Charmed by the Billionaire CEO
Chapter 436: Jennifer Wingmen

Chapter 436: Jennifer Wingmen

Sensing the dreadful silence between the two, Tristan quickly climb down the bed and dashed towards them, before snatching the phone from Ashley’s hand.

"Let me see," he said looking inside the phone.

His eyes turned cold reading the headlines about him and Ashley circulating. It claimed that the couple married for months and that she seduced him for banging such a big project.

Scrolling down the article, he saw the picture of them walking hand in hand entering the Knight’s mansion, and also them spending quality time alone.

"Aren’t these pictures taken yesterday when we went on a long drive" Ashley pointed looking at Tristan.

Tristan gripped the cell phone in his hand firmly almost breaking it. "We were followed the entire time" he gritted furiously under his breath and passed the phone back to Gwen.

"What time it was released," he asked and Gwen quickly checked the time it was posted.

"Two hours ago," she said.

Sensing the tension between the couple, Gwen excused herself. The moment she opened her phone to check the news, the first article she saw was about her brother and sister-in-law. Without wasting a second she quickly rushed to inform them.

She knew the couple was sensible enough to handle this scandal, so she simply left giving them privacy.

Turning around Tristan dashed back inside the room and picked up his phone from the bedside table and called Karl.

"Arrange my meeting with Fox feed Media" saying he ended the call and turned around to find Ashley already standing in front of him.

"What are you going to do?" Ashley asked caressing his arms. She could see the dread in Tristan’s eyes and could guess what he was up to.

"I am going to sue them. How can they write such nonsense about you" he flared unable to hold back his anger toward the company who wrote such rubbish about his wife.

"And you think it will solve everything," Ashley asked making his frown in confusion.

Pausing for a few seconds he asked," You don’t want me to do that"

Ashley watched his confused face and bobbed her head. When he didn’t react, she hooked her arm around his hand and said," We already made out relationship public. Now let’s make our marriage public"

Tristan eyed widen in shock and he swiftly turned around to face her." You want us to announce our marriage"

"Yes. It’s time for us to face every criticism bravely. There is nothing we could hide now" Ashley stated calmly.

Yes, they had announced their relationship publicly and now it was high time for them to announce their marriage. Or else people will try to defame their relationship by writing nonsense just like one the read earlier.

Tristan’s angst instantly dissipated and without any hesitation, he gave in to her words.

The news about their marriage circulated like fire. Her true fans were happy for the couple while the anti’s started commenting rubbish about their relationship, twisting every word written in the article.

Without paying much attention, Ashley reached the set and resumed her shoot. Since the director was already aware of their relationship, she didn’t stress a lot.

But those who weren’t aware looked at her strangely. But due to the policy, they remained lip-tied and continued with their work except for one of her co-stars, Jennifer Wingmen, the leading lady.

She had just joined the sets a month later from the rest of the cast. But when she heard everyone praising Ashley for her acting, she started feeling inferior.

Known as the best actress, she couldn’t let anyone talk and prioritize someone new in the field. She wanted everyone’s eyes on her. So before joining the shoot, she did her research on Ashley, hiring a few spies to monitor her.

In the beginning, it was difficult for her to get anything scandalous about Ashley, because Tristan her boyfriend would eliminate every rubbish news about her. But as time passed by she came to learn, that the couple were actually married for months, but declared to be in a relationship publicly.

So when the news was confirmed, she then started implementing her plan of gathering as much information about the couples and also hired a person whom Ashley had mistreated before to follow her.

If not for that person’s help, she wouldn’t have been able to expose the couple. Happy with the outcome she couldn’t wait to see how was Ashley going to handle the situation.

Grabbing her cell phone, Jennifer quickly made a call and to her surprise, the person answered it in just one ring.

"You did a good job. You will receive your reward soon" she said with a victorious smile.

"Tell me if there’s anything you want me to do in the future" she heard the person on the other end and simply hummed, before ending the call.

Keeping the phone back on the table, Jennifer took a final glance at herself in the mirror before she stepped out of her vanity van.

*****

[On the set]

Ashley had been ignoring the strange eyes of people around and focused on her script. She didn’t want to let any external factor spoil her mood. She had already made up her mind and knew in the upcoming future she would have to face people’s criticism of her relationship with Tristan.

As she sat rooted in her seat, she heard the commotion around. Irked by the sound, she looked up and found Jennifer Wingmen the leading lady of the film making her way on the set.

Back then during the script reading, she couldn’t meet her as the lady was busy fulfilling her commitments. Since she was already on board, and quite busy she couldn’t attend the event.

And now almost a month later, today was her first day of shoot and that with her. But the way she was getting treated wasn’t something Ashley ever expected to see.

As she kept staring her way, Ashley remembered one of her past incidents when she was new to the modeling world, doing shoots as a side model. She recalled one project that she had to do with Jennifer who was already a big star back then

She was so excited to share the same frame with one of the leading actresses, but suddenly she was replaced. Her heart was broken at the sudden change and when she asked why the sudden decision was taken, they didn’t give her a sensible reason.

But deep down she knew, it was something regarding the actress who refuse to do a photo shoot with a rising model.

Smirking at the memory Ashley simply smiled. She had come a long way, but she doubted whether the actress was still the same.

While staring ahead Ashley’s smile faltered as she watched Jennifer making her way toward her, with a big smile lingering on her face.

Did know why she felt it that way, but that smile seemed so forceful and she could immediately pinpoint it.

"Ashley Brown... what a pleasant surprise" Jennifer greeted standing in front of her trying to maintain the same fake smile.

Ashley would’ve simply ignored the woman, but knowing her ethics she simply decided to look past her fakeness and stood up greeting her politely.

"Hello, Miss Wingmen. It’s nice to see you again"

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