Bella found a quiet place to answer, “Hello?”
“Where does your classmate live?”
She was even more uneasy when Kevin suddenly asked this, “Why do you ask?”
“I happen to be passing through T City on a business trip, so if you’ve already attended the wedding, I can give you a ride on my way back.”
She was relieved and politely declined, “No, I’ll be staying for two more days, so you can go back first.”
“Oh, never mind then.”
He resolutely hung up the phone, not even saying a word of greeting, but Bella didn’t mind this. It would have been a miracle for him to take the initiative to call her.
Returning back to the cafe in cheerful mood, glancing at Richard arguing with his son, she went forward to ask, “What’s wrong?”
“Bella, I don’t want to go home with daddy. I want to be with you.”
Braxton was in his twenties and crying at every turn.
“Do you go or not? If you don’t leave, I’ll break your legs.”
Richard said and was about to hit him. Bella hurriedly stopped, “Godfather, don’t you still have things to do? You just go do your business, and leave Braxton to me. I’ll send him back.”
“Is that okay? Would it be too much trouble for you?”
“It’s okay. It’s not troublesome at all.”
“Alright then, I’ll gotta go. Call me when you arrive safely.”
Richard nodded at Gillian, said goodbye and turned around to leave.
Gillian’s face fell from the moment Richard appeared. The more honest Bella was, the more angry she became, “Don’t think that I’ll believe that you guys are colluding to act in front of me. Listen to me clearly, one day I’ll rip off your fake mas, so you won’t have dignity to live in this world!”
“Then you also listen to me clearly, the one who should go to hell will definitely not be me.”
Bella took Braxton’s hand after saying that and stepped out of the cafe in triumph.
“Bella, where are you taking me?”
“Go home.”
“I’m not going home unless you come home with me…”
“Yes, I’ll come home with you.”
She sighed and took out her phone, unsurprised to see an unread text message, “I’ve cooperated with everything I should. I hope you’ll fulfill your promise as soon as possible.”
The sender, Richard.
She just relieved, but now began to be upset again.
On the way to the airport, she hesitated for a long time before speaking to Braxton, who was beside her, “Braxton, when you get home, tell dad that you don’t like me and don’t want to marry me, okay?”
Braxton was startled and answered truthfully, “But I like you. I want you to be my wife.”
“It doesn’t mean that I have to be your wife, and besides you don’t really understand the meaning of like.”
“I understand. Mommy says that missing someone is liking someone, and the person I miss the most is you, Bella.”
“That’s not liking, but just dependence.”
“I don’t care what it is. I just like you anyway!”
“…”
In the face of his naivety, Bella really felt very helpless.
After three hours of flight, she finally sent Braxton safely back home at ten o’clock in the evening, Jennifer saw her son back happily, and didn’t condemn Bella. She held Braxton, weeping and laughing, until he tossed on her shoulders to fall asleep.
Bella saw Braxton asleep, got up to leave. Although Jennifer was unhappy, she didn’t force her to stay, just instructed her solve the problem in B city as soon as possible and then come to Braxton, to fulfill her promise of taking care of him for life.
Walking out of the Cottons’ mansion, Bella was already exhausted after wandering back and forth between B City and T City in two days. She was tired physically and psychologically also suffered from inhumane torture.
She lived in the chaotic life of saying a lie to round out another lie, and she was really tired of it. But what could she do? There was simply no turning back for her….
She wasn’t sure where to go. She walked aimlessly along the empty road. In fact, she could have stayed overnight at the Cottons, but she didn’t want to. Because she knew that after tomorrow when Braxton woke up, it would be difficult for her to get out of it.
When she was at a loss, she inadvertently thought of Kevin. He said that he would pass through T city on business. Could it be that he happen to be in T city at this time?
Taking a chance, she dialed his number, but it rang unanswered for a long time. But she redialed, she heard a woman’s voice, “Hello, who’s there?”
Bella thought she had dialed the wrong number, so she took a look for confirmation. It clearly showed the name of Kevin. Why did a woman answer it at this midnight when one-night stands were most common?
“I’m the wife of Kevin, and who are you?”
