Chapter 82: Fucking Lollipops
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Heather was not as lucky as her fiancé, she was still sitting in her seat and the news beast had rushed to her who happened to be the easy target, the persistent ones tried to go to Oliver but most of them were with Heather, Melissa was sitting on her seat, enjoying the show with a smirk on her face, most of the paparazzi knew that they should avoid the crazy princess of the Conrad family.
'Is it true what we just saw on the screen?"
'Did you really scheme and take her to the club?"
'Were you involved in drugs three years ago? How did you manage to get the drugs that you used on her?"
'Was it really Miss. Sapphire that drove the car that sent young Wesley into Coma, if she did? Was it all on her own or did you commanded her to do it because you knew that she would listen to you?"
'Did you do all that to become Mr. Gray's fiancé?"
The questions were rolling out nonstop and Heather couldn't find a way out of the place, they were all over her and she could feel herself getting dizzy. Why on earth are they asking her all of these questions as if she was the one that did it alone? Why on earth isn't Oliver coming to get her?
Andrea, Andrew, Alyssa, Alicia, Zayn, Claire and Ruby stared at them from the special table reserved for them, they could get the view of the whole room, and Andrea popped a lollipop into her mouth.
'I thought that they were actually going to tear her apart, after all, they did that to mom," Andrea said, a nonchalant look on her face.
'The press doesn't do it all to you, the netizens are the craziest, your best ally and your worst enemy," Zayn said, wrapping his arm around his chest.
'Better they be the former than the latter," Alyssa said and they all nodded.
'Are they going to stop being rabid dogs? The intention was not to mess up the ceremony," Claire added.
'They should have their merry time too, it is not every day you get the chance to talk to Heather Smith straight to her face," Ruby said, staring at the woman who his sister once trusted with no pity, she really deserves more than ruined makeup and shocked expression.
'Oh right!" Andrea said excitedly and removed her phone from her pocket. She raised the phone and took a picture of Heather trying to fight off the reporters.
'What are you trying to do?" Andrew asked.
'Giving Ms. Heather Gray her Heyday, I mean, it is about time we stopped calling her Smith, she did so much for Mr. Gray," Andrea said with a mock pity and they chuckled. 'So I am giving her this gift to celebrate it, soon her surname would change without exchanging ring,"
'Wont that sound like she was brought by the Gray?"
'Doesn't matter, she already turned Gray," They laughed loudly and it caught Oliver's attention.
'Where is Aunt Luci?" Andrew asked and Zayn gestured to Oliver's side where Luci was climbing the stairs, she had a talk with a guard and they let her pass.
'On her way to play her freaking role, can't she just bash his head in with the heel of her stiletto?" Zayn asked with a frown in between his brows.
'You don't get to play your role like that, you wouldn't get a good result if you rush things," Alicia said and Zayn just kept glaring at Oliver who was staring at them.
Oliver turned when he felt someone hold his arm gently and he relaxed when he saw Luci standing there.
'Do you have any idea who put the clip there?" Luci asked and Oliver turned to look at Alexander and Sapphire who were sitting in the dimmer part of the room. They seemed lost in their own world, like everything they were going on in the room was not their concern and at the same time their doing.
'Alexander," Oliver said, Sapphire eyes met him and a smirk was on her lips as she pulled Alexander closer to her and pressed a kiss on his lips as if to tell him that she is in control of the man. 'And Sapphire!" He said through gritted teeth.
'How are you so sure of that, they seem to not mind everything going on here, I don't think that they have spared you a single glance ever since they all came in here,"
'That is because they planned it,"
'But they are all here, the people I see at the Aldine mansion whenever I go in to see Claire for some urgent issues are here, they don't seem to be doing anything except licking Lollipops," Luci said with mock confusion and Oliver turned to see all of them licking lollipops.
Luci smirked behind him, Sapphire told them all how Oliver hates the sweet and he doesn't like people around him licking it, this was done deliberately to irk him, Andrew chose that moment to point it to Luci with a smile on his face and Oliver turned to Luci angrily.
'It is definitely her!" He yelled.
'Let us be reasonable!" Luci replied.
'Fuck being reasonable, I don't need reasonable to know what she would be able to do and what she won't be, she is retaliating for what I did"
'What did you do? I thought you said that she betrayed you first, and that you didn't do anything, it was all Heather, what did you do or was that thing on the screen just now true?" Luci asked and Oliver hid the irritated look on his face from her.
He had told her an entirely different story and if she didn't knew and believe the side of story she knew, she wouldn't have knew that the man made it all up, he still refused to say what Sapphire did in particular and made it seem like it was a painful memory he didn't want to revisit.
'It was what Heather did, not what I did," he said and she faked a suspicious look and he nodded.
'Mr. Oliver, is it true that you deliberately released harmful cosmetics in order to amass more profit for yourself?" A reporter asked and both Oliver and Luci stared at the woman, she adjusted her glass with the tip of her finger when everyone's attention was on her, it was her chance to talk.
'What the hell are you talking about?" Luci asked and the reporter put her hair behind her ears.
'Your cosmetic are causing a big uproar in the city of New York, the batch released had a bad after effect on the consumer, many of the models that used the products woke up with rashes and red spots on their face, you emphasized on the fact that it was safe when you are advertising the products." The woman replied and Oliver felt his eyes widen, Heather too paused to stare at the woman in surprise.
'Don't stir up another rumor when we are trying to stop a problem," Heather screamed at her.
The woman removed her phone from her jacket and she raised it in the air.
'You don't believe me?" She asked. 'You must have some sort of thing that connects you to social media, check the trending searches."
Luci quickly removed her phone and searched. She gasped when she saw most of the models demanding compensation, they would like to sue SJAY in court, so she quickly went to show it to Oliver.
He stared at it with a fisted hand and removed his phone from the pocket in his pants, it was his grandfather calling, the man only called when he considered the mess done affecting him.
He raised his head and he saw that Sapphire had stood up, her arm crossed over her chest and a bored expression on her face.
'Damn you Sapphire!"
