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"Thank you. Bethany's tears welled up and she said with heartfelt gratitude. Zayn's lips moved slightly.
As he was about to say something, his phone rang and the call was from Gael. "Mr. Meyer, Daphne's woken up. Just now our men have heard Ms. Joanna apologizing to Daphne and asking her to accuse Ms. Bethany as the one who pushed her, so the person who pushed Daphne was Ms. Joanna."
"I know. Inform the upper-level management, a meeting will be held tomorrow," Zayn ordered.
Gael answered yes and ended the call. Zayn put down his mobile phone, looked at Bethany, and said, "Tomorrow you will declare the truth at the meeting." “OK." Bethany nodded heavily.
Later, when zayn saw that it was getting late, he wanted to leave, and return the children to their houses before heading back to the Blue ridge manor. Bethany accompanied him to the door.
As they left. Jordan clenched his fists. "I certainly want to teach my good grandfather, and the woman who bullied our second Mommy a lesson."
When he just entered the room, he had searched for the man named Edward on the Internet.
It turned out that he was his grandfather. The old man who stopped him and Jenna outside the kindergarten last time was also him. He could tell his grandpa didn't like him when he looked at him coldly. He had even beaten Mommy just now. He must avenge Mommy.
Thinking of that, Evan returned to the computer put his hands on the keyboard and started to type.
“But how are we going to do that? Second mommy won't tell us anything and my mommy won't let me out of the house as well” Jenna said with the phone clutched tightly to her ear.
“Don't worry, I've got this. I'll handle things around here” Ten minutes later, he looked at the page showing the information had been sent successfully and let out a grim smile. He couldn't wait to see both of them jump all over it tomorrow! Just as they were rejoicing through the video call, the nannies call out to him.
"Jordan, Your grandma asks you to come out to have some fruits." Outside the door, Jane knocked and called.
"Coming." Jordan quickly turned off the computer recovered his innocent and lovely look as a child and took the phone from the desk.
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The next day, Bethany reached the Blue Ridge Group's office building. She didn't care about the employee's surprised eyes and walked to the conference room with an ash memory.
Just outside the meeting room, she met Joanna who was also going to the meeting.
"Ms. Meyer!" Bethany pursed her lips and called her.
Joanna stopped and looked back. Seeing Bethany, she was dumbfounded. "Why are you here? Aren't you in the police station?"
Although there was still no evidence to convict Bethany at the police station, Bethany had been labeled as a suspect.
So, she couldn't leave within 24 hours.
For a moment, Joanna felt uneasy. She felt that something was out of control, which made her extremely Bethany then said with a smile, "I was released on bail by Mr. Meyer."
"What?" Joanna squeaked.
She was released on bail by Zayn? Why didn't he tell her?
During yesterday's shareholder's meeting, Zayn had tried his best to protect Bethany under the bombardment of criticisms and didn't fire Bethany, which had made her greatly dissatisfied. Now he had bailed Bethany out, did he love Bethany so much? Joanna was so jealous that her eyes went red.
"Well, Ms. Meyer, it's almost time. Let's go in. Today's meeting is the highlight of the show."
With that, Bethany patted Joanna on the shoulder and stepped into the conference room first. Joanna looked at her back and wondered.
”What show?'
Joanna stood there and brainstormed for a while but couldn't figure out what was going on. She thought that Bethany was putting on a show and hence she scoffed and walked into the meeting room.
When she went in, she saw Gael pushing a wheelchair. He was standing in a corner and there was someone in the wheelchair. The person was on an IV drip and looked extremely sick.
What was going on?
Joanna was so shocked that she almost jumped out of her chair.
Why did Gael bring Daphne over?
Bethany snickered seeing how uneasy Joanna was. She grabbed the microphone and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, I believe that everyone here would like to know that why the Meyer group's Board of Directors' wife is here today."
Everyone in the room nodded.
Bethany walked towards Daphne and stood behind her. Gael released the brakes on the wheelchair, walked back to Zayn, and stood behind him.
Bethany knew that Gael was passing the baton to her, and she smiled at him gratefully. She then put her hand on Daphne's shoulder.
Daphne opened her eyes wide and quickly shrugged her shoulders, trying to shake off Bethany's hand. But Bethany didn't move an inch, her hand was still on her shoulder and she even put some force when grabbing the shoulder, "Let me tell you guys what's going on. Yesterday, Miss Joanna called the police and reported that I injured Daphne by pushing her. I was innocent and wasn't going to accept that.Hence, I appealed to Mr. Meyer and asked him to invite Daphne to come over to tell everyone the truth about who was the real culprit that pushed her."
Bethany looked at Joanna with a faint smile on her face while she was talking.
Joanna stomped on her feet,“Bethany, what do you mean by this? Are you saying that I was the culprit?"
“Yes, it 's you,” Said Bethany while smiling.
Everyone in the room was surprised upon hearing that.Soon, the huge meeting room was filled with discussions.
Zayn knocked on the table with annoyance, "Quiet!
Everyone shut their mouth immediately.
Joanna clenched her fist as she stood up, "Do you have evidence that it was me?"
