Joanna continued speaking, getting more and more upset with each word while her voice cracked with emotion. Eventually, she buried her face in her hands and began to cry. Meanwhile the comments flooded in, showering her with sympathy and cursing me.
"What? This Samuel guy is out of his mind! How can he treat Joshua like that?"
"Yeah. It's totally normal for him to have a business relationship with Abigail. How could this man be so jealous to the point of attacking him?"
"I say that he should stay in prison. People like him are a danger to society!"
"Why doesn't he just die already? If he were dead, then there wouldn't be all these problems."
"I heard that he's really sick, and it's like some rare disease. I saw him at the hospital once."
"Well, it sounds like karma to me. People like him deserve to go early."
The online comments were overwhelmingly negative, with people using the harshest words to attack me.
They didn't care that I was a real person, a living human being. They also seemed to have forgotten that I was Abigail's husband. They only wanted to see what they wanted to see, and they only wanted to believe what they wanted to believe.
I knew that trying to explain myself wouldn't make a difference.
The story was blowing up, and soon, thousands of people joined in to ridicule and insult me, some of them even enjoying it.
Just as I was about to exit the news app and turn off my phone, a notification popped up. It was from Abigail.
It was a promotional post for her company.
The timing of the post seemed deliberate. She had posted it now, knowing full well about the controversy surrounding me, as if to show that even though she knew the truth, she wouldn't speak up or defend me.
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