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She was glad she had as she avoided the back entrance she norh the coffee shop and then out onto the street To say there was a barrage of reporters would have been overstating theto each other, cania of one of the lad to see none

Things weren’t as bad as they’d all feared coeted

Feeling Marie’s, her staff’s and Elliott Tanner’s gazes on her back from just inside the store, she approached the loiterers

“Ladies and gentlemen” She addressed the reporters “I’m Gabrielle Miller, counsel for Liam Connelly Mr Connelly would like everyone to know that while he is deeply saddened to hear about his father’s arrest, they are not currently in contact, nor is he employed by or associated with Connelly Investments in any way”

“Yeah, right up until he pockets his inheritance,” one young rumbled He was dressed in jeans and a sweatshirt—could use a shave and a haircut, too His attitude matched his appearance

“Doesn’t Liaht be left of his father’s significant holdings after investors are paid back and Walter Connelly is in jail?” another e the under-the-breath coe that said he represented Detector Online, a fairly well-known internet news source

There was someone there from their local community news as well

“No, he does not” Gabrielle’s senuine She realized that Walter Connelly, while autocratic, unbending and so him “Liam is not in his father’s will”

“So why does he have counsel?” the jeans-clad attitude asked

“To deal with people like you” As soon as the words were out of her retted them

“People likesince she’d first addressed them

“People who look for dirt where there is none,” she said This punk thought he was going to make Lia at all about the innocent people he was affecting? “If you did your hoood reporter should, you’d see that Liam has never appeared directly with his father in any of the society pages Even when they traveled in the sa the owner’s son gave hi social appearances and overseeing small accounts does that Liam, by the way, is a freelance reporter Maybe you could read the article he did on last week’s Douglas case and get so for some to make”

Three reporters were staring at her with open mouths

The fourth, the target of her inappropriate diatribe, shut his

No one was going to care that this was her first press conference That she was a public laho represented people who’d never make it on the news unless they were dead Or coainst someone like Liam