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!

the missing ring and speculation of what it cost and looked like, and the sanitation workers going through the trash looking for it, there was more than enough fodder to

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

immediately generated the ire of many. They all accused her of being morally flawed and putting on airs.

watched while others labored.

her own ring and still wanted the sanitation workers to find it. They have already been working hard sweeping

just because

resources? She doesn’t pay the sanitation workers’ salaries. Why does she need so many people

curb those negative comments. There had been plenty of people at the scene and many of them had recorded videos of

was a

that the negative comments online had increased

I 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 just aren’t willing to take down all of the related content.”

absurd!” Lily shouted. “Offer

them. Free speech and all that.” There was some rustling on the other end of the phone as if he was

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

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

words struck a chord

handled this better.

hadn’t started this

relented. “Sure. 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

“Why do

you ask?”

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

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

it be Jason

more powerful

of hiding the truth from the masses