Keira watched as Lance barely got a word in before a reporter lost control and bolted forward.
This reporter, phone raised high in hand, stretched as far as possible in front of Keira and Lance, shouting, “Ms. Summers, could you tell us who the man in the photo is?”
Keira frowned at the question and asked, “What photo?”
Bending perplexed, she peered closely at the phone screen in the reporter's hand. As soon as she realized what was in the photo, her face went pale as a sheet!
“Where the hell did you get this?!” Her voice came out as a shrill shriek, her face distorted with shock.
A smug smile flashed across the reporter's face as he retracted his phone, responding loudly, “From the internet. Ms. Summers, this photo is blowing up online! Surely, everyone would have seen it by now.”
Looking around, Keira saw that everyone was wearing a shocked expression. A sense of humiliation washed over her as she thought, “So, that look in their eyes was them watching me make a fool of myself. They're not admiring me. They're laughing at and mocking me. Like I'm some sort of joke.”
“What photo?” Suddenly, Lauretta, Lance’s mother, chimed in, having been listening to the snickers behind her.
At first, she had chalked it up to petty jealousy and mockery. But the current situation was obviously far worse than she thought.
The reporter, grinning, responded to her question, then glanced at Lauretta, “So Mrs. Olson isn't aware?”
After saying this, he scanned the room, then hopped on stage. He located a multimedia device in the corner, and connected his laptop. Once set up, a photo was displayed on the big screen. It was a scandalous bedroom shot.
The photo was large on the screen, the light from the screen illuminating the faces of those in the front row.
Keira's face was full of embarrassment and the face of the man beside her was blurred.
Lance's face darkened the moment he saw the photo, while Keira, seeing the photo on the big screen, went blank.
The next second she let out a shrill scream, “Ah! Turn it off! Turn it off!! Don't look, none of you are allowed to look!!”
She screamed, waving her hands frantically, trying to block everyone's view. But the screen was too big, revealing every detail of the photo.
She turned her head to look at it, the light from the screen reflecting off her face, making her look deathly pale. In the midst of the chaos, she suddenly swayed and collapsed straight onto the floor.
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