Then, Bethan turned to look at Alice. “It’d be pointless to only destroy the office’s surveillance. I’ll find out who did this.”
Brettley was looking at Nellie’s most recent sketches when Bethan called him.
He had to admit that Nellie was talented, but talent was not enough. If Nellie did not have such good guidance from Bethan, she would not have been able to design such exceptional sketches at such a tender age of six.
However, even if Nellie’s designs were pretty, she still lacked a certain charm compared to Bethan’s.
When his phone rang, he swept a glance at the name on his phone. He picked up the call in a rather pleasant mood. “Are you done with the meeting?
Nellie said–“
“Mr. Morrison,”
Bethan sounded extremely serious. “
Please come to the design department immediately.”
Brettley’s brows knitted together the instant he picked up on her urgency. “What happened?” he spoke in a low tone.
“Something happened.”
Bethan took a deep breath. “My designs have been plagiarized.”
Brettley shuddered a little.
After a while, he turned off his computer. “I’ll come down now.”
Brettley hung up and went downstairs.
The conference room in the design department downstairs was noisy. The moment Brettley entered,
Alice immediately welcomed him.
She grabbed his arm and laid her head on his chest. “
Brettley, you’re here.”
Brettley furrowed his brows almost indistinctly. Then, he looked at Bethan. “What’s going on?”
Bethan took a deep breath and roughly recounted how her designs and Mo Sam’s designs were similar.
“The problem now is that the design sketch that I’ve been working overtime for the past half a month might be plagiarizing someone else’s work.”
Brettley sneered. “Impossible.”
Brettley had seen Bethan’s designs previously; from the conception all the way to the rough draft. Not only had he seen it, but he had also given her some of his suggestions.
This designer, called Mo Sam… How much talent did he have to come up with the same design as Bethan?
“I think so, too. That’s why I called you here for your help, Mr. Morrison.”
Bethan took a deep breath. She turned to look at Arianna. “Bring me my laptop from my office.”
Arianna nodded and immediately left.
A few minutes later, Bethan’s laptop was placed on the conference room table.
“As I said just now, I’ve secretly installed a few hidden cameras in my office. Regarding this designer, Mo Sam, the lines on his drafts are almost the same as mine. I believe that he copied mine. If it was, someone must’ve taken a photo of it. I want to see who did it.”
Then, she swept Alice a cold glance and looked at Courtney, too. “I want to see who entered my office and took my photos.”
She immediately clicked on the recording of the hidden cameras. Nigel was the one that prepared all these hidden cameras for her, just to prevent things like this from happening.
At that time, Bethan thought that Nigel was worrying too much. After all, she was in Brettley’s company, and no one would dare to cause trouble.
She grew grateful for Nigel’s thoughtfulness already. The video from the cameras started to play.
Bethan fast -forwarded it, and after going through a few days’ worth of footage, the suspect finally appeared.
It was a middle-aged man. When everyone was having a lunch break, he snuck into Bethan’s office, found her drafts, and took a photo of every draft carefully. However, the camera did not capture his face. The entire conference room was deathly quiet.
Everyone eyed the screen, wanting to catch a good look at this person’s face.
How could it be him?
Bethan sat on her chair as her entire body stiffened. It was as if she was frozen on the spot.
She did not need to have a closer at the footage like the others to know who the middle -aged man was.
“It’s Mrs. Morrison’s father, Joseph Peterson! “
Shannon was the first to recognize the man in the footage.
She slapped her thighs. “Mr. Peterson has been coming over with his wife to bring food for Mrs. Morrison! Also, he’s been extremely unhappy with Director Bethan! “
Shannon subconsciously glanced at Arianna, who was by the side. “I even heard him badmouthing Director Bethan. You heard it too, right?”
Arianna immediately nodded. “Yes! Mr. Peterson has always been bad -mouthing Director Bethan, calling her a b*tch or something like that.”
Brettley’s brows knitted tightly together as he turned to look at Alice.
He could bear with the couples’ hostility toward Bethan, and he also could deal with them constantly speculating Bethan’s identity. This time, however, Bethan’s work had to do with the future of the Morrison
Group in the jewelry industry!
If news were to spread about plagiarism just on the rough draft, Morrison Group would no longer be able to survive in the industry!
“Uh…”
Alice’s face turned miserably pale. Plastering an innocent expression, she lifted her head and looked at Brettley. “Brettley, I…had no idea about this.”
Then, she started to wipe her tears. “I’ve always been asking Mom and Dad to treat Bethan friendlier.
You two have no relationship, but they won’t listen to me. They’d even do such a thing to hurt the Morrison Group because of this misunderstanding…”
Crying and sniffling, Alice turned to look at Shannon. “How would we usually settle this?”
Shannon furrowed her brows. “Most of the time, they’d be arrested and brought to court. This is a malicious theft and a disclosure of confidential data, so imprisonment is involved.”
Alice bit her lips. She raised her head and looked at Brettley with teary eyes. “Brettley, although Joseph Peterson is my father, he’s made such a grave mistake. I’m his daughter, but I ‘m also the wife of the Morrison Group’s president. I can’t let my own family do such a thing, so…”
Alice swept a glance at Bethan’s pale face before she seemed to drop a hefty ultimatum as she turned to Brettley and said, “I support in dealing with this matter fairly. Make a police report and arrest him.”
Bethan closed her eyes.
Before seeing the surveillance footage, she always thought that Alice was trying to make things difficult for her with the infringement of copyrights, but the moment she saw Joseph appearing in the video, she instantly understood.
Alice’s intention was not plagiarism, but on Joseph Peterson.
Bethan took a deep breath, raised her head, and looked at Alice’s face closely.
This was the same face she had six years ago.
Before Cynthal left, she said that she was Joseph’s child with another mistress.
Bethan still had another younger sister from the same parents.
All this while, Bethan thought that Alice should be that sister. Otherwise, how could someone in this world have such a similar face as hers?
At that moment, Bethan was looking at Alice’s face closely. She wanted to see who on earth she was.
If Alice was her sister, then she had completely lost her mind and heart in trying to deal with her.
If Alice was not her sister, then…
Bethan closed her eyes. “Don’t make a police report first. I want to see him.”
Alice pretended to be worried. “Brettley, I think you should…still make a police report.”
She clutched her chest, and her eyes reddened. “I’m heartbroken that my own father would do such a thing. If I knew earlier that he’d do this, I would’ve stopped him.”
Alice then looked at Bethan meaningfully. “You know that Director Bethan always had problems with me. “
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