Chapter 733: Side Story 4. Endless Journey - 16
"What the hell?!"
That was Rina’s first reaction when the article came out. Her eyes were opened wide, and then narrowed down. The restaurant was supposed to be a place reporters and paparazzi couldn’t access, because many celebrities frequent that place. Just like the apartment where Bassena’s penthouse was located, it was considered a safe haven for high-profile people.
It was also weird that she had them following her. Yes, she was active in entertainment aside from her esper job. Yes, she was the PR face of Trinity. But she was not in her heyday, and Trinity was not in the middle of making a huge wave or something--unlike during the reclamation. There was no papz following her in forever, so it was weird that they found her at that exact moment when she was having dinner with this man for the first--and hopefully last--time.
Weird how none of this kind of photo appeared during the many dates she had with Cohen. If the papz had been on her tail, they should have known that she was involved with someone at that point.
Yeah, weird.
She narrowed her eyes at the man in those pictures. Was it this man’s work? She didn’t even know this man well. The parents of this man were the people whom she owed on the past. Thanks to them, her father could live for five years more, and spent those five years happily with her. When the doctor called her to have dinner, she agreed to it. Who knows that the one waiting for her was not the doctor but the doctor’s son?
She would have turned around out of annoyance, but she did owe the doctors, so she thought one dinner wouldn’t hurt. That was last night, and she didn’t even think about it anymore. The ’dinner’ felt like a talk show with a host that kept yapping by himself, and a meal as a bonus. She was glad when it was over, and immediately went to sleep out of annoyance.
To wake up to this.
"Damnit!" Rina gritted her teeth.
Her manager was also furious. She brought her own car last night, but it broke down somehow, so she hailed a city car. The man entered the car too, saying that it’d be more efficient. Rina knew she should have smelled something fishy at that time, but she was too mentally exhausted and annoyed to argue.
"He must have planned this," the manager clicked her tongue. "I’ll talk to the media and ask the articles to be clarified. This prick even acting like someone who got caught dating when the reporter asked him this morning."