Her hands were still wet.
“Brettley.”
Brettley paused a little before turning around to look at her.
“Is there anything else?”
His gaze was cold without any emotions. Bethan’s heart instantly sank.
She bit her lips and almost lost her words.
After a while, Bethan took a deep breath. She mustered the courage and said, “You previously told me that you moved to the Orchard Manor from Blue Bay Villa so that you won’t disturb me and the kids.
“Is your move there for the sake of me and the kids, or for you to have a mistress in the manor that I designed?”
Brettley trembled a little. As expected.
Bethan’s disoriented look was because she witnessed him being with Fiona.
However…
Brettley did not plan to explain himself.
He was clear that it was impossible for him to be with Bethan anymore, with the death of two children in between them.
Also, for Nigel’s bone marrow transplant, he had to keep his promise to be with Fiona until she passed away.
Thus, why did he need to explain himself?
He turned to look at Bethan. He sneered extremely aloofly. “Is there a difference? On one side, I give up Blue Bay Villa for you and the kids, while I’m at Orchard Manor with my new love. Isn’t this the best of both worlds?”
The rain was extremely heavy. It was like Bethan’s terrible mood.
A fit of rage overwhelmed Bethan upon Brettley’s words. She gritted her teeth and glared at Brettley. Her voice was harsh and cold.
“Brettley, do you know that two of your kids need to be taken care of? Two of your other children have just passed away. The remaining two, one has an incurable terminal illness, the other is mentally ill! How dare you have the mood to find a new lover at this moment?”
As the father of Nigel and Nellie, on the surface, he said that he wanted her to take good care of the kids. In actual fact, it was so he could relax and be happy!
He only met Ms. Blake the day before for the first time, yet they had already started hugging and being touchy with each other!
Was he that impatient? Brettley smiled a little.
He tucked one hand in his pocket and slowly walked toward Bethan. He lifted her chin with her other hand, his voice was cold and aloof. “Why are you angry? Are you jealous?”
His tone was flirtatious. “Bethan, don’t tell me that you still like me?”
Brettley’s words made whatever Bethan wanted to say get stuck in her throat.
She bit her lips hard and looked at Brettley. “Even if I was jealous, I would never be jealous of you! “
Her eyes were filled with hatred. “The thing I regretted most in my entire life was that I once liked you! “
Upon saying that, Bethan haggardly turned around. She fumbled back into the villa with a shivering body.
Lily bit her lips and looked at Brettley before catching up with Bethan.
Brettley remained in the same spot looking at Bethan leaving. He smiled bitterly.
When he returned to the car, he leaned back tiredly on the driver’s seat.
The heavy rain outside continued.
Brettley shut his eyes. The only thing appearing on his mind was how much hatred there was in Bethan’s eyes when she looked at him a moment ago.
“The thing I regretted most in my entire life was that I once liked you! “
The thing she regretted most was liking him… Brettley laughed bitterly.
Those words should be coming from her heart, right? This was what she truly thought of him.
At that moment, Brettley’s phone rang. It was from Fiona.
“Brettley…”
Fiona’s voice was trembling a little. “Where have you been? The rain is so heavy, the thunder is loud too. I’m so afraid. I went downstairs to look for you, but you’re not home. The entire manor is so empty, I’m all alone.
“Are you…still not willing to fulfill my request of becoming my boyfriend? If that’s the case, I ‘ll book a flight ticket and leave Banyan City now…”
Fiona’s voice was gentle and frail, which made the already annoyed Brettley even more annoyed.
Brettley furrowed his brows, he patiently said in a suppressed tone, as to not let Fiona hear the emotions in his voice.
“Don’t get carried away with your imagination, I won’t renege against the things I’ve said. Something came up in the office, I went over to handle it. I’m coming back now to look for you. Wait for me at home.”
Upon receiving Brettley’s promise, Fiona’s tone softened. “Hmm…I got it. I’ll wait for you obediently on the sofa.”
Brettley hung up. He looked at the Blue Bay Villa behind them meaningfully before starting the car and leaving.
In the bedroom on the second floor in Blue Bay Villa.
Bethan, who has changed into dry pajamas, was standing by the window, looking at Brettley driving away.
If she was not wrong, the direction in which Brettley was driving was toward Orchard Manor.
Bethan slowly closed her eyes.
What Jude said to her that day rang in her ear once again. She was filled with excitement and delight, thinking that she had misunderstood Brettley, she was being misled by Cynthal.
However, at that moment…
She did not misunderstand nor was she misled. It was not important anymore.
Brettley Morrison was not worthy of her. “Mommy.”
At that moment, the bedroom door was being pushed open.
Nigel carried a bowl of hot soup and entered. He carefully placed the soup on the table.
“Drink up while it’s hot. You can’t get sick.”
Bethan turned around and looked at the little child standing there. Her heart was filled with indescribable emotions.
She walked over and hugged Nigel tightly in her arms.
“I know. I won’t get sick.”
After all…
Nigel and Nellie only had her left.
However, even if Bethan drank the soup, she still caught a cold.
She was at home for three days.
Three days later, she received a call from Shannon. “Director Bethan, your leave should be over, right?
When are you coming back to work?”
Bethan paused for a while. She sneered, “Going back to work?”
To work for Brettley? Was he worthy of her?
Previously, she worked in the Morrison Group to get closer to Brettley, to get pregnant with his child.
However, at that moment…
“Yes. “
Perhaps Shannon could hear the mockery in Bethan’s tone, she pursed her lips and said, “I heard… I heard that your son had a terminal illness? You should be pretty short on cash, right? Are you not planning to come back to work?”
Bethan gripped her phone tightly at Shannon’s words.
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