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 looking for

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

of many. They all accused her of being

watched

sanitation workers to find it. They have already been working hard sweeping the roads for the

than everyone just because she’s a celebrity?”

to hog the city’s resources? She doesn’t pay the sanitation workers’ salaries. Why does

curb those negative comments. There had been plenty of people

was a PR

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

out and asking them to

Lily shouted. “Offer them more money!”

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 forget about the ring and

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

“I’m going to pretend you didn’t just run

a chord with

handled

if she hadn’t started this farce in the first place.

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?”

to sweep it

I’m engaged to Sean. Everybody else should be afraid

froze. Could it be Jason

very few people more powerful than

truth from the masses and who

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