With that, Bonnie turned to glance at Bethan and said in a low voice, “Don’t you need money to pay your son’s medical bills? Please accept my gift. I don’t need all this money at all.
“Do you want to stay at Morrison Group and work yourself down to your bone? Are you willing to get bullied by Brettley’s new girlfriend when you could’ve accepted my help?”
Bethan felt her heart leap into her throat.
It turned out that…the reason Bonnie wanted to help her was that she had found out about Bethan’s financial struggles.
Bethan let out an exhale and snatched the microphone from Bonnie’s hand. “I’m happy to see Ms. Bonnie regain her freedom, but I reject her gift.”
She turned around to glance at Bonnie and continued, “Even though I need the money, but…I ‘m only willing to accept one million dollars at most.”
Bethan had to admit that accepting Bonnie’s help was a better choice than continuing to work for Brettley.
However, she could not accept such an expensive gift. The most she was willing to take was one million dollars.
Besides, she would not let Bonnie’s kindness go to waste. Some of Bonnie’s investments were placed in jewelry design companies. Therefore, Bethan decided to give the proposal that she had initially drawn up for Brettley to Bonnie in return for her help.
As long as she put in hard work and effort, Bethan believed that what she had to offer would make up for the money Bonnie gave her.
Bethan did not want to reject Bonnie’s offer because she wanted everyone to see what a grateful person Bonnie was. Apart from that, however, accepting Bonnie’s help would also save her from working at Morrison Group, so she would not have to get bullied anymore.
Bonnie furrowed her brows and protested, “But…”
Bethan shook her head and answered in a low voice, “
Bonnie, if you insist, I won’t accept your gift at all. “
Bonnie had no choice but to relent. She bit down on her lip nervously.
In reality…Bonnie wanted to transfer all her fortune over to Bethan, then disappear from the face of this earth entirely. However, Bethan was a calm and level- headed person. Bonnie knew that if she did not agree to Bethan’s terms, Bethan would definitely refuse to take the money.
Bonnie bit down on her lip and remained silent. After a long while, she finally let out an exhale and chuckled. “Well, since Bethan thinks that accepting all of the Craig family’s fortune is too much and insists on only taking one million dollars, I ‘ll gladly do so.
“As for the rest…we’ll discuss this again in the future.”
With that, she turned to glance at one of her lawyers, who had been waiting backstage all this while. “You don’t have to draft the transfer contract anymore. Just get me a contract for a transfer of one million dollars for now.”
The lawyer nodded, and after a while, the contract was printed and passed over to Bonnie.
Exhaling, Bonnie dragged Bethan to a table on the stage and signed her name on the contract, right under the audience’s watchful gazes.
After that, she handed the pen over to Bethan. “Now, it’s your turn.”
Still clutching the pen in her hand, Bethan stared at the contract before her and heaved a deep sigh.
The moment she signed this contract, she would receive one million dollars from Bonnie.
With this money, she could finally quit her job at Morrison Group and go back to taking care of Nigel and Nellie while working as a designer at Bonnie’s company.
As soon as she signed this contract, she would no longer have to see Brettley every day at work, nor would she have to subject herself to Fiona’s manipulative tactics.
Everything was about to come to an end.
Bethan let out an exhale and placed her pen at the signature column–
“Wait a minute,” a low voice rang out through the room, just as Bethan scrawled the first two letters of her name.
Startled by the voice, Bethan stopped right that instant, causing her handwriting to transition into an indiscernible scribble.
Bonnie lifted her head in surprise. “Brettley Morrison?”
She did not remember inviting Brettley to her party this night.
“Yes, it’s me. “
Brettley curled his lips into a smirk and stood up gracefully from his seat on the sofa. “
Ladies, before you sign this agreement for a one million-transferal, why don’t you check to see if Ms. Craig can even afford to pay this sum?”
Bonnie’s brows furrowed as soon as she heard this. She gave Brettley a contemptuous look and said, “Are you trying to make a joke, Mr. Morrison? I’m the only living kin of the Craig family and the sole heiress of the Craig family fortune. I own more than ten billion dollars’ worth of assets belonging to the Craig Group. How dare you even suggest I can’t afford to pay one million dollars? Are you trying to be funny?”
