Chapter 8
The next morning, sunlight streamed through the heavy curtains, spilling warmth into the room Yuna stood close, gently helping Jason fasten his tie.
“Yuna, let’s go to the hospital together today. I want to check if Father has woken up,” Jason sai while adjusting his cuffs.
At his words, Yuna’s hands trembled. She accidentally tugged too hard, almost choking him Jason winced and stepped back, while Yuna quickly apologized in a fluster.
He lowered his gaze to look at her. “What’s wrong? You don’t look well.”
“It’s nothing. I just didn’t sleep well last night,” Yuna murmured, lowering her head with a shy
smile.
Seeing her blush, Jason assumed she was simply embarrassed, so he didn’t press further.
Then Yuna said softly, pretending to sound thoughtful, “Jason, why don’t you head to the company first? I’ll take Timmy to visit his grandpa. Don’t worry, I’ll take good care of him.”
Jason hesitated for a moment, but remembering that Yuna’s photo scandal was still unresolved he finally nodded.
“All right. The company’s already in chaos anyway. If Father wakes up, call me right away and I’l
come.”
Once she sent him off, Yuna finally let out a long sigh of relief.
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In the CEO’s office of Gardner Group, Jason had barely sat down when his assistant entered with a grim look.
“Mr. Gardner, we can’t suppress your sister’s scandal. It’s actually spreading faster now Someone seems to be deliberately fueling it.”
“Right now, six of the top ten trending topics are about her. The company’s stock price has already started to drop.”
Jason’s brows furrowed. “What is the IT department doing? They can’t handle something this small?”
“Forget it. Go. I’ll take care of it myself.”
He immediately reached out to outside hackers, offering huge sums of money. But every reply he received said the same thing: [The opponent is too strong. Nothing can be done.]
His face darkened. Slamming his phone on the desk, his eyes landed on the comments below the leaked photos.
Dozens of men had come forward, claiming they had been involved with Yuna Gardner. Some even posted chat logs and intimate photos of her in bed.
That Gardner Family foster daughter only looks innocent. Her private life is a total disaster.] [Unbelievable. She acts like some high-society lady, but she’s wilder than a call girl. She’s dragging the Gardner Family’s name through the mud.]
Jason’s eyes reddened, veins pulsing at his temples. “Someone must be doing this on purpose,
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trying to ruin our name.
Just then, his assistant hurried back in, this time bringing the head of the IT department, who
clutched a report nervously.
The assistant began carefully, “Mr. Gardner, the tech team found something. You should hea
this.”
With Jason’s permission, the IT head stepped forward, stammering his report. “Sir, we ran a detailed technical analysis… and after multiple checks, those photos… are authentic.”
“Nonsense!” Jason roared, slamming his fist on the desk. “Yuna isn’t that kind of woman!”
He refused to believe it. Yuna loved him too much, so how could she ever do something like
this?
The IT head flinched but slid the report onto the desk. “We used several verification methods Every test shows the images haven’t been edited or manipulated.”
‘And… new chat logs and photos that appeared online are also genuine. The IP addresses trace back to places Miss Yuna often visits.”
Jason snatched the report, scanning the technical data in disbelief, his heart pounding violently.
So the police at the birthday banquet had been telling the truth all along. Yuna really had been
with other men. Not one, but several.
All of her talk of love, of waiting for him through the years were nothing but lies. She had played him for a fool and he was truly being taken advantage of.
Fury boiled inside him and he was about to confront her when suddenly, a new video climbed to the top of the trending searches, replaced everything else with a pinned live feed. It was footage rom a hospital security camera.
On the screen, Yuna crept into Gideon’s ward. She leaned down to whisper something to Timothy, who obediently nodded and left the room.
Then, from her pocket, she pulled out a syringe filled with an unknown liquid. She tapped it ightly, letting out a small bubble of air, before slowly stepping toward the old man’s bedside.
Jason’s blood ran cold. He remembered her odd behavior that morning and her insistence on joing to the hospital alone.
A sharp chill raced down his spine.
(una Gardner… was she trying to kill his father?
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