Shadows Of A Forgotten Spring

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Emma’s chest began to tighten. “What video? Send it to me right now,” she demanded. But before he could utter another word, she hung up, her trembling hands already working at uncovering the source of this new disaster.

Her phone flickered on as the link to the trending topic clicked open. There, right on her screen, was a video that hit her like a tidal wave.

Annie, dressed in a blood–soaked white gown, lay weakly on the floor with barely opened eyes, her voice faint and broken as she whispered, “… I’m sorry… Emma…”

Emma’s blood boiled as she replayed the video, her rage building with every passing second.

The video was horrific, indeed. Its views were growing abnormally by the second. It has already hit millions of views already.

Protests started all over the two countries, demanding justice for Annie and condemnation of Emma and her family.

Emma bit her teeth as her hands quivered around her phone. This wasn’t just an attack on her character; it was a direct threat to everything she had worked for.

Her business, her reputation, her family’s prestige–everything was now hanging by a thread.

. She started pacing the room as her mind raced, trying to piece together a response.

Annie has overstepped her boundary this time around.

Her gaze fell on Alexander, who was busy with his phone with a dark expression.

It was obvious she had been informed too.

His jaw was clenched, his shoulders tight, and his eyes ablaze with anger and frustration.

“Have you seen it?” Emma’s voice cut into the air.

looked up, his face grim.

switching places with anger, the

this high. “She’s framing me,” Emma said, her voice trembling with rage and the hope that Alexander at least would believe her if the world didn’t. “I had nothing to do with her

Alexander said nothing.

hard, her fear returning

held her tears back, and with her trembling hands, she quickly

her or not is irrelevant now; she has much to protect, and

still standing in the middle of the room without uttering a single word, but just as she reached the door, his hand shot out, wrapping around her wrist

his voice laced with concern.

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had been threatening to spill were on the edge now. “I just can’t sit here and do nothing,” she said, her voice shaking with emotion. “My mother is at home. The protesters are marching to my house right this minute. She has no idea what is going on. I’m not just going to leave her. And besides that my company, my name, and YOUR name–it’s all being dragged through the mud. I have to do something. I cannot just sit around.”

“Emma,” he whispered, with

didn’t

emotions too raw to ask. “Thank you for believing

around toward

you’re going to do, do it from here,” he insisted in a tone that could

don’t have to…”

silenced her before she

shortly, and before she could say another word, he was already out of the

Vivian stormed in, her

seen this?” she said, her voice shaking with

“Yes, I have seen it. I am reaching out to

“After working really hard for your company to reopen, Annie is trying her best to destroy everything it was.

her shoulders slumping under the weight of it all. She had no idea that Vivian knew the type

Annie was