The door to the design department was closed shut. There was also a bodyguard observing the noise monitor by the entrance.
Irene looked at the bottle of water at hand that Shannon passed to them, not knowing what to do.
Bethan…
Not only was she not afraid, but she also wanted to call the police and arrest them for creating noise?
How could this woman be so vile?
“Why are there so many people here?” a calm woman’s voice rang out just as Irene felt somewhat disoriented.
It was no one other than the woman Bethan met at the hotel the day before, the great artist Theo Allen’s mother.
Irene was jolted with excitement upon seeing Celeste. She threw the bottle of water aside and rushed up to Celeste.
“Mrs. Allen, hello! “
Looking at the bruised and battered lady in front of her, Celeste retreated backward a step in slight detest. “You are…?” “I’m the assistant that Bethan fired because I overheard the conversation you had with her yesterday! “
Irene was extremely agitated. “What you said yesterday was all true, right? How dare Bethan accuse me of spreading false rumors. She even got people to beat me up…”
Celeste slightly furrowed her brows before, a moment later, she laughed. “I pity you. Not only is Bethan so immoral, but she’s also vicious…”
“Mrs. Allen, are you here to look for Bethan as well?”
Celeste smiled. “Of course.”
When she returned to the hotel the night before, Theo accidentally overheard her casually mention her meeting with Bethan in the hotel to Nathan.
Theo was currently at home on a hunger strike, forcing Celeste to apologize to Bethan.
Celeste was there not to truly apologize to Bethan, though. She came to make Bethan break up with Theo.
Celeste did not expect that there would be a protest outside of Bethan’s design department.
Celeste raised her eyes and watched as the people held up their banners, smiling a little before she turned to look at Irene. “Actually, protesting this way won’t bring results. It seems that we’re fated to meet. Why don’t I take you in?”
Irene’s eyes instantly sparkled!
She looked at the design department’s door that was shut tightly. “A–Are…you sure you can take us in?”
“Of course. “
Celeste smiled. She got Irene and the others to keep the banners and the flag, then brought all of them to the design department’s entrance.
The security stopped them by the entrance.
Celeste smiled. She took out the photo she took with Brettley and Alice the day they signed the deal. “
Bethan’s project this round needs a rare ore, and I’m the supplier of this ore. What? You won’t even let business partners in?”
The two security guards hesitated for a while. One of them immediately went to report to Shannon.
Shannon, at her level, would not be in touch with the supplier of the ore, but she knew that Bethan’s project this time required a type of gorgeous and rare gemstone.
Because of that, Shannon did not consider much. “
Since she’s the supplier, let her in. Perhaps she had problems with the quality that needs to be discussed with Director Bethan.”
The guard nodded and left. He respectfully smiled at Celeste. “Please enter.”
The moment the guards opened the door, Irene and the others immediately flocked forward.
The two guards could barely go against more than lo huge men.
Slam!
The door of the design department was instantly forced open. Everyone outside swarmed in.
The relatively small design department was filled with people.
With a sneer, Celeste entered, pushing Bethan’s office door open.
In her office, Bethan had already taken off her headphones. The sound of the door slamming open was way too loud, so much so that she could still hear it with her headphones on.
Bethan raised her eyes and looked at her messages.
Brettley texted, (Even if the apocalypse happens today, you have to work up the work schedule for me.
Bethan took a deep breath and sent a message.
(Mrs. Allen is here looking for me. Do you want to come over, too?]
Just when Bethan finished sending the message, Celeste had also just arrived at her office desk.
Bethan swiftly kept her phone. “Mrs. Allen, can I help you with anything?”
“Of course, you can.”
Celeste sneered. She took out a check from her pocket and slammed it on Bethan’s office desk.
“You seduced Theo and got together with him just for the Allen family’s money, didn’t you? Five million is written on this; it’s enough for a broke designer like you to last a few years. Let my son go and break up with him! “
Bethan lowered her eyes and looked at the five-million-dollar check. She chuckled.
No matter what, Celeste was Theo’s biological mother. Why would such a kind-hearted, gentleman like Theo have such a dull-witted mother?
Bethan sneered and said, “Mrs. Allen, do you feel that your son, the great artist Theo Allen, is only worth five million dollars?”
Then, she took out a check from her desk. She wrote five million and ten thousand on the check, slamming it on top of Celeste’s check.
“I’ll top it up with another ten thousand dollars. Will you sell Theo to me
Celeste’s expression instantly contorted uglily upon Bethan’s words.
She glared at Bethan fiercely. “What do you mean by this? Are you trying to show off your wealth to me? Isn’t my son the one who gives you your money?”
Bethan sneered. “Mrs. Allen, I was wrong in calling you a crazy old hag. I was wrong. I’m sorry.”
Celeste furrowed her brows. Why did Bethan suddenly change her attitude and apologized to her?
She harrumphed coldly. “Good that you know that, you…”
“I really shouldn’t have called you that, “
Bethan coldly interrupted Celeste before she could finish. “In my eyes, crazy old hags would still have a small brain. You, on the other hand, don’t even have one.”
Celeste’s eyes widened. She raised her voice a few octaves. “What do you mean by that?”
“What do I mean?”
Bethan sneered. She picked up the check that Celeste gave her and elegantly tore it up into pieces. “In your opinion, a famous artist, whose works cost at least a few million dollars, is only worth five million dollars? A mother who casually puts a price tag on her son, isn’t she foolish? Also…”
Bethan took out a pile of honorary certificates from the top of her shelf and placed it on her desk.
“These are the honors I’ve earned over the years abroad. Every set of jewelry I design could sell for more than ten million dollars on the international market, yet you offered me five million dollars to leave Theo. Aren’t you just humiliating yourself?”
Bethan left all her honorary certificates abroad when she returned to her country. However, Neil secretly couriered her certificates back.
Initially, she was still worried that the certificates would expose her identity. She did not expect that it would be able to help her at a time like this.
Bethan’s office was in pin-drop silence.
Celeste’s face was even paler than the wall behind her. She gritted her teeth harshly.
“Bethan! You…You b*tch! “
Before Celeste could finish her sentence, Irene rushed in with a broom and aimed at Bethan.
Just when the broom was about to hit Bethan’s face, a hand grabbed Irene’s wrist and brutally flung her backward, causing her to slam against the corner.
Thud! Irene hit the wall brutally.
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.