Sold? Oh Please - Chapter 217

Jason never wanted anything else to ever end sooner, this meeting had gone on too long. His eyes scanned the room of old people paying rapt attention to the problems with the ‘economy’. Sure Paradise was fun when he was yelling at all of them, but the economy? Isn’t that the work of the government? Or was it because he was born with a sliver spoon?

Perhaps he should replace them? As he scanned the room his eyes met with Matt’s panicked ones. His brow rose in question and Matt immediately went to whisper into the man presenting on the economy’s case. Linking his phone with the computer, he pulled up the articles.

“You do realise Anna could do that to right?” One of the members informed Matt.

“But Anna is under voice command. I can’t tell her to do anything.” He replied.

“What is this, what’s wrong Matt?” Jason asked before they made a big deal out of nothing.

“This.” He stated bluntly. And all of them looked up at the window that opened up admist them.

“How did this already reach the press?” The first lady asked.

“Isn’t it obvious? It must be the Lee’s.” Reginald said.

“That’s the peculiar thing, Patricia did not post this statement, the police did.” Matt responded.

“What?” Reginald asked sending a glare towards the chief of police.

“I never ordered it.” He defended himself.

“Then who did?”

“What makes you so sure it wasn’t Patricia?”

“She was at an interview just moments before, unless she had someone do it there was no way for her to have leaked the information.” Matt said. Playing her video.

“I personally don’t think it’s Patricia, she had the opportunity to speak about the statement but she didn’t.” The Chief judge said.

“I agree, she has more to lose than gain exposing that statement.” Another person agreed.

“So if wasn’t Patricia who was it?” Francine asked.

“Is there someone else? This will definitely affect both Jason and Patricia. Won’t it?”

“How is she?” Jason asked, finally speaking up.

Everyone turned to look at him, with curious eyes. “How is who?” Francine asked.

“The actual victim.” He said bluntly. “The person that is actually affected by all this. Jessie.”

An awkward silence settled over the room, as they began to realise their error.

“I haven’t received any news about any other inconveniences at the moment.” Matt replied.

“That’s good, let’s continue with the meeting. I’m assuming you would need more time to come up with solutions?” He said calmly.

They stared at each other, with the same question on their minds. This was clearly more urgent, this news was harming to him if was ever proven true.

“But Jason this could potentially destroy you, aren’t you more concerned about your company?” The chief judge asked voicing the opinions of others.

Jason gave him a pointed look and sighed. “Just do as I say, unless someone has a suggestion right this moment. If not then continue.” He said looking at his watch. 2:03 am, all he wanted was for this to be out of here and besides Jessie as soon as he could.

But the economy truly wasn’t the most urgent case that night, because a few moments later another article of concern popped up and even in the wee hours of the morn. Innocent Jessie hadn’t been able to sleep a wink. No one had.

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“Why do you look like that?” Patricia asked sitting besides her grumpy uncle.

“Like how?”

“Like you suddenly regret your decision.” Patricia stated.

“Ofcourse I regret my decision, do you know how many clients have called to yell or even threaten me in the past hour?” He sighed tiredly.

“It was your suggestion to post her statement. You shouldn’t have regrets.” She informed him.

“You do realise that was the only option right? When a rumour is going to inevitably come out about you, you should remove the fire underneath and heat it yourself. That way you control how much it burns. Just because we are controlling the fire doesn’t mean we won’t still get burnt.” He said.

“I don’t care if I get burnt, as far as I get to burn that bitch even worse it’s all worth it.” She said.

He looked up from his laptop and at her, “do you think the public will believe you? Over Jessie?”

Patricia laughed “you mean the murderer that deceived and lied to them? That gets to walk free? It was a peice of cake, what I’m worried about is Jason. I wonder if he would believe I didn’t post that, should I go visit?” She asked.

“Why would you? You were affected as well as he, do you think he would believe you were hit and yet you thought of him?” Goerge asked.

“I did think of him.” She said.

He did a double take then looked at her again with a small smile playing at his lips. “Do you like Jason? I mean do you have feelings for him?”

Patricia pursed her lips and smiled “why should that concern you at this moment?”

After one long stare he looked away, and continued typing away on his laptop. “Just make sure you don’t fall in love with the enemy, I can’t have you making mistakes. Your engagement wasn’t just because, you remember you have a mission.” He said.

“Is that you caring for me?” She asked him in sarcasm and disbelief.

“That my dear neice is me caring for myself. We have decided to work together, since apparently if you go down I will too. Father is already going to give us hell for this, we mustn’t go down along with that.” He said honestly.

“Well at least there are no more competitors for the throne apart from the both of us. How about a truce for now?” She suggested. “No fighting for the family business until we get the Jessie Marin problem out of the way.”

“And Jason Kang as well, don’t forget that.” He reminded her.

“Fine, deal?”

“Deal.”