章 35: Supreme Gossip

As soon as Maya reached her office, she took out her phone and opend the unofficial forum of the company to read the article....

All of a sudden her office door burst open. "Maya!" Came Ashley's worried voice. "The forum! It says-"

"I know, I just read it." Maya said as she looked up from her phone to Ashely. She looked serious.

The article on the forum said the a certain female CEO is said to take benefits from rich people, in exchange for being their trophy girlfriend. The article highlighted the fact that this certain CEO kept relationship with several men and not just one. It gave all the credit of her successful business to the older men that provided for her.

This article also included that she had been doing this in secret for a while now, but the shocking thing was that she had an open relationship as well. Soon after this 'certain CEOs' dirty secret was out, she had broken up with her boyfriend.

This article was posted by a username called- @AnnaSupremeGossip. This person had quite a few famous posts on the unofficial forum. Supposedly a girl, she was famous for being the hidden gossip queen of the company.

Maya scoffed, "Why did they even bother 'trying' to hide my name? They should have just said it openly. What's with this 'Certain CEO' huh!?"

"Maya this is bad, you just made an official statement of transfer today, and now this scandal. What if it affects your foothold in the company?" Ashely asked Maya.

"And I have been curious for a while now, you and Lucas were having a great relationship until last week. You even met his parents, I think that once a couple reaches this stage, after sometime marriage is the next step. But you guys, what is wrong? I believe that you did not cheat but-" Ashely took a pause as she looked Maya with some doubt, "Did you-?"

"Lucas was the one who cheated." One sentence from Maya was more that enough for Ashely to trust her.

"So is Lucas framing you for cheating? Is he trying to blackmail you in any way?" Ashely asked with concern. "Tell me anything and everything so that I can deal with it."

"Okay but before that Ashely, can you get me the information of an ex-employee of our company? Her name was Hanna something. I don't remember her full name. I had fired her yesterday, so she must have gone to the human resources department today."

"Okay."

....

Meanwhile the forum was flooded with comments, almost everyone who once admired Maya, were throwing shade on her now.

Still, a few people who actually were in their right minds, asked for proof. The entire article was only words without any photos or videos, it was hard to believe. These comments were soon reacted to, but in a negative way.

They claimed that Maya's phone was picked up by a man during the meeting when Lucas had called her. For these 'fan girls' of Lucas, that was more than enough for a proof...

On top of that, most of the people believed that since this article was posted by @AnnaSupremeGossip, it had to be a true story. People kept on discussing this topic instead of paying any attention to their work.

The fight continued until @AnnaSupremeGossip came online and posted just four words- "I have the proof."

Soon after she posted these words, @AnnaSupremeGossip also posted three pictures of high quality, although the men in the photos were out of focus, Maya could clearly be seen.

...

Maya also was following the thread. She was a bit shocked when she read that @AnnaSupremeGossip had proof of her cheating Lucas with many different men. Now even she was interested in seeing the pictures. She clicked them.

Maya noticed that all three of the pictures were from the day of the emergency board meeting.

The first picture was when she had just come down from Aidan's car after he had dropped her off to the company, she was smiling at him because she was, in fact happy that he had ignored Lucas's call and was not angry at him. Aiden could not be seen as he was sitting in the driver's seat.

The second picture was taken when both of them had come down the office building to collect the pizza delivery. Again, she was smiling at him, it was supposedly shot when she had told him that it was her treat. The angle was such that only Maya's side face was visible and Aiden's face was not seen.

The third picture was taken when both of them had finally left the office building at night, their clothes had also been changed. And again, Maya was seen laughing at the other person in the picture as they got into a luxurious car. The shot this time was most probably taken when Maya was making fun of Aiden for his clothes.

Finally in this picture, both of them were visible clearly, but one could not recognize Aiden because he looked very different. Both of them looked so happy in this picture.

Thoughtlessly Maya took a screen shot of the photo.

She kept on looking at the photos and thought to herself, "Since when did I start to smile so much!? It almost feels as if I am a different person in this photo."

Maya realized that in all the photos, she had a rare smile. It looked as if she was really happy whenever she was with Aiden.