Bonnie said. Her tears fell.
She sobbed, “I really missed my brother. I’m an investigative reporter. All these years, I have tried all ways to find out news about him, because I really couldn’t find him, so I targeted Cynthal. I started writing bad publicity about Cynthal. Now that I have heard my brother’s voice and I was sure he was alive
“So you were willing to sacrifice your freedom in exchange for Cynthal’s?”
Bethan looked at Bonnie crying. She sneered, “Idiot.”
Bonnie closed her eyes. “You can call me whatever you want. You only got together with Brettley for the money. You will never know what a real relationship feels like! “
“I don’t know about relationships?”
Bethan looked at Bonnie and laughed suddenly. “No one’s relationship experience is as heartfelt as the one I experienced. I ‘ll admit. Maybe I don’t know much about relationships, but I know that if your brother has you in his heart, you would not need to put out so much effort.
“He’s alive, yet he has not contacted you for many years. Isn’t it obvious? Stop living in your fantasy.”
Bethan’s words were like a heavy hammer, crushing Bonnie’s heart, as well Brettley’s heart, who was listening to their conversation outside the door.
Bonnie bit her lips. “Maybe he is just angry at me, or perhaps there was a misunderstanding? The day he left, we argued…”
“That’s not love. “
Bethan helplessly sighed, “I have also once loved someone with all my might. His tiny bit of concern for me was enough for me to treat it a s proof that he loves me. I would be so happy that I wouldn’t be able to sleep for a few days. Later on, I started to realize that a person that truly loves you would not let you wait too long. If he has not confessed nor has he come back after so long, that’s because he does not have you in his heart.”
Bonnie bit her lips hard.
She lifted her head and looked at Bethan with reddened eyes.
“How sure are you? My brother loves me! He loves me the most in his entire life! If he did not love me, why would he sacrifice so much for me, giving me everything?”
“When he loved you, perhaps he truly did love you, but when he stopped loving you, he truly completely stopped loving you.”
Bethan stood up. “Since you’re willing to take Cynthal’s place to be punished, I have no reason to take you out. You picked this choice, you should accept the consequences. Perhaps, being locked in a mental asylum is more suitable for an obsessive paranoid person like you.”
Then, Bethan turned and left.
She shut the door and turned around. She met with Brettley’s deep gaze.
Bethan’s heart skipped a beat. She smiled at Brettley awkwardly. “Mr. Morrison, where did you come here?” “I have been here for a long time.”
Brettley looked at her with a cold gaze. “Obsessive and paranoid.”
He smiled ironically. “Were you describing her or me?”
Bethan paused for a while before realizing that her words to Bonnie might have been directed toward Brettley too.
Bethan shrugged. She smiled at him gently. “Mr. Morrison, you’re overthinking this. How could I be describing you in that way? I was still hoping you would help me figure out where Cynthal went.”
Brettley furrowed his brows at her words. He sighed, “
We couldn’t find her. After she came out from the mental asylum, she hailed a cab.”
Lucas, who was standing behind Brettley, sighed. He recounted what he said to Brettley to Bethan once more.
“She got down in the suburbs where there was no surveillance. Later on, whether it be traffic or public transport surveillance, we could no longer find her.”
Lucas sighed, “She should still be in Banyan City, as for where she is, we don’t know.”
“I blame myself for this. “
Bethan closed her eyes. “I was too careless.”
Then, she bowed at Lucas. “Thank you for your hard work.”
Lucas was rather flattered. He immediately helped her up. “Why are you being so polite with me?”
“We can’t blame you for this.”
Brettley furrowed his brows. “Bonnie is a reporter. Even if she did not use you today, she would still be able to locate Cynthal sooner or later. Your carelessness only sped up her process.”
Then, Brettley looked at Bethan calmly. “Go back home first. I’ll check the surveillance once more.”
Bethan nodded before turning around and leaving in exhaustion.
When she returned to Blue Bay Villa, she laid on the huge bed, exhausted. She turned on the communicative necklace to contact Nigel.
“Can you help me?” “I’m already doing it!”
Nigel, who was in a patient ward across the ocean, was carefully observing tiny windows of surveillance footage on his screen. “Don’t beat yourself up. Cynthal escaping might be a good thing.”
Bethan furrowed her brows. “How so?”
“I heard your conversation with Bonnie. If Bonnie’s brother was the driver that pushed you down the bridge back then, then you would have a witness for the atrocities that the scumbag and Cynthal did to you, isn’t it?”
Bethan was instantly stunned. What Nigel said made sense.
“Also, from Bonnie, we could be sure that her brother is still alive. Once we have a witness, we would be able to help you overturn the case.”
Bethan has also once thought about using what Cynthal and Brettley had done to set her up in the past, to make them pay.
However, it had been so long, the evidence was all gone. After six years, it would be too challenging to bring them to court, but, if she had a witness… everything would be much simpler!
Bethan jumped up from the bed in excitement. “True.”
She held the necklace and wanted to continue the discussion with Nigel when her phone rang.
Natasha was calling.
“Ms. Bethan, I am waiting for you at your home. Have you moved house?”
At that moment only then did Bethan recall that she sent Natasha a message when she came out of the mental asylum.
They have agreed to meet at Bethan’s old place. She wanted to tell Natasha all the atrocities that Cynthal has committed.
However, Bethan was so caught up with the Bonnie incident that she almost forgot about it.
She took a deep breath. Bethan looked at the dark skies. “I’ll come over now.”
Then, she hung up the phone. She got down and changed her clothes.
“Mommy, are you really going?”
Nigel’s voice came from the necklace. “Do you think that Cynthal would look for Grandma? Grandma trusts Cynthal so much. Even when Cynthal was locked up, she looked for Grandma for help.”
Bethan was changing halfway when she paused suddenly.
If Natasha and Cynthal joined forces and tricked her there…
However, what if Cynthal did not find Natasha?
Natasha did not trust Bethan that much. Bethan managed to get that recording with such difficulty. She wanted to expose Cynthal’s true colors to Natasha. She did not want to give up such a good opportunity.
Neil sighed, “Why don’t I contact Neil. See if Zach and Yuri could accompany you to see Grandma.”
Bethan hesitated for a while before nodding. “Okay.”
Half an hour later, she got Zach’s call.
“We’re at Blue Bay Villa.”
Bethan took a deep breath. She went downstairs in relief.
In the hall downstairs, Neil and Nellie were doing arts and crafts. Nellie was in charge of drawing while Neil was making it.
Upon seeing her coming downstairs, Neil smiled brightly. “Come back home earlier! “
Bethan felt warm in her heart.
She looked at the two children. “Do you want to eat anything? I’ll bring some back for you.”
Neil furrowed his brows and thought for a while. “No need.”
Then, he pointed at the paperboard on the coffee table. “Why don’t you come back home earlier and help us with this. Such childish homework.”
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