Was Theo unaware that if everyone found out about his stint as an assistant at Morrison Group, his career would suffer a blow?
“I’m perfectly calm right now. “
Theo smirked and fixed his gaze on Brettley. “When will my welcoming party be, Mr. Morrison? How many reporters are you planning to invite?”
He slammed his phone down onto the desk and continued saying, “I can contact and invite some more reporters from overseas if you need help. I’m even willing to pay for it myself so that this party will be the most extravagant one the public has ever seen.
“I want everyone to know that from today onwards, Bethan belongs to me, and me only. Any other men apart from me should stay away from her! “
Theo narrowed his eyes on Brettley. “Especially those who already have a family of their own.”
Brettley clenched his fists and glared at Theo, a disdainful smirk playing on his lips. “Are you really that desperate, to the point where you’re willing to b e a third wheel?”
Theo glowered at him but did not respond. Brettley shifted into a more comfortable position, took out his phone, and started toying around with him. “Since you’re together with Bethan now, has she ever told you how many times she and I have slept together? Has she ever told you how she tried to seduce me in the past??”
The entire room fell silent. Theo bit down on his lips, trying to suppress his anger.
He knew that Bethan’s real identity was Bethan Peterson, Brettley’s ex-wife. Naturally, he also knew what Bethan was going through right now.
The reason Theo was falling more and more in love with Bethan was that he knew how many hardships she had been through!
She was heartbroken after Brettley’s betrayal, to the extent that she would rather change her appearance and assume a new identity altogether!
After giving birth to the triplets, Bethan should have been able to start her new life abroad. However, because of Nigel’s condition, she had no choice but to return to Banyan City and return to the man who had hurt her.
Theo knew that Bethan and Brettley had slept together multiple times now. Even though this was the cold hard truth, he could not stand just how nonchalantly Brettley brought this up.
Theo lifted his head and whispered through gritted teeth, “How dare you talk about her like that? Do you think the love and admiration a woman has for you is some sort of bragging right?”
Brettley squinted his eyes and snickered, “Love? Admiration?”
He turned around and fixated his steely gaze on Bethan. “I used to think she loved me as well. However, now I finally realized the truth; she’s just a shameless woman.”
Brettley lifted his head and shot Theo a glance. “
Maybe artists’ brains are built differently from normal people’s. Otherwise, why else would a person voluntarily become a third wheel?”
Theo clenched his fists so hard that his knuckles cracked. “If you don’t appreciate and protect her, someone else will! “
“Are you that someone?”
Brettley smirked, stood up slowly, and strode over to Bethan.
Bethan could not help but take a step back when she sensed the anger that seemed to envelop Brettley. She frowned and asked warily, “Brettley, what are you…”
Before she could finish, however, Brettley pressed his lips against hers.
Brettley gently placed one hand under Bethan’s chin, and the other on the back of her head, kissing her with fervent and passion.
Bethan widened her eyes. She struggled against him, trying to get away, to no avail.
Bethan glared at this man. How dare he kiss her? Right in front of Theo, no less!
Even though she and Theo were just pretending, they were still a couple in public! How dare Brettley do this to her? He had no respect for her dignity at all!
“Brettley Morrison! “
Theo growled through gritted teeth. He clenched his fists and grabbed Brettley’s collar. Before Brettley could react, Theo drew back his fist and struck a blow towards Brettley’s face.
However, Brettley was quicker, and he immediately grabbed hold of Theo’s hand in mid-air. He said nonchalantly, a hint of taunting in his gaze, “Look at this. How are you even supposed to protect her?”
Theo grew even more enraged upon hearing Brettley’s insulting tone. He clenched his teeth and swung his other fist toward him.
This time, Brettley did not stop him, but instead, he stepped aside and dodged Theo’s blow. Then, he curled his lips into a sneer and said mockingly, “Are all artists as slow as you?”
Before Theo could say anything in response, Brettley reared his arm back.
