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!

sanitation workers going through

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

of many. They all accused her of being morally flawed and putting

who watched while others labored.

it. They have already been working hard

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 her look for a

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

was a

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

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

Lily shouted. “Offer them

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

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

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

a chord

could’ve handled this better.

this farce in the

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

“Why do

you ask?”

to sweep it away. So I’ll

I’m engaged to Sean. Everybody else should be

Could it be Jason Reed?

few people more powerful than her

truth from the masses and who would be able to influence those key opinion

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