Mr. CEO, You're Just A Substitute novel Chapter 12

Lucia sneered and said, "But what? Josh Clarke is not some bonehead. What good would it do to him if I'm involved in it? Just stop reaching them."

"Well, OK, then."

Lucia's good mood had been ruined by the time she hung up the phone.

After Starry had made a statement to deny the rumor about her extramarital relationship, along with the photo of the divorce certificate days before, Lucia had someone spread the rumor about her seeing Filip again.

But Lucia wasn't so stupid as not to anticipate Filip's investigation.

So she had asked Hudson to approach Edward's rival Josh Clarke to make them start the rumor.

As long as Josh didn't turn her in, no matter how they close they looked into it, Filip's team could only find out that Josh had been trying to smear Edward's image.

Lucia appeared to be confident, but Josh was an actor who's good at acting, so if Filip made a tempting offer, they would probably turn her in.

The thought worried her so much that she soon gave Josh a call.

Meanwhile, at the CEO office of the Eternal Group.

Austin knocked on the door of Filip's office with the information he had got. The man looked up from the desk and said, "Come in."

After that, the door was pushed open as Austin came in with a file, which she put on Filip's desk. "Mr. Pearson, we have found out who's behind the rumor about you and Miss Lucia Scott."

Filip frowned, loosening the hold of the pen in his hand and his tie, and took over the file. "Who was it?"

"It's Josh Clarke."

Filip raised his head slowly and asked with coldness in his tone, "Who's Josh Clarke?"

"He is Edward Willis' rival in the show business."

Filip's stiff face twitched as he heard the familiar name. "What's the relationship between Edward and Starry?" He asked with an impassive face.

But Austin could sense his boss' repressed anger.

After all, the relationship between that Edward and Mrs. Pearson, no, Ms. Bradley now, still remained unclear.

The statement made by the two only said that they were old friends, but what kind of friend would buy a villa for the other friend with the first fortune earned?

That's very interesting.

Without Filip's order to look into it, Austin had never ventured to make the check on Starry.

So Austin was stumped when asked about it.

Just when he was to say something, Filip suddenly said, "You don't have to tell me. It's none of my business anymore."

Austin said no more.

Filip looked down on his desk, riffling through the file before him. "What does Josh and Edward's history have anything to do with me?"

Why would that make Josh start that rumor against him?

Filip was very fumed, with his index finger paused on that paper. He looked up with a sharp and harsh look in his eyes.

Austin felt a chill down his back. "Maybe it's because it can maintain the heated discussion about Edward and Ms. Bradley, by which it will tarnish Edward's image."

Filip sneered, "That doesn't make much sense."

Austin actually thought it did. In the show business, it's common for the rivals to attack the other with things that appeared to be irrelevant at all.