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!

of what it cost and looked like, and the sanitation workers going through the trash looking for it, there was more

especially publicized. In it, she was dressed flashily as she stood beside the rubbish piles, and next to her were

of many. They all

who watched while

and still wanted the sanitation workers to find it. They have already been working

she’s better than everyone just because she’s a

hog the city’s resources? She doesn’t pay the sanitation workers’ salaries. Why does she need so many people to help

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

a

can’t the top search be taken down?” Lily saw that the negative comments online had increased and

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

is absurd!” Lily shouted. “Offer

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,

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

in a breath. “I’m going to pretend you didn’t just run your mouth at me,”

struck a chord with

could’ve handled this

if she hadn’t started this farce in

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

“Why do

you ask?”

situation…we aren’t able to pay to sweep it away. So I’ll ask

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

froze. Could it be Jason

very few people more powerful than her

would take a lot 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 influence those key opinion leaders and the