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!

workers going through the trash looking for it, there was more than enough fodder to keep people

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

of many. They all accused her

who watched while others labored.

They have already been working hard

than everyone just because

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

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

a PR nightmare!

negative comments online had increased

them to stop posting. We’re offering to compensate them. But they just aren’t willing to take down all of the

absurd!” Lily shouted. “Offer them more

said. “And we have to be careful not to push too hard 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

we’re spending now on damage control. Damn it, Lily, you could’ve spun this way better, if you’d rewarded those poor people or if you’d actually gotten your hands dirty

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

a chord with her.

handled

this farce in the first

situation like this again.” He was quiet for a moment. Then: “Lily, did you offend someone, I

“Why do

you ask?”

most everything, and this situation…we aren’t able to pay to sweep it away. So I’ll ask again, who did d you

it. “I’m an Atkinson, and I’m engaged

it be Jason Reed?

more

be refused. The ones who were capable of hiding the truth from the masses and who would be able to influence those