Alice was only using her as a tool to go up against Bethan!
When push came to shove, Alice pushed all the blame on her and burned the bridge between them. By then, everything and every rumor came from Celeste alone–it had nothing to do with Alice!
The more Celeste thought of it, the angrier she became.
In the end, Celeste turned to look at Brettley. “Mr. Morrison, you have indeed married a great person! I wouldn’t know whether you and Bethan have a relationship or not, but your wife’s tactics are indeed brilliant! “
Upon hearing Celeste talking about Alice, Brettley slightly narrowed his eyes. “What? Just because you failed to besmirch my wife, you’re trying to drive a wedge between us now?”
Celeste gritted her teeth harshly.
Brettley was clearly trying to protect Bethan and Alice. She would be no match for him!
“Mom, let’s go home.”
Theo sighed and whispered into Celeste’s ears, “This is the Morrison Group. You’re presenting the Allen family…”
Celeste gritted her teeth upon Theo’s words.
After a while, she closed her eyes. “Then…let’s go.”
Theo pursed his lips. He turned to look at Bethan and smiled apologetically before helping Celeste up and headed toward the exit.
“Hold on.”
Samson furrowed his brows. He rushed forward and opened his arms wide, blocking Theo in the way.
“You’re Mr. Theo Allen, right? I’ve seen you in the news. You just announced a relationship with our Director Bethan a few days ago.”
Theo paused for a while and sized up this 17 or 18 – year-old teenager in front of him. “Can I help you? “
“Of course! “
Samson sneered. “Your mother still hasn’t apologized to Director Bethan.”
Theo furrowed his brows. When he arrived, he noticed Celeste kneeling in front of Bethan. He thought that Celeste was apologizing to Bethan for her terrible character previously. Did she not apologize?
Samson seemed to have noticed Theo’s confusion. He sneered and said, “Mrs. Allen only knelt down because her legs went limp. Because of her rumors, Director Bethan has suffered a lot of unwarranted scoldings and humiliation. Should Mrs. Allen not apologize for it?”
Theo furrowed his brows. He turned to look at Celeste next to him, whose face had already turned miserably pale. “Mother, you… What did you say about Bethan?”
For the past two days, Theo had been cooped up in the hotel by Nathan. He did not know what happened outside, let alone what his mother did to Bethan.
He only knew that Celeste took a five-million-dollar check this morning to look for Bethan.
Theo spent a huge effort to escape Nathan’s clutches. As for the rumors, Theo did not know anything about it.
Facing her son’s question, Celeste furrowed her brows. She did not know what to say at that moment. She had always believed what Alice said. However, at that moment…she was more prone to believe that those were lies Alice created because she was jealous of Bethan.
Seeing how Celeste did not reply to Theo, Samson swept a cold glance at Irene, who was still kneeling on the ground in the distance.
“You should be the one who knows best what rumors Mrs. Allen spread. Tell us.”
Irene hesitated for a while. She thought that this was a great opportunity to redeem herself, so she immediately repeated what Celeste said before.
The color on Theo’s face fluctuated from pale white to blue. He could not fathom. He could not imagine that his usual gentle, kind-hearted mother would… use such words to defame Bethan.
What did Bethan do wrong? All she did was nothing but being forced to announce their relationship due to rumors of her and him dating.
“Mother.”
Theo took a deep breath and let go of Celeste’s arm. “Perhaps I haven’t been by your side for such a long time. I didn’t know that you had become such a person. No matter what, Bethan is my girlfriend. Have you ever considered my feelings when you spread those rumors?”
Celeste opened her mouth, trying to find her words, but nothing came out.
After a while, she lowered her head. “I was only trying to…force her to break up with you.”
“I’ll never break up with her.”
Theo looked at Celeste, then at Brettley.
“The more all of you want me to give up, the stronger I’ll hold onto.”
Then, Theo looked at Celeste closely. “Mother, if you must treat Bethan like this, I’d rather cut ties with you.”
The entire office fell silent at Theo’s words. Celeste looked at Theo in shock. “Theo, you…”
Brettley frowned in displeasure, rather displeased at Theo’s persistence. He squinted his eyes.
“Is Bethan that important to you?”
Theo puffed his chest. “Yes.”
“More important than your own mother that brought you up?”
Theo laughed. “Mr. Morrison, you don’t seem to know my family well. My parents have always been abroad trading, and I grew up with my grandparents. My skills for art were also cultivated by them. As for my parents…”
Theo swept Celeste a glance. “They’ve never truly cared for me. If they had cared for me, they wouldn’t have forbidden me from being together with Bethan, just because of other people’s gossip. They wouldn’t have spread rumors about Bethan being with other men when they clearly knew that Bethan’s my girlfriend.”
Celeste’s face was extremely pale. She always thought that as long as she showed how cheap and dirty Bethan was, Theo would come around. He would know that he had made a mistake and break up with Bethan.
She never would have thought that Theo’s feelings for Bethan were so deep that he would be willing to cut off ties with his parents. “Theo, forget about it.”
Bethan furrowed her brows. In the end, she still could not help but open her mouth and say, “It’s just a small misunderstanding. There’s no need to cut ties with your parents.”
She lowered her gaze and looked at the time. “This is still the office, and it’s still working hours. Why don’t you take Mrs. Allen back for now? We can talk about it later.”
Bethan and Theo were only faking it being together. She could not let Theo cut ties with his parents just because of his fake girlfriend.
Theo furrowed his brows. He wanted to say something else, but Celeste immediately grabbed his wrist.
“Yes, listen to Bethan…Lulu! “
Celeste immediately kept her condescending expression. She smiled and looked at Bethan. “You’re right, Lulu. It’s just a misunderstanding!”
Celeste dragged Theo and headed for the exit. “Don’t disturb her from working. We have all the time in the world to talk in the future! “
Theo furrowed his brows and turned back to look at Bethan once more.
Bethan smiled and nodded at him, signaling for him to follow Celeste.
Upon her approval, only then did Theo turn around and left with Celeste. Once mother and son left, the office resumed its peacefulness.
“How about you?”
After a long while, Samson swept a cold glance at Irene. “Did you start to spread rumors after listening to what Mrs. Allen said? Now that Mrs. Allen said that it was just a misunderstanding, why are you still not apologizing?”
Irene bit her lips. “Sure, I can apologize.”
Then, she pointed at the bruises on her face. “Even if I was wrong in spreading the rumors, is it alright for Bethan to get people to beat me up?”
Bethan smiled. She looked at Irene, who clearly had put on more make -up to emphasize the bruises on her face and made them look more serious. “What proof do you have that it was me who sent those men?”
“Who else but you! “
Irene glared at Bethan angrily. “
Those men yesterday said that it was you who sent them! This morning, the person that chatted with me also told me that it was you! There are so many facts right in front of you. Are you still trying to deny it?”
“Is that so?”
Bethan chuckled gently. She took her phone out and dialed a number.
“Officer James, could you tell me once more the message that you sent me just now?”
Officer James, on the other end of the line, was quiet for a while before calmly saying, “Ms. Bethan, you asked about the people who beat up Ms. Irene Cook last night. We’ve apprehended them. They admitted that someone got them to deliberately mention your name while beating her up so that the victim would be mistaken. As for who ordered them to beat Ms. Irene up, we’ve found out that it came from a number from our neighboring Sea City. The person spoke to them last night. We’re currently trying to locate this person via their IP address…”
“Okay, thank you, Officer James.”
Once Bethan hung up the call, she sneered and looked at Irene, who was kneeling on the floor in a daze. “
This entire morning, you gathered and protested in front of my design department. It was not as if I did nothing.
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