Seeing that Brettley’s knuckles were about to connect with Theo’s face, Bethan immediately lunged forward, putting herself right between the two fighting men.
A flash of surprise passed through Brettley’s eyes, but it was too late. He could not stop his arm anymore.
Brettley’s fist connected forcefully with Bethan’s body, right in the middle of her shoulder wound.
In the split second that he struck his blow, Bethan could hear a ripping sound coming from the recently sutured wound. The next moment, all she could feel was an excruciating pain that shot down her shoulder and into her entire body, as if someone were ripping her apart!
“Bethan! “
Theo immediately grabbed hold of her, but before that, Brettley had already stepped forward and lifted her from the ground.
He burst out of the room, carrying Bethan in his arms. “Lucas, get the car! “
Theo quickly followed suit.
However, by the time Theo made it to the ground floor of the building, Brettley had already carried Bethan into his car and was heading straight towards the hospital.
Theo frowned and had no choice but to wait for a taxi.
“Brettley.”
Bethan furrowed her brows and stared up at the man holding her. “What are you… trying to do to me?”
Brettley was the one who had spent the night with her. Yet he had set her and Theo up, attempting to frame her as an unfaithful woman, all because he wanted to please Alice.
He had even tipped the media off so that Theo and Bethan would be surrounded by reporters as soon as they stepped out of the hotel, forcing them to admit that they were together.
Bethan had abided by everything Brettley forced her to, but what had she gotten in return?
Nothing.
Brettley was still displeased with her, so he came over to her office to make things difficult for Theo. He even kissed her right in front of Theo because he knew that this would enrage him. He had humiliated not only Theo but Bethan as well!
What did this man want from her?
Brettley frowned and pressed his hand against Bethan’s bleeding wound. Then, he stared in the direction in front of him and said, “I won’t allow this.”
“Won’t allow what?” “I won’t allow you to be together with Theo.”
Bethan frowned and was about to ask Brettley further when the car suddenly jerked. She felt another twinge of pain shot down her body, and curled herself up into a ball.
Bethan felt like she was about to pass out at any minute now due to the excruciating pain.
However, just before she lost consciousness, she heard Brettley sigh and say, “I don’t want to… see you two together.”
When Bethan finally came to, she discovered that she was in the hospital.
Brettley was sitting next to her with a sullen expression on his face.
Bethan rubbed her eyebrows and slowly propped herself up on the bed. Brettley saw this and immediately helped her up. “Does it still hurt?”
Bethan shook her head.
“Do you really care about Theo that much?”
Brettley frowned as soon as he took in her pale, sickly face. “
You’re willing to jump in and take the blow for him, even if it means you get hurt again? If I hadn’t seen her and stopped at the last second, your shoulder would probably be paralyzed now! “
Bethan did not understand why Brettley was so furious. She chuckled and asked, “Why are you so angry, Mr. Morrison? You and Theo got into a fight because of me, so of course I had to jump in. Besides, Theo is my boyfriend. Who else would I protect, if not him? Should I have protected you instead? The man who tried to frame and hurt me?”
Brettley’s expression darkened, and he immediately grabbed hold of Bethan’s chin, forcing her to look directly into his dark eyes. “Since when did I frame and hurt you?”
Brettley thought Bethan was getting more and more outrageous! He had known since the start that Bethan had an ulterior motive for approaching him. Anyone who tried to get close to him in the past would give up in the end because Brettley always ended up outsmarting them.
However, Bethan was different.
Brettley did not care what her motives were, and he did not hold a grudge against her for having kidnapped Neil and Nellie in the past. He did not even hold anything against her even though she had humiliated him in front of everyone multiple times!
However, this time, Bethan was the one in the wrong. She had approached him and gotten into a complicated relationship with him, but at the same time, she cheated on him with Theo. How dare she accuse him of trying to frame and hurt her?
Brettley could not recall when he hurt her, apart from his punch just now.
He had never attempted to frame her either!
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.