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"What are you saying?" Joanna acted as though she could not comprehend a thing.
Bethany squinted her brown eyes, "You know fully well what I am saying. It may look like Ella did this but you are the mastermind. You told her to do so”.
The day before when Zayn finished inspecting the design department and was about to leave, Joanna cough towards her direction.
At that time, Bethany was confused by Joanna's action, but it all fell into place when she saw the surveillance records, it was Joanna motioning for Ella to head out.
Joanna probably instructed Ella to mess with her design at this moment.
" You are saying I told her to so that? Have you got any proof? Joanna crossed her arm and laughed as though she had just heard the funniest joke ever.
Bethany fixed her air and said calmly, "I don't have any proof, that is why when you threw a glance at Ella, I didn't expose you
Joanna was too good at concealing herself; she didn't leave a trace that she was involved.
Things could turn around if Ella gave a simple confession, but after hearing of the serenity of the punishment, she didn't rat out Joanna. There could only be one of two reasons, she either got a hefty bribe from Joanna or hefty threat.
"Oh so you don't have any proof in that case, what you are doing is slandering my good name. I could very well sue you Bethany!" Joanna cracked a smirk on the corner of her lips.
Bethany looked at her head on without any hesitate, " if you want to sue me go ahead, and call the police right away. And while we are in court, bring Ella along. Let the judge asked her whether you are the one who ordered her to do what she did. What do you think?"
Joanna 's expression froze in place, she didn't expect Bethany would suggest calling the police.
For a brief moment, Joanna was speechless.
Bethany pretended not to notice Joanna's awkwardness, then chuckled and said, "Technically I should have called the police the second I found out my designs were missing, but I didn't do so. Since it negatively impacted the Blue Ridge Group. But if you call the police, then it has nothing to do with me, so..."
"Get out!" Joanna pointed at the door, and her face flashed as she yelled out.
If Bethany stayed a moment later, Joanna will surely pass out from anger.
She never expected that the weak, feeble Bethany from before was now quite a tough egg to crack.
Bethany smiled a bit, unfazed by Joanna's anger at all, "I guess you should have told me gently. Fine, I will be leaving now!"
With that said, Bethany turned to head out the door.
After she existed, Bethany stopped and pulled out her cellphone from her pocket, the screen was still lit on the voice recording screen.
She had hoped to rushed out the truth about Joanna ordering Ella, but Joanna was a while lot careful than she expected, so she got nothing.
She knew Joanna very well so she will continue to target Bethany, she had to be more vigilant.
Thinking of this, Bethany tighten her fists, exhaled, then release her fist and return to the office.
Few days later.
Bethany presented some new draft to Zayn's office.
After he was done reviewing the draft, Zayn immediately held a meeting with the supervisors.
This time, all the supervisors approved, and she successful became the chief designer for the Oceania project.
At the same conference room, Joanna glared at Bethany, but she couldn't do anything but look on as the supervisor run praises on Bethany.
She could feel Joanna's hatred, but she had her no mind, she continued to explain her own design concept.
Shortly the meeting was over, and the crowd gradually left. Joanna got up and walked over to Jason, and place a hand on his arm, "Zayn how about coming to my place for dinner tonight? My mother hasn't seen you for so long."
She heavily emphasized "My mother" and looked at Bethany. She saw Bethany hesitate a bit as she was sorting through her designs, and felt a hint of elation inside.
Joanna's thoughts and gestures were easily read by Zayn, who slightly raised his eyebrows, "No, I have got matters tonight."
He pulled aside his arms.
Facing the outright rejection, Joanna was a bit at loss, "What kind of matter? Is it urgent, if not, come over to my place first, and we have already made all preparation."
"It's the anniversary of my father's death. What do you think?" He faintly looked at her
Joanna opened her mouth but no words came out, she cursed the old man under her breath.
That idiot, of all the days she had to choose, she had to choose the day of Zayn's father's death anniversary to have dinner. Wasn't this setting her up to look bad in front of Zayn?
She hated his gut! It
Seeing Joanna get denied made Bethany chuckle. All the complex feelings that arose from hearing about them just now all vanished in a seconds.
Zayn spotted Bethany laugh, and a look flash by in his eyes, but then he quickly recognised himself and said, "When can you finalize the designs? I'll have Gael arrange for the models."
"Mr. Meyer, the models can wait, there are plenty of candidates. I can finalize the designs soon, but the main issue is the fabric material." Bethany finished sorting out her drafts.
"What's wrong with the fabric?'" Zayn's eyes turned serious.
"It's quite serious." Bethany hit a few stroke on her computer and then turned the screen towards him, "The first chart shows the company's storage high end fabric currently in stock. The second chart shows the type of fabric and quality required for the Oceania project, and the storage doesn't have about two thirds of fabric. We need to restock fast."
Zayn eyes were fixed into the screen, "There is no problem in restocking, but from your chart, I see the colour motion memos " dye"
What does it mean? Do you need to re-dye the color?"
"Yes, because there are many colors, not every fabric has the color we need. So we need to buy some white fabric and dye them on our own." Bethany nodded and said.
Joanna stood by and watched how those two get close, as though nothing and no one can stand between them. She suddenly felt a huge surge of the crisis Inside her.
And it was this feelings of her that reminded her, she couldn't just hope every thing would be fine with Bethany out of the company.
She had to think of a way to get everything away from zayn. It was better if could she do it right away.
That way no one could take away her status as his cousin and she wouldn't have to worry about who would snatch things away from her.
Thinking of this, Joanna gritted her teeth, then turn and left the conference room.
Both Zayn and Bethany noticed her leave, but they didn't pay her any mind and continued to discuss the issue concerning the fabric.
"I can see that you need a lot of fabric re-dyed." Zayn said as he pointed to the screen.
Bethany hesitated for a second "Correct, Mr. Meyer. That is why I will need a dye room."
" do you know how to dye?" Zayn didn't agree immediately but raised a question.
In her impression, cloth dying was usually handled by the masters.
She was too young for the task. Could she really be trusted? It didn't make sense for him to let her practice with such an expensive cloth material.
Bethany seems to read Zayn's mind. She closed her laptop and said, “Don't worry, Mr. Meyer. Since I dared to request for a dye room, it means that I'm clear on my task at hand.There is no reason for me to treat this as a joke”
After hearing what she said, Zayn looked at her and smiled faintly, “Since you're very sure of this ,I'll ask Gael to arrange it”.
“Thank you very much , Mr. Meyer” Bethany replied gleefully and then bowed hurriedly.
Zayn nodded slightly , “Don't be so happy just yet. Even though, I've agreed to arrange a dye room for you,you'll still need to compensate for any damage clothes”.
“I understand ” Bethany had a fearless expression on.
It was a must to pay if the clothes got damaged.
Despite that, she believed in her capabilities and wouldn't bulge.
“Its good that you understood everything, and if that's the case........” Zayn's phone suddenly rang in his pocket.
He slightly glowered and swallowed the rest of his sentence ; Then he took his phone out to check the caller.
His face darkened the moment,he saw the identity of the caller on the screen.
Bethany observed the atmosphere and was aware that her presence was not needed at the moment. She then excused herself from there.
Zayn waved his hand in approval to let her off.
After Bethany left , he quickly answered the call.