Their words made Brettley’s eyebrows screw together tightly. He narrowed his eyes and glanced at Bethan; his voice ice-cold. “Is it true?”
“No, Brettley.”
Fiona bit her lip and unconsciously tugged at the edge of his shirt. “Don’t argue with Ms. Bethan because of me. It’s not worth it.”
“Why not?”
At Fiona’s words, Brettley’s voice chilled instantly. “Do you know how important you are to me right now! “
Luckily only a little coffee was splashed onto her, there were no large-scale burns. Her health was already in a poor condition. She had been suffering from various illnesses for many years, and the doctor said that she only had one year left to live.
She made a very dangerous decision in deciding to donate her bone marrow to Nigel. Her body must be in perfect condition before the transplant could take place.
If she really had an accident today, what about Nigel’s illness?
Could he wait any longer??
At this thought, the man raised his head and looked at Bethan coldly. “I’m asking you a question. Were your assistants discussing how to chase Fiona away? Were they targeting her on purpose, scaring her on purpose?”
Bethan laughed coldly. Fiona kept deliberately showing the weakest side of herself, taking all the blame for something that was not her fault. Her aim was to make the surrounding crowd feel bad for her and stand up for her. Now, even though Fiona had not said a single bad thing about Samson, Zayne or Arianna and yet she had successfully told Brettley of their ‘evil doings’. Not only that, she even built a gentle, kind, and virtuous image for herself. Killing two birds with one stone.
“Tell me! “
Seeing Bethan glaring at Fiona coldly without speaking, Brettley frowned. He was worried Bethan would misunderstand Fiona, so he hurriedly turned his body to the side and stood between the two women. “How do you plan to deal with your three assistants?”
Bethan raised her eyes and looked past his shoulder, sweeping her eyes indifferently at the woman behind him. “What do you think I should do with them, Ms. Blake?”
Standing behind Brettley, Fiona’s hands clenched into slight fists at her side. Bethan threw this question to her. Of course, she wanted the three of them to pack their bags and leave the company forever! But she had just acted so kind and understanding as if she did not plan to take this any further. Of course, she could not say she wanted them to be dealt with sternly. But if she did not… All her suffering would be in vain? Bethan was not stupid, she knew how to push the question to her.
Fiona was silent for a long time before raising her eyes softly, and said with a delicate voice, “I don’t think they did it on purpose, and even if they did, it was because they’re young and hot-blooded and were instigated by someone else. “
She deliberately emphasized the word ‘instigate’ , implicating something.
Everyone in the office suddenly realized ‘the truth’. That’s right.
Zayne, Samson, and Arianna, one of them had just turned it, while the other two were fresh young faces who had just graduated from college and were new at the company. Without a master mind behind them, how would they think of bullying a newcomer?
And the mastermind behind them…
The crowd started whispering amongst themselves again. Samson, Arianna, and Zayne were all Bethan’s assistants. In the entire design department , besides Bethan’s orders, they barely even obeyed Shannon’s orders. This morning Zayne had entered Bethan’s office. Plus, the short disagreement between Bethan and Fiona this morning… The truth was plain for everyone to see.
Bethan narrowed her eyes, ignoring all of them, and instead continued looking at Fiona. “Ms. Blake, you have yet to tell me how you would like to settle the issue. Are you shy? Well, then I will say it on your behalf.”
She curled her lips and raised her voice. “Even though this is the fault of my three assistants, Ms. Blake is kind and gentle and virtuous, I ‘m sure she doesn’t want to see Mr. Morrison firing a few employees on her first day of work. Besides, they’re assistants who worked their backs off for our last project.”
With that, she lifted an eyebrow and looked at Fiona. “Ms. Blake, am I right?”
Fiona bit her lip and glared at Bethan, poison almost flowing out of her eyes! Bethan was doing this on purpose! Deliberately using her own act against her, so she could not request for Brettley to fire the three assistants.
Even though she was furious, on the surface, she could only smile gently and say, “Ms. Bethan is right. I just arrived at the company today, how could I ask Brettley to…fire old employees because of me? I’m just a small, little newcomer…” “But.”
The moment Fiona finished speaking, beside her, Brettley lifted his lips into a cold smile and pulled her swiftly into his arms. “What if I insist on firing them?”
Brettley’s voice was cold and low, every word ringing out loudly across the office.
Instantly, the entire office turned deadly quiet. Everyone stared at Brettley in shock. Actually, everyone knew the three of them were considered Bethan’s confidants in the company. And they all knew of the awkward, sometimes there, sometimes non – existent relationship between their director and their president. But now that he had his new love, Fiona, he was so cruel to his old love, Bethan?
Fiona’s words just now were enough to give both Brettley and Bethan space to step backward and let the incident pass just like that. And yet Brettley took the initiative and suggested firing the three of them?
“Brettley…”
Fiona looked at Brettley, her eyes bright with how touched she was. “I’m fine, the three of them are Ms. Bethan’s right-hand men, she wouldn’t want to see them fired. Don’t spoil the harmonious relationship between the two of you for me.”
With Brettley’s support, even though her tone remained soft and gentle, there was an aura of arrogance behind them.