The phone was silent for a moment, then came the voice of Kevin, “What is it?”
“What about cheating?”
“… Why are you so straightforward?”
“Are you really cheating again?”
“She is just my friend…”
“Kevin, do you also have friends of the opposite sex? I think I’m your only friend of the opposite sex.”
“I’m not done talking.”
“Oh, so you go on.”
“She’s just my friend’s wife.”
Bella didn’t believe, “Why would your friend’s wife answer your phone?”
“I went to the bathroom and she saw you keep calling, thinking that there was urgent matter so she answered the phone.”
“What about your friend? Why doesn’t he answer?”
“He went to the bathroom too.”
“You’re lying. Are you so close with your friend that you have to go to the bathroom all together?”
Kevin grunted, “So am I on good terms with you? Do I have to explain to you who I’m with and who I’m going to the bathroom with?”
“You said you had to be faithful to your marriage for as long as it existed! Give me your address.”
“What for?”
“I don’t believe a word you say. I’m going to use my wife’s rights now to check whether you lie to me or not.”
Bella was struggling with what reason to go to him, but she didn’t bother with it now.
“Are you really coming?”
“Yes.”
“Alright then, I’m in the entertainment room on the second floor of the Golden Business Hotel.”
Kevin quickly gave her the address. Before hanging up the phone, he also did not forget to banter and ridicule, “If you come, be quicker. If you come late, be careful of causing yourself trouble.”
Bella didn’t know what he meant until she came to the hotel and saw him.
A large business hotel with complete entertainment facilities, the entire second floor for customers to play places, there were billiard room, KTV, bar, SPA, catering, swimming pool and so on.
She didn’t know exactly where he was, and was about to call. A waiter came over respectfully, “Hello, is this Mrs. Jones-Sharp?”
Bella was stunned and nodded woodenly, “Yes.”
“Then please follow me.”
Following the attendant to the pool, she caught a glimpse of Kevin swimming. She was about to greet him, but someone behind her said, “Hi, Miss Burne-Brown, we meet again.”
She turned around in horror, and when she saw the person who called her, her face fell abruptly. Enemies were likely to meet each other. She ran into Kevin’s bad friends again.
There were three men in shorts in chairs, surrounded by several beautiful and busty women with sexy body lines. They massaged hard on the men’s strong body, and they enjoyed it very much.
“Come and sit down.”
Roman waved at her, and she reluctantly sat over, and faked a smile, “Why are you guys here?”
“We go to a business trip.”
“You guys are really tacitly on this errand. All of you have come.”
Ives shook his head, “Not all of us come. There is someone not here. Didn’t you notice?”
“Three of you four are here. He is not important.”
Osmond giggled, “You’re quite smart. I’m sure you’re frank.”
“Didn’t Kevin say that? Don’t be blinded by some pure appearances, I’m actually very narrow-minded.”
“How is that possible? You are well educated anyway. I heard that your own family is also in business.”
“Yes.”
“And what’s your father’s name?”
“Wilson Burne-Brown.”
Roman was quite surprised, “He can’t be that ass-kisser who works on construction, right?”
Osmond glared at him, “Don’t be rude. It’s too disgraceful to Bella.”
It was already well known that her father liked to flatter, and Bella didn’t feel humiliated. Because being Wilson’s daughter was already humiliating.
Therefore, she generously admitted, “Yes. He is exactly my father.”
She admitted so frankly. Roman was instead a little embarrassed, and he patted his chest to ensure, “Since he’s your father, we will definitely take care of him in the future.”
“Thank you.”
“By the way, why are you in T City?”
Ives asked curiously.
“I have a classmate who got married and came here for the wedding.”
“Oh, no wonder Kevin wanted to take a detour to come here, so it’s convenient to take you back.”
Bella was appalled and raised her eyebrows, “Didn’t you guys pass through here?”
“Of course we don’t go through. We can go straight back to B City. Because Kevin said he had to do some business here. We came all the way here with him.”
So that was the case, Bella was flattered.
She got up and walked towards the pool, waving at Kevin, “Hey, you come up here.”
Kevin glanced at her calmly and ignored her, but she continued to wave, “Hey, you come up here, hurry up.”