Chapter 396
The next morning.
Hannah woke up to find that the trending topic about her had vanished. Even the hashtag had been scrubbed. A search online yielded nothing.
This, Hannah knew, couldn’t have been Lionel’s doing.
He simply didn’t have that kind of power. She wasn’t underestimating him; it was just a fact.
When Hannah went downstairs, Samuel was already there, ready to talk to her about that very thing.
“You didn’t have someone do this?” Hannah asked, puzzled.
He shook his head, then reconsidered and nodded. “Well, yes and no. When my family started working on it, it seemed like someone else was already on it, and moving incredibly fast. By the time we realized, all the trending topics were already suppressed p>
“Do you know some powerful figure? Is there some big shot helping you behind the scenes p>
“Quennel p>
Other than him, she couldn’t think of anyone else with that kind of influence.
“It has to be him!” Samuel said excitedly. “It’s so weird, isn’t it? They’re brothers from the same mother, but why are they so different p>
“Is it because they grew up in different environments? But you said he wasn’t always like this. How did he change so drastically? Did spending so much time with Sandra do this to him p>
Hannah listened to Samuel’s rambling and shrugged. “Who knows? But maybe it really is because he was around Sandra for too long. Bad company corrupts, after all. Now that the posts are down, it doesn’t matter anymore p>
Meanwhile, at the airport.
Lionel had decided to go to Roxa and personally drag Sandra back. But just before boarding, he saw that the trending topics about Hannah had disappeared.
Had someone else handled it?
Did he still need to go?
Lionel hesitated. Even if he brought Sandra back now, it wouldn’t change much, and he’d already had people start working on taking the posts down on his end.
Now that the issue was resolved, was there any point in catching her?
His brow furrowed in thought. After a long moment, he stood up and left the airport, planning to find Hannah.
Tess, in town for a business trip, had just landed. She was about to message Hannah when she spotted Lionel She quickly snapped a photo and sent it to her friend.
“Is this asshole for real? With everything going on with you, he’s leaving the country? I swear, if had the nerve, I’d walk up and smash his head open to see what’s actually Inside!” Content Belongs
“Seriously should have stopped you when you wanted to go back to the Rosenberg family. You wouldn’t be going through all this hell now. I’m going to follow him and see what this idiot is up to p>
“Okay, I’m in the car. Your girl-on-the-ground, Tess, reporting for duty p>
Hannah was in a meeting at work when her phone started buzzing nonstop.
She glanced down and saw the messages were from Tess. As much as she wanted
to see what was going on, she had to wait.
Half an hour later, the meeting ended, and Hannah finally checked her phone.
A dozen messages and photos from Tess flooded her screen.
When she saw the picture of Lionel at the airport, followed by another of him leaving
and arriving at the factory, Hannah’s brow furrowed.
She didn’t know if Lionel went to the factory because he saw the posts were gone, or for some other reason, but it didn’t matter.