“What’s wrong? You can’t handle the truth, Mr. Morrison? You killed two of my children, refused to pay for the remaining two children’s medical fees, and found a new girlfriend while my son is gravely ill…
“Do you think I care about someone like you? Besides, you even allowed your new girlfriend and her servant to harass my assistants continuously. Brettley Morrison, who do you think you are?”
What right did he have to hurt her like this and ask her to give in for Fiona’s sake?
Bethan refused to give in at all. She wanted to find out how far Brettley was willing to go for Fiona’s sake.
Brettley stared at her, his gaze as cold and icy as the Arctic snow. “Is this the attitude you use to talk to me?”
He lunged and gripped Bethan’s throat, slamming her up against the wall. White-hot fury was etched in his dark eyes. “Don’t forget the financial situation you’re in right now! Do you think I won’t fire you and put you on a blacklist so that no company in Banyan City will hire you?”
The coldness in Brettley’s eyes chilled Bethan right down to her bones. She continued to stare at him while, at the same time, feeling as though someone had put her heart in a freezing igloo.
She bit down on her lip. “You wouldn’t. Nigel and Nellie– “
“I don’t care about them! “
Brettley was so furious at this point that he lost control of all rationality. “I ‘ve already refused to pay their medical bills. Don’t you know what that means? What do their lives have anything to do with me?
“I didn’t know about their births, and I wasn’t involved in their upbringing either. Now that they’re sick, why do I have to pay for their medical bills? Why do I have to pay for two little pipsqueaks that I’ve barely even known for six months, hmm?”
Bethan felt as though someone had dropped her heart from mid-air into freezing cold water.
These were his true feelings, right? He was only willing to admit them under extreme anger.
It turned out that all the love he appeared to harbor toward the children was fake.
He was just as cold and heartless as he was six years ago; Bethan was just too nalve to see that. She suddenly realized how stupid she was to believe Jude and think that Brettley still cared about her and their children.
She closed her eyes and let out a bitter smile. “I understand now, Mr. Morrison. I won’t bother you nor Ms. Blake anymore. I ‘ll resort to being a timid little dog instead.”
Bethan was indeed having financial difficulties, but on top of that, she could not leave Banyan City. The doctor had told her that the donor whose bone marrow Nigel would be receiving had arrived in Banyan City and refused to go anywhere else.
Therefore, Bethan had no choice but to stay.
She could not leave Banyan City, but at the same time, she could not afford to lose her job either.
Banyan City was Brettley’s territory. She needed money, and most of all, she needed to stay and provide Nigel and Nellie with a good living environment so they could be cured.
Therefore…she had no choice but to persevere.
How hard would that be? She had escaped death once before. She could do anything.
Seeing Bethan’s helpless expression, Brettley felt a twinge of pain shoot through his heart.
He had not meant to say such harsh things to her on purpose, but he was worried that if he did not do so, Bethan would offend Fiona again. At this point, he had to keep Fiona in a stable emotional state so that her physical health would not be affected.
Nigel’s life depended on her, and he could not afford to wait any longer.
At the same time, Fiona did not have much time left either.
“President Morrison…”
Just as Brettley was lost in his thoughts, Shannon suddenly lunged forward to grab his arm.
Brettley furrowed his brows and immediately came to. All of a sudden, he realized that he had subconsciously tightened his grip while he was zoning out…and his fingers were still wrapped around Bethan’s neck.
His grip on her was so tight that she had difficulty breathing, and her face had turned a dark shade of greenish-purple. However, despite this, she had not said a single word in protest at all.
Brettley immediately let go of her.
Bethan managed to catch her breath, but at the same time, her legs gave out beneath her. She slid down the wall and slumped into a heap on the floor.
She still refused to say a single word.
When Shannon rushed over to grab her hand, Bethan let out a chuckle and reassured her in a weak voice, “
I’m fine.”
Heartache engulfed Brettley’s entire being upon this sight. He could not help but feel that Bethan was like a porcelain doll, silent and fragile, yet resolute and determined at the same time.
Meanwhile, Marianne was so astounded by this scene that she was speechless. First, she glanced at Bethan, then at Brettley, and finally put two and two together.
No wonder this lady was so upset about Ms. Blake and Mr. Morrison. It turned out she was Mr. Morrison’s ex- wife!
