The Wedding That Never Was Chapter 17

Under the piercing gaze of Jessica, who seemed to see right through him, Adrian was defeated.

He stumbled back a few steps.

He could question Sarah, he could hang up on his parents...

But he couldn't face General Peterson or Jessica.

"If you really regret it, go deal with her vampire of a mother and that Julian Croft."

"Those two made Ilara suffer enough," Jessica said, pointing him down a clear path, enjoying the sight of him looking like a beaten dog.

"You can't let Ilara carry a reputation full of dirty water even after death."

As she arranged the flower petals, Jessica revealed the truth about Julian Croft bribing The Daily Flash to alter Ilara's interview.

She also told him about the illness Ilara was diagnosed with last—the final straw that broke her was leukemia.

It was laughable. This man, the person closest to Ilara, needed her to remind him of Ilara's affairs.

No—during Ilara's hospitalization, this "official boyfriend" hadn't called even once.

He seemed to have never proactively cared about Ilara.

Did such a person deserve to die in the same place as her?

Hearing Adrian's hurried footsteps going downstairs, Jessica's face showed undisguised disgust.

Only a week later, The Daily Flash publicly admitted that their reports on the late singer Miss Ilara Vaughn contained falsehoods.

The impact of words cut and spliced together could destroy a person like this.

Under the influence of Ilara's death, angry citizens almost flooded the headquarters of The Daily Flash.

The pressure forced the actual owner behind the newspaper, Julian Croft, to apologize on TV and confess to Ilara.

He even admitted that he ordered The Daily Flash to change the interview content out of humiliation after failing to harass her.

At that time, Jessica was taking two young artists to record a show at the same TV station. The villain was apologizing right there on set.

The moment she shed tears, the camera swept past, and no one noticed.

After the program aired, the reputation of The Daily Flash plummeted to rock bottom, and the cursing intensified.

Other media outlets that had followed suit in publishing false reports about Ilara, after being driven into a corner by Adrian, also apologized one after another.

Jessica flipped through the newspapers, thinking sarcastically: So the young master of the Hayes family could turn things around so easily.

It seems he really didn't care about his girlfriend at all before.

A few days later, she received news that Ilara's mother had been imprisoned.

That crazy woman lost all her money gambling in Las Vegas again. During a dispute, she ran around stabbing people with a knife. When the police arrived, she still dared to talk big.

"My daughter is a big star! Don't you know Ilara Vaughn? Her posters are everywhere!"

"She'll bail me out in two days!"

The person who was stabbed, full of resentment, shouted at her, "Your daughter died a long time ago! Even if she were alive, she wouldn't save a crazy woman like you!"

According to the person who leaked the news, the woman looked lost when the police took her away.

Just when everyone thought she was sad about Ilara's death, she sat on the ground and wailed loudly.

"Then I won't have any money to spend—"

Followed by wave after wave of crying.

Ilara's fans continued to call the podcast hotline day and night, even though no sound would ever come from it again.

They just wanted to express that Ilara was still missed.