Perhaps, Nigel saw through what Nellie was thinking. He gently cleared his throat and looked away. He did not dare meet Nellie’s gaze. “Because I think that he’s not too bad.”
Getting Nigel’s answer, Nellie was silent for a while before smiling all the way to her eyes.
..
Bethan returned to her bedroom. She laid on the bed, annoyed, and started at the ceiling in a daze.
She closed her eyes and mind was filled with Brettley’s troubled expressions while placing food on her plate.
Bethan furrowed her brows.
Was it so difficult for Brettley to give her some food?
Has his acting not always been great? Has he hated her so much that he was not even willing to put on an act anymore?
All that thought, Bethan felt annoyed.
At that moment, her phone rang.
She fished for her phone irritably.
It was a message from Bonnie.
A photo of her in a wedding gown.
In the photo, Bonnie was in a white wedding gown.
Her hair was pulled back. She looked so pure and gorgeous, like a princess from the Middle Ages.
However, behind this beautiful woman was Jason, who looked fierce and brutal.
This wedding photo could be aptly titled The Beauty and The Beast.
Looking at the photo, Bethan felt emotional. (I haven’t forgotten our plan yesterday.]
Just when Bethan was feeling emotional, Bonnie sent a message.
(I have secretly installed a tracking app on his phone. He told me that he had to do something in the eastern part of the city this afternoon, so he can’t be with me. I’m guessing that he is going to see his wife and child this afternoon. Let’s take action.]
Bonnie was sitting in the dressing room of the wedding gown shop. She looked at herself in the mirror and tears streamed down her face.
She sniffled her nose and continued typing the message to Bethan.
(I don’t want to wait any longer. I don’t want to be lied to anymore. Jason had fooled me for more than ten years. I do not want to wait a single day longer.]
Bonnie had her pride and dignity. She did not want to be the butt of the joke in other people’s eyes.
Bethan nodded. Just when she wanted to reply to Bonnie, a loud sound came from downstairs!
What accompanied the sounds was Lily’s shocked screams.
“Young Master!”
Bethan stiffened instantly upon Lily’s screams.
She did not even reply to Bonnie. She threw her phone aside and immediately went down.
Nigel’s body was still not in a good condition. He could get sick easily if his emotions were not in check!
Bethan rushed downstairs barefooted. What she saw was not Nigel being sick, but…
Nigel was holding onto a little knife that was placed on the dining table previously, pointing it at Brettley’s neck.
The blade of the knife had already cut through Brettley’s neck a little. Some blood was flowing.
Lily, with a pale face, was hugging Nellie by the side. She did not want Nellie to see such a bloody scene.
Although Nigel was not sick, Bethan was still shocked a t the scene in front of her that she was rendered speechless.
She furrowed her brows and walked over. “What is going on?”
Nigel calmly swept Bethan a glance. He said in his child’s voice yet mixed with an adult maturity, “
Mommy, don’t step in. This is a battle between men.”
Bethan was speechless. She only saw Nigel hurting Brettley unilaterally.
Thank goodness Nigel did not go all out. Although Brettley’s neck seemed to be bleeding, from the amount of blood bleeding, it did not seem serious.
Bethan sighed. In the end, she still turned and took a first aid kit from the shelves. Then, she sat on the sofa with her first aid kit on her lap, waiting for the ‘ battle between men’ to end.
Brettley still did not move. He looked at Nigel with a cold glare.
Nigel also fearlessly met Brettley’s gaze. His eyes were fierce.
The two of them looked at each other for a long time. In the end, Nigel let out a long breath. He retreated the knife.
“You win.”
Nigel picked the cup of milk on the table and downed it in one go.
“I’ll concede defeat.”
Then, he directly jumped down from the chair and strode to Lily’s side. He grabbed Nellie’s hand. “
Follow me upstairs.”
Nellie nodded and followed behind Nigel without saying anything.
After the two of them left, Brettley immediately walked over and sat next to Bethan.
He swept a flat gaze at the first aid kit in her arms. “Be gentle, I’m afraid of pain.”
Bethan rolled her eyes at him. She did not open the first aid kit in her arms.
“Since when did I say I wanted to dress your wound?”
Brettley laughed.
“If you’re not going to dress my wound, why did you take the first aid kit?”
She even took it long ago, sitting by the sofa, waiting for him.
If she was not worried for him, then what was it?
At that thought, Brettley smiled and went in closer. “
Come on.”
Bethan furrowed her brows and subconsciously moved backward a little. “The first aid kit is not for you. “
“Then who is it for?”
“For Nigel.”
Bethan swept Brettley a cold glance. “What if you don’t know your own strength and harm him, I could help him at once.”
Brettley laughed. His tall body relaxedly leaned back on the sofa. He smiled.
“Although you hate me right now, you can’t twist facts. Do I look like the type of person that would harm Nigel?”
Bethan paused for a while. “Then what were you and he betting on?”
“Nothing.”
Brettley shrugged. “We were betting whether Nigel would dare to really come at me.”
Actually, what he and Nigel bet on was whether Brettley was willing to die for Bethan or not.
However, Brettley did not want to tell Bethan the truth. “What nonsense.”
Bethan rolled her eyes at him. In the end, she lowered her head and opened the first aid kit.
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.