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The two fell into the elevator together, and the elevator door closed at the same time.
With a thud, the elevator wobbled vigorously.
Bethany fell to the ground of the elevator, and Zayn fell onto her.
Both of them looked into each other's eyes were immediately stunned for a while.
Bethany looked dumbly at the man onto her, her mind was clouded with confusion.
Zayn was also surprised by the current situation they are in.
He lowered his head to look at her red face and her slightly parted lips.his eyes slowly darkened at this.
Soon after, Zayn came back to his senses and quickly moved away as he tried to get up from on top of Bethany. After standing up, he settled himself before saying in a deep voice, “I'm sorry. I was rude to you just now”.
“It's..... it's okay” Bethany also heaved herself up from the floor. Then, she replied to him in a weak, low voice and didn't dare to look at him.
She could feel that her heartbeat was pounding particularly fast at this point, and her face was flushed. she was unable to calm down.
After five years, this was the first time she was at a close pace with a man. And not just any man, but Zayn.
The distance between them was not so close when he hugged her the last time. However, it was overly close this time that she only have to raise her head slightly and she would end up kissing him.
As Bethany thought of this, she slightly tilted her head and looked at Zayn's lips.
The shape of his thin lips was beautiful and the color was light. It looked specifically suitable for kissing.
She was a great dreamer of these lips when she was still together with him. She had a great fantasy of a time when Zayn would take her out under the full moonlight and kiss her passionately. However, it never happened.
Wait, what was she thinking?
Bethany felt embarrassed and covered her face with her hands. The expression on her face was so bad.
Zayn saw Bethany break down look out of the corners of his eyes, and he frowned slightly, “What's wrong with you? Are you hurt?”
“No! I'm fine” Bethany hurriedly replied.
She was just angered by her thoughts.
Zayn did not ask any more questions and simply looked down at Bethany with his deep, blue eyes.
Bethany was afraid that he might guess what she was thinking about just now as the expression on her wasn't changing. She hurriedly turned her head sideways and coughed lightly before asking “Well... Me. Meyer, are you hurt?”.
“No” Zayn withdrew his gaze and replied with an indifferent expression.
“Thank goodness” Bethany sighed with relief.
Bethany knew that he had fallen on top of her just now because he was trying to pull her up and prevent her from falling.
The elevators stopped.
Zayn was the first to get out of the elevator, and Bethany came back to her senses and followed him out of the elevator closely.
When they arrived at the design department, Zayn directly opened the door of Joanna's office.
When Joanna saw him standing at the door, she was instantly jerked up. She got up and walked toward him with a smile on her face, “Zayn, why did you......”
Before she could finish her words, she saw Bethany standing right behind Zayn, and the happy smile immediately froze on her crisp face.
What was going on?
How could the two of them be together at this time?
Bethany pretended not to have seen Joanna's eyes filled with hatred and jealousy. Then, she face Zayn and said, “Mr. Meyer, I'll go back and get her to come over here”.
Zayn nodded silently in affirmation. Then, Bethany turned around and left.
Bethany went out of Joanna's office and headed for the main office.
“Zayn..... Why are you here with. ...her?” Joanna glanced at the direction that Bethany had taken before asking Zayn tentatively.
Zayn walked straight to her desk and sat on her swerving chair, “Bethany found the person who had stolen her designs, so I came over here to make sure that justice prevails”.
“Wait! What? She found the person?”
After hearing this, Joanna's heart skipped a beat. And tension flickered across her eyes.
How could that be!?
She had set it up so comprehensively. how could Bethany have found the person?
Is it possible that Bethany is lying?
Meanwhile, Bethany went over to Ella's workstation in the office and knocked on her desk, “Ella, are you feeling better?«
Ella raised her eyes and saw that it was Bethany, and her eyes were different from usual, “Oh it's you, Bethany. I'm feeling better now”
“That's good. Then, please come with me, Ella. Me. Meyer is looking for you” Bethany said with a warm smile.
Ella was stiffened. “Why is Mr. Meyer looking for me? Is there something wrong?”
“I'm sure you'll get to know after meeting him,” Bethany said, wiping the smile off her face, and trailing back.
Ella looked at her retreating back and panicked within herself.
Although, she was panicking beyond words. She could only put down the pencil in her hand and followed apprehensively right behind Bethany.
When they arrived at the office, Joanna was immediately aghast as the expression on her face changed at the sight of Ella.
