“What is it?”
“This might not be the real Hailey Walter.”
Bethan’s eyes widened. She looked at him confusedly. “
What do you mean?”
“What I mean is,”
Brettley squinted his eyes and said, “The person who died was just an imposter. The real Hailey Walter is still out there somewhere. This woman is totally different from the Hailey I knew, so much so that she seems like an entirely different person altogether.”
Not only her looks. Her character too.
Hailey back then would treat Bethan Peterson as her rival. Every time she saw Bethan Peterson, her eyes would be filled with loathing and resentment.
However, this time, Hailey and Alice became friends. Even much closer than Gwen, who was once Bethan’s best friend.
Bethan furrowed her brows. “If the one that just died was not the real Hailey, then… where is the real Hailey? Why is she hiding?”
Brettley frowned hard at her question.
After a while, he furrowed his brows and looked at Bethan. “I ‘ll investigate this, but I brought you here because I need you to do something.”
Bethan calmed herself down, turned over, and looked a t Brettley. “What is it?”
Brettley passed her some documents.
“Morrison Group’s database is under attack by a foreign hacker. The Quinn Group is taking advantage of this, attacking us too. The Morrison Group is being attacked from all sides.”
Bethan paused a little. She picked up the documents and flipped through them. It was a risk assessment report.
Although she could not understand the tactics that the hacker and Quinn Group were using, but…
The amount of loss Morrison Group incurred made her stunned. She almost dropped the documents in her hand.
“I deduce that the hacker should be the one that has been always helping you.”
Bethan’s face turned pale. He meant Nigel. “Malcolm took advantage of this situation. The Morrison Group suffered a huge blow because of him.”
Bethan’s hand trembled a little. Malcolm listened to Nigel the most.
So…
Bethan slapped her forehead. “If I said that I didn’t know about these two things, would you believe me?”
“Now you know about them. “
Brettley swept her an indifferent glance. “I’m giving you the opportunity to get them to stop. If not, when I return to Banyan City tomorrow, they wouldn’t be so smug anymore. I have the ability to do it.”
Brettley was not sitting at Morrison Group at that moment, there were many problems he could not handle personally. That was why they had the chance to attack.
Bethan rubbed the middle of her brows.
At that moment, it was seemingly impossible to say that those things had nothing to do with her.
Bethan sighed, “Okay.”
For the past few days, she had been busy on her business trip in Sea City. She forgot to keep in touch with her three children.
How dare those three brats create such a huge mess while she was not paying attention to them!
“Uncle Theo told Nigel that you were bullied, that was why we did it.”
The first thing Bethan did when she returned to the hotel was to call Neil. Neil, on the other end of the line, said with bravado, “Since that scumbag Brettley brought you on the business trip, he should be taking good care of you. Not only did you encounter so many dangerous situations, but you also almost lost your life. We had to teach him a lesson.”
Bethan rubbed the middle of her brows. “Get Uncle Malcolm to stop immediately.”
The Quinn Group and the Morrison Group were always in a stand-off, but due to their greatness, they usually only have minimal friction with each other.
In this sort of large-scale battle between them, although Malcolm had the upper hand, it was impossible for him to come out of it unscathed.
Malcolm had already sacrificed a lot for her. She did not want Malcolm to affect the Quinn Group’s business because of her.
“Uncle Malcolm won’t listen to me.”
Neil pursed his lips. “Mommy, do you still remember Cynthal? Once Cynthal was sent out of the country, I got Uncle Malcolm to help teach her a lesson. Guess what he found out? He found out that Cynthal is being protected by someone strong. That person works for the Morrison family!”
Bethan’s heart sank to the bottom.
The people that were protecting Cynthal were people from the Morrison family.
Back then, Cynthal had tried to harm Neil and Nellie many times.
If it were not for Neil sacrificing himself and going along with Cynthal, they would not have been able to gather evidence of Cynthal trying to harm them.
Brettley knew all about this.
However, on the surface, he wanted Cynthal to pay the price, but actually, he secretly sent men to protect her?
Bethan felt a little dizzy.
This…
“So, Mommy, Uncle Malcolm would go up against that scumbag Brettley not only because of you being bullied in Sea City. He also wants to seek justice for Nellie and me.”
Bethan bit her lips.
Brettley’s words in the car a moment ago rang in her ears.
“I’m giving you the opportunity to get them to stop. If not, when I return to Banyan City tomorrow, they wouldn’t be so smug anymore. I have the ability to do it.”
Bethan truly believed that Brettley has the skills to do it too.
She has witnessed firsthand his tactics and methods.
After exchanging a few more words with Neil, Bethan took a deep breath and dialed Malcolm.
This was the first time she called Malcolm after Granny Morrison’s birthday banquet.
She did not want him to get involved with her current affairs.
Back then, Malcolm rescued her up from the sea when she was heavily injured. He treated her and helped her give birth to her three children. He even paid for her cosmetic surgeries.
She owed Malcolm too much. Thus, she did not want to trouble Malcolm on the matter of finding a cure for Nigel.
She also did not want Malcolm to go up against Brettley in the business trading world because of her.
It was not that she did not believe in Malcolm’s abilities. It was only that she has already owed Malcolm way too much.
Not long after, the call was picked up. “Bethan, don’t try to persuade me.”
Malcolm’s voice on the other end of the call was frigid, “I have already made up my mind. This time, no matter what, I have to make Brettley pay. He has owed you and your kids too much. Since six years ago up till now. None of you have the power to make him pay, but I do.”
She bit her lips. “Malcolm, you can so easily let Brettley lose a few hundred million dollars because he is in Sea City right now. When he returns back to his base at Banyan City, you won’t have it so easy. A few hundred million is enough of a punishment for him. Please hear me out. Stop this.”
Malcolm laughed, “You think I’m no match for Brettley Morrison? At most, we end up going down together. Even if I incur losses, Brettley would lose out even more.”
Bethan rubbed the middle of her brows. “I know what you are angry about, but the incidents in Sea City were done by Hailey. Now that Hailey is dead, everything is settled. You should stop dwelling on it. As for the people protecting Cynthal overseas…”
Bethan took a deep breath. “Can you send me all the information that proves those people are from the Morrison family? I will ask Brettley in person.”
Malcolm on the other end of the line was silent for a while.
After a while, he laughed bitterly, “Why do you still care so much about Brettley?”
Bethan stopped breathing.
“Brettley is not as terrifying as you think, I am also not as weak as you think.”
“If you don’t let me go up against him once head-o n, I will never be happy about it.”
“Malcolm. “
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