“Arianna. “
Bethan furrowed her brows. She grabbed her hand and shook her head at her. “Calm down. “
Then, She raised her eyes and looked at Brettley. “Mr. Morrison, we will find a way to investigate whether Arianna did it or not.”
“Bethan is right.”
Upon Bethan’s words, Alice could not help but laugh. She gracefully smiled. “Arianna is just a pawn being used by someone else. The person behind instructing her is the main culprit.”
“Yes! “
Courtney immediately chimed in, “Arianna is young and innocent. She would easily be manipulated into doing something silly. What we truly have to do is to find out who was the one manipulating her! This person is horrible! They deliberately got Arianna to use Mrs. Morrison’s computer to send the video out, trying to frame Mrs. Morrison for leaking confidential information! “
Upon Courtney’s words, the other people in the conference room started discussing among themselves in hushed tones.
Arianna was only close to Bethan in the office.
That way, it was implied who the main person behind it was.
Bethan smiled.
Although no one officially pointed out that it was her, their words implied it.
Therefore, she would rather immediately stand up and face it.
Thus, Bethan took a deep breath and strode toward Brettley. “Since everyone thinks that I was the one who got Arianna to do it, fine.”
Then, Bethan turned to look at Shannon. “Go get the computer number fifty-two, the one Mrs. Morrison was using, over.”
Shannon paused a little before pulling another male colleague along and went out.
Alice smiled gently and looked at Bethan. “Ms. Bethan, what are you…”
“Mrs. Morrison, I’m sure you don’t know this.”
Bethan smiled. “Mr. Morrison, next to you, is actually a brilliant hacker. I’m thinking that if Arianna was the one who uploaded the video, she must have logged into her social media account on your computer, if not, she could not even upload the video.
“Also, even if you get someone to write a program that automatically uploads the video beforehand, even if you’re not in front of the computer, you could still post the video. However, everything leaves a trail. Even if you completely delete the program, a skillful hacker would still be able to find traces of it in your computer.”
Upon her words, Alice’s face started to turn pale.
Courtney’s expressions by the side were quite ugly too.
After a short while, Shannon and the male colleague brought computer number 52 over.
Bethan laughed a little and looked at Brettley. “Mr. Morrison, be my guest.”
Brettley remained seated in his seat, not moving an inch. He looked at Bethan with his deep gaze. “How did you know about my hacking skills?”
Bethan paused for a while. She subconsciously looked at Lucas, who was behind Brettley.
Lucas immediately shook his head at her, signaling her to not tell Brettley about their conversation.
Bethan understood immediately. She chuckled gently and looked at Brettley. “Don’t you? Then, perhaps I have overestimated you, Mr. Morrison. Perhaps it wasn’t you that was equally good as my hacker friend.”
Brettley looked at her with his deep eyes.
Then, Bethan yawned. She turned to look at Shannon. “
Contact the IT department, get a better programmer. It would work too.”
Shannon hesitated for a while before immediately getting up and went to look for Bethan.
Just when she was by the entrance, Brettley, who had remained on the main seat all this while, chuckled in a deep voice, “This thing ends here.”
He swept Arianna a glance. “As for you recording the video and uploading it using someone else’s computer and framing them. I’ll dock a three- months bonus as a punishment, seeing how this is your first time and how you are still young.”
Then, he rubbed the middle of his brows. “I’m tired. As for this matter, no one is allowed to bring this matter up anymore.”
Arianna shuddered a little. She turned to look at Bethan in a daze.
Bethan narrowed her eyes.
His attitude was obvious. He already knew that Alice could do all these. The only reason he said that he did not know how to hack was to protect Alice.
He immediately convicted Arianna of crime, yet punished her with such a light punishment. It was also to protect Alice!
Alice thought of all ways to go up against her. Just because Alice did not succeed, this matter should be brushed off just like that?
At that thought, Bethan took a deep breath. She said seriously, “Mr. Morrison, Arianna already said that she did not take the video. She also did not frame anyone. As the president of the Morrison Group. You should be just and fair. You cannot blindly punish your staff just to protect others.”
Then, she immediately took off her employee tag and slammed it on the conference table.
“If Mr. Morrison insists on not getting to the bottom of this and punishing my assistant for framing others, there is no point for me to continue staying here. I quit.”
Brettley furrowed his brows.
He lifted his head and looked at Bethan coldly. “What do you mean?”
“Am I not clear enough?”
Bethan sneered, “I only want justice.”
Brettley sneered, “Bethan, I thought you knew what it meant to not overdo it.”
“Not overdoing it?”
Bethan laughed out loud. She raised her eyes and looked at Brettley.
“Mr. Morrison, can you explain to me why I should not overdo it? Someone recorded our meeting and posted it online, accusing me of plagiarizing. When it almost cost me my career, did you get her to stop overdoing it?
“When Mrs. Morrison got my most trusted assistant to use her computer, creating evidence accusing me of putting up an act all by myself, did you stop her from overdoing it?
“Why do I have to know when to stop? Why when someone harms me, I don’t even have the right to find out who was the one who did it?”
Then, Bethan took a breath. “If you are such a biased person who only protects the people closest to you, why can’t I choose to quit and leave Morrison Group?”
The entire conference room was in pin-drop silence upon her words.
Actually, from Brettley refusing to check Alice’s computer, to him frantically convicting Arianna of crime, to him punishing her lightly, everyone has already guessed it.
Alice was Brettley’s wife. Even if she did something that she should not do, Brettley had to protect her. No one could do anything about it.
Bethan, on the other hand, refused to buy it.
The staff in the conference room looked at each other. Everyone was anticipating what was happening next and wanted to discuss it with each other, but they were afraid to make a single sound.
Alice sat there, her face miserably pale.
Previously, when she was in Sea City, she had Dennis Walter help her, so she was cleanly cleared of all responsibility when she went up against Bethan.
However, this time…
She miscalculated. She never would have thought that Bethan would take it so seriously and that she would even think of using a hacker to check her computer records.
Alice subconsciously looked at Brettley.
Brettley closed his eyes rather helplessly. He leaned back in his seat and sighed heavily.
In the end, he opened his eyes. “Lucas, turn on Alice’s computer.”
Lucas was slightly stunned. “Sir, you…”
Brettley nodded. “I can check the records.”
Alice’s face has lost all of its colors. Courtney, who had been joining forces with Alice all this while, slowly cowered in fear, trying to minimize her presence.
Under Bethan’s cold gaze, Brettley placed his long fingers on the keyboard.
Lines of black and white codes kept flashing across the huge screen in the conference room.
In the end, Alice’s computer records the day before have been recorded.
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