Chapter 141
Chapter 141
Julien reckoned that Kieran didn’t value Julie, because after their divorce, he didn’t give her any
support in life.
If Kieran really cared about Julie, even if they were divorced, he wouldn’t have let the woman he loved
suffer, let alone run around for a living.
Julien saw with her own eyes how Julie worked day and night to pay for Sansa’s medical expenses.
She didn’t know that Kieran was Julie’s ex-husband, nor did she know about their past.
However, Julien’s impression of Julie’s ex-husband was always bad, until she met Daphne…
Ivan was born prematurely, otherwise Julie wouldn’t have ovepped with Bertha’s due date. The
reason for Ivan’s premature birth was a car ident.
This ident was nned by Lucian, targeting Julie’s life. By rights, Julie was the person Kieran loved
the most, and Kieran was Lucian’s cherished brother. Moreover, Julie was carrying Kieran’s baby. Julie
and her child were Kieran’s family and could bring him happiness. Lucian had no reason to hurt Julie,
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But the ident did happen. To be exact, it was Bertha who saved the lives of Julie and Ivan. From the
surveince footage, there was indeed a figure simr to Lucian in the passenger seat of the ident
vehicle.
At that time, Julie was crossing the road, preparing to go to the hospital for prenatal check-up. The car
was heading straight for her.
At that moment, Bertha suddenly rushed out, seemingly frightening the person in the car, causing the
car to slow down.and leave brake marks.
When Julie was knocked down, the car had already slowed down. If Bertha hadn’t suddenly run in front
of Julie, Lucian’s car would probably have run over Julie directly.
Bertha immediately took out her phone, dialed Kieran’s number, and then she and Julie were taken to
the hospital.
Bertha said that since the ne crash, Lucian’s personality had changed drastically. He made Bertha
feel strange and scared.
Julien remembered that Hayden once told her that Bertha confessed everything to Kieran before she
gave birth.
Julien looked at Kieran and said, “If I hadn’t burst in just now, were you going to tell Bertha everything
she told you before she gave
birth?”
“It seems I should find a way to shut Hayden up. He knows too much.” Kieran looked at Julien and
responded calmly.
With Julien’s questioning, Kieran’s thoughts gradually drifted back to the moment when Bertha
confessed to him.
At that time, Bertha was pregnant, but Dn firmly said that her child was not conceived through
artificial insemination. When Kieran found Bertha and was about to ask her about the child, Bertha
suddenly told him, “Your brother is still alive…”
Kieran’s expression at that time, he might not remember clearly. He only remembered asking hesitantly,
“What do you mean?”
“You’ve found out, haven’t you? The child in my stomach is not conceived artificially, but left by him.
He’s still alive. He didn’t die in that–
ident.”
“Why didn’t hee back then?” Kieran asked Bertha in a deep tone.
Bertha was silent for a long time before she answered, “He’s changed. Do you remember the day of
your birthday when you were drugged and had to marry Joyce?”
Kieran nodded. That was the day he first slept with Mrs. Hernandez. How could he forget?
Bertha sneered, “He thought I’ve been in love with you all these years, so he drugged you, hoping to
get your attention. He said if it wasn’t for me, you wouldn’t have been forced to marry Joyce. He
thought I and Joyce had hindered your free life, so he hated me, so he wanted to punish me…”
Looking down at her pregnant belly, Bertha’s eyes turned red, “He wanted to punish me this way…”
Bertha didn’t say that she didn’t love Kieran, because the person she loved was always Lucian, the
father of the child in her belly.
She loved Lucian, always had. Before the ident, Lucian treated Bertha as Julie’s good friend and
took care of her carefully.
He was like a ray of sunshine that quietly lit up her heart a long time ago.
Bertha was an orphan. Her only sister disappeared when she was ten. Over the years, she had been
looking for her sister, but to no avail. In her heart, she treated Julie as her own sister. If it wasn’t for her
sudden pregnancy…
Thinking of this, Bertha’s face showed sadness.
