Chapter 104 She Doesn't Love, But She Has No Fear
Jane suddenly received a call from Beth, but she hesitated for a few moments before answering it.
"Miss Brown," she said calmly.
Beth Brown used to show somewhat politeness in her cold, arrogant attitude, but she simply put on a straight face today. She said coldly, "I thought that you're just a bright rabbit, but I didn't expect that you acted like the weak to defeat the strong."
Before Jane could become unhappy, Beth suddenly turned hostile. The former was stunned for a moment before saying unemotionally, "Miss Brown, if you have anything to say, say it directly."
Suppressing her anger, Beth said, "You dared to smear my image. I don't have a good life, so I won't let you enjoy a peaceful life."
"I don't know what you mean," Jane said honestly.
The more seriously she spoke, the more hypocritical the caller would think she was, so she chose to ask her directly. Beth revealed what she was talking about, "You know what you told Edward!"
"Edward?
"What did I say?"
Jane thought about it but was truly confused. She didn't like the talk without making the thing clear, so she said straightforwardly, "Miss Brown, Mr. Smith and I haven't had a lot of dialogs, but if you ask me to guess, I can't make sure which one is the one you're referring to."
Beth became angry but chuckled, "You dared to do it but have no guts to admit it, eh? You're a tutor of the Smith family, but you keep an unclear relationship with Ken Garcia. Now the game Edward's company developed has been maliciously leaked to Ken Garcia. Edward is so stupid that he believes in a ghost like you. You dared to drive a wedge between him and me, letting me take the blame. In my view, you have been spoiled by him for a few days and forgotten how to write the word 'pain'!"
Her words contained so much information that Jane didn't have time to argue about her words on her relationship with Ken. Instead, Jane asked about the point she cared about most, "When did I let you take the blame?"
Once she thought about it, Beth trembled with anger. "Don't try to act! Edward met you the night before last, then he investigated the case and found me. I've never touched his company's game. If you hadn't said anything behind my back, how would he target me?!"
Jane was wronged. How could she know that Edward would ask someone to investigate Beth? This had nothing to do with her, but Beth didn't believe it. Actually, she had never believed in Jane, and she had been on alert against her. She held a view: "The sixth sense of women is said to be the most accurate, and that is correct. Jane Cooper took advantage of the loopholes in my vigilance."
Jane knew that Beth would not believe whatever she said. As calm as almost indifferent, she said in a flat tone, "Indeed, Mr. Smith and I had a meeting the night before last, but there are two reasons: One, I had been followed and watched in the past days; two, my privacy and personal safety were affected because of him. As a man who cares much about his image, Mr. Smith came over to greet me and mentioned this...
"Miss Brown, the one who has made Mr. Smith repetitively embarrassed and even unhappy has never been me. Don't you need to rethink some of your actions? Practicing your jealousy properly is joy, but crossing the line is a crime."
Beth had not expected that Jane was so arrogant that she even dared to reproach her in her face. Beth was furious, but she calmed down and said, "I'm not as talented as you in capturing men's hearts. In such a short time, you made Justin and Edward bewildered and disoriented, and you're now also the tutor of the Perez family. I think wholeheartedly for his good. Whoever dares to plot against him in the dark, I'll let them bear all the consequences. I've met a lot of women like you. Actually, you're the subordinate of Ken, right?"
"I've never tried to get the spy certificate," Jane said speechlessly and helplessly.
Ignoring her sarcasm, Beth simply said, "Jane Cooper, let's wait and see! Let's see whether your acting skills are better or my demon-detecting mirror works great!"
Jane was silent, but her brain was full of the scenes in which Monkey King beats the skeleton spirit three times. Beth had hung up, but Jane was not so angry. She had long predicted that Beth, the mine, would explode sooner or later. Unfortunately, she exploded neither sooner nor later but at such a time. She had also said that Edward was investigating her, right?
Without seeing the evidence and only by consulting her intuition, Jane could say that Beth was unlikely to be the leaker. She loved Edward so madly that even an outsider could see it, so how could...
Sometime after that, while Jane was answering questions online at her computer, the screen of her mobile phone on the table lit up. She turned her head sideways and saw Edward's name.
She swiped to the answer button and said, "Mr. Smith."
Edward, who would never say anything useless when talking to her on the phone, said directly, "If Beth calls you, ignore her."
"Miss Brown has called me," Jane replied, a little wanting to smile.
"She's now mental. Block her number," Edward was silent for a moment and said.
"Miss Brown says that you're investigating her?" Jane asked.
"Yes."
Although she shouldn't ask this, Jane still wanted to ask. "You have the evidence showing that she's the one?"
If he didn't have and he only did it for the sake of venting his anger, no wonder Beth was so abnormal. It hurt so much to think that the man she truly loved suspected her.
"The secondary assistant of Beth is the girlfriend of one of our company's main developers. Our company has been comprehensively investigating the case, and any suspicious information found will be reported. She overacts to it," Edward said.
After hearing it, Jane pondered it over and thought that since the company had evidence, it should treat everyone equally.
Edward could basically guess what Beth would tell Jane, but Jane didn't complain at all, so he said, "This problem will be solved soon. Your life has been affected a few times. I'm sorry for it. If you need anything, just tell me."
"I really want you to do something," Jane said.
"Say it," Edward said instantly.
"If it is convenient, please ask someone to watch Miss Brown's moves. I'm afraid that she will do something stupid when she's too agitated."
What kind of stupid thing could Beth do? Edward immediately knew what she meant and asked, "She threatened you?"
"A woman acts like that when she's in a hot temper," Jane said light-heartedly.
"Don't worry. I guarantee your safety," Edward said.
"Thank you, Mr. Smith," Jane said politely as always.
After the serious things were discussed, the two of them immediately hung up without doing any chitchats. Jane said to herself inwardly, "Edward had such careful thinking that he knew to call me. After all, I can't tell him myself. If I do it, it is like I take the chance to report Beth."
Thinking of Beth, Jane was afraid of something: Would Edward go to Beth soon after he hung up the phone? If so, her name of provoking discord would never be removed.
"Alas..."
This was a sigh Jane heaved for Beth. It didn't mean that loving someone deeply was not good, but that she would suffer from her one-sided love. She knew that the man didn't love her, but she persisted stubbornly. She willfully thought that offending everyone was for the man's good, but only she herself would be moved, in fact. It was easy to imagine how miserably she would suffer given the love that the man wanted fire but she gave him ice.
Jane knew that a man and a woman who swore faithfully to love each other in the beginning might end up like foes who would never see each other again. Therefore, she was confused that love was so unreal, but why did some people still crave to trade for a faithful old couple's good story with their one-sided love?
If it were not that they had thought too much, they must have rarely suffered.