Scandal

       Ava went to the location after she left Henry's side cause she had a short movie to shoot. She was fatigued and needed a lot of rest, but now wasn't the time. 

As she sauntered towards the dressing room, she appeared almost unrecognizable, and her eyes were slightly swollen. 

" Ah! What happened to you?!" Ava's assistant turned to Ava when she stepped into the dressing room and freaked out. It was strange for her to see Ava like this. 

" Why is your face so haggard and rough?" The assistant, Charlotte, strolled closer to Ava. " Did something bad happen?" She bombarded Ava with questions as she checked Ava's face.

" Charlotte..." Ava was in no mood for Charlotte's display, and she walked away from her. 

Who cares if her face was haggard?!

Charlotte frowned but pouted cutely, " I am only acting concerned, and it is considered normal." 

Ava sighed as she took a seat on a floppy couch and relaxed herself. She closed her eyes and ignored Charlotte's words. 

She had a lot of things to think about right now. Though she knew Charlotte was only being caring, it was useless to her currently. 

Sensing Ava was not in the mood, Charlotte turned to her professional face and took out something from her bag. She was used to Ava's attitudes sometimes, so this means nothing to her. 

" Manager Dawn told me to give you this." Charlotte passed two wrapped papers to Ava. " She said you read the scripts carefully and picked one."

Then, she turned away from Ava and went back to what she was doing earlier. 

Ava opened her eyes and sat up straight. She placed the scripts in her bag, careful not to squeeze them. 

" Thank you." She responded to Charlotte as she glanced at her. 

" Just doing my work," Charlotte replied politely as she focused on what she was doing. 

But unknown to them, the netizens were in an uproar. 

Someone had intentionally sold a picture of Ava coming out of a man's room early in the morning to some marketing accounts. The person bribed some anti-fans to go against Ava, just to add more fuel to the fire. 

The picture were spread across the whole media, and it was deliberately hyped up. 

But most of the netizens believed it since the angle of the picture actually goes in line with the topic. 

The picture was tagged as: Upcoming artist Ava Miles is desperate to be in the entertainment industry, so she sleeps her way through. 

The anti-fans started criticizing Ava and hyping the issue up. 

" I hate artists like that! That is the dirtiest way of entering the entertainment industry! I am so disappointed in Ava." 

" Same here too. I thought she was different, but it turns out she was like the rest! What a waste!"

" Tsk tsk! I am not surprised! With her kind of beauty, of course I expected that! She is so shameless!" 

But the real fans of Ava retorted back. 

" Why don't you all shut your mouth and stop scolding my Ava!"

" I don't know the problem of all these anti-fans, they keep finding fault in Ava. Why don't we all just wait for Ava herself to clarify this before we judge her?" 

There were heated discussions online as the netizens posted their views on the picture of Ava coming out of a man's room. 

Ava's reputation was going down, and the scandal was exaggerated more. 

The person who started the scandal was impressed and smiled smugly! 

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On the top highest floor of the tallest building in New York City was a man standing close to a large transparent window and looking down at the bustling highway. The building was super tall, and its stance was mighty. Fortunately, it was a well-known company that belonged to the grandfather of Lorenzo.

 Lorenzo had taken over the company, and now it was flourishing than before. He had made the company one of the biggest companies in the country, and everyone respected him for that. 

Inside the top floor, which was the office of the CEO, was Lorenzo and his best friend, Hudson. 

Lorenzo moved away from the window side and went back to his office chair. 

" Don't tell me you are still thinking about that?" Hudson chuckled and shook his head. He was reading a particular article, but now his focus was on Lorenzo. 

Lorenzo didn't answer him. Instead, he ignored him and tapped his office desk with his long slender fingers gently. His thoughts were solely on one person, but he didn't know why. 

" Lorenzo! Just take it as a one-night fling; don't bother yourself on that." Hudson couldn't believe how Lorenzo was acting. This was not the cold man he knew. 

Lorenzo pinched the lines between his brows and finally turned to Hudson. " Did I tell you I am bothering myself about that?"

" Huh?" Hudson arched his brows and rolled his eyes. " Whatever."

Lorenzo just turned away from him impolitely. 

Soon, someone knocked on the door and stepped into Lorenzo's office. 

" Mr. Brown, this is the document you told me to get." His assistant adjusted his eyeglass and placed down the document he was holding. 

Lorenzo didn't answer him and just stretched his hand forward. He skimmed through the document and nodded with an indifferent look. 

 

" Is everything finalised?" Lorenzo inquired as he took a black pen but didn't look at his assistant. His tone was lazy, and his eyes narrowed slightly. 

" Yes, Mr. Brown," His assistant immediately replied to him and nodded his head vigorously, but his gaze was dropped down. He didn't dare to lift up his head. 

" Are you for real?" Hudson placed down the article in his hands and crossed his legs. " You are going too far, Lorenzo. You know this is one of his games, right?"

" Yeah." Lorenzo shrugged. " But won't it be fun to play with him?" He rotated the pen in his hands playfully, with a smirk.

Then, he put down his signature at the end of the particular document. 

Hudson stared in disbelief at what his best friend had just done, and he knitted his brows. He wasn't pleased. 

" What are you doing?" 

Lorenzo looked up at him slowly and closed the document. " Playing..."

Hudson shook his head, not understanding why Lorenzo was doing this. " You know you don't have to stoop to his level? Why can't you just let this go and shrug him off?" 

" Don't you know some pests deserve some punishment other than killing?" Lorenzo relaxed himself and curled his lips upward. " If you want to catch a fool, you have to act like a fool." He stared at the outside view with very calm but twinkling eyes. 

The assistant was standing awkwardly in front of Lorenzo, but as his gaze dropped down, no one could notice what he was doing. He was deliberating whether he should inform Lorenzo about the scandal of Ava or not. 

He wasn't sure, but since Lorenzo had told him to keep tabs on Ava and everything about her, he decided it was only right for his boss to know the current news. 

" Mr. Brown," He called Lorenzo and passed him his big phone. 

" What?" Lorenzo replied indifferently and lazily as he continued staring at the cool city view. 

" You need to see this." The assistant said with a slightly shaky voice, and he stepped forward. 

Instantly, Lorenzo's head snapped to the assistant, and even Hudson stood up. 

Seeing what was on the phone screen, Lorenzo clenched his jaws, and the office temperature immediately dropped. 

* Snap*  

The pen in his hand broke forcefully into two, and his gaze turned chilly. His black eyes appeared soulless and icy. He was furious! Extremely angry to the extent that his face turned hard, and his suffocating aura swept across the whole office. 

Who dared to step on his woman?!

Who dared to slander his woman?! 

They must be tired of this life!