Chapter 17

Veronica sighed as she read the next article on the Sidney Gossip page and cursed in frustration out loud. She dropped the phone with a hiss and pulled at her straight black hair. She was grateful she had decided to wear it down for the day instead of a bun, as she would be forced to remove the knot in the office to run her hands through it, and she hated looking different in the evening when she was going home to how she came in the morning.

She removed the glasses on her face and rubbed her eyes, her gray eyes shining with unshed tears of annoyance. She had heard of some bloggers picking up on wealthy people, but in all her twenty-seven years of existence, she had never experienced this and never thought it would happen to her.

She was always careful of sticking herself to scandals and wondered who was out there to get her. Who was posting all these hate rumors against her? She groaned at the bad timing. Why must it happen when she had done what her father wanted, and