Bethan stood in her spot, her hands quietly clenching into fists beside her. She raised her head and looked at Brettley coldly. “Why? Samson, Zayne, and Arianna all contributed greatly to our last project, they at least deserve credit for their efforts.”
Brettley crossed his arms over his chest. “So, they can bully a newcomer just because they made contributions to the company? Even if they knew she belonged to me, they still openly discussed chasing her away, causing her so much harm on her first day itself?”
Bethan narrowed her eyes. She glanced at the coffee stains on Fiona’s chest that were almost dry by now and Arianna’s painful snarl appeared in her mind’s eye. A chill swept across her features. She did not want to get into a fight over something as meaningless as this the moment she returned to the company, that’s why she was trying her best to avoid conflict. She was even willing to admit it was her three assistants’ fault, going with Fiona’s plan and complimenting her. For her image, Fiona begrudgingly agreed to stop pursuing the matter.
But Brettley refused to rest the issue. He did not want his new girlfriend to suffer even the slightest grievance.
At this thought, Bethan’s gaze turned even colder. Even though she was not present when the incident happened, she did not believe the three youths would insist on chasing Fiona out of the company even after she explicitly rejected the idea. Besides, even if they did, they would not use such and silly and stupid method.
Bethan sucked in a deep breath, lifted her lips, and said, “Mr. Morrison, you claim my three assistants harmed Ms. Blake on purpose, right? “
Since Brettley wanted to pursue the matter , she would take it all the way till the end!
“Of course.”
The man squinted coldly. “Isn’t that the truth? I take it as a fact.”
Bethan crossed her arms over her chest, leaning on the file cabinet beside her, both her gaze and her tone as cold as ice. “Everyone, how well do you think Arianna knows Ms. Blake?”
The entire office turned quiet at her question. Everyone looked at Bethan in confusion. How well could Arianna know Fiona? Today was the first time they met each other, right?
“Then you two, speak up.”
Bethan pointed to the pair that just stood up for Fiona. “Say, how well does Arianna know Ms. Blake?”
They looked at each other, then said tentatively. “
The both of them…don’t know each other well, I think.”
Today was Ms. Blake’s first day at the company, right?
“Since today is their first time meeting each other, it’s safe to say they don’t know each other at all.”
Bethan laughed coldly, “In your opinion, Arianna deliberately frightened Ms. Blake when she walked past her, causing Ms. Blake to spill the coffee, right?”
Everyone nodded.
Bethan sighed, then straightened up and gave a stretch. “Since they don’t know each other and today is their first time meeting, how did Arianna even know that Ms. Blake was easily scared? How did she know what kind of noise to make so as to frighten Ms. Blake and that she would accidentally spill the coffee?”
Then, she glanced at the woman who had stood up for Fiona just now. “If someone made a loud noise while you were walking past, would you lose your balance and spill your entire cup of coffee?”
The woman opened her mouth as if to say something, but in the end, nothing came out.
The entire office grew silent.
The silence that fell over the office made Bethan’s impassive voice sound exceptionally loud. “Or maybe we can take a look at the security footage to see if Arianna really did pay attention to everything Ms. Blake was doing in order to scare her. If she didn’t, then how could she possibly have known that Ms. Blake would be frightened?”
Bethan turned around to gaze at Brettley. “Mr. Morrison, let’s look at the security footage.”
Since Brettley wanted to get to the bottom of this and get back at her for bullying Fiona, Bethan was happy to oblige. She, too, was curious to know what really happened just now!
However, Fiona’s expression became uneasy when she heard Bethan’s suggestion. She let out a small cough and first glanced at Bethan, then back at Brettley. “Actually, I wasn’t injured during the incident. Let’s
..not pursue this matter anymore. It’s not a big deal anyway… “
Fiona had planned her route so as to pass by Arianna, then deliberately slowed down and waited for Arianna to make a noise before spilling the coffee. If they looked at the security footage, then everything Fiona did would be exposed.
As soon as she thought of this, Fiona gently pulled on Brettley’s sleeve and said, “Brettley, you’re too worried about me. I ‘in actually fine. It’s just a small matter. We don’t need to check the security cameras for this… Let’s not pursue this matter anymore.”
She turned around to glance at Bethan, then said in a soft voice, “Ms. Bethan, the reason I called Brettley here is that Shannon insisted on sending me to the hospital, so I called him here to mediate the situation, not to fire your assistants. Please don’t get me wrong.”
Then, she gave Bethan an earnest look and continued, “
Ms. Bethan, don’t worry, I won’t get Brettley to fire your assistants. Today is my first day of work, so I don’t want to cause too much trouble.”
Fiona lif ted her head to stare at Brettley with a tender expression. “Brettley, am I right?”
“Ms. Blake, maybe to you, this is just a small matter , but to me, it’s not.”
The more gentle Fiona’s attitude became, the more determined Bethan was to get to the bottom of this.
Arianna had not done this on purpose! If she had, then Fiona would have insisted on checking the surveillance tapes to prove her point.
Bethan recalled the pained expression on Arianna’s face when Samson and Zayne had brought her away.
Apart from the small amount that spilled onto her front, Fiona had poured almost an entire cup of boiling hot coffee onto Arianna’s back.
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