Thoroughly Incorrigible
"This is truly despicable, " Freda cussed. "What should we do next?"
"I…" Carla was about to speak when a dozen messages came through on her phone. When she checked, she found that they were all links to news articles sent by Mosa.
Reports of the three kids not being Zayn's biological children were spreading like wildfire. Assuming Zayn's identity, Boris held a press conference in which he vehemently leveled Carla with various accusations and actively portrayed her as some reprehensible monster! Carla was shocked to say the least.
He even went as far as to confirm all the rumors about Carla's plots to kill her own husband and scheme after the Giblo Group's wealth.
Public opinion was now stacked against Carla, and even the children were not spared!
Negative coverage of Carla was all over the internet, and some even went as far as to intentionally dig up dirt on her father and other relatives to besmirch them.
In no time at all, the name "Carla Lierger" became synonymous with "vicious woman."
Both the internet and major media outlets all derided her as the new era's she-devil. One of the titles read: Unable to value a prize catch like Zayn, she had to climb the ladder by hook or by crook. The woman is ruthlessly ambitious and completely unconscionable!
Carla was shaking all over when she gripped the phone. Although all of this was to be expected, she could not stomach the awful language that was used by many netizens to denigrate her family and even her own children.
"This is too much!" Just listening to the things said on the news channel was enough to make Freda livid. "Damn that son of a gun, Boris! I wish that I could shoot him myself!"
"His wretched life isn't worth anything, but we still need him alive to lure out Newton, " Carla sneered under gritted teeth. "Rest assured that no good would come to him!"
"Ooh, this is so maddening!" Freda thumped her fists against the steering wheel.
Carla closed all those tabs and then exited the browser. Afterward, she looked calmly to the outside of the windows and exhaled, "Thankfully, Randy, Josh, and Venus don't have to go to school now, and won't find out what's happening out there."
To that point, Freda dared not continue that conversation. Without news of Randy and Josh currently, their fates right then were the most important question…
Toot, toot—
At that moment, Freda's phone suddenly rang, and she hurriedly answered, "Hello, Rogan!"
"Have you all ascended the mountain? Be careful out there."
"Why? What's up?"
"I don't know which dastardly thing leaked our address in Northridge and the place is now swarming with reporters. I've just chased some of them off but a couple of daredevils skirted around the side of the ridge to snoop on us. Urgh, it's simply infuriating!"
That jolted Freda into silence as she regarded Carla in shock.
Carla furrowed as she looked and met the former's eyes. Indeed, there was some media convoy driving off the mountain and were variously coming their way.
"Damn it. This must be the doing of Boris and the others." Freda was incensed. "Shameless. Thoroughly incorrigible. First, they kidnapped the children, then they lured the reporters to our home…"
"Newton's methods are a real eye-opener." Carla's eyes narrowed threateningly. "All's fair in competition for business, but those who would stoop as low as he does are a rare breed!"
"Those cars are almost upon us. What should we do?" Freda looked to Carla. "Should we try to avoid them?"
"Step on it. We'll go straight at them!" Carla commanded.
"Roger that. I'm on it!"
Freda immediately hit the accelerator and sent the car hurtling directly toward the media vehicles coming their way from the opposite direction.
Though this stretch of mountainous road was double-laned, there were many narrow and sharp turns that made it extremely dangerous to navigate.
The cars across from them honked fervently and slowed down with urgency when Freda's car barrelled toward them without any inclination of slowing down.
That prompted those cars to brake abruptly, causing those behind to crash into a pile.
Before they knew it, Freda's car had swept past them like the wind.
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