Chapter 239
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She called Tyrone into her room. "You call Liam, tell him I want to see him. Right now, tell him to come here immediately. Hurry."
Tyrone quickly went to find Liam.
Half an hour later, Liam hurriedly ran to the villa.
When he entered the room, he saw Bertha sitting on Derek's bed, her eyes lifeless, her whole body dull.
In her hand she was holding Derek's bloody shirt, her tears had been wiped away, only her eyes were red and swollen from crying so much that she couldn't hide it.
Liam bowed his head, his mood dropping. "Miss. Bertha, why did you call me so urgently?"
Bertha looked at the bloody shirt in her hand choked up and asked. "The day you and Derek went to that abandoned house, did you meet a member of the secret investigation department? Was he seriously injured?"
Liam didn't reply.
"Please tell me the truth, even if you tell the truth, things cannot change anymore. I just want to know the story."
Liam sighed and then spoke. "We didn't meet a member of the secret investigation department. It's because the boss didn't want you to worry so he lied, but, indeed, he was seriously injured."
Bertha frowned. "Why was he so seriously injured?"
"Boss, actually..."
Liam closed his swollen crying eyes and continued speaking.
'The boss is the captain of the fourteenth team of the National Investigation Bureau... That day, the superiors issued an emergency order, this type of order will only be given when something big happens. But the boss doesn't want to leave without saying goodbye to you, and he also wants to do one last thing for you. So he asked for a three-day delay, the wound on his body was the punishment for disobeying orders."
Family rebellion is not a small matter, if he is a little careless it will cause the whole thing to collapse. If he was a day late, he would face the risk of being stripped of his management rights. This is by no means a simple trivial matter.
But because of her, Derek accepted to be punished.
Liam tried to suppress his pain and continued to speak. 'He was beaten thirty times. In the end, the person who beat him was not cruel, so he only beat him twenty times."
Bertha glanced at the bloody shirt, she couldn't understand.
'What kind of punishment is that? Just being beaten twenty times has left him injured and bleeding like that?"
'This is a wooden stick covered with small thorns, just a light blow can make it bleed. What's more, he was burned before, there weren't many places on his back that could withstand punishment, even the last five blows were all above his waist..."
Liam couldn't continue, both angry and heartbroken.
Bertha didn't dare think about that anymore. Just listening made her feel pain all over her body.
He originally had wounds on his back, how could he withstand such severe punishment?
No wonder something happened to him this time. He was covered in wounds but still wanted to take revenge on her behalf. Does he not want to live anymore?
She clenched her bloody shirt, her knuckles turned white, and her nose began to sting again.
But in front of Liam, she still tried to hold back her tears.
Liam saw that she already knew the real situation. Although her expression was sad, in the end, she didn't shed a single tear. In his heart, he felt unfair.
Loving such a cruel woman is Derek's sadness.
But as a subordinate and an outsider, he had no right to criticize Bertha for not doing the right thing.
He sighed, speaking as calmly as possible.
'I came here today to say goodbye to Miss. Bertha. I have to go, I'm the boss's subordinate, now he's dead, I have to follow my new boss to work. After this... I won't return to City X anymore, Miss. Bertha, take care."
Bertha just looked at him silently.
Liam lowered his sad eyes, turned, and walked out the door. He had just taken two steps and felt dissatisfied again.
'No one is born understanding what love is. He once loved Laura but after she betrayed him, he was heartbroken. He married you when his heart was broken. Plus Laura reappears, and she once again seduces him, leaving him confused. Derek doesn't want to hurt you either. The moment you signed the divorce, he doubted his love for you. Please sympathize with him."
'When you jumped off the plane, Cadell pretended to borrow Derek's name to do it. Boss didn't know about this at all. He searched for you for more than half a month in the mountains and was chased and killed by Fawn. But in the end, he only received your revenge, humiliation, and torture."
'Every time you were in danger, he took his life to save you. But in the end, he was bullied and mistreated by you, and he never complained. He let go of his pride as a man, was despicable every day, and bowed his head before you, weren't you moved?"
Liam's words were like thousands of needles, piercing Bertha's heart strongly.
Pain spread throughout her body, painful.
She bit her lip until it bled, regret and self-blame welling up within her.
"Sorry."
When she said this word, her voice was hoarse.
Liam sighed again, regained the unusual emotion in his eyes, and went out, he helped her close the door.
Waiting until he was gone, Bertha held the bloody shirt in her arms. Tears flowed, cried a lot.
She suddenly remembered returning from the abandoned house that day.
He sat upright in the car, but it turned out that he was in so much pain that he didn't dare lean back on the seat.
When walking up the stairs, he held onto the railing and took one step at a time. The waist has a wound so every step will touch that area.
The first time he returned home but didn't immediately go to cook, he used the excuse of being sleepy. At that moment, his body probably couldn't bear it.
She was upset and punched her chest hard, each tear that fell to the floor contained endless sadness and heartache.
If he wasn't in extreme pain, how could he reveal so many loopholes? But she was completely unaware.
