"Um, Master Gray, the head maid told me that you should check the TV, any channel with morning news in it," the maid said. "She said that you are the main topic of today's news, and people on the internet are talking about you again."
"Is it about the news from the internet again? The video of my wife and her ugly sister fighting? Or is it about the lipstick advertisement that becomes the butt of a joke in social media?" Vincent guessed. "I know both of them already, stop bothering me with useless stuff. Now scream!"
"N—No, Master. There is other news from you, and this is bad news," the maid said. "As in, a terrible one that might destroy your company's reputation completely."
Vincent frowned. He told the maid to leave and grabbed the tv remote.
He turned on a random channel with the morning news, and the first thing he heard from the news anchor was.
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"Do you think there is a correlation between this crazy lady and Vincent Gray?She is a cruel lady who has murdered her old, frail mother and threatened to kill her four sons, and she said it was because Vincent promised her a hand-in marriage in exchange for murdering her entire family."
The other news anchor beside her nodded, "There is not enough proof about that. This lady has been diagnosed as mentally unstable, she might be having a delusion that Vincent Gray is going to marry her, maybe she never met him in real life, right?"
"I found that to be quite impossible, Harold," the lady replied. "There is an investigation going on, and it is reported that the woman is actually related to Vincent Gray. She happens to be Vincent Gray's sister-in-law. So there is a possibility that Chelsea Davis might be in love or obsessed with Vincent Gray for so long, and Vincent used her obsession to kill Chelsea's family."
"But why would he do that? There is no reason for a kind man like Vincent Gray to kill an entire family consisting of an old woman and four little boys, right?"
"Oh, there is a reason," the lady said. "The police report said that Chelsea Davis' kids are now safe with Vincent Gray's wife, Chloe. She took the kids with her based on the request from the oldest boy, it seems that she is the only one whom the boys trust."
"Oh, does that mean those poor boys are with Vincent Gray and his wife now?"
"No, apparently, Miss Chloe told the police officer that she is already separating from Vincent. But they're not divorced yet, so there is a possibility that Vincent must've been so angry at his wife who left him, that's why he targeted his wife's family as revenge."
"How could that be? Vincent Gray is a kind man that—"
"ARGGHH!! SHUT UP!!!" Vincent threw the remote to the screen as hard as he could until the screen cracked in the middle. He was astonished for a while by the talk on the TV just now, and his shock turned into fury after knowing that someone had already spilled the news to the news reporters.
Of course, those hungry hyenas wouldn't miss a chance to get the story of the month. The murder that Chelsea Davis committed became an instant hot topic everywhere because it involved a crazy woman who killed her mother and almost killed her four children and her connection with the powerful billionaire Vincent Gray and his wife.
He also didn't expect that Chloe was the one who took the boys. He really thought that she would be in hiding for a long time because she was too scared to get caught by Vincent or Maria.
"THAT BITCH MUST'VE TOLD EVERYTHING TO THE POLICE!" Vincent yelled. He darted his red eyes at the wedding picture of Chloe on the wall. "HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO YOUR OWN HUSBAND? YOU TRAITOR! YOU CHEATING WHORE!"
Vincent grabbed the wedding picture hanging on top of the TV and threw it to the wall until the frame was broken and the glass shattered. His chest rose up and down as he tried to calm himself to no avail.
He was so angry at Chloe for stepping up and tried to send Vincent to jail. It was obvious that Chloe wanted revenge against Vincent.
"After everything I did for you, this is how you repay me?! YOU UNGRATEFUL LOWLIFE!" Vincent screamed at the top of his lungs. His mind went blank, and he thrashed everything in his bedroom to vent his anger at Chloe.
After he raged for a while, his phone suddenly rang again. He rushed to grab his phone and check the caller, hoping that it might be Maria who had a good plan to handle this bad press. But after seeing the caller was actually one of his most important shareholders, Vincent decided to smash his phone as hard as he could to the ground, and the phone's screen was destroyed in the process.
Thus, Vincent wasted the whole morning exhausting his energy by destroying everything he could see, and after he was too tired to rage out, he decided to sit on the toilet for a long time, thinking of a way out.
But his mind was too chaotic right now. He kept thinking of Chloe and how that sweet woman he knew when he was young turned out to be a snake that would hurt him like this.
"Why are you betraying me like this, Chloe?" Vincent asked. His voice was trembling as he tried to control his sadness and disappointment. "Why are you hurting me? You should be by my side with no questions. You're supposed to accept me for who I am, why are you running away and ruining my name in public? Do you not know how important my reputation is?"
Vincent lowered his head defeatedly.
Since there was no way out of this problem, he could only calm those shareholders first so they wouldn't leave the company because their investment was very valuable.
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