<b>Chapter </b><b>242 </b>
<b>While </b>Shermaine and Danielle were out drinking, Janice came home from her evening yoga and settled <b>into </b>her massage chair <b>to </b>unwind that w <b>when </b>the housekeeper walked over with her phone.
“<b>Mrs. </b><b>Jean</b>, there’s gossip going around about Mr. Jean and some actress<b>,</b><b>” </b>the housekeeper said.
As soon as Janice heard this, she freaked out. “What<b>?</b><b>” </b>
The housekeeper handed over her phone right away. Janice pulled her reading sses out of her pocket and squinted at the screen. The <b>headline </b><b>was </b>stered right <b>across </b>the top: [Jean Group VP Attends Charity G with Starlet Jessica.]
There was a photo of the two of them standing together. The girl was looking at Ross all shy and bashful, white Ross had his head tilted down like he was patiently listening to whatever she was saying.
Janice took one look and immediately couldn’t stand this Jessica person. The actress wasn’t as pretty as Danielle, didn’t have Danielle’s ss<b>, </b>and definitely wasn’t as aplished as Danielle.
If Danielle saw this gossip story, who knew what crazy ideas she’d get in her head. Janice called Ross right then and there.
Over at Jean Group, Ross was still at the office workingte when he saw Janice’s calle through. He picked up. “Hey, Grandma.”
“What’s this nonsense about you and some actress? How’d you end up getting photographed with her out of nowhere?<b>” </b>Janice didn’t beat around the bush. She got straight to the point.
Ross stopped what he was doing, like he wasn’t surprised at all by the question<b>. </b>“We just ran into each other and talked for a couple minutes<b>.</b>”
“You need to get someone to pull those gossip stories right now. If Danielle sees them<b>, </b>she’s definitely going to get the wrong idea,” Janice said.
Ross pressed his lips together. “Grandma, Danielle and I broke up.”
Janicepletely lost it when she heard that. “What do you mean you broke up? Everything was fine!”
“We just weren’t right for each other.”
“Did you dump her?”
The whole thing had been a business arrangement anyway, so there wasn’t really any dumping involved. But Danielle was the one who ended it first. One second, she was clinging to him and calling his name sweetly, the next second, shepletely flipped on him.
Ross looked down and didn’t answer..
Janice felt like she was about to have a heart attack. “Danielle is such a sweet girl, and you went and hurt her. Don’t turn into <b>a </b>scumbag like your father.”
Ross had always looked down on Jameson’s behavior. “We ended things peacefully.”
Janice snorted, “I can’t deal with this anymore. If I keep talking to you, you’re going to give me a stroke. You’re unbelievable. You break up with her and then immediately get caught up in gossip with some actress.
“Even if you’re not actually a scumbag, that’s exactly how it looks to Danielle.” With that<b>, </b>Janice hung up on him.
She was absolutely right about that.
Danielle had no clue what was going on until her coworkers at the hospital started blowing up her phone. They were all asking <i>her </i>stuff like “<b>Dr. </b><b>Shelly</b>, isn’t your boyfriend a total yer? He’s getting really <b>cozy </b>with some actress.<b>” </b>
That was when Danielle saw the screenshots they sent her. In the photos, this actress was practically glued to Ross‘ side.
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<b>And </b><b>when </b><b>she </b><b>got </b><b>a </b><b>good </b><b>look </b><b>at </b>Jessica, <b>she </b>realized <b>the </b><b>girl </b>was <b>exactly </b><b>the </b>same <b>type </b>as his one and <b>only </b>ex girlfriend sweek, hell.
<b>Danielle </b><b>had </b>been holding onto some <b>hope </b>before, but seeing this killed itpletely. Sure, maybe the rumors were <b>partly </b>for show, but it just prov <b>that </b><b>Ross </b><b>couldn’t </b>change his spots. He had a type, and that was why he never responded to any of her moves.
Danielle <b>stared </b><b>at </b>the pictures and said coldly, “Ross has absolutely
Corrible taste.
Shermaine pressed her lips together. She grabbed Danielle’s phone and took a look herself. Even though Ross was her brother, she was <b>totally </b><b>on </b>Dánielle’s <b>side </b>this time.
Danielle and Ross still had each other on WhatsApp and social media, but she didn’t bother texting himt.
Instead, she posted straight to Instagram: [Thanks everyone for caring, but please stop sending me DMs. Mr. Jean and I have already called <b>it </b>quits <b>on </b>good terms. From now on, we’re going our separate ways.]
Danielle attached a photo of her and Shermaine at a bar overlooking the river.