Bethany saw the change in her expression and pursed her red lips, but in the next splitting second, she acted as though nothing happened and asked Joanna, “Miss Joanna, may I borrow your computer?”.
“Lend it to her” Zayn already answered even before Joanna have the opportunity to reply.
Even if Joanna was reluctant, she could only smile helplessly and tie Ed the compute screen toward Bethany.
Bethany smiled back at her, took the USB flash drive and have it inserted into the computer, then waved at Ella, “Ella, come here and have a look at these two surveillance videos ”
After hearing the two words 'surveillance videos' Ella did not know that Bethany has found out that she was the person who have stolen her design. Her legs wobbled for a moment, the expression on her face became and her face became colorless.
After seeing what happened, Joanna was afraid that Ella might spill the beans and implicate her in this mess, so she quickly gave her a warning look.
Bethany saw the quick action between the two, but she did not say anything about it. She turned the computer screen to Ella, and they were two surveillance videos simultaneously played on the computer.
The first video was recorded a day before yesterday when Bethany went to the infirmary to get medicine for Ella.
Ella went through Bethany's first draft on her computer during this time that Bethany was away.
What she did was find out where Bethany put her first draft and the file where the scanned copies were saved in.
The second video was recorded, the night before yesterday about ten at night. Ella went to the office alone.
She used a wet towel to wipe off the fingerprints left during the day, then put on a glove to delete Bethany's scanned copies in the computer. After that, she stole her first draft.
At this moment, everything was crystal clear.
Zayn gently tapped on the table with his slender fingers and looked into Bethany's eyes, “What do you want to do with her?”.
Bethany took a deep breath and replied with a frosty expression, “Have her dismissed from the company. Also, a statement should be issued to disclose her crimes. I want her to quit the design industry and career”.
After hearing her words, Ella was terrified and fell to the ground, sitting on it. Even Joanna did not expect that Bethany would be so ruthless with her punishment.
There was no difference between the act of disclosing her crimes and wanting her to quit the designing career and the act of surfing her boards.
“Miss Bethany, don't you think you are going too far with this?” Ella indeed did something wrong and she deserves a little punishment for her actions. Is it necessary to do this to her?”.
“It's necessary ” Bethany unmercifully interrupted Joanna's hypocritical rebuke and then looked at Ella, who was dull on the floor with an icy face.
“I don't think, my decision to have her punished like this was going too far. As a designer, you should know that stealing or plagiarising someone else's ideas is a big con in the design industry. So, Ella, you have to pay for this”.
Plagiarising an idea?
Upon hearing her words, Joanna compressed her face for a moment and was furious within.
She knew from Bethany's word that she was indirectly connoting her.
“Zayn, look at her attitude. Ella only stole her design. Why does she have to drive Ella over the roof?” Joanna pointed at Bethany complained in a disgruntled voice.
“I think she's doing the right thing.” Zayn propped his head up with his hands and looked at Bethany with a somewhat look of appreciation.
The way she handled things was calm. she didn't show any sign of the or anger since she found out about the incident until now
She was also clever enough to find the original version of the surveillance video in such a short time and suggested the right way to have the culprit punished. Zayn appreciates such a group of people.
“What? Zayn you said that she did the right thing?” Joanna couldn't believe what she heard just now, so she looked at Zayn incredulously.
Zayn nodded, “isn't it? If I was to be in her place, I would have done the same thing”.
After hearing his words, Bethany smiled and said, “Thank you for your support this time, Mr. Meyer”
To be honest, Bethany wasn't sure if she could get Zayn to agree to have Ella dismissed. Ella was his employee, after all. While she was just his outsourcing employee.
Bethany did not expect that she was thinking this way. Even though, Zayn was never a good husband, not a good father. However, zayn was a good boss who knew the right thing to do.
“All right. It's decided then, ”Zayn said as he got up from the chair, and left the office.
Shortly thereafter, two security guards walked into the office and towed Ella out of the office.
When Ella brushed past Bethany, Ella whispered to her in a low voice, “I'm sorry, Bethany”.
Bethany didn't reply. Her expression remained indifferent as she turned her back at her.
She could not forgive Ella. An apology could not easily erase the damage that has been done.
Only Bethany and Joanna were left in the office.
It seems like Bethany didn't have any intention of leaving as she walked close to Joanna, and said, “it was you who it, right?”.