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!

looked like, and the sanitation workers going through the trash looking for it, there

she stood beside the rubbish piles, and next to her were several sanitation workers bent over

the ire of many. They all accused her of

bitch’ who watched while others labored.

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

better than everyone just because

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

name, they were unable to curb those negative comments. There had been plenty of people at the scene and many of them had recorded videos

was a

comments

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

is absurd!” Lily shouted. “Offer them more

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

on damage control. Damn it, Lily, you could’ve spun this way better, if you’d rewarded those poor

didn’t just run your mouth at me,”

words struck a chord with

handled this

hadn’t started this farce in the first

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

“Why do

you ask?”

money cures most everything, and this situation…we aren’t able to pay to sweep it away.

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

it be

people more powerful than her family

of power and money for her to be refused. The ones who were capable of hiding the truth from the masses and who would be able to