The meeting room was once again in silence. Bethan sat on the chair, she secretly clutched the documents in front of her.
Courtney and Alice had been getting closer to each other recently. Looking at them chiming in after each other, they were clearly up to something no good.
At that thought, she turned her head. She initially wanted to look at Brettley, but she suddenly realized that Arianna next to her was looking miserably pale.
Bethan furrowed her brows and said softly, “Are you feeling unwell?”
Arianna jumped at Bethan’s voice. She directly tumbled the teacup over.
Clank!
The ceramic teacup shattered into pieces on the ground.
Tea water and tea leaves splashed all over the floor. Arianna frantically bent down and wanted to pick the teacup up.
Bethan stopped her in time. “Let me do it.”
Bethan got up, picked up the broom by the entrance, and swept the shattered teacup and tea leaves to the side.
When she went to throw them into the trash, Arianna followed behind her. When they were in a place where there was no one else, Bethan whispered in a voice only she and Arianna could hear. “What on earth is going on?”
Arianna’s face lost all of its colors.
She bit her lips. Her voice was extremely soft. “
Yesterday afternoon… Mrs. Morrison told me that her computer had some problems. She could not send an email out, she got me to help her take a look. I went to take a look at her computer. I realized that it was not too much of a problem, so Mrs. Morrison got me to help her send the email. Then, she said that there were still some programs running on the computer, she wanted me to help watch out for her. Then, she left… “
Arianna’s eyes were reddened. She said in a low voice, “Director Bethan, what should I do?”
Bethan felt like she saw black.
Sure enough.
Alice and Courtney joining forces meant that they were up to no good.
As for the recording, she never expected that Alice would have blamed it on her after all.
After all, she was waiting to see Joseph at the police station the entire afternoon the day before.
She never expected that Alice would target Arianna.
Arianna was the assistant that Nigel found for her on the internet due to her busy schedule previously.
Nigel said that Arianna was intelligent. He screened through all of the candidates thoroughly before selecting her.
Bethan trusted her son the most, so she directly hired Arianna. Therefore, Arianna’s hiring skipped through the vetting from Human Resources.
Everyone in the Morrison Group knew that Arianna was on Bethan’s side.
However, at that moment…
Alice put the blame for the uploading of the video on Arianna. She even said to find out who was the main person behind it.
“Am I going to get fired?”
Arianna looked at Bethan with teary eyes. Her eyes were extremely reddened. “
No, getting fired is just a small matter…” “Am I going to prison?”
Bethan sighed. The more Arianna cried the messier her thoughts were.
At that moment, Lucas came back with the surveillance footage from the surveillance room. Seeing the both of them by the entrance of the conference room, he could not help but call after them, “Are you both not going to come in? I brought the footage over. Once we see, we will immediately know who is the one that uploaded the video! “
Upon hearing that, Arianna’s face was paler.
Bethan sighed. She grabbed hold of Arianna’s wrist and followed Lucas into the conference room.
One could not avoid troubles. Avoiding would not solve them.
“What took you so long?”
Seeing Bethan pulling Arianna back, Alice, who was sitting next to the main seat, smiled mockingly. “And here I thought that the both of you are not coming back! “
Then, Alice changed into a more comfortable position. “Director Bethan was not here the entire afternoon yesterday. Why do I see a little bit of fear in your eyes?”
Courtney, by the side, immediately fanned the flames. “Could it be that Director Bethan was the one that arranged someone to upload the video?
Impossible. That meant that she was framing herself for plagiarism? Or perhaps…”
Courtney rolled her eyes. “Perhaps Director Bethan knew that Mo Sam would publish an apology letter today, so she deliberately used Mrs. Morrison’s computer to frame her for uploading the video so that she could drive a wedge in between Mr. Morrison and Mrs. Morrison?”
Seeing how Courtney’s words were getting more and more out of line, Shannon furrowed her brows. In the end, she could not take it anymore. “Stop talking! We’ll find out immediately who did it by looking at the footage ! I t wouldn’t hurt to talk less!”
Brettley, in the main seat, looked at Bethan calmly. Then, he swept Lucas a glance. “Play the video.”
Lucas nodded and projected the surveillance footage of the office from the afternoon the day before on the huge screen.
At around three in the afternoon, the person that uploaded the video was…
Sitting in front of Alice’s computer was not Alice , but Bethan’s assistant, Arianna.
Alice smugly exchanged glances with Courtney.
Courtney immediately raised her voice. “It’s Arianna? How could it be? Arianna was handpicked by Director Bethan, skipping through the Human Resources department. Without Director Bethan’s orders, how could Arianna do such a thing?”
“Bethan.”
Alice smiled calmly and interrupted Courtney with a sickly sweet voice, “Can you give everyone an explanation? Why was the person that uploaded the video of the meeting that misled everyone online, thinking you were the one that plagiarized other people’s work, your personal assistant?”
The conference room was instantly in silence.
Everyone looked at Bethan closely. They seemed to want to read her thoughts from her face.
“Bethan.”
Sitting on the main seat, Brettley swept her a glance indifferently. His gaze was cold. “What is going on?”
When he picked her up from the police station the day before and when she saw the video on the internet, her expressions did not look like she was faking it.
However, at that moment, the person that uploaded the video was Bethan’s closest assistant.
Either she was extremely scheming and great in acting even duping him, or her assistant has been bribed by someone.
Brettley turned over and looked at the little girl next to Bethan. Her face has lost all of its colors. She was sweating profusely and trembling violently.
If it were not for her hands gripping the sides of the tables tightly, he believed that she would have fallen to the ground already.
Brettley furrowed his brows.
How could this assistant of Bethan, who was direct and wore her heart on her sleeves, be bribed by someone else to betray Bethan?
Thus, Brettley turned to look at Bethan once again.
Bethan welcomed Brettley’s gaze. Their eyes met.
Bethan had clenched her fists tightly by her sides. She took a deep breath and enunciated every word with difficulty. “I don’t know anything about this.
Arianna also did not upload any video.”
Then, Bethan turned her head. “Arianna, tell them what you told me outside just now! “
Arianna paused for a while before saying in a trembling voice, “I -It’s… Mrs. Morrison. She said that she could not send her email out yesterday, that is why I went to help her…”
Upon her words, Alice, in the distance, raised her eyebrows. Her voice was filled with detest. “What nonsense are you talking about? Since the company’s internet has no issues, why would I not be able to send the email?”
Arianna glared at Alice with rage and teary eyes. “It was you! I’m just a lowly assistant, without your permission, how would I dare to touch your computer! You clearly told me that you could not send an email, so you got me to help you! “
Alice smiled. She gently leaned into Brettley’s arms. Her eyes were filled with condescension and mockery. “What a cheap shot. Even if I can’t send an email out, I would either find the IT department or get someone to fix it. Why would I find you? You’re just Bethan’s assistant.”
Seeing her arrogant attitude, Arianna was in utter despair.
She cried hysterically, “I didn’t do it! I’m on Director Bethan’s side. I have always respected her. Why would I take such a misleading video to accuse her of plagiarism? Mrs. Morrison, stop trying to frame me! “
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