“I told you yesterday I wouldn’t lie to you about this. Now the evidence proves it. You finally know I saved you!”
She even sounded pleased.
Eliana felt that as Robert’s savior, Robert and Georgia should lay off her, even if she hurt Georgia once.
She only swirled some trouble around online. Compared to her saving Robert’s life, she didn’t find it significant at all.
“Back when my mother had her incident, you sent a lot of reporters to surround Georgia and make big news. One of them physically assaulted her. It showed up on the livestream. Was that reporter under your command?”
Robert asked that directly.
“That wasn’t my order!”
Eliana said that in a panic, interlocking her fingers, looking nervous.
“I dislike Georgia so I started the drama over Georgia and Sierra’s photo leaking online in the beginning. A lot of people thought Sierra was being held illegally and abused, so I wanted to suppress her using internet commentary. I hadn’t prepared to get anyone to go for physical assault yet. It was in broad daylight. If anything serious had happened to Georgia, you would have mobilized all your resources to investigate the truth. By then, whether I saved your life or not, you wouldn’t let me go!”
Georgia and Robert looked at each other. They’d investigated reporter who’d assaulted her afterwards.
The man had a wife who cheated on him and abused his mother. His mother then passed away in anguish. That led to him having mental problems.
Even without Eliana’s direction, he might have just hated Georgia himself and believed the commentary online, then assaulted her.
Besides, the man said that even if nobody had given him orders, he’d just taken the money to interview her. Even without the money, he’d have been willing to get involved.
He felt that hurting someone like Georgia was justice. He was thinking of Georgia as his ex-wife.
“I won’t follow up on this for now, and I’ll somewhat believe you’re telling the truth. That reporter’s been locked up and punished. I’ll ask you something else. Why did you only decide to speak out about this yesterday? Over the past twenty years, I might have lost all my memories of them now, but I know we were college schoolmates once. We would have met a few times every year. Why did you choose not to tell the truth?
“And don’t say it’s because you weren’t looking for returns!”
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