After all, since they had already handed in the participants’ list to the organizers, Bethan could not change anything anymore, much less kick Fiona off the team.
After heeding Charmaine’s warning, Bethan grew even more cautious during her preparation for the upcoming competition.
She, along with Nigel and Nellie, had even invented a special system that allowed the team members to keep their respective tasks and responsibilities secret.
Bethan deliberately assigned the simplest design tasks to Fiona. Initially, seeing that the competition was still a long time away, Fiona decided to take her sweet time executing her plan.
However, as the days passed, she realized that Bethan had her guard up.
Fiona was a member of the team, and she had been working with Bethan and the rest for a few weeks now. Despite that, she still had not seen their project.
Even though she was an integral member of the design team, she still had not seen the design sketch!
Time passed, and eventually, there were only three days left until the day of the project display. As soon as she realized this, Fiona could not help feeling alarmed.
Therefore, as soon as Bethan and the rest went out for lunch, Fiona immediately made a cup of coffee and entered Bethan’s office, pretending that she had made the coffee for Bethan.
As soon as she entered the room, she realized that there were security cameras all over the office.
Fiona stared at the blinking cameras and furrowed her brows slightly. She knew that Bethan had her suspicions about her and had her guard up.
However, there was no time left. If she did not do anything, Bethan would attend the competition unscathed.
Fiona knew that Brettley had organized this competition specifically for Bethan so that she would win and obtain the title of world champion.
Therefore, Fiona had to find a way to stop Bethan from taking part in this competition altogether!
As soon as she thought of this, Fiona let out an exhale, took out her phone, and sent a text message, (Cut off the electric supply.]
A second later, the lights went off, and the cameras in the office stopped working altogether.
Fiona curled her lips into a smirk. What difference did it make to have so many security cameras? As soon as the electric supply was cut off, these cameras were as good as nothing!
Fiona sneered triumphantly and inched toward Bethan’s design sketches, clutching the cup of coffee in her hand…
All of a sudden, a stern voice rang out from the direction of the door, “What are you doing, Ms. Blake?”
Fiona recognized this voice.
She immediately froze, then turned around.
Bethan stood at the door with her arms crossed in front of her chest, staring at Fiona with a cold expression. A smirk played on her lips as she asked, “
What are you doing in my office? It’s lunchtime, so why aren’t you out having lunch?”
As soon as she said this, the lights in the office came on, and the cameras resumed operating as usual.
A flicker of alarm flashed across Fiona’s face. However, a split second later, she regained her composure.
She smiled at Bethan, then placed the cup down on Bethan’s desk. “Ms. Bethan, you’ve been so busy with the preparations lately that you didn’t even have time to make a cup of coffee, so I made you one and came to give you a surprise.”
With that, she turned and stared at Bethan, grinning. “
Why did you come back so early?”
Bethan sneered. “If I didn’t, would I have been able to stop you from ruining my sketches?”
With that, she strode into the room. “Since you’re just here to bring me a cup of coffee, Ms. Blake, why didn’t you leave as soon as you set it down? Besides, if I wanted coffee, I would’ve asked Arianna to make me one. I don’t need you to do it for me, Ms. Blake.”
Fiona narrowed her eyes when she heard this. Bethan was smarter than she thought. All of a sudden, a glint of mischief flashed through Fiona’s eyes, and she picked up the cup of coffee and proffered it to Bethan. “Ms. Bethan, I made this coffee just for you. Why don’t you try it?”
Bethan furrowed her brows. As she glanced at the cup of coffee Fiona was holding, she chuckled. “Keep your coffee to yourself, Ms. Blake. After all, I wouldn’t know what kind of vitamin powder you added in there this time, would I?”
Bethan was being sarcastic when she said this. She was referring to what happened before when Fiona poured some vitamin powder into her glass and deliberately caused a misunderstanding.
