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!

Between the missing ring and speculation of what it cost and looked like, and the sanitation workers going through the trash looking for it, there was more than enough fodder to keep people talking.

the rubbish piles, and next to her were several

generated the ire of many. They all accused her of being morally flawed

who watched

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

everyone just because she’s a

city’s resources? She doesn’t pay the sanitation workers’ salaries.

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

a

saw that the negative comments online had increased and she was no longer able to sit

don’t know what’s wrong with these key influencers. We’re reaching out and asking them to stop posting.

absurd!” Lily shouted.

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

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

to pretend you didn’t just run

struck a chord with

handled this

this farce

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?”

able to pay to sweep it away. So I’ll

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

it be Jason

more powerful than her family or

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

that because of Jennifer’s death, he was taking out his anger on

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