Chapter 429
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Bertha sighed, hiding the dissatisfaction in her eyes. She told him, "Go wake up the maid, cook him something to relieve his hangover, and bring it over here."
"Yes!"
Jamie rushed downstairs.
Bertha wrapped herself tightly in her thick fur nightgown, her expression calm and indifferent as she went downstairs.
Bruno fell on the sofa drunk, his handsome face red, his consciousness blurred.
Bertha covered her nose with her sleeve and sprayed some non-toxic deodorant to mask the smell of alcohol that filled the living room.
She walked up to Bruno and used the sole of her foot to kick his knee a few times, she wanted to wake him up.
'Wake up, Bruno. This is no place for you to sleep, after drinking your tea, please quickly return to your Arzee palace."
Bruno's eyelashes trembled, and his hazy consciousness gradually returned.
Hearing Bertha's voice, his arm unconsciously searched for the source of the sound, he grabbed a corner of her nightgown.
In an instant, the disgust in Bertha's eyes could no longer be hidden, she immediately snatched the corner of her shirt from his hand.
"Let me go."
Bruno grabbed it so tightly, he used extreme force.
She took a deep breath, remembering what happened in prison this morning, when she saw Liam being tortured to the point that his entire body was covered in blood, causing anger to well up in her heart.
When Jamie went to look for the maid, she had yet to return.
She swung her hand and slapped that handsome face twice without mercy.
Her hand slapped his face twice, the sound was sharp and extremely resonant.
The pain awakened Bruno, and then he let go of the corner of her shirt and sat up from the sofa.
He rubbed his aching head, then rubbed his sore cheeks, and then he looked up at Bertha in bewilderment.
'Bertha?"
Bertha coldly and arrogantly raised her chin. After hitting someone, she glanced at him without the slightest guilt: "You ran to me drunk in the middle of the night, ruining my usual sleep, do you know? If you wake up drunk, get out quickly."
Bruno bowed his head as if he didn't hear what she said, suddenly he sobbed softly.
Those deep blue phoenix eyes were full of sadness and helplessness, his eye sockets were red, there were still traces of her hand on his face, and it looked as if he had been bullied.
Bertha coldly watched him shed tears, but in her heart, she did not waver: "Stop pretending. Go quickly, your whole body stinks, even room spray can't overcome the smell of alcohol on you."
She wiped away the disgust in her eyes, she turned around to go upstairs, but Bruno grabbed the corner of her shirt.
'Bertha, do you still remember seven years ago? In the spring, I take you to the horse racing prairie. In the summer, I jump into the lake to pick lotus flowers for you. In the fall, I teach you archery. In winter, we build snowmen and throw snow, that day we are carefree..."
Bertha suddenly stopped, but she didn't look back.
Bruno seemed to fall into a wave of beautiful memories, his tears flowing more and more.
'I am an illegitimate child. Although my father tried his best to hide his identity, I had many brothers and sisters. I have no status in Felix's family. My dad is too busy and doesn't take care of me. Even if I am bullied, I can only endure it silently."
'Since childhood, I have understood the principle that whatever I want, I must achieve it myself. To be worthy of your status, that year I chose to temporarily leave you and enter the Secret Investigation Department."
'Those training days were really difficult. But as long as I think of you, I can continue to persevere. I always think you just need to wait a little longer. At most, in a few years, when I reach the position of head of the secret investigation department, I will return to marry you, but…"
He felt a lump in his throat, unable to stop himself from crying.
During these years, all the suffering was borne by him alone. He had never shown such heartache and despair in front of others before.
'But, I didn't expect that you were married. I regret it. I regret that I didn't hug you tightly that time. Why did I let go of your hand?"
Countless images of old events appear one after another before Bertha's eyes.
Bertha quietly sobbed: "If it's a mistake, there's no chance to do it again. Our lives can only look forward. At first, you hit a dead end. These things are caused by you."
She stood quietly in place, listening to him continue to express his thoughts.
'Didn't you and Shane miss one too? Why can you forgive him? But why can't you forgive me?"
'Do you know, not long ago you went to a bar in city X, I hated the man sitting next to you at that time, so why not me?"
'I'm jealous, jealous to the point of going crazy. That's why I knew he would protect you and arranged for my subordinates to trap the biochemical virus S404 in his body. I naively thought that as long as he died, you could come back to look at me again."
'But I didn't expect that he was the boss of the National Investigation Bureau, and there was a doctor there who could save him for more than half a year. What I didn't expect was that this would make you love him even more, in your heart and your eyes there is only him..."
Speaking of this, Bertha's hatred surfaced again, she coldly pushed away the hand holding the corner of her shirt.
"You're drunk. Then the maid will get you some hangover tea. After drinking, ask Jamie to take you back to Arzee Palace. I'm so sleepy, I'm going back to bed."
She walked towards the stairs without turning back.
Just as he reached the stairs, Bruno's low, desperate voice rang out.
