Upon Brettley’s words, Bethan was instantly stupefied.
She looked up in shock and met with Brettley’s deep eyes. “W–What are you trying to say? Are you suspecting me of being…Hailey Walter?”
Brettley did not answer her directly. “I only want to know who you are.”
Bethan gasped. She had once imagined that Brettley would expose her true identity, but never once had she thought that he would one day suspect her of being Hailey Walter!
Bethan gritted her teeth and dug her nails deep into her palms. “Mr. Morrison, are you joking with me?
When I was in Sea City, did you not see how I was targeted by the Walter family? If I’m Hailey Walter, how could I just let you send Dennis Walter to prison just like that? How could I let Liam Clark treat Gwen that way? I was almost ruined by him, too, or have you forgotten about it already?”
Brettley narrowed his gaze and looked at Bethan.
All these were why he did not take Jude’s speculations seriously all this while.
Still, everything at that moment was too much of a coincidence, was it not?
The remnants of Mr. Walter’s forces were in Banyan City. Every time, they were helping Bethan from behind. If she was not Hailey Walter, where was the real Hailey Walter?
Moreover, Bethan had a grudge against the Walter family on the surface. If Bethan was not the real Hailey Walter, what the real Hailey should have done was to seek revenge on Bethan, not getting the Walter family to secretly help her time and time again.
Bethan lost it a little at the distrust in Brettley’s eyes.
She bit her lips. “So, Mr. Morrison, if I’m Hailey, your wife’s hostility would make perfect sense to you, right?”
Brettley squinted his eyes. “Yes.”
Bethan laughed.
“Okay. I get it.”
She sneered and looked at Brettley’s face. “To persuade yourself that your wife is still an innocent and kind-hearted woman, you’d rather turn me into the person you hate the most. Is that it?”
Brettley furrowed his brows. “Bethan, my suspicions aren’t without any proof.”
“What bullsh*t! “
Bethan raised her head and looked at Brettley fearlessly. “The nickname for the person who claimed to be me in the chat that Irene posted this morning is even called Alice! Can I use this as evidence and tell others that Mrs. Morrison has been intentionally chatting with Irene to set me up?”
Brettley furrowed his brows and laughed. “It should be you setting her up, not the other way around. Alice wouldn’t be so stupid to use her own name as a nickname, openly stirring up trouble.”
The office was quiet for a few seconds. Bethan smiled. She could not help but laugh.
“Mr. Morrison, you think that your wife wouldn’t be so stupid as to use her name, but I would. Is that it?”
Brettley’s expressions darkened a little.
He almost forgot. The woman nicknamed Alice in the chat that morning also claimed to be Bethan herself.
Brettley’s gaze was flat. “I didn’t mean it like that. ” “What do you mean then, Mr. Morrison?”
Bethan sneered, plopping onto the sofa in front of Brettley. “Alice wouldn’t use her name to stir up trouble, but you’re so sure that I’m Hailey, that I ‘d use Mr. Walter from Sea City to help me out in Banyan City.”
Brettley looked at her, saying nothing.
Bethan continued calmly, “Mr. Morrison, have you forgotten? After the funeral of the impostor Hailey passed away in Sea City, you told me that you’ve already suspected that the woman is just an impostor.
“Tell me then, Mr. Morrison. Why would I risk getting Mr. Walter’s men to come to Banyan City when I clearly knew that you already suspected that the real Hailey isn’t dead yet?
“Banyan City is under you and your friend, Jude’s territory. If I’m Hailey, why would I get them to take such a risk to come here and so blatantly beat Irene up right after I had a conflict with her?
“Is it that I’m not afraid my identity would be exposed?”
Brettley’s eyes narrowed a little upon Bethan’s words.
Actually, regarding Bethan’s identity, it had always been Jude’s speculations only. He never agreed with him.
It was only that there were too many suspicious aspects to this matter.
Bethan was a person that he trusted. He was not willing to be around her in suspicion, and that was why he took the risk to ask her directly, even when he did not have enough proof of her identity.
Her reaction and attitude explained everything he needed to know.
A huge burden being put down, Brettley smiled teasingly and looked at Bethan. “Perhaps you might’ve guessed that I’d think that you’re not that stupid, so you did it on purpose?”
Bethan felt a fire of rage overwhelming her. Did this man take her for a fool?
Bethan bit her lips and stood up immediately. “Since you got me to stay but it’s not because of Neil and Nellie, I don’t need to continue wasting my time with you, Mr. Morrison. If you have proof that I’m Hailey, then show them. As long as there is enough proof, no matter how I deny it, it’d be pointless. If there’s none, however, don’t you dare for one second try to pin Hailey’s identity on me! “
Then, Bethan turned around and stormed off angrily. Brettley sat in the office, looking at Bethan leaving. He smiled.
He lowered his eyes and swept a glance at the design sketches on her desk. He could not help but pick one up and admire them.
The last sketch was not in her previously announced drafts. It seemed to have been drawn last minute.
It was a men’s ring with a skull.
He furrowed his brows. He felt that the man’s hand on the sketch was a little familiar. He looked aside and noticed his right hand that held the sketches.
It was the exact same.
Brettley furrowed his brows, thinking he was hallucinating, but as he had a closer look, it was indeed his hand.
Even the position and the shape of the little scars on his hand were exactly the same. Since when did she observe his hands so closely?
Brettley furrowed his brows and immediately took his phone out. He captured a photo of the sketch and saved it on his phone.
In the cafe downstairs of Morrison Group.
Alice smiled and looked at the man in front of her. “So, the person that hired you told you to tell me that Mr. Morrison was the one that wanted me killed?”
Jason was holding onto the check in his hand. He chuckled. “Of course. However, Mrs. Morrison, you and Mr. Morrison could still love each other even when you didn’t know whether it was him that did it or not. I salute you. I would’ve thought that you’d at least have some hostility toward him. Back then, the woman that got me to crash you specifically instructed me to say that it was Mr. Morrison who arranged for me to do it.”
Jason lifted his head and looked at Alice’s face. “
Have you never once suspected Mr. Morrison? Not even get angry at him?”
Alice laughed. “Of course not. He’s my husband, and no way will I suspect him.”
She smiled and looked at Jason. “Have you ever met that woman?”
Jason shook his head. “I only know that she was a woman. I don’t know anything else about her.”
“I see.”
Alice sighed. “Before my husband and I got married, there had always been a woman called Hailey Walter who liked my husband a lot. She tried to hurt me a few times so that she could have my husband to herself. She’s probably the one that planned the accident six years ago.”
Alice glanced at Jason, the smile still plastered on her face. “This woman has never looked for you since after the incident six years ago, right?”
Jason paused for a while before nodding.
“That’s because she’s gone through cosmetic surgery and looked different.”
Alice immediately took out a woman’s photo and placed it in front of Jason. “This is how she looks now. She’s been staying in my husband’s company, trying to find ways to seduce him.”
Jason furrowed his brows and subconsciously looked at the photo.
Instantly, his eyes widened.
That was right. The woman in the photo was the woman she saw in Zach and Yuri’s house the night before.
Bethan.
He even made an arrangement with her to pick Bonnie up from the hospital that night!
“A–Are you sure?”
Jason furrowed his brows before saying in a hushed tone, “I’ve met Ms. Bethan twice. She doesn’t seem to be what you describe her to be…”
“If she could be so easily called out, how could she put on an act in front of my husband for so long?”
Alice sighed. “Think about it. When Bethan saw you, did she react strangely at all?”
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.