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!

it cost and looked like, and the sanitation workers going through the

were especially publicized. In it, she was dressed flashily as she stood beside the rubbish piles, and next to

contrast immediately generated the ire of many. They all accused her

bitch’ who watched

to find it. They have

everyone just because she’s a celebrity?”

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

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

was a

top search be taken down?” Lily saw that the negative comments

reaching out and asking them to stop posting. We’re offering to compensate them. But they just

is absurd!” Lily shouted.

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

way better, if you’d rewarded those poor people or if you’d actually gotten your hands dirty yourself.”

breath. “I’m going to pretend you didn’t just run your mouth

his words struck a chord with her.

could’ve handled this better.

hadn’t started this

was quiet for a moment. Then: “Lily, did you offend someone, I mean not the public or those

“Why do

you ask?”

able to pay to sweep

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

it

very few people more

who were capable of hiding the truth from the masses and who would be able to influence those