“I personally contacted Officer James who was overseeing his case. The result I got was that those who beat you up were ordered by someone from Sea City. I, on the other hand, was eating at the hotel with you last night. You know this, too. I couldn’t have flown to Sea City to make a call to harm you.”
Irene was completely stunned.
“So…t–this morning…and the WhatsApp account…”
Bethan laughed. “If the people that beat you up last night have nothing to do with me, do you think that the number this morning would be from me?”
Bethan yawned. “Irene, your make-up skills are pretty good. If you were to use this skill in the right place, you’d be a great special effects make-up artist. Too bad you used this skill to cheat others. This won’t end well for you.”
Then, Bethan returned to her seat. “Samson made you apologize to me, but I thought it was unnecessary. You loathe me deep in your heart, and your sorries won’t be sincere. I don’t need them, anyway. The police should be here at any moment. What you need to do is not apologize to me, but to explain to them why you bring a group of people to create havoc in m y office. Also, why did you spread those rumors and try to smear my reputation?”
Upon her words, there was a knock on the design department’s main entrance door.
“Hello, we’re the police. Ms. Bethan called for us.”
Irene’s face was so pale there was not an ounce of blood left in her face.
She directly knelt on the ground and vehemently prostrated herself at Bethan.
“Ms. Bethan, please let me go, I’m still young! I promise I won’t do this again! Ms. Bethan, I–“
Before Irene could finish her sentence, Samson opened the door. The police entered and checked Irene’s identity before taking her and the dozen men she brought along away.
Everyone in the office was on the edge. Everyone got busy.
When the police took them away, it was almost noon. Bethan put her pen down. “Let’s go have lunch.”
Then, she followed Samson, Arianna, and Zayne out.
When she was by the entrance, Brettley, who had been silent all this while, reached out and stopped her.
“I have something to say to you.”
Bethan furrowed her brows. “Mr. Morrison, whatever you have to say, you can say it.”
Brettley had been protecting Alice so obviously that day. It was not as if she did not notice.
Bethan did not want to talk much to Brettley.
“Are you sure?”
Brettley calmly swept a glance at Bethan’s three assistants before looking at her once more. “It has to do with Neil and Nellie. Are you sure you want them to hear this?”
Bethan furrowed her brows.
If it had to do with Neil and Nellie, she would not want to argue further with Brettley.
Bethan calmly looked at Arianna. “You three go ahead. I have things to discuss with Mr. Morrison.”
“Yes. “
Arianna nodded, then she took Samson and Zayne and left.
As the trio walked, Samson asked in a half-whisper, “
Who are Neil and Nellie that Mr. Morrison mentioned? “
Arianna immediately replied in a soft tone, “
President Morrison’s twins.”
“What do they have to do with Director Bethan?” “It’s a long story…”
Their voices grew further and further away.
It was only when they completely vanished from Bethan’s sight did she sigh and closed the door.
“Mr. Morrison, you can tell me now.”
Brettley smiled. He turned around and sat on Bethan’s chair, aloofness and mockery dancing in his gaze.
“I never would’ve thought you’d be so charming that Theo would be willing to cut off ties with his parents.”
Bethan furrowed her brows. Her thin figure leaned against the door as she shot him a cold stare. “Mr. Morrison, didn’t you say that you wanted to discuss Neil and Nellie?”
Brettley lowered his gaze. He flipped through Bethan’s design sketches on her desk while chuckling a little. “
Why? You don’t want me to talk about Theo?”
“What do you think, Mr. Morrison?”
Bethan sneered and said, “You perfectly covered up for your wife in front of me just now. Do you think I’d want to talk to you about this?”
Brettley put the design sketches down. He calmly looked at Bethan. “So, you still think that Alice was the one that told Mrs. Allen those rumors?”
“What else is there?”
Bethan leaned against the door. Her tone was ice-cold. “How long has Mrs. Allen been in Banyan City? How much does she know about the Morrison Group? She might not know how many bodyguards are there downstairs, right? Still, she could clearly mention Zach and Yuri’s names. Who do you think told her? “
Brettley slightly squinted.
It was not as if he did not know that this was the work of Alice. It was that he did not understand one thing…
“Bethan, why is Alice so hostile to you?”
Upon this question, Bethan somehow wanted to laugh. “Mr. Morrison, do I still need to explain this to you? I
“Bethan.”
Brettley calmly interrupted her. “Just now when you spoke with Officer James on the phone, I recalled him saying that the person that ordered those people to beat Irene up came from a Sea City number, is that right?”
Bethan paused a little. “Yes.”
Brettley raised his head. He looked at Bethan closely with his deep gaze. His tone was cold.
“Do you know who was the one that made the call?”
Bethan furrowed her brows and shook her head.
She was also curious as to who would make the call.
However, she did not have the resources to investigate this. She could only wait for the police.
“You know who did it, Mr. Morrison?” “It is Mr. Walter the butler.”
Brettley looked at Bethan closely. His gaze was frigid and dangerous.
It was as if he wanted to see through all of her pretenses, directly into the deepest corner of her soul.
Bethan was indeed hiding things from him. Facing such a gaze from him, Bethan did not dare to meet his eyes.
She turned and looked away. “Mr. Walter? The butler that was chased out of the Walter family when we were in Sea City? That Mr. Walter?”
No wonder Alice could still be a bully. Bethan thought that she had found a new source of power. It turned out it was Mr. Walter who had been supporting her all this while.
“You sure remember it clearly.”
Brettley sneered. “Do you still remember what I told you? Back then the Hailey Walter that died was just an impostor, and that the real Hailey Walter is someone else?”
Bethan’s heart skipped a beat.
Brettley leaned back and changed into a more comfortable position. He calmly gazed at Bethan.
“All these years, Hailey Walter has been passionate about cosmetic surgery. What has she changed into, no one knows, but what we could be sure of is that if she were to change into another person, the first thing that she’d do is to change her name and fake all her details.”
Bethan furrowed her brows. “That’s true, but…”
In fact, Hailey did not fake a new identity but assumed another person’s identity instead.
“Bethan, “
Brettley coldly interrupted her, “what my friend found out is that your identity was faked.”
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
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