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!

like, and the sanitation workers going through the trash

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

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

watched while

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

everyone just because she’s

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

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

was a

taken down?” Lily saw that the negative comments online had increased

what’s wrong with these key influencers. We’re reaching out and asking them to stop posting. We’re offering to compensate them.

Lily shouted.

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

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

to pretend you didn’t just run your mouth at me,” she

his words struck a

handled

this farce in the

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?”

this situation…we aren’t able to pay to sweep it away.

She pondered over it. “I’m an Atkinson, and I’m

it be

more powerful than her

were capable of hiding the truth from the masses and who would be able

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