Gerben knew that she hadn’t read today’s news as he took a look at her expression. He took out his
phone, searched a piece of news and handed his phone to her, “Look at it.”
Amanda could see the photo shown on the screen before she took the phone, in which Stanford
opened the door for her at the pier. At that time, the car was parked under the streetlights. The photo
was taken clearly, and another picture showed them entering the yacht together.
It also came with a headline, ‘Boss of J&Y Group met beautiful woman on yacht and spent the night
together’.
Stanford had a new relationship a year after the death of his ex-wife and spent the night inside a yacht
at the dock with a mysterious beauty.
The reason why it was called a mysterious beauty was that the origin of this woman couldn’t be found
out and she suddenly appeared on Stanford’s bed …
The news was written in an extremely eye-catching way.
Amanda frowned as those unscrupulous media took her out of context. They just wrote that she went in
but didn’t go out and straight away said that she had spent the night in the yacht. It was nonsense.
Gerben took his phone back and found another news, which George James was making trouble at J&Y
Group, “Your scandal with Stanford has heated up and received more attention than the previous
news.”
After saying that, he commented directly, “The public nowadays like to watch the feuds of gentry and
even prefer to see the interesting love lives of those famous figures.”
This comment seemed to remind Amanda. She looked up at him, “Was he doing this on purpose?
Gerben froze for a moment as he didn’t get what she meant. He just understood after a while, “You
mean he deliberately used the news with you to suppress the news about him and George?”
Amanda said, “It isn’t the first time I’ve met with him. How come it’s such a coincidence this time? It’s
even at the remote dock and the photos were taken so clearly. Whenever how I think about it, it seems
like premeditation.”
Stanford had made excuses to talk to her about work and had even demanded to meet privately in a
forceful manner.
If they had been at J&Y Group back then, this news wouldn’t appear.
“There’s nothing he won’t do.” She snorted coldly and her eyes were filled with coldness. This ruthless
man was still good at playing tricks.
She clenched her hands hard.
“Do we need to clarify?” he asked.
“It’s useless to clarify, unless …”
At this moment, she saw Casimir Bailey who was standing at the door of lift when it opened.
“Why are you here?” she was surprised at his appearance.
After all, they just met last night.
“Is it because of the news?” she asked as she walked down.
Casimir huffed, “Why is Stanford so shameless? When had you spent the night with him?”
The news was written vividly with photos. If he didn’t know that Amanda had spent the night in a hotel
when she returned last night, he would have taken it seriously.
Amanda looked at him, “You also think that he was on purpose about the matter last night, right?”
“Of course,” He said affirmatively. If there wasn’t news of Stanford and George at first, he might not
have thought so when the news of Amanda and Stanford broke suddenly.
However, the truth was that the first news had heated up initially as the public loved to concern about
the feud between gentry, yet the news that broke immediately afterwards directly suppressed the
previous one.
The intention was really obvious.
“I’ll clarify,” She said.
“How?” he asked.
She walked towards the restaurant and said, “I stayed in hotel and there are surveillance cameras all
over the place. There must be footage when I came back yesterday. Later on, go to the hotel and ask
for a screenshot, let Gerben ask several media to post it online, then I can proof it.”
At this time, they walked to the restaurant. It was quite empty, so she casually found a seat and sat
down. The waiter came over.
She took the menu, flipped through it, looked up at Casimir and asked, “Have you eaten yet? Do you
want to eat some?”
“No.”
Amanda said, “Okay.” She averted her eyes and looked at Gerben, “What about you? What do you
want to eat?”
“You order whatever you want. I’m not picky on food,” He answered.
“Um.” She replied, then ordered a few dishes that were enough for two people to eat, closed the menu
and said, “These will do.”
“Yes,” The waiter replied.
Soon their meal was served. Casimir had a lot of things to say, but he tried he best to hold back as he
saw Amanda eating.
After finished eating, Gerben stood up and said, “I’ll go and find the manager of hotel and try to settle
the matter.”
She hadn’t finished eating yet and was chewing food. She said without haste, “Actually there’s no use
to clarify it since the news has heated up and suppressed that news against Stanford. It will probably
only make the news more popular if clarifying it now.”
“Yes, yes, yes. Clarification would only be palliative,” He said.
She took a sip of water and asked, “You’ve an opinion?”
He smirked, then got closer and said, “If you got married to another man at this juncture, would this
news be self-defeating?”
She almost sprayed him with water, “What kind of lame idea is this? I’m getting married to a man just
because of a made-up story? Am I crazy or are you talking nonsense?”
He smiled, “Actually, I think this is a very good idea …”
“It’s ridiculous,” She interrupted him.
Gerben who stood by had no idea if they should clarify it, he asked, “Do I still need to ask the hotel for
a screenshot to clarify today’s new?”
“Go! Of course!” Before Amanda could reply, Casimir quickly answered.
As he saw the news, he came over in a hurry to look for Amanda so that Stanford wouldn’t take
advantage.
Gerben didn’t listen to him and his eyes were still focusing on Amanda.
Casimir looked at Gerben and Amanda alternately, “You wouldn’t be unwilling, right?”
“I …”
“Do you still love that scum who harmed you?” Before she could explain, Casimir interrupted her again.
Amanda felt that she should be the one who cared about this news. How come Casimir cared more
than her?
“I’ll take your word for it.” She went along with him.
“Then add one more piece of news, announce that I’m your boyfriend.”
He took out his phone and got closer to her. She was confused, so she moved backwards. However,
he put her arms around her shoulders, put his cheek next with hers and took an intimate photo.
After taking the photo, he looked at it again and felt satisfied as they looked intimate, “In the meantime
you clarify, you have to state that you have a boyfriend right now.”
Amanda looked at him, “Boyfriend? You?”
“Yeah, so I’m your boyfriend.”
“Is that fake?”
“Yes, but we have to make Stanford believe that it’s real.” He took his phone and asked Gerben for his
number, “What’s your number? I’ll send you the photo.”
At this moment…
In the CEO’s office of J&Y Group…
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