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Like others, he had never thought it was Joanna who pushed Daphne.
After all, Daphne was her biological mother. As a daughter, Joanna couldn't do anything to her biological mother.
When Joanna heard Zayn's question, she felt guilty, but she showed an affirmative expression on her face,
"It was Bethany who pushed Daphne!"
"Are you sure? Zayn stared closely at her.
"I'm sure. Everyone in the department of design can attest to this!” Joanna secretly pinched the palm of her hand to prevent herself from revealing any loopholes.
Zayn couldn't figure out whether or not she was telling the truth, and pinched his eyebrows. "Gael has asked the design department. They said that when they saw Daphne, she had passed out, but they didn't know whether or not it was Bethany who did it. The truth still needs to be investigated." Joanna lowered her eyelids cursing inwardly.
People who bent on the wind said they would help her verify, but when Zayn sent someone to ask, they said they didn't see it. This frustrated her. If they said that Bethany pushed her, Zayn would believe it.
They were indeed a group of bad teammates!
“There is one more question." Zayn didn't know what Joanna was thinking, crossing his fingers on the desk, and asked in a cold tone, "Did you corrupt the police and ask them to torture Bethany?"
Hearing his words, Joanna opened her eye wide, "I didn't!" When did she corrupt someone from the police station?
She intended to detain Bethany for a while. As long as Daphne was awake and insisted that Bethany had pushed her, Bethany could be convicted, so she didn't need to do anything unnecessary. Who was framing her?
Zayn had been paying attention to Joanna, and he saw the blankets and anger on Joanna's face He knew that she wasn't lying, and his heart sank.
“I see, you can go out." Zayn waved his hand.
After Joanna left, Gael came in, "Mr. Meyer, the shareholders ask you to go to the meeting." Zayn frowned, "What kind of meeting?"
“The meeting about today's incident. They said that Bethany had brought about very negative impacts to the group and they are about to fire her," Gael replied.
Zayn immediately sneered, “Negative impacts? It's ridiculous. Which of their private lives does not have more negative impacts than this, and do they want to fire the Oceania chief designer? How dare they!"
After speaking, he stood up and went to the conference room.
It was already an hour after he had dealt with these shareholders. As Zayn walked towards the elevator, he instructed Gael behind him, "You send someone to Daphne's hospital when she wakes up, see if you can hear her telling whether she fell by herself or someone pushed her. Remember, don't let Daphne know.”
Since there was no monitor at the location of the incident, the truth of Daphne's fall could not be proved. He could only use this method for now.
"Understand!" Gael nodded.
Zayn looked at the phone, and after thinking for a while, he sent a text message to Bethany, asking her if she had offended anyone other than Joanna. That person was most likely the one who corrupted the police.
Bethany was about to go to the company to meet up with Erica and the children.
When she saw this text message, she was stunned. What he meant was that it was not Joanna who corrupted the police, but somebody else! But besides Joanna and Daphne, she had no other enemies. Bethany replied to Zayn.
After waiting for a while, Zayn did not reply to the message, and she sighed in disappointment. At this time, the doorbell rang.
"Who is here?" Bethany put away the phone and went to open the door standing outside the door was a middle-aged man who was about fifty years old, wearing a suit, and holding a fine dragon-head crutch in his hand, with an expression of dignity.
Seeing him, Bethany changed here expression and her eyes were full of complicated expressions, surprise,nostalgia, and resentment!


"You...." She exclaimed to the a middle-aged man in front of him as if her throat was blocked.
However, Edward slapped her, "You wicked woman!"
Bethany was knocked to the ground by this slap, and she was dumbfounded and buzzed in her mind. It took a while for her to respond, covering her burning face, looking at him with moist eyes, "who are you and why are you hitting me?"
After six years, this pair uncle and niece met for the first time. There was no greeting or concern
Yes, it was a slap!
"Can't I beat you? How could I watch such a shameless person like you destroy others!” Edward pointed at Bethany tremblingly, with disgust in his eyes, "It's fine to have fun else with someone else, now you even seduce my daughter's fiancé and even hurt her mother. You are a person in vain!”
"You!" Bethany stood up angrily and shouted, " Vile? Did you just say that I'm a vicious woman, who only knows how to destroy others?” she could bear it and didn't care when he said she seduced Zayn, but she couldn't accept him saying that she was vicious.
It made her feel more uncomfortable than others' words. Bethany clenched her fists tightly she thought if the person in front of older than her. She would have given him a lot more.
“You go to the hospital with me, to apologize to Daphne and Joanna, then you will make sure to leave the Blue Ridge Group, and go away abroad”.
"It's impossible!" Bethany raised her neck and refused right away, "I won't apologize for what I haven't done. You should put this idea away and go back."Edward didn't expect her to be that stubborn. He suddenly became furious,
"Do you dare not listen to me?" Bethany smiled, "Didn't you say that I'm a wicked woman? Since that's the case, why should I listen to you? I advise you to go back, or I'll call the police. I believe that so much negative information on your name might not be good for you.”
