His Devious Rule

Claire was brainstorming to find the solution to the trouble. She had repeatedly tried to make Janet understand that coming clean was the best and only choice they had. Janet didn\'t accept her suggestion.

However, Claire was cent percent sure Janet wasn\'t cooperating with Wilson or his absurd plan. "Mr. Wilson must have fooled Janet too." With a hint of worry, she muttered in Jordan\'s office room.

Jordan scowled at Claire for speaking for Janet. "I\'m giving you the salary. Who the duck are you working for?" He didn\'t care what was going to happen with Janet\'s career. All he cared about was protecting himself and the company.

For the man who bought twenty percent of the Matthews Industries, Starlight was like a window shopping toy. Jordan wasn\'t going to lose the company to Matthews Industries or Skylark.

Claire was startled by hearing Jordan. It was the first time she saw their calm and collected CEO, enraged and swearing at people. She could understand how Jordan was feeling after the betrayal.

Janet was a good friend for many years but Claire can\'t follow Janet and give up on her career. She could only pity Janet who didn\'t listen to her.

Claire started considering if Jordan was going to drop Janet from the company but Wilson could use the same audio to threaten Jordan. Similarly, they couldn\'t threaten Wilson.

Should she try to convince Janet?

Will Janet speak against her husband?

Claire scoffed to herself. Janet didn\'t leave her husband when he lost his production company and became a verbally abusive husband and an alcohol addict. Janet drained her whole life savings to pay her husband\'s millions of debt and buried the news of her husband.

Janet had stopped living her life and showing the world that she had a perfect life. Why would she reveal her husband\'s evil schemes?

If Janet supports her husband, would Janet go down with her husband?

But the chances of Janet going against her husband were nearly impossible. She would rather show the world as evil and pretend to have a perfect life.

Claire felt her head throb. She pressed her forehead and stopped thinking of gaining Janet\'s support or proving Wilson wrong. She stood up and suggested to Jordan, "CEO Jordan, we have three choices. Go to the cops, or Meet Alvin Matthews or  let\'s pretend like we know nothing."

Hiding the truth and lying would only complicate things. Meeting Alvin wasn\'t easy. So going to the cops and revealing everything seemed better for Claire. Claire hoped Jordan could understand that.

However, Jordan wasn\'t in a state to trust somebody or believe in anything good. He countered, "What if that bastard uses the audio and blames everything on us?" After all, it was his farmhouse.

Claire could see the fear in Jordan. She wouldn\'t lose anything so she was brave to suggest it. However, Jordan would lose the most in the situation if Wilson succeeds in pushing blame.

After a pause, she asked with all due respect for his opinion and choice, "What do you suggest, CEO Jordan?"

The press conference was arranged to announce Janet\'s connection with Alvin with a lie that Janet was under the weather after hearing about her grandson\'s attempt to kidnap.

Now that the news of Alvin stalking Janet was the hot news of the morning, it was clear Wilson\'s plan was different all along. So they need to cancel the press conference if they are going against Wilson.

Jordan was smart enough to discern that Wilson asked for the press conference to speak against Alvin. It was never about revelation. If he tried to stop the press conference, wouldn\'t Wilson turn against him instead of Alvin?

Jordan\'s eyes widened. Fighting back was a bad idea. He couldn\'t take the risk. So he chose to be passive, "Let\'s lay down. We-we will pretend like we have no idea." There was uncertainty in his decision so he tried to convince himself.

If somebody asks about a farmhouse, he could just say, he lent the keys to the farmhouse to relax on holidays. Alvin wouldn\'t doubt him, would he?

He wasn\'t going against Wilson. So he won\'t be angering Wilson so his audio will be safe, won\'t it?

Claire looked at Jordan for a moment and sighed. She accepted his decision and hoped Janet won\'t pull everyone down with her. She gave a subtle nod and added, "I will see how I could control the damage. I suggest we hold back publishing any statements from the company." She was much more composed.

Jordan approved her suggestion and waved his hand to send her. Every minute was painstakingly long for him with the fear of getting implicated in Wilson\'s game.

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Claire clenched her teeth looking at the crowd in front of the company. They had invited only ten reporters who were working directly with the company. Due to the new trending search, there weren\'t just reporters from all media companies, Janet\'s fans and random people were also there. She wouldn\'t be surprised if Wilson has a hand in gathering the crowd.

Swallowing her pride, she dialed Wilson\'s second time. As she expected, Wilson rejected the call. "Assh013."

A man strode to Claire hurriedly and asked, watching the crowd downstairs, "Manager Claire, should we arrange the press conference in the main auditorium?"

They won\'t be able to fit even half of the reporters in a general hall. There will be uncontrollable commotion if they allow only a few reporters so they had no choice but to play along Wilson, "We should." She sighed and forced a smile on her face turning to the man, "Thank you."

Suddenly there was an uproar from downstairs. Claire spotted Janet\'s Range Rover between the crowd. She couldn\'t believe Wilson was coming through the main entrance instead of going straight to the parking lot.

Starlight security had to reach the car to get Wilson out of the car and get him inside the walls. She sneered watching Wilson\'s effort and his acting of a responsible husband to get maximum public attention.

Watching Wilson\'s fakeness, Clarie realized how money makes and breaks people. The man who admired his wife dearly was jealous of his wife for her success. The woman who was proud of her husband couldn\'t trust him anymore.