In a corner of the second floor, he was talking on the phone.
And the direction his eyes were looking in… was the direction in which she pushed Bethan!
In an instant, Alice’s face turned pale as a ghost.
“Mr. Morrison is our sponsor, and he’s your husband, he would definitely remain fair and just.”
With that, the manager immediately ordered a subordinate. “Go and invite Mr. Morrison here! “
Alice’s expression turned immeasurably ugly. She was regretting her decision deeply.
Brettley saw her reaching out and pushing Bethan.
She just returned to his side, he still had his reservations about her, if he realized she was not as kind and gentle as she pretended to be…
Would he be suspicious of her?
“Ms. Bethan.”
The manager looked at her calmly. “Whether you intentionally destroyed this painting or you were framed, we will know the truth once Mr. Morrison is here.”
Bethan stood on the spot; her hands clenched tightly into fists at her sides.
Alice had framed her for destroying Mr. Allen’s painting, initially, she planned to prove her innocence with the CCTV recording and the testimony of witnesses.
But she did not expect the painting would be located in a blind spot.
And what’s more, she did not expect Brettley would be the only witness.
She closed her eyes.
Would he… tell the truth to help her? “Mr. Morrison, this way please.”
Following the staff member’s voice that was filled with flattery, the tall and elegant man entered the surveillance room.
In the room, he glanced at Alice and Bethan and understood what was going on.
He elegantly took out a cheque book and wrote a check for ten million dollars. “Give this to Mr. Allen, if it’s insufficient he can contact my secretary for extra compensation. I’ll reimburse him for this painting.”
Once the words left his mouth, the crowd was enveloped in a frenzy.
The manager frowned. “Mr. Morrison, we asked you here to testify…”
The man raised his cold eyes and swept them over the manager. “I said, I am reimbursing Mr. Allen for this painting.”
The manager wanted to say more but immediately shut up when he came into contact with the man’s ice-cold gaze.
He could not afford to get on Mr. Morrison’s bad side!
From the beginning, all he wanted was someone to compensate for the loss of the painting.
Now that Brettley was willing to pay, they did not need to fixate on the perpetrator of the act.
And so he hurriedly lowered his head. “… Uhm, Mr. Morrison, thank you for coming.”
Brettley snorted carelessly in reply and slowly walked to Alice.
Facing his razor-sharp gaze that felt as if he could see right through her, Alice instinctively lowered her head, not daring to meet his gaze.
Sighing softly, the man gently reached out an arm and wrapped it around Alice’s waist. “Let’s go.”
Then, he held her and walked right past Bethan.
From beginning to end, he did not even throw a glance her way.
Standing in her spot, Bethan looked at his retreating back, her heart aching in pain.
She shou1d’ve expected that he would protect Alice.
She did not even know she thought for a second that he might tell the truth and prove her innocence.
“Mr. Morrison.”
When Brettley was about to walk out of the door with his arm wrapped about Alice’s waist, a man’s clear voice rang out behind him.
The crowd looked in the direction where the voice came from. “Master Allen?”
The man waved emotionlessly at the crowd then laughed lightly as he looked at Brettley’s retreating back, “Your wife destroyed my painting, besides monetary compensation, doesn’t she owe me an apology?”
Brettley paused in his tracks.
He turned back, a cold expression on his face, looked at the man behind him and said, “Master Allen, I think you might be mistaken…”
Beside him, the manager hurriedly rushed to Theo’s side. “The person who destroyed your painting is Ms. Bethan and not Mrs. Morrison.”
Theo smiled faintly, turned and threw a gentle glance in Bethan’s direction. “Why didn’t you say that you were framed? Just because he paid ten million in compensation for you?”
Bethan turned pale.
She lifted her eyes and looked at Theo, then turned and glanced at Brettley.
The man’s face was cold and expressionless. “That’s because no one will stand on my side.”
A moment later, she raised her head and stared at Brettley, saying word by word, “There’s no CCTV recording, and the only witness chose to remain silent, no matter what I say, no one will believe me.”
“Why would no one believe you?”
Theo laughed lightly, strode to Bethan, and looked at Brettley with clear, calm eyes. “Mr. Morrison, as the only witness, shouldn’t you explain clearly who was the one who destroyed the painting? I value this painting very much; monetary compensation alone isn’t sufficient.”
Brettley’s hand that was wrapped around Alice’s waist tightened slightly. “Is that important?”
“Of course it is.”
Theo raised his head, an unyielding glint flashing in his gentle eyes as he looked at Brettley.
The two men stared at each other in confrontation.
In an instant, the atmosphere in the surveillance room turned tense.
After a long while, Brettley curled his lips in a smile. “
Actually…”
He turned and looked at Bethan. “I didn’t see who was the one who actually destroyed your painting.”
The manager paused. “But the staff said…”
“There’s no rule that says just because I was standing there and my eyes were looking in that direction, that I definitely saw it, right?”
A cold look passed through his handsome face. “
Even if I was staring in that direction, I was dozing off.”
Brettley’s words once again caused an uproar amongst the crowd.
Bethan stood in her spot, her heart sinking lower and lower into the pits of her stomach.
She knew Brettley had definitely seen everything.
If he did not, he would not try to cover the truth so deliberately.
But he chose to lie, for Alice.
Closing her eyes, she felt the last fragment of hope she had been holding onto for him smash into pieces and disappear.
“I’m willing to pay the compensation because this matter involves both parties, one of them is my wife, and the other is a staff member working for me in the Morrison Group.”
Brettley’s cold voice silenced the low rumble of discussion in the room.
“As a husband or a superior, I have the responsibility to end this silly affair.”
He looked at Theo coldly. “Are you satisfied with my explanation?”
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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