Bethan raised her eyes, cold eyes meeting his. “Mr. Morrison, you’re not too bad yourself, aren’t you?”
With that, she lowered her voice and said in a tone that only the two of them were privy to, “Do you really want me to tell everyone present what you and I did last night?”
He blinked violently and his eyes seemed to pause.
Bethan flung away his arm that was holding her chin, “
Mr. Morrison, I would like to remind you, I’m still single. I can be whoever I want, even if last night I first slept with one man, then later slept with a different man, it’s no one’s business but mine. What right do you have to question me? Who are you to me?”
Brettley’s expression darkened immediately.
He narrowed his eyes harshly. “You are an employee of the Morrison Group! If news that your personal life is a mess spreads out, the Group’s reputation will be ruined! “
Bethan laughed again.
“Mr. Morrison, look. Only you and Mrs. Morrison know of this matter. If neither you nor Mrs. Morrison tells anyone, how can my messy private life affect the Group’s reputation?”
With that, she swept her eyes coldly at Alice. “Mrs. Morrison, do you think I’m right?”
“Of course, of course.”
Alice answered swiftly, but sneered from the bottom of her heart. As expected of Bethan. Even at a time like this, she remembered to seal her mouth with such words.
The moment Alice’s words left her mouth, Bethan moved back slightly, and glanced at Brettley coldly. “
Mr. Morrison, aren’t you leaving yet? Do you want to stay here and continue discussing the Morrison Group’s corporate culture with me… Or do you want to continue probing into the topic of where you got that. hickey from?”
Her tone was gentle and indifferent, but the threat in her words was barely veiled at all.
Brettley’s hands clenched into fists beside him, with nowhere to vent the anger filling his chest.
This woman… previously all of her attention was focused on him! Just last night, she was kissing him on the roof! And just a moment later, she was already with Theo… How could she? He was wrong about her! He did not see through her! “Brettley, let’s go.”
Standing in the entrance, Alice frowned and said gently, “Bethan is right. How many men she sleeps with, is no one’s business but her own… as long as she is more careful in the future, it will not affect the reputation of our organization. “
With that, she glanced at the disheveled Bethan. “Let’s go. Give her a chance to put on some clothes…”
Brettley narrowed his eyes, his gaze sweeping across Bethan’s face coldly. “Ms. Bethan does need to put on some clothes. After all, it’s daytime now.”
With that, the man turned and left coldly. The room door was closed with a ‘bang’.
Alice’s coquettish voice sounded in the hallway. “
Brettley, don’t be mad, Bethan is someone who’ll do something like that, so next time… Brettley, slow down, wait for me…”
Listening as the sound of the footsteps drifted further and further away, Bethan fell onto the bed in a heap, feeling as if all the strength in her body had seeped out of her. Sadness and despair wrapped her heart up in layers.
Brettley clearly remembered everything… He clearly remembered he was the man she was with last night! So why did he set up this show? Because… he was worried Alice might misunderstand? He… really cared about her so much?
“Bethan.”
At that moment, Theo’s gentle voice drifted into her ears, “The man last night… was he Brettley?”
Bethan closed her eyes and nodded silently.
“I knew it!”
Theo gritted his teeth harshly. “I’m going to see him now!”
As he spoke, he lifted his leg and was about to chase after Brettley — —
“Theo.”
When Theo’s hand was on the door handle, Bethan frowned and called out to him, “Don’t go.”
Theo frowned, turned, and looked at her, confusion etched across his features. “Why not? He did those things with you last night, then he brought me here, and made it look like the both of us were together! Because he was worried his wife would find out ! A man like him, we should expose him in front of his wife, and ruin his image! “
“What good will that do us?”
Bethan closed her eyes and smiled bitterly. No one else knew Alice’s identity, but she did. Back then, Hailey was so deeply in love with Brettley, she was even willing to go through plastic surgery to look like the person she hated the most… She did all of that just to be together with Brettley. That was why, even if Alice knew what happened between Bethan and Brettley, nothing would change. She would not leave him, at most she would make Brettley coax her and placate her. It was meaningless.
Theo frowned. “Then we’ll just allow this incident to pass, just like this?”
Bethan squinted. “For the moment, yes.”
She could not create too much of a fuss out of this. After all, she had yet to get pregnant with Brettley’s child. She had to continue lying in wait.
Theo clenched his hands tightly into fists and slammed them onto the tabletop. “They’re too much! “
A long while later, he retracted his fists, raised his head, and looked at Bethan seriously. “Can I… be your boyfriend?”
Bethan paused. A moment later, she smiled. “You deserve a better woman than me.”
With that, she left the bed and entered the bathroom. “Can you go downstairs and buy me some breakfast? “
After last night’s intense workout, she was fairly hungry.
Theo looked at her from behind and was about to say something, but stopped himself in the end.
“Brettley, eat something.”
In the room next door, Alice gently placed Brettley’s breakfast in front of him. “I purposely asked the chef to prepare this for you, your favorite sandwich.”
Brettley glanced at the sandwich in her hands but had no appetite at all. His mind was filled with Bethan’s cold expression from the incident this morning.
“What right do you have to question me? Who are you to me?”
The man’s eyebrows furrowed.
What right did he have to question her? Who was he to her?
He was her boss! Was that enough?
He closed his eyes and smiled bitterly. A moment later, he opened them again. “I’m heading to the office now.”
With that, he lifted his legs and left.
Alice looked at the sumptuous breakfast on the table and bit her lip harshly. She could tell Brettley still cared. Still cared that Bethan slept with Theo!
Her hands clenched tightly into fists. It seemed like just making them sleep together was not enough… so, she took her phone. “Mr. Walter, send an email to all the news outlets…”
Bethan had a hefty breakfast.
After breakfast, she curled up on the couch and video called Neil.
The two children were halfway through their flight and were now waiting in the airport waiting for their connecting flight.
“Mommy, you have to take care of yourself! “
Neil said as he sipped on his juice, “This morning I rejected Idiot Morrison when he asked whether we wanted you to come to send us off. I think you’ll cry. I hate to see you cry.”
“Yeah, exactly. “
Beside him, Nellie smiled sweetly too, her eyes curving up into little crescents. “
Mommy, you have to take good care of yourself in the future! Don’t let Daddy bully you! “
Bethan’s heart soured at the little girl’s words. Even when Nellie left her, she knew to remind her not to be bullied by Brettley…
She sniffed and tempered her emotions. “Is your Mommy someone who’ll be bullied so easily?”
Nellie pouted. “Even though Mommy won’t be bullied, we will still worry! “
Bethan sighed and continued chatting with the children for a while, only hanging up reluctantly when they had to board the plane.
Not long later, Theo knocked on her room door. “
The car is ready.”
Brettley left without even telling her, and this was the countryside. Since the amusement park was closed, not many taxis were available. That was why Theo only found a single taxi after searching downstairs for a long time.
Bethan sucked in a deep breath, packed her belongings, and went downstairs with Theo. But she never expected…
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.