Chapter 743: Chapter 743: I’m the One Getting Hit, Why Are You Crying?

“Bertha Swift!”

Adam Piers looked at Bertha Swift, who was attempting to open the door. He couldn’t bear it any longer and let out a low growl. His cheek stung like fire. Although he was often scolded or kicked by his father at home, his father had never hit his face.

But did this woman get addicted to slapping him? Last time she slapped him without distinguishing right from wrong after waking up in a hotel. Today, after he saved her from the reporters and taught the pervert a lesson, not only did she not thank him, but she also smeared him and slapped him again. Did she really think he was that easy to bully?

Adam’s expression was dark. The usual mocking smile in his eyes was replaced with ice shards, watching Bertha Swift throw a tantrum.

Bertha, having suffered such great humiliation today, and inexplicably gaining a child, felt extremely devastated. All her usual manners were forgotten as she struggled to get out of the car. Suddenly, hearing Adam’s shout, a wave of indescribable grievance made her eyes red. Yet not wanting Adam to see her make a fool of herself, she turned her head and endured it, her body trembling slightly.

Seeing this, Adam took a deep breath, remembering his real purpose for seeking Bertha out today and the online rumors. “Why did you… go to the hospital?”

That day, after waking up and getting slapped by this woman, Adam was both angry and annoyed. He hadn’t given any thought to contraception.

Bertha heard him and trembled even more violently, not wanting to say a word to Adam.

Watching her trembling body and her resistance towards him, Adam felt very dissatisfied. He reached out and pinched Bertha’s chin, turning her face towards him. The words of reprimand were on the tip of his tongue, but when he saw her red eyes, an inexplicable discomfort bloomed in his heart. “I’m the one who got hit. Why are you crying?”

Bertha forcefully turned her face away, her voice somewhat hoarse. “Aren’t you just asking if I’m pregnant? Yes, I am. But don’t worry, I’ll handle it myself. No need for Master Adam to be concerned.”

Adam’s hand holding Bertha stiffened. He stared at her in a daze. He understood every word she said, but when combined, he couldn’t believe it.

After a long while, Adam slowly and uncertainly asked, “You’re pregnant? Mine?”

Adam’s “Mine?” was purely a disbelief in this fact, but to Bertha’s ears, it became an even greater humiliation. Her face turned pale. “You can deny it, but I won’t let it stay.”

“You dare!” Adam finally realized what Bertha was saying and responded furiously.

Bertha was stunned by his roar. “Why wouldn’t I dare? It’s my body, not yours…”

Listening to Bertha’s pretty little mouth spout these words, Adam smiled angrily. Before she could finish, he lifted her chin with slight force and harshly pressed his lips down on hers.

This woman shouldn’t have a mouth.

“Mm mm…” Bertha’s chin hurt from the pinch. Before she could recover, Adam’s slovenly handsome face enlarged before her eyes. Then her lips hurt as well. She reacted and struggled to push Adam away, but he used his other hand to grip her waist, pressing her firmly against the seat. She struggled in vain, only to be kissed more fiercely.

The immense anger and sense of humiliation made Bertha hate Adam deeply. Ignoring everything, she bit him in return.

Adam didn’t expect the bite and immediately felt pain, letting go of the woman. He licked his tongue and tasted a sweet, metallic flavor. Touching it with his fingers, he winced in pain. Looking at Bertha coldly, he sneered, “Are you a dog?”

Feeling uneasy under Adam’s intense, invasive stare, Bertha still held her breath and shouted, “You… you deserved it!”

“Oh, how exactly did I deserve it? Don’t forget, all this happened because you pounced on me that day. If our genders were switched, I could accuse you of assault!” Adam’s face was cold, but his tone was mischievous and wicked, leaving Bertha unable to retort.

Bertha’s face flushed red. “You… you… how can you be so shameless, who assa–”

“Hmm?” Bertha couldn’t finish the last word. Adam, back to his usual carefree demeanor, hummed deliberately, forcing Bertha to complete her sentence.

Bertha, fully aware of this man’s roguish nature, turned her head away, not wanting to argue with him any longer. But Adam, restraining his usual slovenly demeanor, threatened, “The child in your belly is mine. If I don’t say otherwise and you dare to harm it, I’ll make the entire Swift family pay. Don’t think that only Brandon has power in the Piers family.”

These words were undeniably heavy.

Bertha bit her lip hard. Though she didn’t know why Adam exposed their scandalous photos, the situation had reached a point where she would most likely have to marry this scoundrel.

Just the thought of it made her even sadder.

Seeing Bertha’s body tremble lightly, Adam felt a sudden, inexplicable irritation, but he knew that she had listened.

As long as she listened, anything was fine.

…

The study.

Adam’s situation was reported to Brandon Piers immediately.

The man’s handsome eyebrows carried a hint of a smile. “Have the PR department coordinate with Adam, and make sure Hughes follows up as well.”

“Rest assured.” Kelvin Max replied and contacted the Piers family’s PR department.

Soon, the Piers family’s official Twitter account came out to personally explain that the one engaged to Miss Swift had always been Master Adam from the second branch. As for Master Brandon, he had long had a fiancee. They had held their engagement ceremony a year ago. They hoped everyone would refrain from spreading falsehoods.

Netizens who were spamming green emojis under Brandon Piers’s Twitter were collectively confused. It had always been Adam engaged to Bertha Swift? How was that possible?

Did they think they were fools?

But when the crowd angrily stormed the Piers family’s official Twitter account, they found that the previous announcement of Master Piers’s engagement to Miss Swift did not specify which Master Piers. Indeed, the Piers family had more than one Master Piers, not just Brandon.

This…

Everyone was dumbfounded. Had they been spreading the wrong gossip?

Then a Twitter celebrity quickly released a video of Adam protecting Bertha at the hospital entrance that afternoon. In the video, Adam made it very clear that it was always he who was engaged to Bertha Swift.

Unwilling to accept it, netizens searched for all the news about Brandon Piers and Bertha Swift’s engagement and marriage in recent days. They found only references to a “Master Piers,” without specifying which one. They had assumed it to be Brandon.

Some skeptics questioned the past instances of Brandon and Bertha appearing together. Reviewing the footage, they found Brandon had been indifferent to Bertha, unlike a fiance. In contrast, during Brandon’s engagement with that previously engaged person, his manner was entirely that of an unwed man, and his crazed reaction after their accident further supported this. Thus, the rumored illicit affair between the future sister-in-law and her uncle was just a big misunderstanding.

Wrapped up in all this misinterpreted gossip, everyone was left flabbergasted. “Just this? Just this?”