Initially, at this table, Alice should be the one who should be closest to Gwen.
However, why did Bethan and Gwen become good friends instead in the end, while Alice became the outsider?
Everything that Bethan was saying and doing at that moment only seemed to be logical if it was Alice doing them.
However…
Alice only buried her head and ate non-stop.
Noticing his gaze, Alice looked up and smiled prettily. “Why are you not eating but looking at me?”
Brettley smiled. “I thought that you would have said something.”
Alice shuddered a little.
After a moment, she lifted her head, smiled, and looked at Bethan. “If Brettley did not say it, I wouldn’t have known that Ms. Hailey had done so many things.”
Then, she weighed her words before saying with a smile, “Perhaps Ms. Hailey is jealous of Ms. Bethan’s talent? After all, Bethan is an exceptional jewelry designer. The Walter family is also in the jewelry business. Why would Ms. Hailey want to get rid of such a talented designer like Bethan?”
Her indifferent statement did not mention her previous best friend, Gwen.
Brettley furrowed his brows tightly. His Bethan Peterson in the past was not a person like that. She was a kindhearted and gentle woman. She would always care about other people’s feelings.
For example, according to Bethan Peterson in the past, the words that Bethan said on behalf of the Larson family, she would say them too.
However, at that moment, not only did Alice not help the Larson family, but when he asked her to say a word or two, she only said unhelpful things.
Was it time that changed her, or…
The meal ended with Old Mr. Walter apologizing politely to Gwen.
After the meal, Bethan took the initiative to visit Gwen’s father with her.
Brettley had some work to do. He arranged a few bodyguards to wait for Alice outside and left first.
After everyone left, only Alice and Old Mr. Walter were left in the dining room.
“I told you to not be too greedy.”
Old Mr. Walter lit a cigarette and swept Alice a cold glance. “Ever since you had the surgery to change into this face, I have warned you that if you are going to assume another person’s identity, you have to forget that your past that you are the heiress to the Walter family!
“Look at what happened. You think that just because you are in Sea City, you are in your territory. You used all your power to deal with Bethan! “
Then, he harrumphed coldly, “If it were not for the scapegoat to take your blame, how would you have planned to handle this?”
Alice shrugged. She reached her slender finger out and gently fiddled with the glass on the table. “I never would have thought that Brettley would value her so much. He actually even investigated this incident.”
He even managed to investigate Gavin, whom she hired to harass Bethan.
How much did Brettley value Bethan?
“If you don’t want others to know about your wrongdoings, don’t do them! “
Old Mr. Walter glared at her coldly. “I’ve already said just now. I’m going to send you overseas to study for five years. In five years’ time, if you can truly become the real Mrs. Morrison, I ’11 treat it as if you are not my daughter. However, if someone were to expose you, I’ll resume your identity as my daughter after five years when you come back.”
Alice lazily responded.
Old Mr. Walter sighed resentfully, “For the next five years, the Walter family no longer has an heiress.
You cannot do bad things in her name! “
“I know.”
Alice swept an annoyed glance at Old Mr. Walter. “I’ll be better in the future. I ‘m only being arrogant now because no matter what I do, I have a scapegoat to blame it on.”
Then, she sneered, “That puppet. I got her to take my place just to be a scapegoat. She still foolishly thinks that she would live a good life as the heiress of the Walter family. How pathetic.”
Hailey, who was upstairs, just got the news that Brettley had left. She was about to anxiously head down. Just when she was at the railings of the second floor, she heard Alice’s cold voice coming from below.
Hailey subconsciously took a few steps back.
Her heart sank in disappointment and in despair.
In the end, she directly went back to her room, picked up her phone, and dialed a number.
“Mr. Morrison, I have something to tell you.”
When he received Hailey’s call, Brettley was sitting in the car having a simple international meeting.
He did not know why but since the afternoon the day before, Morrison Group has been constantly hacked by foreign hackers.
All of them were skillful hackers. Even Brettley would need some time to solve them.
After the hackers infiltrated past the Morrison Group’s firewall, they went straight for the Morrison Group’s core data. It was as if they were determined to make Morrison Group go bankrupt at all costs.
At the same time, Malcolm Quinn of the Quinn Group also began to take advantage of the opportunity.
In less than two days, the Morrison Group was being attacked from front and back.
Brettley’s instincts told him that these things had something to do with Bethan.
First, Malcolm and Bethan are good friends and future fiancés.
Also, the hacker… he might very possibly be the one that had always been helping Bethan.
However, the defamations of Bethan on the internet were done by Hailey of the Walter family. Why would Malcolm and the hacker target the Morrison Group?
Just when Brettley was still confused, Hailey called him.
He initially did not want to pick it up. After a moment of hesitation, he still picked it up, in the end.
“Mr. Morrison, I have something to tell you. “
On the other end of the call, Hailey’s voice was trembling and it sounded like she was crying.
Brettley furrowed his brows. He replied calmly, “Tell me.”
He never had ever liked Hailey.
“Can you help me? I don’t want to go away…”
Hailey was crying. “Actually, I’m not the real heiress of the Walter family. I’m not Hailey Walters! The real Hailey is someone else. She is…”
“Hailey, who are you talking with on the phone?”
Before Hailey could finish her sentence, Old Mr.
Walter’s cold voice rang out.
Thud!
The call was dropped.
What the hell was this father-daughter duo doing? In order to keep Hailey from going overseas, were they trying to ask for pity?
Brettley took a deep breath. Before he could give it closer thought, another call for help came from the data center in his computer.
Brettley squinted his eyes. He took his computer over and caught himself in another round of tough battle.
Bethan accompanied Gwen to the hospital. Although the injury on Ben’s leg did not affect his bones or tendons, the gash was deep. He would not be able to walk for a month.
Bethan sat on the chair and looked at Gwen gently feeding Ben porridge. She could not help but feel emotional. “Even when we were in school back then, I had already thought that you two are a great match.”
Ben chuckled gently. “When we were in school, the person I liked was you, but you always persuaded me to consider Gwen. At that time, I always thought that she was rather foolish. Now it looks like…”
Ben looked at Gwen tenderly. “Bethan’s judgment is much better than mine. If I were to pursue Gwen in high school, I would have been happier much earlier.”
Gwen blushed at his words.
She gave him a scornful glare, then fed him porridge gently.
“Tsk, tsk.”
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.