Chapter 15 Starting Afresh (One)

• The next few days after Becca got the news that she was very pregnant were horrible ones for her, not because of the news of the pregnancy, but because the media somehow found out that she and Ryan were now divorced. Even worse was the fact that they had found out why he divorced her. The baseless accusations that he had levied against her, all because he had listened to what that asshole, Peter had to say instead of believing her were all over the gossip channels. They were saying that she had cheated on Ryan with her ex-boyfriend and embezzled funds from one of Ryan's companies with the same man.
• In fact, some channels were speculating that she had aborted a pregnancy early on in her marriage because it was Peter's baby, and not Ryan's. The lies were so outrageous, but there was nothing that she could do about it, at least not yet. Maybe when the time was right, she would do something. Before Becca knew what was happening, her face and Peter's face were splattered all over the TV, and it was so bad that she hid away in her house, terrified that somehow, people who saw her would take one look at her and say,
• “Oh, look. It’s billionaire Harris Ryan’s thieving, cheating ex-wife.”