She didn’t want to guess randomly in her heart.
"Hmm? Baby, what do you want to ask?"
"I just heard you talking on the phone with Yannick Luther?"
"Yeah, I was chatting with Grady for a while."
"Well, I didn’t mean to eavesdrop. I just happened to hear that you were talking about Rebecca Kelloway. Can I know what happened to her?"
Ashton Heath was stunned for a moment.
Seeing his reaction, Joanna Lawrence added, "If it’s not convenient, just pretend I didn’t ask."
"There’s nothing inconvenient." Ashton Heath turned off the hairdryer, placed it on the bedside table, touched her fluffy soft hair, and sat down beside her. "I’ll tell you anything you want to know. Just now, I was talking to him about Rebecca Kelloway. He called me to plead on her behalf."
"He hopes I can forgive Rebecca."
"But you rejected him." Joanna thought for a moment then asked, "Did Rebecca do something that particularly angered you?"
"She did something unkind to you."
"Something unkind to me?" Joanna looked surprised. "So, you’re angry with her because of me?"
"Yes." Ashton nodded.
"What did she do that was unkind to me? I don’t know anything about it."
"When you had that scandal with David Benington, many online trolls were cursing you and slandering you in various blog comment sections. Do you remember that?" Ashton gently combed her hair with his fingers, enjoying the feel of her soft strands passing through them.
Joanna was stunned, and her face changed shortly after: "Does this have anything to do with Rebecca?"
At that time, many online trolls were attacking and slandering her.
And those trolls were obviously hired specifically to target her.
However, she thought they were all orchestrated by Annie Lawrence.
After all, Annie and David hadn’t broken up at that time.
Seeing her involved in such a scandal with David, Annie would certainly not be indifferent.
Ashton nodded and directly said, "Those trolls were hired by her."
Joanna had already guessed a little, but she was still shocked when Ashton said that those trolls were hired by Rebecca.
It was Rebecca who hired the trolls to target her?
She was silent for a while, probably guessing what had happened between Ashton and Rebecca.
Ashton must have found out about this and confronted Rebecca, and the two of them... must have had a very unpleasant time.
"So, did you have a disagreement with Rebecca over this?" Joanna hesitated for a few seconds before asking, "What do you plan to do?"
Rebecca had been his friend for more than twenty years.
Even if there is a temporary disagreement, they wouldn’t be in a stalemate for too long, right?
In the end... he would forgive Rebecca, right?
After all, hiring trolls to smear her was serious but not too serious.
Because of Frank Parker’s clarification about the scandal, there were ultimately no terrible consequences for her.
"Baby, you should be the one to answer this question." Ashton didn’t avoid her gaze, looked straight into her eyes, and said candidly, "Everything she did hurt you, so how to deal with this matter should be up to you."
Joanna: "If I say how to deal with it, it’ll be done that way?"
"Of course." Ashton answered without hesitation, "Everything will be up to you."