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!

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

as she stood beside the rubbish

a contrast immediately generated the ire of many. They all accused her

who watched

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

just because she’s a

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

idol’s name, they were unable to curb those negative comments. There had been plenty of people at the scene and many of them had recorded videos of

a

search be taken down?” Lily saw that the negative comments online had increased and she was no longer able to sit

and asking them to stop posting. We’re offering to compensate them. But they just

is absurd!” Lily shouted. “Offer them

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 you’d called me immediately, instead of just your agent and publicist, I would’ve told you to keep your

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

going to pretend you didn’t just run your

struck a chord

could’ve handled this better.

started this farce in the first place.

we won’t run into a situation like this again.” He was quiet for a moment. Then: “Lily, did you offend

“Why do

you ask?”

sweep it away. So I’ll ask again,

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

Could it be Jason Reed?

few people more powerful than her

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