CHAPTER 70: BESTKREAM

Alisha arrived at Veila after her one day off which she’d wanted to use to rest but unfortunately, she couldn’t for some reason.

Maxine was by her side. "This place looks so different," she said. "Is it because Katherine is no longer here?"

Alisha immediately understood what Maxine was talking about. Usually, Katherine would have already started looking for trouble but the building was as it was supposed to be with models and staff going about their day.

Now that Katherine was no longer Veila’s model, she hoped that the rest of her days at Veila would be peaceful ones. But that imagination died down when she saw a familiar face.

It was Bethany, the same girl who’d lured her away from the villa just to get her kidnapped by Mason.

For the past few days, she barely saw Bethany, making her wonder if she didn’t have any photoshoots to get done with.

Alisha’s thoughts were answered right away when she saw Bethany walk the other way, attempting to avoid her.

A grin stretched on her lips at Bethany’s action. She found it funny because this was the same Bethany who said nasty things to her and now, she was avoiding her?

Alisha didn’t want to make things easy for Bethany so she also took the path Bethany was taking, immediately blocking.

"Oops sorry, I didn’t see you there," said Alisha. "It’s been a while since I saw you, Bethany. How are you doing?" She asked innocently as she admired the scared look plastered on Bethany’s face.

She intended to escape through the other way but Maxine blocked her path also, trapping her between the two of them.

"I asked you a question, Bethany? Why? You don’t want to answer me?" Alisha asked.

"I’m fine," Bethany said through gritted teeth. "Is there something you need me to do for you?" She asked, an edge to her tone.

She’d been trying to avoid Alisha as much as possible, which was difficult to do since they were both models in the same entertainment company.

There was no way that she wouldn’t cross paths with Alisha. But for one week straight, she hasn’t and she’d thought that it would be easy.

It was only by tough luck that Alisha didn’t say what had happened on the day of the press conference, else she would have been facing a scandal or arrested for having a hand in kidnapping.

"Not at all. I’m just wondering why you’ve been avoiding me. Is something the matter?" Alisha asked, a grin on her face.

Bethany sighed. "I really need to leave." She felt uncomfortable standing in front of Alisha.

After she’d been insulted by Alisha, she’d wanted to get her revenge on her. Either she died or simply got hurt, it didn’t matter. She only wanted to make her pay.

"I managed to make Katherine pay for what she’d done to me, but I just realized that I’ve been so forgetful lately," said Alisha. "Everyone needs to pay."

Bethany was terrified, but she decided to stand her ground. "You don’t have anything on me, so in your dreams. I’m not Katherine who was so careless she couldn’t cover her tracks. You don’t have anything you can use against me." At this point, it seemed Bethany was trying to convince herself more than she intended to convince Alisha about her clean records.

"We’ll see about that," said Alisha. She moved out of the way for Bethany to leave like she wanted but the latter hesitated.

After one second, she left.

"Do you want me to upload it?" Maxine asked, an excited smirk dancing on her lips.

"Go ahead."

An hour later, the internet was buzzing with comments regarding the newly uploaded pictures and videos of Bethany.

The videos contained clips of when Bethany was rude to staff, hitting them across the face, and merely torturing them. Then the pictures were of her smoking and having drug intakes.

"I can’t believe this. Bethany looked so innocent I never thought she was a drug addict."

"I’ve always known some of these celebrities were rude to their staff. First, it was Katherine, and now, Bethany. I think we’re getting the entertainment industry cleanse."

"I’m sure she’s a crazy woman. I mean, who can be taking drugs and still be in their right sense of mind?"

Since Bethany was younger than Alisha and Katherine by a few years, the netizens blamed her actions on her age and lack of parental guidance.

Not only that, Veila was being dragged too.

She’d joined the company at a very young age so they’d expected Veila to take care of her.

Megan was in her office, her face etched with a heavy frown as she pinched her temple in frustration.

It had only been a week since they received a scandal from one of their artists, and now Bethany.

"Compared to Katherine’s scandal, this one looks like it will pass in a few days," said Allison. "You don’t need to worry yourself much. We only need to focus on the brand deals we’re losing."

Megan sighed as she combed her fingers through her hair. "Have there been any new emails?"

Allison nodded hesitantly. "We got one from BestKream. They’ve been asking for a partnership for months now. Not only them, but we’ve received brand deals from its sister company."

Megan frowned deeply when she heard BestKream. It was a company that produced skin scar products and it’s been months since they’ve been sending emails to Veila.

Megan had researched them and had come to find out that they’d received several complaints about their product from the consumers.

Luckily for them, they’d not received a heavy lawsuit which would force them to shut down.

"Contact our model’s managers and ask them if any model has a flexible schedule," Megan ordered.

Allison was stunned. "You mean you want us to partner with BestKream? But—"

"We don’t have a choice, Allison. They gave an update that they’d improved their products. And we need as many brand deals as we can get."