A week later, he was discharged from the hospital, and the child in him floated to the surface, holding Nellie’s hand as they jumped and hopped into Christian’s car.
Seeing the little guy’s lively movements, Bethan could not help but sigh. He was a child after all. No matter how mature he usually acted, when it was time to be childish, he was as childish as any other child his age.
“You can’t expect a six-year-old to act more mature than me every day?”
Maybe he had read Bethan’s mind, Christian leaned on the car door and smiled as he looked at her. “
Children should be children.”
Bethan side-eyed him. “You’re a child too.”
Christian patted his nose and said cheekily, “I’m just younger than you, I’m a full-grown adult everywhere else.”
Only after he said that did he realize that Bethan was Brettley’s woman. So he smiled in embarrassment and hurriedly shut his mouth to end this topic of conversation.
He could hardly be blamed. Even though she was already the mother of a six-year-old child, she was beautiful, and with glowing skin to match. Even if she said she was 19, the same age as him, people would believe her.
Bethan pretended not to understand his dirty innuendo and loaded Nigel’s suitcase into the booth as she calmly switched the topic of conversation.
“How’s your friend?”
Christian remained quiet for a while, then finally understood. The ‘friend’ Bethan was referring to was Fiona, the donor who donated Nigel’s bone marrow to him. At the thought of Fiona, he could not help but snort.
“Ha, she’s doing well. A few days ago, she was considering having a child.”
Somehow, when she heard Christian mention words relating to wanting a child, her mind would drift to Fiona.
That day Anne said…Fiona wanted to give Brettley a child. Back then, she did not pay much attention to these words, but now when Christian mentioned his friend wanting a friend too, she was reminded of
Fiona for no reason. They were both Christian’s friends, and both of them wanted a child…
A silly thought popped into her mind.
‘Could it be, the person who donated the bone marrow to Nigel…was Fiona?’
The moment the idea popped up in her head, Bethan immediately suppressed it.
She shook her head. What was she thinking?
Someone like Fiona would never be the one whose bone marrow was compatible with Nigel. Even if she was, would she so selflessly donate her bone marrow to Bethan’s son and ask for nothing in return?
Impossible.
The day after Nigel was discharged from hospital, Bethan returned to work at the Morrison Group.
Shannon organized a simple welcoming party for her.
The moment Bethan pushed open the doors to the office, everyone handed her a flower one by one.
“Director Bethan, welcome back! “
“Director Bethan, congratulations on your son’s healthy recovery! “
“I hope some of your good luck rubs off on me! I wish Director Bethan’s son a long and happy life! “
Shannon, Bonnie, and Arianna who had recovered from her burns and returned to work…
Out of the entire office, only two staff members did not present her with a flower distributed by Shannon. One of them was Fiona who was sitting in the corner, and the other was Fiona’s lackey, Charmaine Ross.
After everyone presented her with flowers and gave her their well-wishes, as if she suddenly remembered something, Charmaine suddenly stuffed the flower Shannon distributed to her into Fiona’s hands.
“Fiona, I too wish you good health and a long life! “
Then she sneered and looked at Shannon in disdain. “
Both of you work in the same office, Fiona was sick and had an operation too , but how come no one is offering her well-wishes? Just because someone’s son has recovered, so many of you are as happy as if your own fathers have recovered. Hah, treating someone’s son as your own father, why don’t you just address her as your grandmother? You’ve even resorted to using flowers to curry favor with her, why don’t all of you just kneel down and address her as your grandmother! Ptui! “
Charmaine’s words made the originally lively atmosphere in the office turn silent in an instant. Shannon was so angry her eyebrows almost turned into two upside-down v’s.
“Director Bethan’s son just recovered from a critical illness ! What’s wrong with congratulating her and giving her well-wishes?”
Shannon initially intended to bring everyone to Bethan’s house to visit Nigel and they would all give him a gift card. The kid just escaped the gates of hell, according to custom, this is what they should have done, to express their well-wishes!
But her suggestion was rejected by Bethan firmly, Bethan did not want everyone to spend money on her and Nigel. That’s why Shannon thought of this idea, so everyone could express their well-wishes when Bethan returned to work.
