Chapter 282
Chapter 282
The more suspicious he got, the more obsessed he became with getting to the bottom of it.
With Lucas looking into the photos, Emily didn’t feel the need to rush to find evidence anymore.
If Lucas were the one to bring out the evidence against Lydia, it would carry a lot more weight than if she brought it up
herself.
All she cared about now was making sure Charles got a proper farewell; she didn’t have the energy for anything else.
So that night, she had Austin drive her back to the Bennett Family, and the next morning, she went with them to the funeral home.
This was the first time since she’d returned from St. Gabriel Reform Academy that she and the Bennett Family were able to peacefully come together for the same purpose.
Charles’s funeral was a huge affair. Not only did all the big names from Cloudridge show up, but even business partners from other cities who worked with the Bennett Family made the trip.
As the CEO of the Bennett Group, Andrew naturally took the stage to deliver the eulogy in front of all the reporters and media.
After finishing the eulogy, Andrew moved on to the other big reason for today’s gathering. “I’m sure everyone here has heard the rumors that have been floating around online lately about my grandfather and my sister, Emily.
‘The Bennett Family didn’t respond to those rumors before because we didn’t want to lower ourselves to address such baseless gossip. But we never expected some people to cross the line, even showing up at our home and causing harm to my grandfather—”
Andrew’s voice was choked with emotion.
As the eldest son, Andrew had been personally mentored by Charles until he was a teenager. So, aside from Emily, he was probably the one in the Bennett Family who was closest to Charles.
Needless to say, Charles’s death hit Andrew hard.
After taking a moment to steady himself, Andrew went on, “Today, I want to let everyone know that all those rumors were made up on purpose to smear our family. The Bennett Family has already called the police about it.
‘We understand a lot of people just went along and reposted things online without knowing the real story, so the Bennett Family will only go after the media that started it all by posting those fake photos and making up lies.”
“They’ve all privately contacted the Bennett Group’s legal department and admitted they were tricked. This whole thing was actually set up by one of our business rivals,” he continued,
As Andrew finished speaking, an uproar broke out among the crowd.
Emily, who had been keeping her head down, suddenly looked up, her previously expressionless face now full of shock and
anger.
She’d figured the Bennett Family would just try to sweep this under the rug to save face, not even bother to look into it. Even if they found out Lydia was involved, they wouldn’t believe it easily.
But she never imagined they’d actually use this whole mess to pin all the blame on their business rivals-and do it right at
Charles’s funeral.
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Emily turned to look at the reporters in the crowd, and sure enough, they were all firing questions at Andrew, tryin him to spill who exactly these business rivals were.
But Andrew wasn’t about to give them any names. If he called anyone out right now, those rivals would slap the Bei Group with a lawyer’s letter before you could blink.
But if netizens dug up the truth themselves later, well, that had nothing to do with the Bennett Group.
t, worried Emily figured that after today, every single one of the Bennett Family’s rivals would be tossing and turning all nigh
one.
- she
sick.
Emily gritted her teeth inwardly. Figures, Andrew really is the Bennett Family’s handpicked golden boy
She clenched her fists so hard her nails dug into her palms, fighting the urge to lose it right there in front of every
She’d thought the Bennett Family couldn’t get any more shameless.
But after living with them for eighteen years, even after Lydia came back and they all played happy family for year realized she’d still underestimated just how dirty they could be.
