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"Shush!" Bethany placed a finger to her lips and signaled her to remain quiet," Joanna, we're just outside the CEO's office. Do you want to attract Mr. Meyer to come out and see your nasty behavior and hear your filthy words?”
Joanna froze on hearing and quickly composed herself as she said softly, "Just you wait, Bethany, we're not done with this!"
She had always thought that Bethany was just an ordinary woman. However, the past few days have shown her a different side of this weak woman.
"Great, bring it on!" Bethany replied calmly and walked past her towards the elevator.
Once she was back at the design department, those rumor mongers already cleared their workspace and left. The others looked at Bethany differently and became more respectful.
They could not help but change their attitude towards her as not only she could remove those troublemakers, but she also took over Joanna's position!
Bethany did not care that the designers maintained a distance from her. She had already expected it. She smiled and continued with her work.
In the afternoon, Jasmine received a call and went to a nearby café.
As soon as she entered the café, a man seated by the window waved at her, "Ms. Quest, over here!”
Bethany walked over and sat opposite the man and said.
"Mr. Chase, did you find anything from your investigations?"
“Of course, otherwise I won't be here." Mr. Chase” opened his briefcase and took out a folder and a photograph. The photograph was taken secretly by Bethany in the hospital.
"Ms. Quest, your guess is right. These three people are related as you suspected. This man is called Lucille Lawrence, and the child in his arms is Mario Lawrence. He is five years old this year. These are the DNA tests of the three. We spent a lot of effort to get their hair. They are all factual."
Mr. Chase placed the folder in front of Bethany.
She quickly looked at the DNA tests and then scoffed sarcastically.
Bethany thought to herself, 'What goes around comes around. Vella would be happy to hear this when she comes back."
She placed the DNA report back into the folder and said, "Thanks, Mr. Chase!"
"Think nothing of it, Ms. Quest." Mr. Chase smiled in return.
Bethany took up her cellphone and transferred the remaining payment to him and left the café.
After that, she went back to the office to gather her stuff as she was planning to go over and pick up the kid from kindergarten. However, Erica had asked her not to come over as these frequent visits would cause a lot of damage. She thought it was wise to go over at night instead, to have home-cooked dinner delivered to Jenna.
Two hours later, Bethany brought her groceries back home and saw Gael coming out of Zayn's apartment.
"Gael, you're..." Bethany pointed to the luggage in his hand.
Gael did not expect to meet her and answered, "I packed up for the director."
"Pack up?" Bethany tilted her head and asked, "Gael, won't Mr. Meyer live here anymore?"
Gael nodded and answered, "Yes."
"Ms. Quest, it's getting late. I need to send the luggage to Mr. Meyer. Bye," Gael said as he looked at his wristwatch.
"Okay, drive carefully." Bethany held on to the bag and stepped aside for Gael to pass.
Gael thanked her and entered the lift.
As soon as she stepped into the living room, she went straight to the kitchen and dropped the nags of groceries. Then, she came back and called Jenna.
“Miss Burnett, are you home yet?”.
“Yes, I just came back home and I called to ask you, What do you want to eat?”
Jenna got excited when Bethany mentioned food. She raised her hand and said, "Mommy, I'd like some fish fingers."
"What about you, Vella?" Bethany opened the freezer door and asked, directing the question at Vella, who was sitting dejectedly.
Vella rubbed her chin and said, "Fried chicken wings.”.
"Okay, we'll make both!" Bethany patted said tenderly.
She smiled when saw the happiness on the faces of the children. She felt satisfied.
The next day, Bethany walked out of the dye room in her white lab coat and saw Bent leaning against the wall.
She was startled and asked, "Mr. Meyer why are you here?"
“Good morning!" Bent waved at her and said, " I came specially to see you.”
"Is there anything that I can help you with?” Bethany asked as she took off her lab coat.
Bent walked toward her and said, "I heard about what happened yesterday. I'm sorry for the trouble."
He was here to apologize.
Bethany let down her suspicion and waved, "It's nothing. You don't need to worry."
"Impossible. This happened because of me. How about I give you a treat..."
"No need." Bethany knew what he wanted to say and quickly interrupted him.
Bent looked at her for a couple of seconds and shrugged his shoulders and said, "Okay, I was looking for an excuse to take you out. You didn't even allow me to complete my sentence.”
Bethany smiled but did not reply. Bent then said, "Zayn also has to be blamed for this. He can't even control the people under him. He is slipping. If I was him, I definitely won't allow something like this to happen."
Bethany felt uncomfortable when she heard Bent blamed Zayn and she replied coldly, "Mr. Bent you're mistaken. The company is so big with so many staff. Mr. Zayn can't keep track of everyone."
"You're so defensive of him. Could it be that you've begun to like him?" Bent suddenly said.
Bethany was startled and shook her head to deny, "How can that be?"
"Really? But you seem so defensive of him." Bent looked at her with narrowed eyes as if he was suspecting her.
Bethany started to feel unsettled and looked away, "Mr. Zayn is a nice person.”
"I see." Bent raised his chin and did not know if he should continue the topic.
After several moments, he chuckled, "If that's the case, you'd better not fall for him or you will suffer. Apart from Danica, he has another even more troublesome woman."
Another troublesome woman?
Bethany blinked and then asked, "Who?"
Bent chuckled and did not reply. Bethany came to her senses and realized that she appeared to be too concerned about it.
She quickly lowered her head and changed the topic, "Mr. Bent, if there's nothing else, I have something to attend to."
“What's the hurry? Let's chat." Bent pulled her back.
Zayn observed them from the corner of his eyes and his expression turned dark and he started to clench his fists.
Several seconds later, he turned to walk towards the elevator.
Gael followed him and asked, "Mr. Meyer, aren't we going over?"
"No." Zayn drooped his eyes and answered coldly, "No need to interrupt them!”
On hearing this, Gael turned to look at Bent who pinned Bethany against the wall. He hesitated before saying, "Mr. Meyer, should we terminate Bethany's involvement in the Oceania project?”.
"What do you mean? Zayn paused.
Gael also stopped before trying to explain his way out, he said, "Now that Ms. Quest is involved with Bent, and Bent always
harbored taking over the Blue Ridge Group. I am worried that Bent would make Bethany sabotage the project at that time the Group would...”
"Bethany won't do that!" Zayn interrupted him.
Gael was puzzled and asked, "Why are you so certain?"
Zayn pursed his lips and said, "If she ever listening to Bent and doing something like that, Molares will not forgive her. Not only will he terminate their relationship, but he would also ensure that she won't be able to continue in this field. She will not be able to handle this!"
He could see that Bethany was very professional and would not throw away her future for the sake of love.
"I see." Gael nodded.
Zayn slapped the application form on Gael's body.