Anger boiled in her chest. She tugged at Brettley’s arm. “Honey, she’s saying we don’t love each other. Kiss me and prove it to her! “
Brettley stiffened slightly, his arm still in her grip.
Running into Bethan in this situation already made him feel awkward, and now Alice wanted him to act all lovey-dovey in front of her?
And… kiss her?
He frowned. “Stop making a scene.”
Since Alice returned to his side, he did consider kissing her.
But every time he almost did, somehow, his body instinctively rejected her.
He even consulted a psychiatrist because of this.
The psychiatrist said it could be because they had been apart for too long. Even though they loved each other mentally, but physically they were strangers.
He could not even kiss her in private, how could he do it here in public?
“I’m not making a scene.”
Alice was determined to take this opportunity to force Brettley to kiss her in front of Bethan. “You don’t love me anymore, do you?”
He frowned and looked at her helplessly. “I don’t have to prove my love for you in front of outsiders, do I?”
The word ‘outsiders’ made Bethan’s heart feel as if it had been squeezed.
But his explanation was not enough to satisfy Alice. She bit her lip. “I want you to! “
Then, she grasped the opportunity, stood up on her tiptoes and circled her arms around his neck, pouting her lips in his direction…
Standing opposite the two of them, Bethan looked on, her heart felt as if it was being torn into pieces by an invisible hand.
Alice looked like her in the past.
In the eyes of the public, he was a kind and loving husband, fulfilling his wife’s every whim.
But in reality, he did not even want to give her a kiss.
Looking as their lips inched closer and closer, Bethan knew she should look away.
But she could not help it, she stood there doggedly, her eyes focused on them.
The ache in her heart intensified, growing more and more uncomfortable, but still, she couldn’t move her eyes away from them.
Just when their lips almost touched, Brettley’s phone rang.
The moment the ringtone was heard, Brettley instinctively pushed Alice away and turned to answer the phone.
Looking at his turned back, Alice bit her lip furiously. So close, so, so close!
She was so close to kissing his lips!
“It looks like your act has failed, Mrs. Morrison.”
Bethan hooked her lips up in a smile, threw her a cold glance, and turned to leave. “You should discuss it with Mr. Morrison beforehand before acting out a skit in front of me.”
Her taunts and ridicule made Alice bite her lip harshly.
Raising her head, she looked at the CCTV camera above her, an evil glint shining in her eyes.
The next second, when Bethan walked into the CCTV camera’s blind spot, Alice rushed forward Caught off guard, Bethan was knocked into the wall.
Right when she was about to lose balance and fall, Bethan instinctively placed her hand on the wall to steady herself.
Theo Allen’s most famous painting, ‘The Kite and The Girl’ hung on the wall. “Shrick — — “
Bethan’s fingers pierced a hole in Theo Allen’s world- renowned masterpiece.
“Oh my god…”
Right when Bethan’s finger pierced through the painting, Alice exclaimed in shock, “This is Mr. Allen’s favorite painting! Bethan, even if you hate me, you don’t have to go so far as to destroy this painting just because I like it?”
There were not many people in the exhibition hall at night, and the spot where they stood was darkly lit, so initially, no one noticed the ruckus going on between them.
With Alice’s shout, everyone turned their attention to them.
Before Bethan could regain her footing, the crowd’s critical stares and words of reproach were heard.
“Why did you come to an art exhibition if you didn’t appreciate art?”
“Apparently, someone once offered Master Allen ten million dollars to buy this piece of art but he refused! “
“Oh my god, can she afford to compensate him?
“Jealous women are so crazy, destroying it just because someone else liked it?”
The rumble of the crowd’s discussion was heard clearly.
Bethan smiled wryly.
She drowned out the voices behind her and turned to look at the hole on the painting she accidentally made with her finger.
All along, she thought Alice was a quiet opportunist, someone who never wore their emotions on their face.
After all, to pour her time and effort into learning everything about someone else, and disguise herself as that person required a lot of patience and determination.
But she was wrong.
Alice Peterson was much more despicable than she thought.
“Miss.”
Behind her, the cold voice of the exhibition manager rang out, “You will have to suffer the consequences for destroying Master Allen’s painting. I’ll give you three options, firstly, monetary compensation, second, replace the painting with a brand new one and lastly, legal action. Which one would you prefer?”
Bethan turned and glanced at the manager. “What if I told you there’s a hidden truth behind destroying the painting?”
Alice laughed lightly, “Ms. Bethan destroyed this painting intentionally because she didn’t like me, what hidden truth can there be?”
Then, she turned and looked at the manager, acting high and righteous, “But since she put it that way, we should take a look at the CCTV recording. What if she’s indeed innocent?”
The manager considered it for a second. “Please follow me.”
The group of them went to the surveillance room.
“Manager, because of our mistake while displaying the paintings, the location where this painting was displayed…”
The staff member in the surveillance room bit his lip and said, “Is not within the camera’s radius.”
“Is this how you work?! “
The manager was about to explode with anger when the staff member hurriedly opened his mouth to make up for his mistake. “But when I was looking through the recording just now, I noticed someone was standing in the spot where he would’ve clearly seen everything that happened! And according to the CCTV recording, when the incident occurred, his eyes were fixed in the direction of the painting! As long as we can get him to testify…”
The manager frowned, “So bring him here right now, quick! “
Their conversation made Alice’s brows screw tightly together.
When she was pushing Bethan…
She made sure there were no CCTVs and no witnesses!
How could it be…
She paused and stepped forward. “It’s hardly fair to rely on a witness’ testimony. Humans are not machines, they can’t be 100% fair, what if that person is Bethan’s friend, then we would get tricked, wouldn’t we?”
The manager paused and looked at the person on the CCTV recording.
“This person wouldn’t lie.”
He laughed lightly and pointed at the person on the recording. “Mrs. Morrison, this is Mr. Morrison, right?
Alice stiffened and immediately looked over —- The person on the screen was indeed Brettley.
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.
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