Contract Marriage With The Disabled CEO

Chapter 158 Childhood Memory

The moment she walked out of the Watson villa, Betty suddenly felt very lost.

So this was the closure…

From this day on, she did not owe Roger anymore, she did not owe the Watsons anymore. And whatever the Watsons had done to her did not matter anymore either.

From now on, all she had was but her mother.

Technically, it was not totally true.

She still had Kerwin.

At the thought of that, she suddenly felt all warm and strong.

After she left the Watson villa, Kerwin took

Betty in the car and let Peter drive them home.

On the way, Betty either was lost in her thoughts or kept her head low with red-rimmed eyes.

Kerwin thought he should give Betty the time to let it all out.

She was exhausted. With all these bad memories coming back in one day, only a strong-willed mind would be able to take all of it.

In the face of the bombardment from the

Watsons, the heart of the frail-looking Betty must have been broken into millions of pieces. Only God knew how sad she must be!

pulled her into his arms and whispered,

if she had found a bonfire, warm enough to keep her from any

Before Kerwin, she didn’t have to pretend and put up a front. All

all these years of entanglements, Betty finally drew the line with the Watsons once and for all. With all the childhood bullying, curse hurling, and torturing, and all the shaming and name calling after she grew

for good! Betty felt the sudden relief. She marveled at the weight of the burden she had carried with herself for all these

Betty in

her fill, Kerwin lowered his eyes at her, “Do you feel better

nodded her

me about your

her on the cheek.

eyes and started to tell Kerwin about her

told him, “When I was a little kid, the Watsons said one day that they’d take me with them for a trip to the seaside. I was exhilarated. I had never seen the sea. I had only read from the books that the sea was blue. That the stretch of the coastline went all the way to the other side

was a romantic place, which I had waited for so long. Mom was so busy so she was actually in favor of me going on a trip together with them. We actually had fun as a family at the seaside. The sea was beautiful. I threw all my sorrows

sigh. What had happened next was not that

into the crack or she had done it just to frame me, because I swear I saw the smile on her face when the doll fell into the crack. Emily cried and screamed. Daisy got anxious, so she ordered me to climb down the crack. She said I was

closed her eyes slightly. At the recollection of that experience,

was scared. That was the first time in my life I was that close to the sea. There were so many rocks, overgrown with pointy shells and slippery seaweeds. But still, I climbed in. God knew how hard I had tried to reach for that doll and get it. I scraped my arms and legs on the

noticed these

had thought that she had gotten them. because of childhood naughtiness. The true story was unexpected to him.

and hurt so bad, but Daisy and Emily took a cab and left me, saying Dad was waiting for them for dinner.

had gone a long way, hungry and exhausted, her wounds hurting so bad.

finished dinner and left nothing for her. So she had been starved for the

she had missed

Sherry asked her if she had had fun, Betty had been afraid that her mother would be

with a

never good at words, so he just held her tight in his arms quietly.

a low voice, “Do you regret letting