The Affection Exchange System - Chapter 8

Chapter 8 The press conference was streamed live. Within minutes, the entire internet was condemning the Sterling family. As I watched Raine and Skye stand there without an ounce of remorse, I smirked and pulled up a car accident video on the big screen behind me. "Anyone want to guess why I'm showing you all a car accident video right now?" Someone in the crowd suggested I was trying to play the victim. Someone else guessed I was just trying to distract everyone. I smiled and played the recording of Derek and the twins for the entire room to hear.

Raine and Skye froze, staring at me in disbelief, then immediately went on the attack. "Julian! How dare you spy on us!"" I smiled. "If I hadn't, how would I have ever found out that the two women I trusted most in the world wanted me dead?" _lignored their screaming and laid out the entire story from start to finish, including the three full exchange transfusions I had gone through. That shut up every single person who'd been shouting insults at me amoment ago. "So the intern and the twins were working together this whole time, using some kind of dark scheme to hurt him on purpose." "Mr.

Sterling stayed loyal to people he grew up with, and the better he treated them, the more they hated him for it? How does anyone do something like that?" "You all probably don't know this, but before coming here, I looked into the orphanage those two girls came from. It got shut down for child abuse not long after they left. The Sterling family gave them a second life, and this is how they repay it. They threw themselves at a man they'd just met and helped him destroy the very people who saved them.

That's about as ungrateful as it gets." I watched Raine and Skye's expressions with satisfaction, then spoke in a low and even voice. "If you two hadn't shown interest in me first, I would have kept treating you like my own sisters for the rest of my life. "I would've used everything my family has to make sure you had a good future. "But since you clearly despise everything we've given you, then as of this moment, you're cut off. From now on, you have nothing to do with me or with the Sterling family." Raine and Skye panicked and rushed forward in tears, begging for forgiveness.

"Derek tricked us! He's the one who put us up to all of this!" "Mr. Sterling, please forgive us. We swear we didn't mean it!" As I watched their tearstained performance, all I felt was how ridiculous it was. "You didn't mean it? What, were you possessed by something?" Security hauled both of them out of the venue immediately. Riding the wave of attention, I used the moment to promote the company's upcoming products on the spot right there on stage. Just as I'd expected, thanks to Raine and Skye's accusations, the Sterling name shot to the top of every platform overnight.