Daphne nodded as well, "Right, do you have evidence against Joanna? I'm the victim and I know who pushed me!"
“That's true." The people from the design department were on Joanna's side.
Bethany shrugged and said, "Well, if everyone believes that it wasn't Miss Joanna, then I won't waste you guys time and just show the evidence I have."
Evidence?
The expression on Joann's face changed upon hearing the word. She got extremely uneasy and was anxious.
Daphne too was on pins and needles.
Bethany glanced coldly at the diffident-looking mother and daughter.She then took out the flash drive from her pocket and stuck it into the laptop.
A video was shown on the projection screen behind her. The video was long, it lasted for about half an hour From Daphne's first appearance until the moment that Joanna left.
Everything was recorded, even the sounds were recorded. Everyone was silent after watching the video. They only started discussing after a long pause.
"So, Bethany was innocent. The allegation of her seducing the president was also not real. Joanna and Daphne were the ones that falsely accused her”
"Right, and did you guys see the part in the video where Joanna pushed Bethany? I was so scared, the look on her face was terrifying."
"I saw that too. I was so frightened as well."
Joanna's face turned pale hearing the people ridiculing her.
Daphne wasn't doing great either.Not only that she felt embarrassed, but she also felt hurt.
Just now in the video, Joanna said that she hated her!
"Mr. Meyer, that's all. It is time that we hear your verdict on this matter," said Bethany as she looked at Zayn.
Zayn was sitting at the head of the table. His fingers were crossed and placed under his chin. He didn't say anything and looked like he was considering what punishment should Joanna get.
After a brief pause, he stood up and looked at Joanna coldly, "You're fired from today onwards and you are to leave the Blue ridge Group immediately. Does anyone have objections?"
Everyone in the room shook their head. Joanna bit her lips and was unwilling, but she knew that she couldn't do anything but accept the decision right now.
She was careless.She didn't know that Bethany would be so scheming and would install a surveillance camera there!
Daphne felt sorry for her. hearing that she would be fired and driven out of the Blue Ridge Group,"Zayn...”
"Shut up!" Zayn yelled with a wintry look on his face,“This is the Blue Ridge group, and you have no say in anything”.
Daphne shivered and didn't dare to say anything else.
Zayn looked at Bethany and said gently, "Do you have anything to add?"
"I do!" Bethany spun the pen on her fingers and then slammed it lightly on the table, "Aren't you guys curious about the relationship between Joanna and Daphne?"
Joanna realized what Bethany was trying to do and she went hysterical.
She yelled distraughtfuly, "Bethany, don't you dare!"
Daphne also got anxious. She got too nervous and fainted. Zayn was also shocked.
He pursed his lips.Was Bethany planning to expose Joanna's and Daphne's mother-daughter relationship?
“Why not?" Bethany crossed her arms and snickered, "You told everyone that I'm a bastard, so why can't l expose you guys? Everyone knows that Daphne is Mr. Lorenzo's second wife, so she should be Joanna's stepmother. But just now in the video, Joanna said that Daphne is her biological mother..."
Everyone immediately remembered that part when Bethany mentioned it.Joanna indeed said that in the video.
“Bethany, you're saying that Joanna is Mr. Lorenzo's and Daphne's illegitimate daughter, and not the first daughter of the family?" An older shareholder suddenly stood up and asked.
"You're right." Bethany nodded,“The real first daughter of the family left the family together with the previous Mrs. Meyer. Joanna was only the first daughter in disguise. That's why Mr. Meyer suddenly announced back then that he wanted to change his daughter's name to Joanna."
"Bethany Quest!" Joanna glared at Bethany hatefully as if she wanted to tear her into pieces, "How dare you!"
"Oh, I dare." Bethany smiled daringly. She knew that Joanna hated her identity as an illegitimate daughter the most.
Now that she exposed Joanna's identity, she probably really wanted to kill her.
The older shareholder suddenly thought about something.He looked at Zayn with a sharp gaze and said, "Zayn, I remembered....”
Zayn didn't think that the older guy would expose this. He rubbed his temple. Just when he was about to say something, Joanna pointed at the older guy and yelled viciously, "Shut up you old fart! You are spouting nonsense. I was already acknowledged
as the first daughter of the second Meyer family at that time. I'm Lorenzo's daughter.don't you dare try to ruin my chances”
She already lost all rationality. She thought that the older guy was trying to make zayn call off her inheritance.
so that Zayn could hold onto everything.
She wouldn't let this happen, not Over her dead body!
"Did....did you just call me an old fart?" The older guys finger was trembling as he pointed at Joanna. He fainted from getting too agitated.
Zayn had an intense look on his face. He quickly told Gael to send the older guy to the nursing office and ended the meeting.
The people in the room left one after another. As they were leaving, they couldn't help but glance and look at both Bethany and Joanna.
Everything they found out today was too dramatic. First, it was Joanna that accused Bethany of being a mistress and hurting Daphne. Then it turned out that Joanna was the illegitimate daughter of the Meyer family. The identity forge between her and Mr. Lorenzo was also fake.
fake.