Bethan shook her head helplessly before exiting. Zach and Yuri drove a ramshackle van.
Upon seeing her, the two men smiled at her rather embarrassingly. “You’re finally here. Our old van feels too shabby in front of a mansion. We’re quite embarrassed by it.”
Bethan did not have many emotions on her face. She smiled, opened the door, and got in the van.
Although the van was rather dilapidated, it was extremely clean inside. She could smell that the brothers had deliberately sprayed cheap air freshener to welcome her.
She was rather moved by their actions. She started chatting with them, “How long have you been here in Banyan City?”
“About six or seven years.”
Yuri chuckled while driving, “Please don’t mind us looking shabby. If we saved a little more here, our mother would be able to live more comfortably back home. We have been sending money back for the past few years.”
Bethan sighed emotionally, “Such good kids. You’ll be able to earn big bucks sooner or later.”
“We can’t. We’re rather timid. We could only earn little.”
Zach was seated in the passenger seat, looking out of the window. He said in a low voice, “
Six years ago when we first came to Banyan City, someone hired us to bang someone with our van. A million dollars for someone’s life. We were too cowardly, so we did not dare to do it.
“Later on, we knew someone who did it. He got rich. He is currently living the sweet life overseas. He was never going to return back to this country, nor did he keep in touch with us.”
Bethan was stunned. How could it be such a coincidence?
She pursed her lips and asked tentatively, “Did that guy have a… younger sister?”
“Sister? More like a money tree.”
Zach sneered, “That girl was an heiress of a rich family. He took great care of her. He initially wanted to wait until she turns eighteen and get her pregnant before reconciling with her rich family. By then, he would be the son-in-law of the family.
“However, no one would have expected that the family went bankrupt six years ago. The heiress was useless to him, so he took someone else’s money, murdered someone, and left the country.”
Zach finished talking when he realized that something was not right. “How did you know he had a sister?”
“I took a guess.”
Bethan leaned back in the backseat, looking at the night scenery outside of the window.
Bonnie’s defiant eyes appeared in her mind inexplicably.
“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?”
Bethan sneered.
Sure enough. Relationships were the most useless things.
At that moment, Bonnie was like Bethan Peterson back then, so silly it was heartbreaking.
Soon, the van arrived.
Zach and Yuri accompanied Bethan upstairs. Once she reached upstairs, Bethan opened the main door of her rented apartment.
The lights were not switched on inside. Under the moonlight, Bethan noticed a skinny and feeble figure sitting on the sofa.
Bethan furrowed her brows and switched on the lights. Natasha curled up on the sofa, sleeping soundly.
When the light was turned on, she furrowed her brows and woke up from her dreams.
When she woke up, she looked at Bethan and smiled distantly. “Ms. Bethan, you are finally here. You said you saw Cynthal today, right?”
“Hmm.”
Bethan took a deep breath. Once she made sure that Natasha was the only one in the room, she closed the door.
She sat opposite Natasha. “I want to play a recording for you.”
Bethan picked up the teacup and took a sip. She immediately took the recording device out and pressed play. She put the device on the coffee table.
Cynthal’s manic voice could be heard coming from the recording device.
“I have been jealous of Bethan since I was young! I have been living under her shadows! “
“So, I want to destroy her! I want to ruin everything that belongs to her! “
“I should have killed that little b*tch, Nellie long ago! “
Every word from the recording device made Natasha paler by the moment.
She never would have expected that her obedient, mature, and kind daughter would say things like these.
Every word from Cynthal was like a bomb detonating in Natasha’s ears.
Natasha could not help but tremble.
In the end, she slumped on the sofa listlessly. She forced herself not to pass out.
How?
How could this have happened?
After a long while, when the recording device had finished playing, Natasha could no longer hold back her tears.
She lifted her head with tears streaming down her face. She looked at Lune. “Have I misunderstood Bethan? My eldest daughter… will she ever forgive me?”
Looking at her mother in this state, Bethan felt as if a large hand had wrapped itself around her heart, wrenching it. It was painful.
This woman in front of her was her biological mother. She was someone that had been in her life for more than zo years. She thought that her mother would know her best, yet she had been tricked by Cynthal, right until that moment.
If Bethan did not personally find Cynthal to record their conversation, Natasha might not even regret her misunderstanding with Bethan Peterson.
At that thought, Bethan closed her eyes and laughed bitterly.
“I think she will forgive you.”
Natasha lifted her head up in surprise.
“But, she will never respect you as her mother anymore, because it isn’t worth it.”
Natasha looked at Bethan in a daze.
After a while, she wiped her tears away and nodded. “
Yes. If I was her, I would do the same thing too…”
A mother should know and trust her daughter the best, yet…
Seeing how badly Natasha was sobbing, even if Bethan was cruel, she could only sigh.
She passed a tissue to Natasha. “Wipe your tears.”
Inside, mother and daughter were confessing their heartfelt feelings to each other. Outside, Zach and Yuri were looking at each other.
“I’m a little sleepy.”
Yuri yawned. Zach rolled his eyes at him. He wanted to say something when he saw a person flash by at the staircase.
He furrowed his brows alertly. “Who is there?”
After a while, a woman in a black trench coat and black-framed glasses walked up. She was hidden in the dark, so no one could see her face clearly.
“Hello.”
She chuckled lightly and walked over. She shook her phone which had been turned off. “I ‘m here to visit someone, but my phone died. Could you lend me your phone? Let me make a phone call.”
Zach furrowed his brows looking at her. He said nothing.
Yuri, on the other hand, kindheartedly passed his phone to her. “Make it quick. Don’t stay here too long.” “Thank you.”
The woman accepted Yuri’s phone and went downstairs. Once she made sure that Zach and Yuri could only see her figure but could not hear her, she stopped in her tracks.
She swiftly found [Boss Neil] under contact and called.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
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