Brettley remained silent. His eyes were trained tightly on Bethan, as if he wanted to see through her, to read her mind.
All along, she had been focused on no one else but him. She never displayed any sense of intimacy with Theo in front of him before.
And now?!
They were already in such an intimate relationship!
If it was not for Alice who woke up early in the morning and insisted on coming to get Bethan so all three of them could send the children off together, he would never realize Bethan and Theo were engaging in such activities last night!
This woman who stargazed and enjoyed a few drinks with him…
And yet, after leaving him, she secretly brought a man back to her hotel room. She kept insisting that she loved the children, with all her heart, and was even afraid that their biological mother, Alice, might hurt them.
And now what happened?
The night before the children were scheduled to leave, she and Theo would exert themselves so much in the hotel, until the point where she was still asleep at a time like this!
He looked at her, his eyes ice-cold. “The children are leaving for the airport in three minutes. So it turns out Ms. Bethan who loves the children so deeply, only cares about her own pleasure, and isn’t even willing to send the children off to the airport?”
Only then did Li Yue suddenly come back to her senses.
That’s right!
They were supposed to send Neil and Nellie to the airport today!
She wanted to climb out of bed and put on her clothes, but right now, the moment she moved, she would…
As if he read through her mind, Brettley laughed coldly, “Forget it. Neil is a very punctual child, he already left with Nellie ten minutes ago.”
A range of emotions ran across Bethan’s face, from anxiety to helplessness and lastly despair. Not only did she miss out on the chance to send the children off at the airport…
She could hardly explain what was going on between her and Theo.
“I said, Bethan and I are not involved in that sort of relationship! “
Theo frowned. “There’s a misunderstanding!”
“How can this be a misunderstanding?”
When Theo repeatedly emphasized that he had nothing to do with Bethan, Brettley finally screwed his eyebrows together, and looked at both him and Bethan indifferently. “You said nothing happened between you, then how do you explain everything in this room?”
In the room, not only was the entire bed in a mess, Bethan’s clothes were scattered on the carpet.
Her high-heels, clutch, jacket, stockings…
All of that just seemed to showcase how intense the battle between them was last night.
Theo was at a loss for an explanation, how matter how hard he tried, he could not provide a logical explanation. “If I say it didn’t happen, then it didn’t happen! Bethan has no feelings for me, she wouldn’t…”
Brettley raised his head, his eyes cold and ruthless. “
Just because she doesn’t have feelings for you, does that mean she wouldn’t sleep with you?”
As he spoke, he turned and looked at her. “Since when was Ms. Bethan such a woman of principle? Don’t tell me every man she slept with, she did so because she had feelings for him?”
Bethan’s hands clenched into fists beside her. She knew he was taunting her and also mocking her.
She had slept with him countless times. Not every time was out of love. But she figured, that time last night, might have been out of love.
And yet.
The next morning, the man who just last night had turned her world upside down, now firmly believed that she had spent the night with Theo, even resorting to asking her questions like these.
So, she curled her lips and smiled. “So what if I did, and what if I didn’t?”
She picked up the bedcovers and wrapped them tightly around herself. Then, she turned and looked condescendingly at Brettley who was standing in the hallway. “Mrs. Morrison is right, both Theo and I are single. As adults, can’t we just do what we want?”
Her words instantly cooled down the temperature in the room.
Theo frowned. “Bethan, we didn’t…”
“There’s nothing to hide.”
Bethan’s voice was indifferent as she said, “The hickeys on my body and everything in this room proved that I did sleep with a man last night. If that man isn’t you…”
As she spoke, she raised her eyebrows and side-eyed Brettley. “Then don’t tell me, it’s Mr. Morrison?”
The atmosphere in the room chilled even further at her sentence.
Bethan looked in Brettley’s direction emotionlessly. “
But I don’t understand, Mr. and Mrs. Morrison are here at my door early in the morning, questioning me about my relationship with Theo as if we are having an affair. Why? Does the Morrison Group have a rule that its female employees can’t spend the night with another man?”
Brettley narrowed his eyes, his gaze as cold as the ice of winter. He gritted his teeth, forcing every word out between his lips. “I didn’t say the two of you can’t be together. But Bethan, don’t you know the situation yesterday, and our plans for today? You missed out on sending the children off because of something like this, this is the love you say you have for the children?”
Bethan swept her hair back elegantly. “I love the children, and at the same time, I love Theo too. There is no conflict between the two.”
With that, she raised her eyes and glanced at Brettley indifferently. “However, I would like to ask, where did the hickey on your neck come from?”
“The hickey on my husband’s neck… of course I planted it.”
Alice still lay on Brettley’s chest arrogantly, looking at Bethan condescendingly. “If it wasn’t me, don’t tell me you planted it?”
Bethan curled her lips, raised her eyes, and looked at Brettley coldly. “Mr. Morrison, do you also think your wife was the one who planted it?”
Brettley’s expression darkened immediately. He remembered where the hickey on his neck came from.
Last night, he was stargazing with Bethan on the roof. He was drunk and somehow the two of them started kissing. He remembered they kissed for a long time; Bethan even recklessly left a hickey on his neck.
Later, the alcohol overtook his brain, and his mind fuddled. But he vaguely remembered he had slept with a woman. He thought he had spent the whole night with Bethan, but unexpectedly when he woke up in the morning, the woman lying beside him was Alice!
He was confused and also worried something could have happened to her…
In the end, by the time he rushed to her room, he saw her with Theo, barely dressed at all!
Fury, confusion, disappointment…
A myriad of emotions surged in his chest.
And yet this woman could so shamelessly mention the hickey on his neck in front of him?
Did she not know how to spell the word ‘shameless’? She had been kissing him on the rooftop in the wee hours of the morning and now there was another man in her bed!
At this thought, Brettley laughed coldly, “Of course the hickey on my neck was planted by Alice.”
He looked at her coldly. “If it wasn’t Alice, don’t tell me it’s from you?”
He crossed his arms over his chest, his gaze deep and cold. “Ms. Bethan, don’t tell me you’re trying to say, last night you kissed me first, then spent the night with Mr. Allen? When you were having fun with him last night, were you also speaking to Mr. Quinn on the phone?”
Bethan froze in place, the color on her face fading little by little.
She only questioned Brettley about the cause of the hickey on his neck to test whether he remembered what happened last night. Based on his current attitude, he obviously remembered. She squeezed her hands tightly into fists on her side, her nails embedded in her palms.
He remembered, he remembered everything! Not only did he remember, he even taunted her for first sleeping with him, and then sleeping with Theo! He even mentioned Malcolm!
What was he trying to say?
That she was an easy woman who would spread her legs for any man?
“Who’s Mr. Quinn?”
Alice widened her eyes in faux- shock. “Is he… Ms. Bethan’s boyfriend? Why haven’t I heard of him before?”
Brettley narrowed his eyes, fury raging in the bottom of his eyes, his tone cold and cruel. “Of course she wouldn’t mention him. If she did, how can she seduce other men?”
The moment the words left his mouth, Theo’s brows screwed tightly together. “Brettley Morrison, what the hell are you saying?”
“Am I wrong?”
He shook off Alice’s hold on his arm and stalked toward Bethan step by step. The eyes that were fixed on Bethan were bone -chillingly cold as if carrying the chill of a thousand -year-long frost. “In the name of accompanying the children on a trip, you spent the night in one of our high -end hotels owned by the Morrison Group, then you brought your man here…”
Walking up to Bethan, he lifted her chin up with a single hand. “Staying in a company-owned hotel room, spending the company’s money, doing all of this under the name of the children… Bethan, you’re very smart, very skilled! “
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.