Brettley did not seem fazed by Bonnie’s taunting. Instead, he smirked and replied, “Ms. Craig, why don’t you check the Craig Group’s shares right now, and we’ll see who’s laughing?”
Bonnie frowned and immediately took out her phone.
Although she was not very adept at buying and selling shares, she still understood what was happening on her screen. The steep decline of the Craig Group’s shares highlighted on the screen made her freeze in shock.
At this moment, Lucas brought out a projector and displayed projections of the Craig Group’s market shares on the stage’s backdrop.
Brettley gracefully sat back down and leaned against the seat, his legs crossed elegantly on top of one another. “Ms. Craig, do you have any idea what this means?”
With that, he shifted his gaze from Bonnie’s pale face onto Bethan’s. “Bethan, do you know what this means?”
Bethan clenched her hands into fists.
The projections were clear. The Craig Group’s shares had dropped from their peak to an all-time -low in only ten minutes.
Ten minutes ago was when Bonnie announced that she would be gifting all her assets to Bethan.
This meant that as soon as Bonnie made her announcement, someone had sold all their shares of Craig Group, causing the market shares to drop to an all-time low.
However, Craig Group was a large company. Whoever was behind this must have possessed an insurmountable amount of power and wealth, so much so that they could bankrupt Craig Group in only ten minutes.
There were only two people in Banyan City who possessed this kind of power: Brettley Morrison and Jude Smith.
As soon as she thought of this, Bethan glanced at Jude, who was holding a glass of wine and chatting up a beautifully dressed woman below the stage.
It was clear that Jude was not the mastermind behind this. Therefore, there could only be one other person.
Bethan shifted her gaze to look at Brettley, who was leaning against his seat triumphantly, looking like royalty, and felt as though someone had dunked her heart in ice-cold water.
It was obvious why he did this.
If Bonnie gave her one million dollars, Bethan would not have to work at Morrison Group anymore and be subjected to his and Fiona’s tormenting.
He was trying to force her to stay.
“Bethan…”
Bonnie continued to watch the Craig Group’s shares plummet and began to panic.
Even though she did not know much about finance, she could still figure out that Craig Group was on the brink of collapsing.
All of a sudden, Bonnie’s phone rang. It was a call from the CEO that she had employed for Craig Group. “Ms. Craig, we have a crisis. A mysterious person has been attacking our company for ten minutes now, but we have no idea who it is.
“Not only are Craig Group’s shares plummeting, but the company’s IT system has also experienced a crash. Our PR department has been receiving calls left and right from our vendors and suppliers, claiming that they don’t want to work with us anymore…”
The CEO continued to spout explanations that sounded like gibberish to Bonnie’s ears, but there was one final sentence that she could understand.
“If whoever is attacking us doesn’t stop us, Craig Group will be bankrupt in five minutes’ time.”
Bonnie, her hand still clutching her phone, started to tremble in terror.
That afternoon, she had asked Jude about the specifics of transferring a company’s assets. When Jude enquired her reason for asking this, she had told him her plans of transferring her entire fortune over to Bethan.
“If you do that, Brettley will be furious. The consequences of offending Brettley Morrison will be dire.”
At that time, however, Bonnie took no notice of Jude’s warning at all. She thought since she had inherited the Craig family fortune, she had become the third richest person in Banyan City after Brettley and Jude, so Brettley could not possibly do any harm to her.
Alas…
After hearing what the CEO said, she finally realized the extent of Brettley Morrison’s powers…
With that, she secretly shifted her gaze to Brettley.
Even though he was sitting beneath the stage, Bonnie felt like he was towering over her. There was an air of grandeur and solemnity about him that made her feel suffocated.
She bit down on her lip nervously.
Bethan noticed the anxious expression on Bonnie’s pale face, and her hands clenched, unclenched, and clenched as she tried to figure out what to do.
Finally, she slid in front of Bonnie, blocking her from Brettley’s view, and stared straight at him. “Mr. Morrison, the reason you’re doing all this is that you don’t want me to accept Bonnie’s help, right? In that case, I promise you that I won’t take a single penny from her anymore.”
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