Snare of Love
Chapter 518 Too Late to Stop It in Time

As he gazed, he reminisced on the way Dolores Flores held him and kissed him all over. Although she seemed out of her consciousness, but he adored how she was filled with energy and alive, her senses all awaken and overflowed with passion for him. Her true emotions were incisively and vividly shown to him, with nothing left unseen.

That brilliant radiance she emitted made him happy.

He had only been with her for a few hours, but that was enough to fill the void in him for that period.

He was in such good spirits after meeting her that he had forgotten to constrain his expression, his face was an open book. When Armand Bernie who stood across the office table saw Matthew Nelson let out a rare smile, he immediately thought he was seeing things. He rubbed his eyes for confirmation, but that guy was still beaming.

"You, did you pick up money from the ground or something?" What could possibly have made him so happy?

That was truly a rare sight of him.

It appeared to be something on his phone that was the cause of this, Armand then stretched his head over to see what it was all about. Alas, Matthew snapped out of his thoughts and locked his phone screen before Armand had the chance to take a closer look. He regained his composure and gave him a heavy glance.

Armand scratched his head and felt that he was being petty.

'I just wanted a peek, if you don't want to show me then so be it, why the fierce look?'

Suddenly, a call came through, it was the head of the public relations department, "Mr. Nelson, you were looking for me?"

Matthew's gaze returned onto the computer screen, "Have you seen the news?"

The voice over the line affirmed his question.

"I had a look at it, the picture was circulated out by accident, and no one seems to be behind this. Contact the media to stop the spread."

After he had seen the news, he specifically searched for the channel that started the spread and found out that it was from someone's personal account. There weren't many views initially, and only a few discussed in the comments. It only became a sensation when a huge media influencer noticed the news and reposted it.

As long as it wasn't an operation, the situation could be handled with ease.

"Very well, Mr. Nelson, I'll settle this."

Matthew hummed in response and ended the call. He grabbed his phone from the table and picked up his coat that draped over the chair as he stood up, then peered at Armand, "You'll have to make another trip to the school. There's a student's Weibo that goes by the name of 'I AM Ketchup', inform the school authorities to let him write a statement. After that, I'll allow the public relations department and the media to forward it out for clarification."

He then walked out of the office.

Armand was still puzzled and shouted, "What about the picture? How do I explain that?"

After all, the real person was at the top, how was this going to be explained clearly then?

Matthew didn't turn his back, "Let the public relations department handle this."

The agenda was to prevent the incident from getting out of hand by removing the piece of news from the media and have the issue clarified by the original poster. As for the legitimacy of the photo, it was a problem they could solve by providing a reasonable explanation.

Armand nodded, "Alright then, I'll go back to the school."

Matthew stepped out without a reply. He really needed a shower and a change of clothes as his shirt had stuck to his body, it was an unpleasant feeling.

Armand took one look at Jasmine Burke, he couldn't possibly send Jasmine back to school again, that would just be bothersome to her.

As he was in a dilemma of figuring out what to do with Jasmine, the phone in his pocket rang, it was Boyce Shawn who called. He noticed the caller description and answered it immediately, he spoke first, "How are you doing?"

"I just got back to the bureau, I'll be meeting the leader in a while. Have you seen Jasmine? How is she?"

Armand glanced back at Jasmine who was silent, and thought to himself, 'These two really have some chemistry, the first thing they did was to ask about each other.'

"She's fine and she's here with me. You better be more concerned for yourself, don't go throwing your job away. A dull person like you will never be able to survive in the workplace." Armand purposely called him out like that in front of Jasmine. If this was not resolved well, things wouldn't go as far as him getting fired, but he would be punished.

"Boyce, Officer Miller will now see you in his office."

Armand could hear a voice over the phone line, it was quickly followed by Boyce's voice, "I have some matters to deal with, I'll contact you later.”

He hung up before Armand had a chance to say anything.

Jasmine asked, "Was that Boyce earlier?"

Armand nodded, "I'm guessing he is getting lectured right now."

