Chapter 5

"There's no point looking; he's gone."

"You're in for it now. Do you have any idea how much the company had to spend to persuade all those journalists to show up?"

Eugene was so furious that spit was flying from the corners of his mouth. His shy and obsequious demeanor was now nowhere to be seen.

"He's already gone, where's the point in arguing now?"

I didn't even look at him. I just picked up my bag and sauntered out.

I could almost hear him grinding his teeth behind me. "Don't think you'll get away with this."

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"Exposé: Female game designer caught sleeping with company director."

"Female game designer is a literal groupie."

Despite my best efforts, the next day, Brook's face was in the news.

A paid marketing account was the first to break the "news". According to them, I'd been caught red-handed having an affair with some high-level company director.

In combination with the rumors of plagiarism, which no amount of proof could quell completely, I was suddenly the talk of the indust