And yet Charmaine was using this to insult them? And with such ugly words at that?
“Charmaine.”
Fiona frowned, glancing at Charmaine reproachfully, her voice as soft and gentle as ever. “
What nonsense are you saying? Ms. Bethan is the director of the design department after all, and her son was seriously ill. To take care of him, she even took a week off work. Now that she’s back, it’s normal for everyone to celebrate the happy occasion. You should not have said those things…”
Charmaine’s eyebrows screwed tightly together at the other woman’s words. She refused to comply. “
But Fiona, you had an operation too, but no one offered you any well-wishes! “
Fiona sighed, “I ‘m new to the company, everyone isn’t close to me yet, it’s only normal if they don’t want to offer me their well-wishes…”
Beside them, Samson frowned, looking at Fiona with cold eyes. “What do you mean everyone doesn’t want to wish you well? If you were diagnosed with leukemia and were at death’s door a few times then finally recovered after a bone marrow transplant, we would offer you our well-wishes too! “
Fiona curled her lips and laughed softly. She looked at Samson and said gently, “But Director Bethan wasn’t ill either.”
“Exactly!”
Charmaine snorted, “All of you want to offer her son well-wishes, so why don’t you all go to her house and offer them to him personally? We’re in the office, during office hours and blessing a child who doesn’t even work here?”
With that, she turned and looked at Fiona solicitously. “Fiona, you have to tell President Morrison about this! “
“It’s alright.”
Fiona lowered her head shyly. “Brettley himself celebrated the occasion for me during office hours… Actually, he wanted the entire office to come together and pray for my smooth recovery but I didn’t want to trouble everyone…”
With that, she lowered her head, her cheeks dusted in pink. “Actually, I don’t really care whether other people wish me well or not, I’m happy as long as I have Brettley.”
Bethan narrowed her eyes slightly at the other woman’s words. She knew Fiona said this on purpose. She intentionally brought up Brettley, intentionally mentioned that she rejected Brettley’s suggestion for the entire office to offer her their well-wishes, and had Brettley celebrate with her alone…
She was just trying to show that Brettley wanted to spoil her but she herself was too kind and understanding to allow that. But most importantly, it was to drive Bethan crazy.
At this thought, Bethan could not help but laugh. She never expected that even now, Fiona still saw her as competition, and would even purposely mention the fact that Brettley celebrated her discharge for her and her alone.
She did not have the time to play the game for Brettley’s affection. So, she hugged the big bouquet of flowers to her chest and smiled casually. “Ms. Blake is a reasonable woman after all.”
Then, she raised her head and looked at Shannon. “Ms. Blake and Charmaine are right, we should not be doing this during office hours. But since we have, then all of you, write a 500- word apology and send it to me.”
Everyone could not help but mourn in their hearts.
They were just offering their blessings, why did they have to write a letter of apology?
“And.”
Bethan curled her lips. “To celebrate the recovery of my son Nigel, I invite all of you to dinner and karaoke tonight.”
As soon as the woman’s words left her lips, there was a huge cheer in the office.
Director Bethan personally invited everyone to dinner and sing!
This is a rare incident that happens only once in a century!
What was a five-hundred-word apology letter compared to this!
Shannon also placated the crowd with a smile. “
Keep it down, keep it down. If not, staff from other departments will come to share the excitement. All of you, write your apology letter, quick! 500 words will take no time. Tonight, all of us will leave work on time and go for a meal and a karaoke session with Director Bethan! “
After everyone quietened down, Bethan hugged the bouquet of flowers to her chest and walked to Fiona with a smile. “The time that they spent on me was about two minutes, do the two of you think a too- word apology is sufficient?”
Charmaine’s complexion was pale as a ghost. “Why are you asking me? I’m not the one who sets the rules and regulations in the company! “
Bethan curled her lips in a sneer then looked at her tauntingly. “I didn’t ask you. Right, Shannon is also considered your superior, right? You were so rude to her just now, according to the company’s rules, how should that incident be dealt with?”
The remaining blood in Charmaine’s cheeks drained out of her completely. She bit her lip. “I…I was just… “
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