"You!" Edward twisted his face for a while and finally left unachievably.
After he left, Bethany could no longer maintain the momentum he was dealing with Edward a moment ago. She squatted down on the ground and started crying.
While she was still crying, she suddenly heard a loud voice coming from the outside of the door that was wide open.
“I'm back to see you, second mommy”
When Bethany heard this, she quickly stopped crying and wiped off her tears, not wanting him to find out that she has been crying.
However, it was too late as the two of them had already come to the door, seeing the tears that has yet to be wiped off they froze.
“What's wrong with you, Miss Bethany?” Jordan asked. Zayn looked at her, his expression slightly fell on the red and swollen face.
He changed his expression and asked in a cold voice, “Were you beaten?” Hearing this, Jordan hurriedly looked at Bethany's face and saw the conspicuous red finger marks. On his young-looking face, there was a touch of cold that didn't match his age.
"Mommy, who beat you? Bethany quickly held him in her arms, comforting her while replying to Zayn and his son, "Danica's father"
"Edward Medina came to you?" Zayn pursed his lips. Bethany nodded.
“Edward... ” Jordan whispered the name
again, and there was a cold light in his dark eyes. Neither of the adults found out. Zayn asked in a deep voice,“ Why did he look for you?" Bethany put Jordan down and smiled wryly. "For what else would he come to look for me? To ask me to apologize to Joanna and Daphne of course."
“You've apologized?”
"No, why should l apologize for something I've not done?" Bethany shook her head.
Jordan's eyes rolled. "Mommy, why did Edward want you to apologize?”
"Quit minding adult's business. Alright, take Jenna back to the room with you." Zayn knocked his head and gave Jenna to him. Jordan didn't get the answer he wanted. Although he was dissatisfied, he took Jenna back to the room.
"Mr. Meyer, thank you for bringing my two children back to see me. I feel better after seeing them." Bethany bowed slightly to Zayn to express her gratitude.
Zayn held her up and asked, "Are you feeling better now?”
“Yes, I've felt much better. My head's still a little dizzy, but the fever has gone away.”
“That's good." Zayn nodded.
Bethany went sideways to offer the way in. "Mr. Meyer, please come in and have a seat."
Zayn hesitated and didn't refuse. He lifted his foot and went in. Bethany poured him a glass of water and suddenly said, "Mr. Meyer I haven't told you. Daphne was pushed by Joanna."
Zayn's hand which was holding the glass trembled a little. "What are you talking about?"
Bethany looked at him and repeated what she had just said, "Daphne was pushed by Joanna. At that time, I angered Daphne and she wanted to hit me. Then Joanna came and wanted to push me from behind. I dodged. She accidentally pushed Daphne and she blamed me."
"Do you have any proof?" Zayn squinted and looked at her. Bethany smiled blandly.
"Certainly, you have no idea that the place where the incident happened was under
surveillance. Since my first draft was stolen by Ella, I've been cautious about everyone in the design department, so when the fabric for the Oceania project came, I applied for a lot of monitoring equipment from the monitoring department."
Hearing this, Zayn certainly understood everything. No wonder he didn't see any nervousness and anxiety on her face since she woke up. It turned out that she always had evidence to prove her innocence.
“Then what do you want to do? Show the CCTV footage to the public?"Zayn put down his glass.
Bethany sat down opposite him.
"Exactly, that's what I want to do. Since Joanna is your sister, once I reveal the truth, it will also implicate and humiliate you. That's why I specially told you. Mr. Meyer, are you going to stop me?" She looked into his eyes.
Zayn frowned and didn't answer. By common sense, he should indeed stop it, because after she revealed the truth, besides causing damage to his dignity, what was more important was the reputation of the company being affected.
But on the other hand, she was wronged for no reason. It was normal for her to fight back, and he had no right to stop her.
Zayn hesitated to speak. Bethany looked down to hide the disappointment in her eyes. "Mr. Meyer, I suppose you still don't know yet. Joanna abetted the kids in the
kindergarten they had before, accusing her of being an illegitimate child without a father."
“What? Zayn's pupils shrank, and he pulled down his face. "Is it true?”
"Yes. As a mother, I don't want my child to suffer such humiliation, so even if Mr. Meyer wants to stop it, I will reveal the truth and punish Joanna, even if you fire me in the end," Bethany said coldly, in a very serious tone.
Anger surged inside of Zayn too, not to her, but to Joanna. Because Joanna felt that her position would be stolen, she used such dirty means on the little child?”
It seemed that he had been too lenient on Joanna these years that she had gone too far. Maybe it was time to teach her a lesson.
Thinking of this, Zayn stood up. "get it. I'll give you a chance, to tell the truth,tomorrow." Bethany blinked in amazement.
"Mr. Meyer, you're not going to stop me?”
"No, I'm not."
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