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!

and looked like, and the sanitation workers going through the trash looking for it, there was more than enough fodder to

rubbish

all accused

bitch’ who watched while

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 entire day. Why didn’t she look through the rubbish herself?”

she’s better than everyone just because she’s a celebrity?”

workers’ salaries. Why does

were unable to curb those negative comments. There had been plenty of people at the scene and many of them had recorded videos of the incident and uploaded them online.

a PR nightmare!

the negative comments online had increased and she was

influencers. We’re reaching out and asking them to stop posting. We’re offering to compensate them.

absurd!” Lily shouted. “Offer them more money!”

to be careful not to push too hard because 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

spun this way

didn’t just run your mouth at me,” she

a chord

handled this

she hadn’t started this farce in

Fine. 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 or those workers today? I mean someone big…”

“Why do

you ask?”

sweep it away. So I’ll ask again, who did d you piss off?”

pondered over it. “I’m an Atkinson, and I’m engaged to Sean. Everybody else should be afraid of offending me,

it be

were very few people more powerful than her family

and money for her to be refused. The ones who were capable of hiding the truth from the masses and who would be able

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