Alice sniffled, “Courtney was the one that sent me the email. The program was in the email. She said that it was a program to help me download movies. I don’t know anything, so I installed it. When I got Arianna to sit in front of my computer, that was Courtney’s idea too. She said to take advantage of the fact that Bethan was not in the office and bully her assistant. I thought that bullying an assistant was nothing much, so…”
Then, she looked at Arianna apologetically. “So sorry. I only wanted to bully you by getting you to look at my computer. I never would have thought that…”
Alice cleared herself completely of any responsibility.
The only thing she did wrong was listen to Courtney and bullied Arianna.
“You’re lying!”
At that moment, Courtney finally understood that being a so-called friend of Alice was just another person that she could take advantage of!
It was Alice who urged her to take the video. It was also Alice who found a friend of hers who knew coding to create a program that automatically uploads the video.
At that moment, Alice has blamed it all on her, taking none of the responsibility! At that thought, Courtney was furious. “Alice! Think of your guilty conscience! You were the one that…”
Alice squinted her eyes. She walked over to Courtney.
Slap!
Alice slapped with all her might, causing Courtney to directly slump on the table.
When she fell onto the table, she knocked over the teacups on the conference table.
Clank!
Tea splashed everywhere and onto Courtney’s pants. She looked extremely wretched.
Alice glared at her. Her eyes were filled with resentment and hatred. “You are not worthy of asking me whether I have a conscience or not! All this while, I have treated you as my friend, yet you kept doing harmful things to the Morrison Group!
“I have already taken on the blame for hurting Arianna and uploading the video, yet you still want me to take on the blame for taking the video? Do you have a conscience or not?”
Courtney clenched her fists tightly upon Alice’s words. She bit her lips, raised her head, and looked at Brettley.
“Mr. Morrison, no! This is not how it is! Granny Morrison got me this job! I will never do anything that hurts the Morrison Group! “
Brettley smiled. “So what’s with the video?”
Courtney gritted her teeth. “I was the one who took the video, but it was Alice who got me to take it!”
“Just because you said it, does that mean I truly did it?”
Alice said overbearingly, “You have no proof!
Courtney, show us proof! “
Courtney was stunned.
Proof. She had no proof.
All this time, Alice took the initiative to become friends with her. Courtney thought that with the help of her good friend, Alice, she could climb up the social ladder into the upper class.
Although there was no hope in marrying Brettley anymore, the Morrison family was a powerful family. As a good friend of Granny Morrison, marrying into another wealthy family was not bad either.
That was why she treated Alice as her last resort, so she would not try to get evidence for every matter.
“You can’t prove it, can’t you?”
Alice sneered. She took a recording device out of her pocket.
“You don’t have any proof, but I do.”
Then, Alice pressed the play button.
Courtney’s voice rang through the entire quiet conference room from the recording device.
“Alice, this video can take Bethan down! Upload it to the internet quickly! “
“It won’t be too good to upload it now, right? Let’s forget about it.”
“How could we forget about it? This is a good opportunity to take Bethan down! I’m happy just thinking about how Bethan can’t be a jewelry designer anymore in the future because of plagiarism! See how arrogant she could be! “
When the recording finished playing back, Courtney’s legs had turned into jelly and she had slumped onto the ground.
She did indeed say that the day before. When she was talking to Alice the day before, she was still confused as to why Alice was being so timid.
She never would have thought that Alice had already planned a way out for herself.
Looking at Courtney, Bethan closed her eyes rather helplessly. Others might not understand Courtney, but she understood her.
How could Courtney trick Alice? Courtney was just someone who naively fantasized about being Brettley’s wife after being his secretary. How could she fool Alice?
If Courtney was really the one who tricked Alice, she should be the one taking the recording out and not Alice.
However, even if Bethan knew that Courtney was just a scapegoat, she had no other evidence to prove that Alice was the one who was skilled in scheming.
“Shannon, Shannon! “
When Courtney had nothing else she could do, she climbed down from the table. She frantically crawled to Shannon and tugged on the sleeve of her pants.
“Help me say something! I’m not this type of person! “
Shannon furrowed her brows, although she was unwilling, Courtney was still her junior after all.
She lifted her head and looked at Bethan. “Director Bethan, a-are you willing to be more lenient toward her?”
Upon Courtney’s words, Alice smiled. “Ms. Bethan would never let her go. Didn’t everyone forget how Ms. Bethan threatened with her resignation just now? She must get the main culprit punished.”
Then, Alice swept Bethan a glance. “Ms. Bethan, am I right?”
Bethan clenched both her fists tightly by her sides.
Alice was deliberately trying to provoke. She knew that Bethan knew that Courtney was just a scapegoat. That was why she could so brazenly provoke.
After being silent for a long time, Bethan raised her head. She smiled at Brettley. “I’ll let Mr. Morrison handle this.”
Then, she swept a glance at Courtney, who was slumped on the ground.
“One has to pay the price for their own foolishness. Whether it was the past or now, you and I don’t have much of an acquaintance. I don’t need to show you mercy. You are to blame for your own actions.”
Bethan picked up her employee tag and looked at Brettley, who had no emotions on his face. “Since Mr. Morrison has helped me investigate this, I won’t resign. I will keep my promise and see this project to the end.”
Then, she was about to leave.
“Brettley.”
Just when Bethan’s hand was on the door handle, she heard Alice say gently, “The workplace is too sinister. I don’t want to work anymore. Let me go home, please? I want to take good care of Neil and Nellie…”
Bethan’s hand which was grabbing the doorknob trembled a little.
She knew that Alice did that on purpose. Neil and Nellie were her soft spot.
Bethan took a deep breath. In the end, she still opened the door and left the conference room.
Brettley’s low voice rang out from behind her. Bethan did not hear clearly what he said to Alice.
Her mind was buzzing.
On the surface, it seemed like she had won the fight with Alice. In actual fact, not only did Alice not receive any punishment, but she even arrogantly used Neil and Nellie to threaten her.
Coming out from Morrison Group, Bethan directly hailed a taxi and went straight to the hospital.
Natasha has been in the hospital for almost two days, Bethan still has not visited her yet.
Although her mother has done so many terrible things and even loathed her at that moment, she was still the one that gave her life after all. She was her mother that brought her up for twenty years.
Bethan bought some fruits by the entrance of the hospital. She carried the fruits into the lobby of the hospital and immediately noticed Anne standing by the counter.
“Can you help me check which room is Ms. Natasha in? She was the one that passed out and got hospitalized yesterday. I ‘m her daughter’s friend. I’m here to visit her! “
The nurse looked at her confusedly. “Why does her daughter not come herself? She has been in the hospital for almost a day and a half already. She kept hoping her daughter would come to see her, but she has not appeared since, yet her friend came instead?”
Anne laughed, “She’s too busy.”
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