Marianne snorted in indignation and looked down at Bethan. “You were right. You should resort to being a timid little dog from now on. Don’t you dare offend our precious Ms. Blake any further. After all, the reason she came here to Banyan City was for your– “
Before she could finish her sentence, however, the door to Fiona’s ward opened. A pale-faced Fiona came out and, holding onto the doorframe , let out a feeble cough. “Brettley. I didn’t know… “
Tears were welling up in her eyes as she said, “I didn’t know Ms. Bethan is the mother of your two children.”
She lifted her gaze and shot Brettley a helpless glance. “I heard everything. What you said just now was unacceptable.”
With that, Fiona lowered her gaze and glanced at Bethan, who was still slumped on the floor. “Ms. Bethan, please don’t misinterpret what Brettley said just now.
He was just angry and wasn’t thinking straight. Even if there’s nothing going on between you two anymore, you’re still the mother of his children, so he wouldn’t be so heartless toward you.
“I’ll make sure he treats you better in the future. I know life hasn’t been easy on you either.”
She then lifted her head to glance at Brettley. “Brettley, you should apologize to Ms. Bethan.”
Bethan could not help sneering when she heard Fiona’s words.
She lifted her head to stare at Fiona, whose face was etched with helplessness and innocence. “How understanding of you, Ms. Blake.”
Fiona gave her a gentle smile. “Don’t flatter me. Everything that happened between you and Brettley is in the past now. I can’t possibly be jealous over something that happened before I met him, can I?
“I’m sure it’s the same for you. You wouldn’t get jealous over him and me, considering it’s already been six years since you and Brettley split up, right?”
Bethan felt a hint of contempt arise in her heart when she heard this. “You’re right.”
“What do you mean, she’s right?”
Marianne quickly grabbed onto Fiona’s arm and glared at Bethan. “This woman is clearly jealous of you and Mr. Morrison. She even tried to slander your name. She claimed this dress that you bought for me is worth only five hundred dollars instead of fifty thousand! “
Marianne scoffed and continued, “I had a bad feeling about her from the start. They could afford to pay me the fifty thousand dollars compensation, but she refused to do so and insisted on letting Mr. Morrison settle this dispute, and I now know why. She’s jealous of you, Ms. Blake, so she did all this on purpose to stir up trouble! Disgusting! “
Marianne thought that Fiona would stand on her side after hearing all this. However, to her surprise…
Fiona wriggled out of her grasp and instead hobbled over to Brettley’s side, right into his arms.
Brettley furrowed his brows but still caught her.
Fiona, still in Brettley’s arms, said in an impassive voice, “Mrs. Collins, how can you say that about Ms. Bethan? She must have a reason for doing this.”
She swept her cold glance over Marianne’s clothes before continuing, “I told you this dress was worth five hundred dollars when I gifted it to you. How did it become fifty thousand?”
Marianne widened her eyes in shock. She was so stunned by this sudden turn of events that she did not know what to reply. “I… This dress… Ms. Blake… “
All of a sudden, she knew there was no way of making anyone believe her anymore.
Shannon, who had been holding onto Bethan all this while, rolled her eyes behind Fiona’s back and murmured, “What a two -faced b*tch.”
Bethan pursed her lips but did not reply.
Zayne, who had been watching everything unfold in silence, immediately tried to salvage the situation. “
Ms. Blake, does this mean that this dress you gifted to your servant is worth only five hundred dollars, and she was just trying to scam us into paying fifty thousand dollars for it?”
Fiona let out a gasp and turned to look at Zayne. “
She asked for fifty thousand dollars?”
She gave Marianne a once-over and said, her face etched with confusion, “Mrs. Collins called just now to tell me that someone had spilled food all over her clothes and that they couldn’t be worn anymore…
“I couldn’t possibly go downstairs to settle this, so I asked Brettley to help me take care of this, but now when I look at it…the stain isn’t too bad at all. The dress isn’t entirely ruined…”
Fiona shot Marianne an aggrieved glance. “How could you do this, Mrs. Collins? It’s just a few stains. You shou1d’ve asked them to pay fifty dollars for the dry-cleaning fees. How dare you ask for fifty thousand?”
She let out a sigh and said, “Fortunately, the people you had a run-in with were Ms. Bethan and her friends. Otherwise, if word got out that you were my servant, everyone would think that…I had spoiled you so much that you tried to scam other people out of their money…”
Everyone in the hallway fell into silence upon hearing Fiona’s words.
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.