“Are you okay?” “I’m fine.”
Anne hooked an arm through hers intimately and said, “Come on, we’ll go to my house for soup! “
The three of them boarded John’s car. On the way, Anne chattered non-stop about the coincidence that day.
That day, because of Bethan’s pregnancy tests, a misunderstanding was caused between Anne and John, and that later led to his promotion.
Bethan looked outside the window, the scene from that day appearing in front of her eyes.
The night before, she and Brettley had slept together for the first time in six years.
But sadly, she did not get pregnant. A surge of sadness gushed in her chest.
Now that this new unknown ‘Bethan Peterson’ had appeared, it would be almost impossible for her to get pregnant with Brettley’s child again.
Not too long later, they reached Anne’s home.
John helped Anne set up the pot for the soup then shrugged on his jacket and left. “I won’t be in the way of you two best friends reconnecting.”
When the sounds of his footsteps disappeared at the end of the hallway, Anne heaved a sigh of relief, clutching Bethan’s hand in grief and said, “I was almost shocked to death when Neil called me and told me you were at the police station! What happened, why would your doppelg?nger suddenly appear?”
“Someone has her eyes on the position as Mrs. Morrison.”
Bethan sighed and told Anne about everything that happened recently.
“Oh my god, how could something like this happen?”
Anne’s heart ached uncontrollably. “Neil said he can take care of the situation over there at Blue Bay Villa, you don’t have to worry about him and Nellie. You should stay here with me for now.”
“Thank you.”
Bethan raised her wine glass and emptied it.
Anne could tell she was in a bad mood, but she did not know how to comfort her, all she could do was match her glass for glass.
Then, she became drunk.
Leaning on Anne’s shoulder, Bethan’s tears soaked through her clothes.
“I just want to save Nigel, to give my children and myself a good life, why is it so difficult? Why can’t I make Cynthal and Brettley pay for their actions?”
Anne hugged her tightly, “Everything will be alright.”
She comforted Bethan all the way till midnight. Finally, Bethan fell asleep.
She switched off the lights in the room and tidied up the mess on the coffee table.
However, when she went downstairs to throw out the trash, she ran into Brettley.
He stood beside his car smoking and did not notice Anne’s appearance.
She hesitated for a second, but mustered her courage and approached him.
“Mr. Morrison?”
The man turned around, saw it was her and took a drag off his cigarette elegantly.
“You’re still awake? “
Anne glanced at the cigarette butts at his feet. There were more than ten of them, a t least.
“Mr. Morrison, your beloved wife is back, shouldn’t you be in her arms at home right now? Why are you here?”
Brettley paused and smiled. “I can’t sleep.”
The woman he had been missing for six whole years was finally back, like what Anne described, he thought he would be sleeping peacefully with his wife in his arms.
But somehow, he just could not fall asleep.
His love for her had been carved into his heart and his bones throughout the past six years, but whenever he wanted to get intimate with Alice, his body rejected it instinctively.
What’s more, when he was hugging Alice, he would think of Bethan.
Tonight he tried for a long time and yet he still could not fall asleep with Bethan Peterson in his arms like he used to six years ago.
Finally, he had no choice but to leave the house with work as an excuse and left her alone at home.
Unconsciously, he arrived here.
He threw the cigarette butt onto the floor and crushed it with his foot. “Where’s Bethan?”
When she left the prison tonight, he was watching from afar as she boarded John’s car.
“She was in a bad mood, so she got drunk and fell asleep.”
Brettley’s eyes darkened.
After a second, he sighed in a low voice, “That’s understandable.”
The two children that she had poured all her time and effort into raising for six years were now suddenly back in their parents’ arms, maybe she was having a hard time accepting that fact?
“Mr. Morrison.”
Anne frowned. “I have a question.”
“Go ahead.”
“You always said in public that you love your wife, you want her home and you would be good to her your entire life. But now that she’s really back, you come here in the middle of the night. Have you… fallen for Bethan?”
“Ms. Zimmer, you tell a good joke.”
Brettley denied without a moment’s hesitation. “I’m just expressing my concern.”
His lips lifted in a faint smile. “After all, she once poured all her time and effort into my children.”
Anne laughed.
“Fine if you don’t want to admit it. I’m going back up. You should go home soon, in case people misunderstand.”
Back in her room, Anne instinctively took a peek downstairs before climbing into bed.
The man remained where he was, lighting yet another cigarette.
She rolled her eyes. Brettley Morrison Early the next morning, the hungover Bethan was rudely awakened by the ring of her phone.
The call was from Shannon.
The once proud and haughty Design Director was now Bethan’s assistant.
On the other end of the phone, she laughed, as if trying to flatter Bethan, “Director, you haven’t been to the office in two days, are you coming in today to guide us with some work? After all, us at the design department need you to come up with the design scheme.”
Bethan rubbed a spot between her eyebrows. “Wasn’t I fired?” “Fired?”
On the other end of the phone, Shannon paused. “
Are you perhaps cracking a joke? Someone like you, you’re so famous, besides you were directly appointed by President Morrison’s father, who could fire you?”
Bethan climbed up from the bed, it took her a long while before she could gather her wits about her. “
I’m going into the office today.”
Since she was not fired, she still had to work.
After all, this was the only connection between her and Brettley now.
It was not because she cared about Brettley, but because…
With the two little children by Brettley and Alice’s side, she had to try her best to approach them.
Sucking in a deep breath, she climbed out of bed and started washing up.
Anne leaned on the door to the bathroom and yawned. “Guess who I saw last night after you fell asleep?”
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