Chapter 396: Chapter 396 Disgraced And Discredited

“Look at you. We are a family. Why are you kneeling like this? Get up quickly.”

Steven stood up and cast an expectant look at Bethany.

She smiled at him and said, “Sit down! You are still the President after all. If someone sees you in such a mess, they will think that I have done something to you!”

He looked at Bethany’s smiling face. For the first time, he felt that this old woman in front of him, who seemed like a good-for-nothing, was actually very terrifying.

She could ferret out people’s fear from the bottom of their hearts. He always felt that her heart was like the roots of a hundred-year-old tree, complicated and unpredictable.

“You have two choices now,” Bethany said, “The first one is to be fired from the company. Everything you have done will be exposed to the public and your reputation will be ruined for the rest of your life!”

Steven’s face sank, “No, Aunt Bethany, please don’t fire me.”

He would have nothing without Valiant East.

He had gotten used to the days of being respected as the President of Valiant East. He was no longer as insignificant as he used to be! Furthermore, he had yet to avenge his parents!

He had originally planned to seek revenge on Amos slowly after setting up his own organization. However, everything was exposed now. If he were to leave Valiant East now, on what grounds could he compete with Amos in the future?

“There is also another solution!” Bethany smiled.

“What is it?”

“Give up your position and work at the bottom level voluntarily. I won’t expose anything, but you have to do as I say in the future. Of course, I won’t treat you shabbily! I could even let you continue with the amusement park project that you had been in charge of before. When the project is completed, you would even be the owner of the amusement park. What is there to be upset about?”

Steven’s hopes were instantly crushed.

He looked at Bethany obscurely, who was calm and composed. “It’s you. You’ve been scheming against me, haven’t you? You’ve planned this for a long time. You tricked me into me exposing myself so you could then kick me out of the company and let your own people be promoted. Did you hire those people beforehand because you already had your eyes on my position?”

Bethany frowned, “Steven, what are you talking about? I didn’t plan for this situation to happen to you. You are the one who brought it upon yourself! Now choose!”

“I’m not choosing!” Steven roared.

Bethany slapped the table and stood up, “You insolent!”

“If I’m insolent then so be it! I have finally realized that I am just your puppet. When you asked me to take over this position, I was really grateful to you. That was dumb of me. You just wanted to have someone with a justified reputation to take over Valiant East, and I am just your stepping stone! Am I right?”

Bethany didn’t say a word, nor did she counter the argument.

She didn’t speak until Steven was done venting his anger.

“Since you refuse to accept my suggestion, I could only send all the things that you have done to the board of directors…”

Steven’s heart sank. In the past, he might have believed that Bethany might give in. However, after this incident, he knew that Bethany had been putting up an act all this time.

If he were to oppose her, he would most definitely meet a grave sentence this time.

Rather than doing so, he might as well protect himself.

Steven told himself that there would be hope so long as he was still alive! As long as he had a reputation, he might still be able to get Valiant East back in the future!

Thinking of this, he strained to open his mouth.

“Aunt Bethany, I was not in the right mind just now. Of course I would choose to help you! I have decided. I have been in the Valiant East for a long time, yet I haven’t contributed anything. The main factor is because I am not capable enough. I will readily give up my position so that you could be in charge of the company. I will go to the amusement park and work on that project…”

Bethany nodded with satisfaction, “It’s great that you would think that way! I’ll invite the directors to a board meeting in your name tomorrow. You could announce the decision to them then.”

After saying that, she got up and left.

When she walked to the door, she stopped again and said, “Oh, by the way, have you ever thought about why you had been exposed so quickly and how I had caught wind of it so easily? It seemed that someone wanted us to confront each other. What do you think?”

Bethany’s ambiguous words made Steven’s expression instantly darken.

When she was out of sight, Steven threw the document on to the floor, “It’s Amos again!”

When the document fell to the ground, it hit the phone accidentally and dialed a number.

Kesha had been staying at home ever since she quarreled with Steven yesterday. At that moment, when she saw that it was Steven who was calling her, she thought that he was going to apologize to her, so she quickly answered the call.

However, there was no sound at all from the other end of the phone. She could only hear Steven shouting hysterically at his assistant.

“It’s Amos again. I’m not done with you!”

Kesha was anxious. Just as she was about to call back, Felicia came over.

“You have only been playing with your mobile phone since you came home. Keep your father company if you have time!”

Kesha ignored her. This time, Felicia directly snatched her phone away, “I’m talking to you! By the way, I asked you to check on Eudora yesterday. Did you do it? What happened to her?”

Kesha’s face was filled with annoyance, “Give back my phone!”

Felicia refused to give it back to her. “Couldn’t we just have a proper conversation?”

Kesha was so angry that she wanted to hit someone, “Have you cared about me since I came back? You only care about her!”

Felicia glared at her, “You d*mned girl. I’m doing this for your own good!”

Kesha snorted, “For my own good, huh? You only know to say that. Let me tell you, she threw up in the bathroom yesterday. It was disgusting! Now, could you give my mobile phone back to me?”

Felicia’s hands, which were washing the dishes, instantly stopped, “She puked?”

“Yeah! And you’d better not ask more. I’m not going to stand by your side if they were to blame everything on your contaminated food!”

Felicia frowned, “Could she be pregnant?”

Kesha was stunned, “What?”

However, the more Felicia thought about it, the more she felt that she might be right!

“When she came here in the morning, I had a feeling that something was odd with her. Now that I think about it, it seems that she is pregnant. She must be pregnant!”

When Felicia said this, she revealed an envious expression once again.

“Kesha, look at you. Didn’t you say that you were better than Eudora at everything since you were a child? Eudora is going to have another child now, but you haven’t even found yourself a partner to lean on! You’re really making me worry about you…”

However, Kesha’s thoughts were different from Felicia’s. She was thinking of something way more catastrophic.

Steven was so angry just now. Amos must have had done something to provoke him again. Therefore, she couldn’t be blamed because they were the ones who had provoked her first. If she wasn’t doing well in life, then no one deserved to live a good life.

Kesha immediately snatched her mobile phone back from Felicia and called Steven.