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 sanitation workers going through

beside the rubbish piles, and next to her were several sanitation workers bent over the trash looking for the

many. They all accused her of being morally flawed and putting on

bitch’ who watched

some online who stated, “She lost her own ring and still wanted the sanitation workers to find it. They have

than everyone just

doesn’t pay the sanitation workers’ salaries. Why does she need

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

was a

comments online had increased and she was

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

is absurd!” Lily shouted. “Offer

manager said. “And we have 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 would’ve told you to keep your money and to lavish it on the workers. Or to

Damn it, Lily, you could’ve spun this way better, if you’d rewarded those poor people or if you’d actually gotten your

to pretend you didn’t just

his words struck a chord

handled this

she hadn’t started this farce

“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 public or

“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

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

it be Jason Reed?

were very few people more powerful than her

capable of hiding the truth