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!

missing ring and speculation of what it cost and looked like, and the sanitation workers going through the

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

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

bitch’ who watched while

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

just because she’s

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

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

a PR nightmare!

negative comments online had increased and she was no longer able to sit still.

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

absurd!” Lily shouted. “Offer them

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

this way better, if you’d rewarded those poor people or

going to pretend you didn’t just

struck a

handled this better.

this farce in

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?”

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

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

Could it be

people more powerful

truth from