“Nellie was born weak and timid. At such a high altitude, and with the car tilted, can a physically exhausted and frightened six-year-old child like her bear it?”
He blinked. Subconsciously, he glanced at the pale little girl behind Bethan’s body, laying there with her eyes closed. The man’s heart sank into the pit of his stomach.
“No,
“ he muttered to Bethan, though convincing himself altogether.
“She just fainted.”
“It’s too late.”
Tears slipped from her eyes unconsciously. Bethan raised her head and stared at Brettley with hatred in her eyes. In his exhausted state, he was no match for her. It would be all over once she pushed him off. She walked up to him and pushed him as hard she could toward the door—
“Auntie…”
a girl’s weak voice rang behind Bethan just as her hand pushed against him.
“You…stop it…”
Bethan stopped and turned her head in surprise. She took Nellie’s small frame into her arms.
“Nellie! How are you?”
”
I don’t feel so good…”
Nellie grabbed Bethan’s arm and shook her head silently at her. The little girl lowered her voice and whispered in Bethan’s ear, ”
Nigel needs our help.”
“I know.”
Bethan hugged her tightly into her arms as tears streamed down her face without relief.
“I was wrong; I made a mistake. You’re alright…”
In her excitement, Bethan completely forgot that there was still a panting Brettley in the car. The man wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at Bethan holding Nellie, his gaze shrewd and
deep. If he did not know that Nellie was Bethan Peterson’s daughter, he would even think that this Bethan in front of him was Nellie’s biological mother. Her worry and concern for Nellie were pure and sincere with no other mixed intentions or emotions. In the main control room of the amusement park. From the necklace on Neil’s chest came Nigel’s long sigh of relief.
“Neil, do whatever I say. There is a joystick on your right. Do you see it?”
“Yeah.”
Neil took a deep breath and touched the joystick. He just started controlling it when the door to the master control room was suddenly kicked open.
“What are you doing?!
“ Lucas rushed up to him, grabbed Neil’s collar, and picked him up.
“No wonder the Ferris wheel malfunctioned—you’re the one behind it all! People could die, you know?!
“ The enraged Lucas threw Neil onto the sofa beside them. He stepped forward and violently pulled back the joystick from the position where Neil had placed it Suddenly, the car of the Ferris wheel tilted to the side again. Standing at the door, Brettley slipped and fell out of the door into thin air!
“Brettley! ”
Cynthal stood up from her chair in shock.
He grabbed the broken edge of the car door just as he nearly plummeted… Blood instantly flowed from the fingers. His whole body hung outside the car, and it drew gasps and exclaims from the crowd below. Cynthal looked back anxiously at the bodyguard. ”
Order them to fix it quickly, right now!
“ How come the one that fell was Brettley? Why was it not any of the b*tches? She just wanted to get rid of them, and she never wanted to harm Brettley!
“Daddy!”
Nellie stretched out her small hand at him at the critical moment and tried to grasp his hand before Bethan held her down.
“You’re too light, and his weight will only pull you with him.“ She took a deep breath, tied Nellie, tightened the rope around her body again, and then carefully crawled toward Brettley. She reached out her hand toward him.
“Come on.”
He did not move. He grabbed the metal sheet in a vice -like grip as he scoffed, tone slightly cold,
“Don’t want to kill me anymore?”
Bethan’s face turned white.
She gritted her teeth.
“I don’t have time to joke around with you. If you want to survive, grab my hand and come on up! Since Nellie is still alive, you can’t die!”
Brettley’s lips twisted into a smile as he grabbed her hand with his free one and slowly crawled into the car with her help. Hanging on the sidewall of the car, Nellie watched Bethan pull Brettley up little by little, and her eyes reddened silently.
She hoped her parents truly loved each other…
“Guards, hold him down!
“ In the master control room, Neil got up from the sofa and commanded the two security guards he had bribed. After Lucas was held back, Neil calmly sat back on the chair and pushed the joystick again according to Nigel’s instructions
that drifted out from the necklace.
“You little rascal! If something happens to my boss and the young lady, I won’t spare you!”
growled Lucas, who was pressed on the sofa.
Neil frowned, his eyes focused on the task at hand, as he coldly snapped,
“You are the one who harmed them!
“ Under the careful and rigorous operation of Neil, the car of the Ferris wheel turned level again and gradually resumed rotating.
“It’s fine now.”
Nigel took a deep breath and turned to watch the same surveillance video. On the screen, Brettley held Bethan and Nellie tightly as he observed the operation of the Ferris wheel. He protected them all in his arms, probably because he was afraid of another accident. Nigel took his hands off the keyboard, wrapped his arms around his chest, and silently looked at the man’s face. The little boy’s chubby hand picked up the paper and pen on the side and wrote the word ‘father’, looking at the word in a daze.
“Nigel.”
The nurse pushed the door open and mercilessly took away the laptop, paper, and pen in front of him.
“It’s time for your infusion. Your free time today is over.”
The little guy nodded silently and stretched out his small hand that was poked full of needle holes. ”
Alright.”
The malfunctioning Ferris wheel functioned well again, and the car with the broken door panel slowly descended to the ground. The moment the car landed, the crowd surrounding the Ferris wheel erupted into cheers.
“Brettley!”
With tears on her face, Cynthal rushed to Brettley worriedly, wanting to throw herself into his arms, but…
Brettley’s left arm held Nellie and his right arm supported Bethan, and it left no space for her at all. At that moment, Brettley, Bethan, and Nellie looked like a family that loved and supported each other. Cynthal stopped in her tracks. The bitterness in the woman’s eyes spread like vines. The medical staff quickly placed Bethan and Nellie onto the stretchers and carried them into the ambulance.
“Brettley, you scared me to death! ”
Waiting for the ambulance to leave, Cynthal brought her head close to Brettley’s chest. ”
I cried so much! I thought I’d never see you again…”
Brettley took a step back calmly.
“Sir!”
Lucas rushed over in surprise, face swollen and littered with bruises.
“Are you okay? I thought that brat was lying to me, but he knew what he was doing and saved you!”
Brettley raised his eyebrows slightly.
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