As soon as she heard this, Fiona’s expression darkened. However, she did not say anything and instead bit down on her lip and proffered Bethan the coffee with a slightly upset expression. “This is pure coffee– there’s nothing added to it. I know you hate me, Ms. Bethan, but since I made you this coffee out of kindness… Why don’t you give it a taste?”
As she said this, Fiona kept inching closer to Bethan. Bethan frowned and extended her hands out, feeling somewhat uncomfortable. “I don’t want to– “
“Ah–! “
Before she could even finish, however, Fiona’s shrill screams pierced through the air.
Bethan was so startled by this that she immediately froze. Then, after a moment, she turned and glanced in Fiona’s direction.
Fiona had spilled the entire cup of boiling coffee all over herself and accidentally stained her white shirt a dark shade of chocolate.
Bethan had not shoved her at all.
She immediately furrowed her brows. Was Fiona trying to pull the same trick twice?
Previously, Fiona had accused Arianna of frightening her, causing her to spill coffee all over Arianna.
Was she trying to pull the same trick again? Only this time, she deliberately poured coffee all over herself instead of someone else.
Fiona’s screams were too loud, and at this moment, it was lunch break, so a few of the employees from the design department as well as those from a neighboring department immediately rushed into the room when they heard Fiona’s cries.
“What’s wrong?” “Director Bethan! “
Bethan’s office was filled with people in a matter of seconds, most of them her own employees.
Her office was packed with so many people that some of them did not have space to stand and so shifted over to where Bethan kept the design sketches for the competition.
This alarmed Bethan.
She knew that her team members would not leak the contents of her sketches, but she could not say the same for the rest of the department.
Besides, there were plenty of new employees who had just joined Morrison Group’s design department not too long ago, so they could always steal the sketches from Bethan’s office and switch jobs.
At this moment, there were even some people in her office who belonged to other departments!
As soon as she thought of this, Bethan immediately ordered, “Samson, Zayne, please take everyone out of my office.”
Samson and Zayne, too, suddenly realized what had happened.
There were so many people in the room at this point that if important documents were to go missing, it would be impossible to find out who had taken them!
Samson and Zayne quickly shooed the people out of Bethan’s office. However, none of them seemed willing to leave and instead insisted on staying in case something interesting was about to unfold.
One of the employees stood in the doorway and first glanced at Bethan, then at Fiona. “What happened to Ms. Blake? Did Director Bethan and Ms. Blake have a run-in with each other?”
Bethan furrowed her brows and was about to say something when a pale-faced Fiona suddenly bit down on her lip and answered in a low voice, “No. Nothing’s wrong…”
She bit down on her lip as though trying to suppress the pain of being scalded by hot coffee. “It was my mistake. I accidentally spilled the coffee… It had nothing to do with Director Bethan.”
With that, she forced out a smile and glanced at everyone. “There’s nothing here to see. Please leave, everyone. Ms. Bethan doesn’t like it when other people interrupt her, and I accidentally scared her.”
Bethan could not help frowning when she saw this.
What was Fiona trying to do?
She spilled coffee on herself deliberately, but at the same time, admitted that it was her mistake. What was she doing?
“Get on with your work, everyone.”
Then, seeing everyone still lingering in Bethan’s office, Fiona bit down on her lip and added softly, “I’m fine. Please don’t worry about me. Let’s not…disturb Ms. Bethan anymore.”
With that, she hobbled out of the room.
Someone quickly helped her out of the room and insisted on taking her to the hospital, while others insisted on calling Brettley in
A short while later, some of the employees brought Fiona away with them.
The remaining people soon dispersed after realizing there was nothing else to watch.
“What a drama queen, “
Samson scoffed as he watched Fiona leave with the rest of the people, and his lips twisted into a smirk. “Doesn’t she know not to use the same trick twice? She tried to frame Arianna with hot coffee before, and now she’s using the exact tactic again.”
Bethan furrowed her brows. She could not help feeling that there was something about the way Fiona acted.
All of a sudden, she recalled the design sketch she had left on the desk.
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