Chapter 106 He only Believes in Those He Likes
He simply suspected her. No, no, it was not a suspicion, but that he already believed that she was the one. He asked her to come over, only because he wanted to expose her to her face.
After learning such a result, Beth didn't know what to say but stared at him without blinking. Surprisingly, Edward was very calm, not angry as if whether she was the leaker or someone else was was the same for him.
Beth couldn't see her own face. She could hear a slightly familiar voice saying word by word, "I used my own money to award my employee. I don't need to report to anyone. If you have evidence, take Mae and see if she will accuse me of being the instigator."
Edward said, "It seems that you appreciate the secondary assistant so much. She had been promoted with her salary constantly raised. She worked normally, but why did she suddenly want to resign? She not only resigned but also abandoned her boyfriend. She wanted to go out and squander the 75,800 dollars?"
The man with glasses was silent with his head lowered. Beth knitted her eyebrows again and asked in reply, "Mae wants to resign?"
Edward didn't know what Beth had been doing these days, and he didn't care about it, of course. She had never been to her company lately, and her employees didn't dare to take the risk to call her, so now she finally knew Mae's resignation.
But her surprise was but a show in Edward's eyes. Unavoidably, he showed some dislike in his eyes because she didn't confess before seeing the evidence. In her presence, he called someone.
When the person answered his call, he turned on his phone's speaker. A woman's voice came, "Hello, this is Mae."
Hearing it, Beth asked, "You want to resign?"
The person at the other end of the line was silent for a while before answering, "Sorry, Miss Brown, my dad is seriously ill, and my mother wants me to go home and attend to him for some time."
"I put 75,800 dollars into your account earlier. It was enough for your family to hire the best nurse, and I also promised you a holiday. You never told me you would resign," Beth said coldly.
"Sorry, Miss Brown, I'm the only child of my family, and I bear so much pressure. Sorry..." Mae said in a very embarrassed tone.
"Have you mailed anything to Oriental Journey?" Beth asked seriously.
After being silent for a while, Mae whispered, "Yes, I did."
"What was it?"
"A friend's resume. She wanted to work at Oriental Journey, asking me for a favor."
"What kind of friend? Why did she ask you to send her resume?" Beth pressed severely.
"Miss Brown, I don't know what happened. Now I just want to go home, but someone stopped me at the airport. My mother will be worried when she comes to that airport to pick me up but doesn't see me. I left, but I didn't tell you. It's all my fault. I was too ashamed to see you..." Mae said.
She spoke in a crying tone, her words a little incoherent. Beth demanded very anxiously, "Make it clear, and I'll ask the person to let you off. For whom did you mail the resume? Find the person and you can go."
Beth was anxiously trying to find the evidence to prove her innocence, but Mae said, "Miss Brown, don't force me..."
Beth saw from the corner of her eye that Edward leaned back, lit up another cigarette, and looked at her in the way he watched a play.
"Mae, you'd better not lie to me, or don't think about leaving S City!" she instantly turned hostile and said.
After being silent for a while, Mae said docilely, "It was not my friend's resume. It was mine."
"Why did you send a resume to Oriental Journey?" Beth asked.
"I wanted to quit and get a new job..."
Pursing her lips, Beth didn't know what she should say. Edward puffed a cloud of smoke to his side and said, "Why not ask her why she wanted to quit?"
These words were full of irony because most of the sentences she made up were questions since her dialog with Beth began. She was truly confused, but all this was children's drama in Edward's eyes.
Edward took the mobile phone and asked the man at the airport to release Mae, but the man with glasses suddenly said, "Boss, I want to talk to her."
Edward handed his phone to him. With his red eyes lowered, he whispered, "I've given all my heart and trust to nobody in the three years! Don't come back! If I see you in S City again, I will slap you in the name of the colleagues working arduously with me for more than four hundred days!"
After that, he hung up, put the phone on the table, and hurried away.
In an instant, only Edward and Beth were left in the office. The latter thought, "The words of the man with glasses are almost the concrete proof that Mae is the traitor. I gave the traitor 75,800 dollars, saying that it was for her promotion. As a result, she said she wanted to quit without my knowledge. This is an insult, isn't it?"
After a long time, Beth inhaled air into her lungs quietly, stood straight, even slightly raised her chin to look at Edward being silent on purpose, and then asked, "You thought that it was I who asked Mae to leak your company's secret?"
She knew the answer, but she asked. Edward answered as she had expected, "I believe the evidence."
"You couldn't make sure what was in the USB disk at all!" Beth said coldly.
"Do you still need to confirm it? Do you want to call Ken now and ask him whether the thing in the USB disk is a resume or the appearance of the game?" Edward replied with cold eyes.
Forcefully suppressing her indignation and grievance, she asked unblinkingly, "You'll cook up charges against me even though I'm innocent!"
"Then what was your proof for suspecting someone? Your sixth sense?" Edward said lightly.
He didn't mention the person's name, but Beth was infuriated in an instant. Twisting her face, she said, "You believe whatever Jane says and does. Even after she had dinner with Ken at the same table, you still believe in her, but you declared me guilty only because of a nonsense USB disk. Why?"
"Because I believe in her," Edward simply put.
Maybe due to the thing that she had widened her eyes for too long, her eyelashes quivered and her vision seemed to blur in an instant. She clenched her hands into fists. She couldn't see Edward's face, but she asked stubbornly, "You believe in her, but you don't believe in me?"
The answer was crystal clear. Otherwise, the one who was sitting here being questioned would not be her, but humans were sometimes so stupid. Even if their beloved one had put a rope around their neck, they would naively think that the person wouldn't pull hard.
Edward had long been tired of Beth's pestering over the years. Previously, for the reputation of the two families, he would try his best to avoid her. Now he couldn't avoid her at all, so he simply told her his heart. "I don't have feelings for you. I didn't have in the past, and I'll never have in the future, either. How could I believe in the person I don't like? If I like the woman, anything is okay. If I don't, everything is pointless. Don't waste time anymore."
People said that women were poisonous, but how many people had ever experienced a man's cruelty? A few simple words would make a woman heartbroken.
Beth was motionless with a feeling that she seemed to have gone through an electric shock, but she could feel that the tears running down her eyes were scorching.
Only the two of them were in the room, but she felt like tens of thousands of people were watching her. The feeling of being unable to get what she craved was bitter, and she felt that being vilified was more terrible. When all her tears had been shed, her vision became clear. Looking at the handsome but cruel face, she slowly opened her mouth and whispered, "The three years of mine is not better than the three months of hers?"
What annoyed him most was that Beth was not his girlfriend, but she always bothered herself about any woman around him. Even at this moment, she was still comparing.
Even if he was still a little softhearted, the feeling disappeared at the moment. He responded coldly, "Don't compare yourself with her. You're a long way behind."