"Can you tell me which bureau he is in? I want to go see him." Jasmine knew that it wasn't an appropriate time to be meeting up with him, but she wouldn't make a mess, "I'll wait outside, I won't show my face to cause him any trouble."

Armand stared at her for two seconds, and agreed, "Alright, I'll give you a ride."

He had planned his route, he would first send Jasmine over and let Boyce's subordinates handle the rest, then make his way back to the school.

He wanted to create a chance for Boyce and Jasmine to spend time and interact with each other, that was the reason why he sent her over.

Although their intimate photos were shared everywhere, Armand knew deep inside that Boyce's character was such that even if he had feelings for Jasmine, he would never have kissed her in the public eye. If looked from an angle, it seemed as if Jasmine was the one who went for it.

He raised his eyes and peered at Jasmine, he never would've expected her to be that open.

After he exited Matthew's office, he met up with Abbott Baron. He intended to borrow Abbott's car as he didn't drive his own, taking a taxi was a little inconvenient and he had to wait at times.

Abbott handed his car keys over to him, he wasn't planning on going anywhere that day.

He then brought Jasmine to the municipal bureau. He had called Boyce's subordinate as they made their way there, so that he could wait at the main entry.

When they reached, Jasmine was taken into the care of Boyce's people, and he left for the school.

Even if Armand didn't need to identify who Jasmine was, Boyce's subordinates could already know she was the girl, since everyone had known about her already.

At that time when the news broke, all those who worked for Boyce would never believe it was true.

However, when the girl stood right before them in real flesh and blood, it made them believed that Boyce really found a woman, and it was a 'young girl'.

"Follow me inside," one of Boyce's people, Todd said to Jasmine.

Jasmine stood there in place and questioned, "Would my appearance cause him any trouble?"

She had become cautious ever since the incident happened.

Todd didn't really know how to sugar coat his words and straight up answered, "You've already caused enough problems."

Jasmine pursed her lips.

Todd suddenly realized he might've been too straightforward and what he said made her uncomfortable, he then explained, "I'm an uneducated person, I don't really know how to talk to people, so don't mind that."

"It's nothing," Jasmine replied.

"I'll take you to Boyce's office and you can wait for him there." Todd led the way after he finished his sentence. He was afraid he would say something wrong again, so he just kept quiet.

When they were on their way to Boyce's office, Jasmine tried to learn more about how Boyce was doing from Todd, "How is Boyce now?"

"He's at the officer's," Todd mentioned.

"Will the officer do anything to him?" Jasmine asked once more.

Todd thought for a moment, "I don't exactly know how they would deal with this, but he definitely will be punished. With such an incident about his identity going around, it has brought about a bad influence." "Can you take me to the officer? This was all my fault to begin with, it has nothing to do with Boyce," voiced Jasmine.

Todd turned his head towards her and considered for a moment, "That should be fine."

He figured since Jasmine was with Boyce at the time, it would be best if they had clarified things to the officer together.

They initially headed for Boyce's office, but Todd changed his path and guided Jasmine to the officer's office.

As he was prepared to knock on the officer's door when they arrived, the sound of a glass being tossed could be heard from inside. Todd paused in his actions, he dared not to make any more advancements as this didn't seem like a light matter to the officer, not to a point where he threw something.

If they went in at that moment, wouldn't she be charging straight up against a gun that was about to fire?

They envisioned that Boyce must've been scolded badly at that moment.

Jasmine who was close to the door had also heard the noise, she walked over and knocked on the door.

It was her mistake, she couldn't bare for Boyce to have taken the blame for her.

Todd looked towards her at disbelief, he didn't think that she would've gone ahead, "Did you not hear what just happened inside?"

"I heard it, and that's why I knocked." Jasmine gripped her hands tight and sounded determined.

She may have been terrified, but she still had the urge to explain the truth to Boyce's higher up. "Come in."

A voice came from inside the room, at this point, even Todd couldn't stop her in time.☐☐☐☐☐☐☐