict between the two of you. But unexpectedly, I was wrong.”
Alice gritted her teeth harshly, her fingernails digging deep into the flesh of her palms.
A moment later, she bit her lip, raised her eyes, and looked at Brettley, “Brettley, I don’t know what you’re talking about. All I was thinking about was that Adrian and Granny miss the children, while Bethan is their foster mother and she hasn’t seen them in quite some time. That’s why I suggested this…”
With that, she reached out and hugged Brettley from behind, a hint of a sob in her voice, “It’s my fault, I never considered the bad blood between Adrian and Bethan. I can go and apologize to them… don’t think of me as such an evil woman, okay?”
Brettley stiffened immediately. A moment later, his tone softened, “You… you are generally a very careful and meticulous person, how could you have missed this?”
A flash of a smirk crossed her lips, satisfied that her trickery had successfully fooled Brettley. But still, she rubbed her against head and pressed her cheek to his back, her tone was slightly unhappy, as if she was wronged and felt dissatisfied. “How am I careful and meticulous? If I was, I would not have missed all the evil things that Hailey did, I also would have predicted she would commit suicide because she didn’t want to leave the country…”
Brettley’s heart skipped a beat at her remorseful tone. A moment later, he sighed and held her gently, “I misunderstood you.”
No matter how careful and meticulous she was, when faced with her best friend’s suicide, it was only normal that she lost her rational mind.
“Brettley.”
Seizing the opportunity when he was being gentle to her, Alice decided to take things one step further. “We’re finally home.”
The more she spoke, the shyer and more bashful she sounded, “I… I want to sleep with you tonight. You wouldn’t reject me, would you?”
Bethan had no idea how Alice convinced Adrian, but at night when they were eating dinner in Blue Bay Villa, he was much calmer when he saw her.
There were no signs of his blatant fury from the afternoon, he even took the initiative and apologized to Bethan.
“Ms. Bethan, I acted impulsively. Alice explained the whole situation to me, I realized you were right, Hailey was the one at fault. That’s why.”
The middle-aged man looked at his palm print that was imprinted onto her cheek from his slap, and sighed deeply, “I would like to apologize. I’m sorry.”
Bethan was quite shocked. Even though she did not have a good impression of him, even though he was her elder. She smiled slightly at him and allowed the issue to pass just like that.
Maybe because Sebastian and Alice had been away for too long and it so happened the whole family was present that day, the butler ordered the chef to prepare a sumptuous feast for dinner.
Adrian was fairly excited, he kept asking Brettley to drink with, downing glass after glass of alcohol. In the end, there was no one else at the table except Brettley, his father, and Alice, who took care of him from the side.
After l0 p.m. that night.
Adrian finally got prepared to leave, sufficiently drunk on the food and wine. At that moment, Brettley was so drunk, he was barely conscious.
“He is still my son, after all, his tolerance for alcohol is much lower than mine! “
Adrian burst out laughing and ordered his bodyguards to help him as he stumbled out of the door. He raised his eyes and glanced at Alice. “Bring him upstairs. I did what you asked.”
Alice nodded and smiled in his direction. “Thank you, Adrian.”
After he left, she laughed, satisfied that her evil plan had come to fruition and helped Brettley up the stairs.
In their bedroom.
She lay him down on the bed, then started unfastening his shirt buttons. She could not let go of this invaluable opportunity!
But unexpectedly, the moment she unfastened two of his buttons, his big hand locked onto her wrist.
His eyes were shut tight, his mind fuzzy from the alcohol but he was still exceptionally conscious of his surroundings.
“Who are you? You’re not Bethan Peterson, you’re not my wife… go… away! “
He flung her hand aside. Caught off guard, she lost her balance and fell on the carpet in a heap. She lay on the carpet and gritted her teeth from the searing pain.
She could not believe it! He could not make himself sleep with her when he was sober. And now that he was dead drunk, he still rejected her!?
So she sucked in a deep breath, endured the scorching pain, dragged herself up from the floor, once again climbing on top of Brettley, her hands tearing his collar open. She was just about to kiss him when
His big hands caught her wrist deftly and flung her aside.
“Get out! “
His eyes were closed, his voice thick and hoarse from the alcohol, he sounded confused. “You’re not Bethan Peterson! You’re not my wife! Stay away from me… “
Alice climbed up from the floor again. She kept her eyes trained on the drunk, flushed man on the bed. The same thing happened last time when he got drunk at the banquet in Sea City.
Even drunk, he could push her away from him deftly and refused to sleep with her. The plots shown on TV where the characters slept together in a drunken, confused mess were all fake!
Even drunk, Brettley still retained a glimmer of reason. What’s more, his senses were more acute compared to when he was sober, more honest. He could directly point out that Alice was not Bethan Peterson.
She stood and looked at him, her teeth grinding so hard together they almost broke. Could it be that this time, she once again had to watch as Bethan reaped the benefits of her hard work?
Alice closed her eyes and weighed her options.
Brettley rarely got drunk, much less to such an extent. It was an opportunity of a lifetime. She could not afford to let it slip away.
The night of the party, Brettley had slept with Bethan, but he had no memory of that at all when he woke up the next morning. He thought he had slept with Alice instead, which was why he changed his mind about the divorce and even started to treat her better than he did prior to that.
Alice contemplated for a few moments before she finally made a bold decision: she would call Bethan over and send her right into his arms.
Besides, even if Brettley found out he had slept with Bethan, he would not admit to that at all and, instead, treat Alice even better due to his guilt. It was the perfect opportunity for Alice to drive a wedge between them.
She let out a sigh and gingerly picked up Brettley’s phone. Then, she composed a disappearing message to Bethan and sent it to her.
Disappearing messages was a special text messaging function on Brettley’s phone. The message would automatically be deleted after the recipient had read it, and Brettley used it often whenever he wanted to conduct business in secret. That way, he would not be caught, and no one else would be able to obtain his trade secrets even if they managed to get ahold of his phone. This messaging function existed only on Brettley’s phone.
Meanwhile, Bethan was in the children’s room as she cleared up Neil and Nellie’s toys. She had just managed to get them to fall asleep not too long ago.
Maybe it was because it had been a while since she last came to Blue Bay Villa, but the children’s room was terribly messy. Nellie’s design sketches and Neil’s toys were strewn everywhere.
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.