Chapter 167
"Since you like my mommy so much, why did you hurt her?"
Bennett spoke without hesitation. Their maternal grandmother had told them about how his father treated his mother.
"It's my fault."
Trevor decided not to hide anything in front of his child and let out a long sigh.
Pausing for a moment, he continued, "It's me who hurt your mommy. When your mommy was at her most vulnerable moment, I wasn't with her." "So, do you regret it now?" Bennett asked tentatively.
He could see tears filling in his father's eyes.
"Yeah," Trevor answered in a low voice.
He felt more than regretful. If he hadn't met Faye at the airport at that time, he would have followed her and gone to the country where war had broken out. "Actually, there's something I haven't told you yet."NôvelDrama.Org is the owner.
Bennett lowered his head, rubbing his hands.
"What's it?" Trevor suddenly sprang to his feet and looked up at him. He wondered if Bennett was aware of Jessica's whereabouts.
"Mommy has returned to Herington with my other siblings. It's just that she has been hiding it from you all this while."
Bennett thought his father didn't know about that.
"Really? Have they met up with you?"
Trevor lay back on the bed again. Feeling disappointed, he thought it was about where Jessica was.
For the first time, he felt so powerless. Finding out a woman's whereabouts was so difficult.
"No, I haven't seen Mommy, only my brothers. For some reason, Mommy hasn't come to see me. I miss her..."
As Bennett spoke, he started sobbing. After all, he was just a child. It was normal that he couldn't stop thinking about his mother.
Trevor's heart clenched as he saw Bennett crying.
Without a second thought, he reached out and pulled Bennett into his arms.
"Dad, does Mommy not want me anymore?" Bennett continued sobbing hysterically.
Tears dropped on Trevor's chest.
"No, that's not it. Bennett, you're such a good boy. Your mommy won't leave you. It's just that Mommy doesn't want me... It's my bad."
He felt as if his heart had been pierced by a sharp blade. It hurt so much that he couldn't breathe.
"Since you've known that was a misunderstanding, why didn't you look for Mommy? Why couldn't you live happily together with Mommy? The parents of every other child live happily together. Why are my parents separated?"
Every word Bennett said hit Trevor in his heart. A pang of guilt surged through him.
It was all his fault. He wondered how the children grew up without their parents over the years.
All of a sudden, he felt that he was particularly useless. "What's the point in handling the business well while my children lived their lives without the love of their parents? Trevor Gulliford! You've been living your life in vain," he rebuked himself inwardly.
Outside the door, Old Mr. Gulliford frowned as he looked at them, who were crying and hugging each other in the room, through the crack.
He then turned around and went downstairs. Sitting on the couch in the living room, he tapped his cane in his hand on the ground.
"It's never a good idea to let the child live without his mother for a long time," he murmured to Gabriel, who was standing at the side. "But, isn't Mr. Bennett's mother dead?"
Gabriel frowned. There was no way he could get the corpse over.
"You can't get the dead person over, but you can find the one alive. Isn't there a woman who wants to be the mother of the children of the
Gulliford family?" Old Mr. Gulifo nee
uttered in a cold voice while,
tightening his grip on the cane in his hand.
"What do you mean by that?" Gabriel asked tentatively with a frown.
"Go get that person for me."
Half an hour later, a woman entered the Gulliford family mansion.
The father and son duo didn't know about the existence of this woman. Bennett even helped Trevor go downstairs to have a meal in the dining room.