"You're back." He spoke in a tone like he was a good husband waiting for his virtuous wife to come home.
Suppressing the strange thoughts in her mind, Margaret twitched the corner of her mouth. "Where did you get the key?"
Charleston opened his mouth. Yet, before he could say anything, Margaret had already reached her hand out to him.
"You don't have to explain. I already know." Money makes the mare go.
How could Mr. Limbaugh not get the key to the apartment?
If he could not get it, then all those years in Asshington would all be for naught.
However, she was still unhappy about it!
What if one day this b*stard came in when she was taking a shower...
Tsk, tsk, tsk. The sight would be too appealing to look away from.
"Why did you come to my house in the middle of the night?" Margaret was angry. "I've already sent the dress back to you."
"That dress is ruined, right?" Charleston raised his eyebrows.
He had watched the live broadcast in its entirety.
In order to watch it, he even postponed several important meetings.
Although the meetings were important, they were nothing compared to his woman.
Margaret cleared her throat and felt a little embarrassed. "Yes, but Madam Ally told me that the dress was insured and that the person who damaged it will be responsible for it. So, don't worry. You will receive the compensation right to the dot."
"Okay." Charleston nodded, looking quite satisfied. "Larry told me something just now. It's related to this matter."
"What is it?"
"Open up Facebook," Charleston said.
It was like this man was born a king.
In addition, Margaret did get a lot of help from Charleston in the past few days.
She was planning to return Charleston the money she borrowed after she got the endorsement payment from Riley Jewelry.
Yet, it was hard to put an end to the friendship that bloomed after she borrowed money from him.
One should repay the other back after getting help from them. Hence, Margaret owed it to him to do so.
She logged onto Facebook obediently with her computer.
A new notification popped up on screen.
"The rising star Stephanie lost her cool at the banquet and the truth turned out to be..."
The title was obviously a clickbait.
But Margaret couldn't help but to click on it.
After glancing through it, she found that the report said that there was a reason why Stephanie was so hostile towards Margaret at the banquet.
"Although Margaret is beautiful, she's just a b*itch. Stephanie was just like a fairy of justice who could not take Margaret's attitude and had even secretly pointed out that Regar's inappropriate relationship with Margaret."
At the end of the report, the 20 million dollars' worth of compensation had contributed to Margaret's new label as 'greedy' and 'insatiable'.
"20 million for a dress?"
"Are you crazy?"
"How do you feel?" Charleston said in a low voice. His eyes stayed glued to her.
Margaret glanced at him. She was not sure if it was an illusion, but she kept feeling like Charleston could very well go ballistic at any time.
"It's a made-up story. Fake news. Nonsense..." Margaret racked her brain to find all the words that fit how she felt about the article.
The report was obviously written by one of Stephanie's keyboard warriors.
Charleston could not help but laugh. His girl was too cute.
"That's right. It's all nonsense, but this type of articles are like crack to netizens." Charleston reached out and rubbed Margaret's head. "They are the most interested in articles like these, which can be easily used to mislead people!"
Indeed, this was a ridiculous article.
But it did have a great impact.
In this moment in time, many netizens had already started buying into the narrative that Margaret was not a good person, that Stephanie had been the right one all along, and that was why Stephanie was hostile towards Margaret.
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