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 the trash looking for it, there was more than

dressed flashily as she stood beside the rubbish piles, and next to her

all accused her of being morally

bitch’ who watched while

find it. They have already been working hard sweeping the

than everyone just

the sanitation workers’ salaries. Why does she need so many people to help her look for

been plenty of people at the scene and many of them had recorded videos of

a

negative comments online had

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

Lily shouted. “Offer them

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

it, Lily, you could’ve spun this way better, if you’d rewarded

to pretend you didn’t just run your mouth at

a chord

handled

hadn’t started this farce in the first

manager relented. “Sure. Fine. Hopefully, we won’t run into a situation like this again.” He was quiet for a moment. Then: “Lily, did you

“Why do

you ask?”

able to pay to sweep it away. So

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

Could it

were very few people more powerful

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

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