She said to Kieran, “The only thing that hasn’t changed about him is that he still loves you and cares
about you like before. The reason why I made that agreement to threaten you and deceive Joyce was
actually to make Lucian think the child in my stomach was yours. Only you can protect me and the
child. I know I betrayed Joyce, but I had no other choice. I want this child. I want to give birth to this
child safely. I don’t want to be forced by Lucian to abort.”
Although Lucian had be a stranger, Bertha, as an orphan, knew the pain of being abandoned by
her parents, so she desperately wanted to have this child.
She told herself that if she could sessfully give birth to the child, she would be a good mother, so…
she didn’t hesitate to betray the kind-hearted Julie, betray the good friend who always treated her as a
family member.
She knew that Lucian and Kieran were close brothers, so Kieran would agree to her proposal to protect
Lucian’s only descendant. If Lucian thought the child in her belly was Kieran’s, then he had no right to
force her to abort.
That was what Bertha originally thought, but…
“I overheard Lucian on the phone. He was saying that Joyce’s kid ain’t yours, but some other guy’s. He
was also talking about getting revenge for you… I don’t know what the hell Lucian might do when he’s
in a fit, but Joyce is definitely in danger!” Bertha blurted out to
Kieran.
Kieran just stared at her coldly and asked, “Why should I believe you?”
“Because I care about my own kid and Joyce’s life too!” Then, Bertha handed Kieran the recording of
Lucian’s call she had risked her life
to get.
Julien found out from Hayden that Kieran eventually believed Bertha. But he didn’t expect Lucian to act
so quickly. If Lucian hadn’t slowed down his car thinking that Bertha’s kid might be Kieran’s, that car
could have run over Julie.
Lucian had no idea why he wanted to hurt Julie. But from the recorded call, he was hell-bent on the
idea that Julie’s kid wasn’t Kieran’s.
Lucian resented that Julie and Bertha had stolen the free life that Kieran should have had. Bertha said,
“In Lucian’s eyes, all this is about getting back at them for you.”
At that time, Lucian was in the shadows, and Kieran was in the open. Lucian’s attempts to harm those
close to Kieran were like taking candy from a baby, while Kieran finding Lucian was like looking for a
needle in a haystack.
The only feasible n was to make Lucian believe that Kieran didn’t love Julie. The only way to make
Lucian stop was to have Kieran hurt Julie himself.
He knew how much Julie loved him and how hard she had tried to win him over. Because he knew that
Julie loved him more than her own life, Kieran deliberately let Julie overhear him say “save Bertha”
outside the operating room, to make her give up hope.
He told Julie that their child had died on the operating table because he knew that once Julie knew the
truth, she would prioritize his and their child’s lives.
By then, Julie, the silly woman, would surely rush to the front line to take a bullet at the slightest
danger. To protect her, Kieran lied.
Lucian could appear at any moment, threatening Julie’s life.
So when Julie asked him expectantly if he would be heartbroken if she died on the operating table, he
said “no” without hesitation.
So heter made it difficult for Julie to find a job, forcing her to run around for a living.
This was why Julien thought that Kieran didn’t cherish her.
A man who truly cherishes his woman wouldn’t make her suffer.
It wasn’t until Julien met Daphne that she realized she had been wrong…
Kieran had kept Daphne by Julie’s side!
Daphne was someone who would abandon all principles for Julie. Since meeting Julie, she had been
her best friend.
Kieran was indeed torturing Julie. Over the years, due to his deliberate obstruction, Julie never had a
decent job.
In fact, she initially wanted to work in aw firm, because that was her profession. The Julie back then
didn’t deliberately avoid this profession because Kieran had helped her get her professional
qualification, but because all thew firms in Whispering Pines didn’t want to hire her.
So, shepletely gave up the idea of being awyer.
Under Kieran’s secret oppression, for Sansa’s medical bills, Julie ran around, even doing several part-
time jobs a day.
However, Kieran indirectly created excellent conditions for Daphne..