"Panic leads to chaos."
Elliana Lyle shrugged after giving this explanation. At that time, she couldn’t stay calm, and everything she did was in a fluster.
Although it wasn’t the first time being kidnapped, the situation was different, it was inevitable to feel that way.
She was quite envious of Luna, who seemed to fear nothing, turning a power level of a hundred into a two-thousand-point critical hit.
"It’s alright, as long as we’re alive." Luna then glanced at the door and continued, "Didn’t Norman Bennett arrange for bodyguards for you? Can’t even keep an eye on you?"
With a mocking tone, Luna clicked her tongue.
She waved her hand and said, "No, I thought the desert was hot at the time, so I didn’t bring them."
Now she truly regretted it. From now on, no matter where she went, she had to take them along!
"See! I told you to learn from me, but you didn’t take it seriously. If you had, would Lily Clarke have knocked you down with a kick?" Luna shook her head in exasperation.
She wanted to learn, but she was slow. Even a hundred frog jumps could make her legs feel "obsolete."
Those agile moves were something she simply couldn’t master in a short period.
Luna recalled the time Elliana Lyle couldn’t hold the horse stance for even ten minutes, so she said, "Forget it, just exercise more. Improve your physical fitness and everything will be easier."
Elliana agreed, despite Luna being about the same height and build as her, especially Luna’s pair of straight legs like chopsticks.
Nothing different from characters in comics.
But while she weighed about eighty pounds, Luna weighed over a hundred.
That was probably the difference in physical fitness; higher fat content might weigh less, and higher muscle content might weigh more.
So, every time Norman Bennett picked her up, it was easy. He could even lift her whenever she didn’t behave!
"Take good care of yourself," Luna, intending to pat her hand, saw the needle and retracted, continuing, "Leave the outside matters to me. I’m at ease now that I’ve found you. I’ll go back and investigate the cause of Kelly Wright’s death. For now, don’t ask Bella, wait until I find some evidence."
She nodded, recognizing how much Luna had been through these days.
She then said, "After you finish, I’ll double your salary."
"Come on, as a cleaning manager, earning eight thousand a month is already the limit."
"Huh?" Luna’s sudden sarcastic tone puzzled her. Why was she suddenly angry?
There must be a reason for this, so she asked, "What’s going on? Has Norman Bennett deducted your salary again?"
Luna facepalmed, realizing Elliana hadn’t been around lately and probably hadn’t heard about outside events.
So she explained, "July Media’s law firm had been put on the news by someone."
"Uh?" She really hadn’t heard about this.
Luna continued, "Didn’t our law firm hire two cleaning ladies? Their monthly wage is 3000, the firm has few people, not much to clean up, so it didn’t matter if they came in or not as long as it wasn’t too messy; cleaning every three days was fine."
"But! A lady named Wang heard about my salary from somewhere, felt it was outrageous, told her daughter, and her daughter brought Eleanor from that helping show for interviews to claim I was embezzling their wages, insisting on finding me."
Elliana nodded, recognizing how absurd it sounded... so she asked, "Then what happened?"
"The critical thing is this Ms. Wang, came to the firm only twice a month, never clocked in, was consistently absent without leave, and still went looking for trouble with us."
"The firm ended up suing Ms. Wang and Eleanor’s helping show, and now they’re supposedly still in court."
This sounded like a decent ending.
But who knew Luna was so enraged that sparks flew from her eyes, and said, "Online, everyone’s saying cleaning managers’ salaries are too high, they started attacking me, and finally, Mason reduced my salary to 4000 publicly."
"I just don’t get it, my salary, why do they care?"
The world indeed never ceases to amaze. But it’s just a minor issue; she chuckled and comforted, "Small issue, why bother with them?"
"How is it a small issue? You don’t know how ridiculously it spread online. I’m a bit like you and Buddy in some ways, and they’re saying I’m at least the third party between you and Norman Bennett."
"Now, when I step out, I encounter more paparazzi than you do."
A huge commotion caused by a cleaning lady.
She knew Luna wouldn’t want to appear publicly, so she couldn’t explain anything. The best move now was to create a bigger topic to overshadow this.
Honestly, she hadn’t been able to follow online matters lately, feeling like a primitive cave dweller.
Taking Luna’s phone, she looked, and the current topic at the bottom was the cleaning manager’s topic.
Clicking into one casually, all sorts of netizens guessing.
One comment said, "Could this woman be Elliana Lyle? Otherwise, why can’t you find a clear picture of the cleaning manager online? Only photos with masks and hats, and who even knows this cleaning manager Luna’s full name? Nobody, right? And July Media, it has ’moon’ in it!"
This guess was outlandish, turning her disappearance into a conspiracy.
Even though this comment hadn’t gained much attention yet, it could become a point of attack for some haters.
It wouldn’t stir strong waves, but it wasn’t advantageous either.
Luna shrugged, feigning nonchalance, "It’s fine, those people can’t find me now. As long as I don’t appear at July Media, it’s fine."
She nodded, returning the phone to Luna, saying, "I’ll handle this."
Lily Clarke is the next hot topic.
Daring to openly harm her, she wouldn’t hold back either.
"How will you handle it?" Luna casually asked.
"Simple, find someone similar to you to step in, won’t that solve it? As for Ms. Wang, as long as they don’t continue their nonsense, it’ll pass."
After all, a cleaning person with chronic absenteeism complaining about low wages while causing trouble isn’t something anyone would tolerate.
"Alright then," Luna nodded.
After all, she didn’t care about the cleaning manager’s position; it was just a contract Norman Bennett signed for easier management of her.
The actual big salary came from Elliana Lyle.
So she said disdainfully, "Waiting for that pittance from Norman Bennett, I might as well starve to death."
"But seriously, why are Andrew, Wang, and Li’s salaries increasing every month? Is Norman Bennett targeting me or what?"
"Hmm..." Elliana thought for a moment, then laughed, "Maybe he thinks I’ll pay you, so he gives you less."
That’s indeed how it was, plus Owen Sutton kept emphasizing to Norman Bennett not to give Luna too much money.
Owen Sutton hoped this sister would ask him directly for money, which was probably why Owen Sutton made money in the first place. Orıginal content can be found at 𝚗𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚕·𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚎·𝚗𝚎𝚝
But unfortunately, Luna didn’t need him, always wanting to be independent, which made Owen Sutton as a brother feel quite defeated.