Bethan was led by a waiter into a private box. She placed the bouquet of roses by the side. Then, she looked at Theo in surprise.
“Flight ticket?”
“Hmm.”
Theo nodded. He placed the flight tickets in front of Bethan. “To Saigen City. A six days seven nights for the two of us.”
Looking at Bethan’s shocked face, Theo lowered his head. He sounded a little depressed. “Don’t you have a half month’s leave? Saigen City is close to Neil and Nellie’s summer camp. After our trip, we only need half a day to reach the summer camp. We can still have fun with Neil and Nellie for a few more days.”
Bethan was so stunned she was rendered speechless.
When Theo asked her previously if she had any rest after the project, Bethan casually replied to him that she had half a month off.
However, she did not expect that… Theo would secretly plan and arrange her time for her so thoroughly.
Bethan was silent for a long time before she raised her head and looked at him.
“Theo. Have you forgotten that… we’re only pretending to be lovers?”
Between them, there should not be a bouquet of roses, there should not even be a six days seven nights trip for the two of them.
Theo lowered his head and smiled shyly. “I know, you and I are just pretending, but…”
He raised his head and looked at Bethan. “I hope that we will become a real couple. I’m serious, Bethan. Give me a chance. When you finish settling Nigel’s matter, let’s get married, shall we? I will be like their biological father. I ’11 take good care of the three of them. I…”
“Theo.”
Bethan closed her eyes and interrupted him in a low voice.
“You deserve much better.”
She took a deep breath and opened her eyes. “You’re a great guy. I, on the other hand, not only do I have three kids, but I also had a terrible previous marriage.”
Theo furrowed his brows.
“But you have already changed your looks. You’re no longer the Bethan Peterson from before. No one knows about your marriage in the past. I also don’t care about it!”
“But I do.”
Bethan took a deep breath. She downed the tea on the table in one go.
“You’re a gentle and kind-hearted man. You deserve a much better woman and deserve to find better happiness. Not with a woman who had just climbed out from the depths of hell.”
Then, she placed the empty teacup on the table and looked at Theo meaningfully. “The reason why I asked you out tonight…
“Is to thank you for helping me. Now that the storm has passed, no one is caring about your private life anymore. No one cares about me anymore either. We it’s time to announce to the public about our breakup.”
The light in Theo’s eyes dimmed a little. He looked at Bethan and opened his mouth. His face was a little ashen. “I thought…”
Theo lowered his head. “I thought that you asked me out…”
He did not finish his sentence.
“But, I can understand.”
Theo took a deep breath, raised his head, and looked at Bethan. “You have been hurt so badly. It’s normal that you won’t accept another man. Don’t worry, I will stay by your side and wait for you to slowly regain trust in love.”
Then, he shredded the tickets stylishly and threw them into the bin.
“You have your things to attend to. Go and do them tomorrow. I’ll come with you.”
Bethan rubbed the middle of her brows.
“Theo, don’t be stubborn. It won’t come to fruition.”
“Whether to continue or not is my decision to make, not yours.”
Theo smiled at her and directly picked up the menu. “Let’s order.”
Bethan furrowed her brows. Throughout that night, she tried to find a chance to get Theo to give up on her, but Theo would not budge. He would even openly change the topic.
Bethan was helpless. In the end, she could only let him be,
After all, she has already said what she needed to say repeatedly.
The next day at four in the morning, when Bethan was still asleep, she received Luke’s call.
“Come down.”
Bethan groggily opened her eyes. “So early?”
“Hmm.”
Luke’s voice was low and cold. “Gwen sliced her wrist.”
Bethan instantly jumped up from the bed.
“How is she?”
“We found out in time, nothing serious.”
Luke’s voice, on the other end of the line, sounded low and depressed. “But, she’s not in a stable mental state.
I’m worried for her. It’s better if we get back earlier.”
“I ‘ll come down now.”
Bethan took a deep breath and immediately picked up the luggage that she had packed to see Neil and Nellie the day before and directly headed out.
The morning air was rather cold. Bethan shuddered while putting her luggage in the trunk. Then, she quickly opened the car door and got in the back seat.
Once she entered, she noticed that besides her, there was another man in the back seat of Luke’s car.
Brettley, who was in black, was leaning back on the leather back seat. He closed his eyes resting.
Bethan was stunned. Why was he there?
“Mr. Morrison needed to do something in Sea City with me, so he tagged along.”
Luke sat in the passenger seat in front. He calmly looked at Bethan from the rearview mirror.
“If you don’t want to sit with him, you can sit in the car of one of my men.”
Bethan smiled and looked at Brettley closely. “No, I can stay here.”
To be able to be in close contact with Brettley was exactly what she always wanted.
The driver started the car and drove.
Luke sat in the passenger seat in front. He furrowed his brows and looked at his phone. Bethan did not know what he was looking at.
After a long while, he kept his phone and glanced at Bethan in the rearview mirror, looking at her dark circles under her eyes. “If you’re sleepy, sleep for a while. Gwen heard from the doctors that you’re going to visit her today, she’s stable for the time being.”
Then, Luke laughed self-deprecatingly, “Women sure are weird. No matter how my men and I tried to persuade her, she would not listen at all. Once she heard that you’re going to visit her, she immediately obeyed.”
Bethan smiled. “Because none of you are women, you won’t understand how a woman feels.”
Luke shrugged. “That’s true. After all, both of you have been best friends for more than ten years.”
“More than ten years?”
Upon Luke’s words, Brettley, who was in the back seat, furrowed his brows and opened his eyes.
The car was in silence at that instance.
Bethan froze.
She never thought that Gwen would tell Luke that they were best friends for more than ten years.
Her identity at that moment was no longer Gwen’s best friend back then.
Brettley turned his head around and looked at Bethan coldly. “You already knew Gwen for more than ten years?”
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.