Gasp!
Irene was in so much pain that she gritted her teeth. She raised her head and glared fiercely at the person that flung her to the corner. “I won’t let you go…”
She stopped before she could finish because the person standing in front of her was no one else but Brettley, whom she saw the night before!
At that moment, Brettley was in black, his tall figure towering over her coldly.
He laughed a little. “You won’t ‘let me go’?”
Then, he glanced at the men that Lucas and his men had pinned down. “You won’t let me go like them, too?”
Irene paused a little. She subconsciously turned back to look. She realized that the people she brought along were all pinned on the ground by Lucas and his men!
Irene almost saw black!
She raised her head and looked at Brettley’s face. “Mr. Morrison, you’re such an influential figure. Why must you protect Bethan, that b*tch?”
Brettley calmly laughed. “You have no influence nor power. Where did you find the courage to go up against the Morrison Group?”
Brettley calmly walked over to the group of people and opened the rolled-up flag.
“Asking Bethan to kneel and apologize?”
He lowered his head and read the writings on the flag. Then, he chuckled a little and looked at Irene. “Since you insist on your demands, I’ll allow you… “…to kneel and apologize to Bethan.”
Brettley swept a glance at Celeste by the side. “Mrs. Allen, how about you kneel, too?”
Celeste’s expression turned even uglier at Brettley’s remark.
She bit her lips. “Brettley Morrison, I am Nathan Allen’s wife! “
Brettley coldly interrupted her. “So you don’t have to apologize after doing something wrong, just because you’re Nathan Allen’s wife?”
“What did I do wrong?”
Celeste furrowed her brows. She raised her head and angrily glared at Brettley. “Are the things I said not true?”
Then, Celeste sneered. “Mr. Morrison, I know you have a rather ambiguous relationship with Bethan, so it’s only normal that you protect her. However, this woman not only slept with your assistant, but she also slept with those two bodyguards at the entrance of the Morrison Group! Won’t you find her dirty?”
Brettley narrowed his eyes, saying nothing.
Bethan laughed. She gracefully sat down on her chair. “
Mrs. Allen, you seem to have forgotten what I told you yesterday.”
Celeste chuckled. “What? Are you trying to sue me? I’m only saying what Brettley’s wife, Alice, told me. If you want to sue someone, you should be suing her! “
She said that not because she wanted to defame Alice but to intimidate Bethan. In Celeste’s understanding, Bethan was just a mistress that had slept with Brettley.
The mistress fearing the legitimate wife was the most natural thing on earth.
However, Celeste did not expect that Bethan would calmly turn to look at Brettley instead. “Mr. Morrison, did you hear that?”
Brettley smiled.
He took his phone out and immediately dialed Alice.
“Mrs. Allen has something to say to you.”
Brettley immediately put the call on loudspeaker and placed it on the desk.
Celeste furrowed her brows. She did not expect that Brettley would so directly get her to talk to Alice.
However, she was not afraid at all, because she was not lying! Alice was indeed the one that told her that!
Thus, Celeste coldly glared at Bethan and spoke into the phone, “Mrs. Morrison, Mr. Morrison said that I’m spreading rumors, but you were the one that told me those things, right?”
On the other end of the line, Alice, who was in the cafe downstairs, secretly rolled her eyes.
Initially, Alice still wanted to keep Celeste around for a longer period, getting her to do her bidding.
She did not expect that Celeste would expose her so quickly.
Celeste was an idiot that could not even keep a secret! She deserved her son going against her!
Alice took a deep breath and used an extremely innocent tone, “Mrs. Allen, what are you talking about?”
Celeste furrowed her brows. She did not hear clearly the emotions in Alice’s tone. She thought that Alice did not hear her properly, so she repeated it once again.
“Mrs. Morrison, you were the one that told me these, right? I’m not spreading false rumors at all.”
“I don’t know what you are talking about.”
Alice sighed. Her tone and voice sounded extremely innocent. “Although I don’t usually like Bethan, she is a classy and elegant person. Even if she’s rather promiscuous, she won’t sleep together with the bodyguards.
“Furthermore, Bethan isn’t a shameless person. Mrs. Allen, is there some misunderstanding? The person that said that Bethan has loose morals was clearly my husband, Brettley, not me.”
Alice’s voice had hints of indifference and mockery in them. “No matter what, I’ll never say such a thing to bad-mouth others. Mrs. Allen, why are you trying to besmirch me?”
Alice’s voice sounded gentle and light, yet it seemed to have petrified Celeste.
Celeste shuddered and said with a rather trembling voice, “Mrs. Morrison, w–what are you saying?”
Alice’s response was laced with vague ridicule, “Mrs. Allen, don’t you understand? Let me tell you once more, then: I ‘ll never, and had never, once gossiped about Bethan with you. Even if I hate Bethan, I won’t spread such stupid rumors. There. I’ve said it.”
Alice, on the other end of the call, leaned back on the chair. She calmly glanced at Jason, who was looking at the address outside the door, and chuckled.
“Also, my husband and I are in a very good relationship. Why are you trying to disgrace me in front of my husband? Are you just jealous?”
Alice did not even care what reaction Celeste had after that as she immediately hung up the phone.
Hearing the disconnecting beep from the phone, Celeste’s legs felt like jelly. Right before she slumped to the ground, Samson immediately held onto her.
“Mrs. Allen, what are you doing? Are you really planning on kneeling to our Director Bethan?”
Celeste closed her eyes. She never once suspected the words that Alice told her because, firstly, Alice and Bethan have known each other for many years. Second, Alice had also mentioned Brettley among the men Bethan has slept with. Celeste felt that Alice had no reason to cuckold herself.
However…
Alice’s innocent and indifferent tone on the phone a moment ago was like a baseball bat that smashed against her head. Celeste felt as if she was struck by lightning. She could not even move, let alone think.
How could that happen…?
Even if those were lies, they came from Alice! How did it become her spreading the rumors instead?
“Mrs. Allen, what else do you have to say for yourself?”
Brettley looked at Celeste’s face, his gaze cold as he did. “You were the one that came up with this and smeared Bethan’s character. You even pushed all the blame on my wife. It looks like Bethan was right. It’s not that you are brainless, Mrs. Allen. You just used them in all the wrong places.”
Celeste opened her mouth, wanting to retort but unable to find her words.
“Since Mrs. Morrison has already said so, are you still trying to deny that you were the one that spread the rumors?”
Samson, who was supporting Celeste, released his grip on her.
Thud!
Celeste immediately knelt on the ground, coincidentally right in front of Bethan.
Seeing Celeste kneeling, Irene, by the side, bit her lips. She hesitated for a while. In the end, she also knelt to the ground with a thud.
Bethan’s influence and powers were indeed huge! Even the great artist Theo Allen’s mother already knelt in front of Bethan. Irene herself was just a mere lowly assistant…
“Mom! “
Theo ran into Bethan’s office, panting. He immediately noticed Celeste kneeling in front of Bethan, unable to get up.
He furrowed his brows and directly went to help Celeste up. “You’re already so old. Why are you making things difficult for yourself?”
Celeste was trembling, and not because of guilt, but of rage!
At that moment, she finally realized why Alice would be so passionate with her. It was not because they clicked instantly, nor that she also thought that a person like Bethan was not a worthy match for Theo!
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.