My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict!

Chapter 38

What kind of suffering did she endure to be so dismissive when recounting these experiences?

“In the future, if anyone hurts you, I won’t let them get away,” he said as if he was making an oath.

She rubbed his head of black hair. Treating him very much like the younger brother she professed him to be.

But he knew better. He’d gotten close to her and saw how she responded to him.

She might try to keep him at arm’s length, but they were far past

that.

“Jay, I’m a big girl, and I can take care of myself. Don’t keep saying stuff like that.” She smothered a yawn. “Hurry up and eat.” As she spoke, she lowered her head and continued eating. the food before her.

A spark flashed through his eyes as if he was thinking of something.

The incident had indeed been blown out of proportion and yet it did not occur to Lily that her company would be unable to suppress this top search.

There were simply too many sites and too many people talking

about the event.

And while her people could bribe some news outlets, there were simply too many and the scene of her standing at the roadway while an entire dumpster of garbage was opened and sorted… that was sweeping the world and trending.

Damn it!

ring and speculation of what it cost and looked like, and the sanitation workers going through the trash

stood beside the rubbish piles, and

many. They all accused her of being morally flawed

watched while others

even some online who stated, “She lost her own ring and still wanted the sanitation workers to find it. They have already been working hard sweeping the roads for the

she’s better than everyone just because

is she to hog the city’s resources? She doesn’t pay the sanitation workers’ salaries. Why

clear their idol’s name, they were unable to curb those negative comments. There had been plenty of people at the scene and many of

a

negative comments online had

don’t know what’s wrong with these key influencers. We’re reaching out and asking them to stop posting. We’re offering to compensate them. But they

absurd!” Lily shouted. “Offer them more

that could blow up in our faces. We don’t want them to start saying that we’re trying to buy them. or silence them. Free speech and all that.” There was some rustling on the other end of the phone as if he was covering the mouthpiece. “Not for nothing, but if you’d called me immediately, instead of just your agent and publicist, I would’ve told you to keep your money and to lavish it on the workers. Or to forget about the ring and go buy a new one-it

could’ve spun this way better, if

sucked in a breath. “I’m going to pretend you didn’t just run

a

could’ve handled this better.

this farce in the first

Hopefully, we won’t run into a situation like this again.” He was quiet for a moment. Then: “Lily, did you offend someone, I mean not the public

“Why do

you ask?”

money cures most everything, and this situation…we aren’t able to pay to sweep it away. So I’ll ask again, who did d

Atkinson, and I’m engaged to Sean. Everybody else should be afraid of offending

froze. Could it be

few people more powerful than

And it would take a lot of power and money for her to be refused. The ones who were capable of hiding the truth from the