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Chapter 7 "What's going on? Can't you handle something so small?" Zack walked out, sounding impatient, and froze when he saw the scene outside. "That's Zack," I said, pointing at him as he finally showed up. "Zack, I just got here and noticed this influencer, the one who hit me earlier, was looking for you. Do you two know each. other? Aren't you supposed to deal with her? Why is she still here?" Zack's expression shifted. He quickly stepped forward to steady me before nodding politely at the media. "J don't know her. Didn't I say I'd handle it?
That's why I asked her to come to the company to talk." He looked at me gently and added, "Anything involving you, I always take seriously." Mandy, standing off to the side, stared at him in shock. Sometimes I really wondered, being an influencer, did she not read anything online at all? Or did she only pay attention to celebrity gossip? Inodded, as if understanding. "Oh, I see. In that case, since she's here, let's just call the police. 've had my injuries examined anyway." "Oh... okay," Zack replied evenly, his gaze steady on me.
I was just about to take his hand and leave when Mandy, hearing that I was calling the police, immediately lost her composure. "What do you mean by that? Are you using me and then tossing me aside? Weren't you the one who hired me to catch a cheater? And now you're calling the police? If I'd known you were the guy involved, I wouldn't have come even if you paid me to!" The moment those words left her mouth, Zack panicked. He immediately called for security to throw her out. "Liana, let's go. She's crazy," he said hurriedly, trying to push me back inside.
However, I looked at Mandy with interest. "Wait. I want to hear what she has to say." Seeing that Zack was about to have her removed, Mandy blurted out recklessly, "You told me you were some big-shot CEO, What a joke! You're just trash, ruining other people's lives! Everyone, he was the one who instructed me! I have the chat records to prove it! He even told me not to hit the man- just hit Liana West!" She turned to the media and started ranting, The more opportunistic reporters had begun livestreaming. Zack looked at me ina panic. "She's lost her mind. Those chat records must be fake!
Someone, get her out of here!" Topened my mouth to speak, but before I could, a man pushed through the circle of reporters and suddenly dropped to his knees in front of me. It was Mr. Benson. "Miss West, please help me," he begged, his voice breaking. " Theard you were coming to the company today, so I came to see you. That day, Mr. Tim told me to leave a room key card in a locker. As it would violate guest privacy and hurt the company, I refused. But he threatened me and said that if I didn't do it, I'd lose my job. "He beat me, then had someone else do it instead.
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