Chapter 57

Tm in the muddle of something" dhe started off with a sharp toe. This better be important.

Her secretary's panicked and hurried voir came through "Mah, we have a situation"

Emma was losing her patience. "This isn't the time, can't you all handle it

about you, ma am replied her secretary, much sheepish

"What is it? Just spit it out

"There are videos going around on the Internet, of you...slapping Mr. Black's girlfriend'

Emma's heart sank as the words hit her. "What?"

"Netizens are already calling you various names, it is gone viral, ma'am. The company is getting worried, maarn. It is just as question of time before someone links you to the company. The legal and PR teams are working around the clock to control the damage. Emma didn't even answer. She hung up in a second and opened her browser; her fingers were trembling as she clicked on the trending section. Her name was all over it. She clicked one of the videos and felt a sickening dread as she watched herself slapping Annie, then the camera panned to Annie's face, clutching her cheek, crying. She skimmed the comments, each one like a dagger:

Emma just can't seem to get over her ex! Jealous much?"

something nice for Alexander, and this is how she reacts?

woman's got issues. Annie is a saint for putting up with

dead. Do us all

die.

knew nothing about Annie at all. They didn't know the kinds of sick games she could devise or the danger and pain she had brought into

came up beside her,

drawn

anger and hurt in her chest began to spill over, and she felt

whispered, steady and calm. "Let them alk. We will get through

AAAAA

issues. He hadn't thought a lot about Emma or Annie since stepping into that meeting; he'd just thrown himself into work, escaping the growing tension that had filled his life lately. At night, he had finally decided to go home. But as he sat back in the car and scrolled through his

as the bile rose to his throat while he took in what lay before his eyes. Emma was trending, for all the wrong reasons. Videos of her slapping Annie had gone viral, blowing up on social media like a wildfire. Words like *jealous* and "obsessed" were used to describe her in headlines and comments;

couldn't fathom that this had been going on for hours and he was only now finding out. He felt a surge of guilt directed toward

apament along with her twins. His chest

at him from the rearview mirror,

in trouble Alexander replied, his hard

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