The man was powerful and influential, but Bethan could not think of a reason for Jude to help Theo or her.
“I’m not helping Theo.”
Jude smiled. “I just want Brettley to owe me one.”
Then, Jude picked up the teacup and gently took a sip. “One of Brettley’s work plans for the second half of the year is to develop a Morrison Group jewelry branch.
“You, Ms. Bethan, is his only trump card in the jewelry industry. If I helped you, even if I didn’t bring it up, Brettley would understand that he owes me a huge one.”
Then, Jude raised his eyebrows. “Are you satisfied with this answer, Ms. Bethan?”
Bethan laughed, “With your relationship with Mr. Morrison, do you still need to use such a way for him to owe you one?”
Jude gracefully placed the teacup down. He flatly glanced at Bethan. “What I’m saying is the truth. It’s the truth.”
Then, Jude yawned and looked at Theo. “You invited me over just so your girlfriend can interrogate me? “
Theo laughed. Jude called Bethan his girlfriend. He was extremely pleased about that.
“Mr. Smith, don’t mind her. Bethan is just being curious.”
“There is nothing to be curious about.”
Jude elegantly lifted his gaze and looked at Bethan. “I might expand into the jewelry business in the future. There is nothing wrong in making an acquaintance with you, Ms. Bethan.”
Jude placed his business card in front of Bethan. “If you have plans of changing companies, contact me. Although Brettley and I are friends, things like poaching his staff should still be done.”
Then, Jude gracefully adjusted the tie on his neck, turned around, and left.
Bethan remained seated on the chair. Looking at Jude’s business card with his contact on it, her gaze was complicated.
All of the reasons that Jude gave could not convince her. In her eyes, all those reasons were only just Jude finding excuses to do things on behalf of Brettley.
If it were not for Brettley, Bethan did not believe that Jude would help her so wholeheartedly.
Jude’s shoddy reasons were only a way of trying to redeem Brettley’s pride.
After all, Brettley has already said that besides work, he would not meddle in any of her affairs in the future.
However…
Bethan lowered her gaze. Even if Brettley has already said those things, why would he still secretly help her using such cumbersome methods?
Could it just be because she was the best jewelry designer in his company?
That was not too realistic.
After all, although she was brilliant and great in jewelry design, Brettley has only stepped into the jewelry industry not long ago.
The Morrison Group was involved in many industries. They did not have to go into jewelry, nor did they really have to hire her.
However…
If Brettley helped her was not because of work, then what was it for?
Bethan thought of a possibility, then, she shook her head.
Forget about it.
How could Brettley like her? Bethan, in Brettley’s eyes, was only a crush who was a good match with him in bed.
He still cared for Alice the most, right?
“Bethan?”
Suddenly, Theo’s voice pulled her back to reality.
She lifted her head and noticed Theo looking at her with concerns.
Bethan furrowed her brows. “What is it?”
“You…”
Theo looked at her hand. “You put your hand into the teacup.”
Bethan was surprised. She immediately took her hand out and wiped it with a tissue.
“Luckily the tea is warm. If it was boiling hot, you would have burned your hand.”
Theo sighed, “What are you thinking about, if you’re in such a daze?”
Bethan lowered her head. “Nothing much.”
“My performance went quite well.”
Coming out from Bamboo Palace, Jude directly got in the black Maseratee by the entrance.
“It looked like she accepted my reasons.”
In the back seat, Brettley’s long slender fingers were flipping through the documents on his lap. “You better hope so.”
“But, Bethan and Theo are quite a match. They’re pretty artsy-fartsy. When I entered, I heard them discussing what the skull meant as an element.”
Brettley, who was flipping through his documents, stopped his actions.
He lifted his gaze and looked at Jude. “So what did the skull element represent?”
Jude did not expect that Brettley would be interested in this topic.
He responded and tried to think back.
“Theo said that the skull as an element represented a dispirited object.”
“Bethan said…”
Jude thought for a while before saying, “The skull represented evil and coldness, also something that should have died long ago yet it still existed. That’s what she said.”
Brettley gripped the documents so tightly his knuckles started to turn white.
That design sketch that he took from Bethan’s office was still in his study.
He thought that Bethan would design something meaningful for him, modeling his hand after her sketches.
However, he did not expect that this was the meaning behind it. Evil and cold.
Something that should have long died, yet still existed.
Turns out, this was how Bethan viewed him. He even still tried to find ways to help her and Theo in this matter.
Brettley narrowed his eyes. He closed his documents coldly. “Lucas, go.”
Jude raised his eyebrows. “We’re leaving just like that?”
“If not? “
Brettley coldly swept Jude a gaze. “What? Should we go up and have a cup or two with them?”
Jude furrowed his brows. Why did he feel that Brettley was suddenly unhappy? He did not say anything much to him that made him unhappy, right?
After returning home from the Bamboo Palace, Bethan had a video call with all three of her children. She was in a good mood.
Neil and Nellie were in the dorm of their summer camp. They were eating while chatting with her, telling her about the new friends they made in the summer camp.
Nigel was in the bed in the hospital. He was typing away on the keyboard while listening to them chat. It was quiet and peaceful.
There was a time difference, after all, Bethan was not afraid that she would affect her children’s bedtime, so she kept smiling and chatting with them.
When it was lo at night, the three of them hung up at the same time so that she could rest properly.
Bethan was helpless, she could only hang up and go back to her room.
She flipped around in bed, unable to sleep. She switched on her phone and looked at the news.
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.