Female Novel
Chapter 324
Without warning, Niall barged into the office, eliciting a frown from Pierre. “Didn’t I tell you to knockbefore coming in? Your attitude has slackened as of late!”
“My apologies, President Fowler, but this… this is big news! This is definitely huge!” Niall was soshocked that he was stuttering. “Look at this!”
He handed the tablet he was holding to Pierre, which displayed photos of Meredith and Joaquin,with Joaquin’s face being blurred out. Frowning, Pierre thought, Did someone catch Meredith andJoaquin together when they were at the playground yesterday?
“I-I’m sorry, President Fowler! I only saw this in the morning. I was too tired last night, and thephotos were posted after midnight, so I—” As Pierre’s secretary, Niall was used to dealing with allsorts of gossip regarding Pierre. Normally, he would contact the person who started such rumors todelete the post they made within moments.
Coincidentally, however, he slept early last night, and because the post was made after midnight, hedidn’t see the post until this morning. Despite being posted after midnight, the post managed to stirup a ruckus overnight when a bunch of night owls saw the post. Therefore, it became the trendingtopic by the following morning.
At that moment, Meredith rushed into the office in a hurry. “Pierre, this is bad!” Both Niall and Pierreturned to look at Meredith, who didn’t have her makeup on, while her hair was tousled. It wasobvious that she had yet to even wash up after getting out of bed.
“Someone took photos of Jojo and me.” Meredith was looking at him in distress. “I’m sorry, Pierre. Iwent for another shooting session last night after dropping Jojo off. I fell asleep as soon as I gothome due to how late it was, only to notice belatedly that there were photos of Jojo and me when Iwoke up this morning...”
Meredith bit hard on her lip that they whitened. “I already realized that there was a high possibilitythat we might get photographed when Jojo suggested that we go to the playground. I couldn’t doanything since he wanted to go there, so I figured I would say that he’s my relative’s child if peoplerecognized me. And I thought we wouldn’t be followed by paparazzi.” With a look of chagrin on herface, she said, “I’m sorry; it’s all my fault. What should we do now?”novelbin
Unlike both Niall and Meredith, who were panicking, Pierre seemed composed. It was already toolate to do anything even if Meredith asked. Since the post on Twitter wasn’t removed early on,deleting it after the situation brewed was pointless, as it would only confirm the public’s suspicion.
After Pierre gave Niall a signal, the latter caught on and left the office. Soon, Meredith and him werethe sole occupants in the room.
Sobbing, Meredith apologized, “Pierre, I’m sorry. I never expected things to spiral out of control.Should I hold a press conference to clear things up?”
However, neither was that a viable option. The more she put emphasis on any such scandals, themore her fans would think it was real, especially things relating to romance and children.
“Do you remember what happened during the night when we first had sex?” Pierre’s question hit herlike a bomb that blew up in her face.
She was still pretending to be troubled by the situation in order to convince Pierre of her innocence,so she was overwhelmed when he asked her that. “W-Why do you ask?”