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!

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

rubbish piles, and next to her were several sanitation workers

all accused her of being morally flawed and

who watched

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 she look through the rubbish herself?”

she’s better than everyone just because she’s a celebrity?”

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

fans worked hard to clear their idol’s name, they were unable to curb those negative comments. There had been plenty of people at the

was a PR nightmare!

negative comments online

and asking them to stop posting.

shouted.

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

of what we’re spending now on damage control. Damn it, Lily, you could’ve spun this way better, if you’d rewarded

pretend you didn’t just

his words struck a

handled this

started this farce in the

Fine. 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?”

pay to sweep it away. So I’ll ask again,

“I’m an Atkinson, and I’m engaged to Sean. Everybody else should be afraid

Could it be Jason

were very few people more powerful than

it 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 media…were few, and Jason was one of

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