The Business of Attraction by M K Lansbury

Author:M K Lansbury [Lansbury, M K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-02T16:00:00+00:00

TWELVE

Rumor Mills and Lies

Have you read this?”

Zara froze as Ally placed her laptop on the table and flipped it around to face Zara. There, staring at her on the Tech Talks blog, was the headline: “Finder In Talks to Gobble Up Soul Mate?”

But that wasn’t it.

Ally continued her rant. “That’s the headline, all right. And read this . . . Top Soul Mate Executive secretly meets with Finder CEO at Headquarters.”

Zara’s throat tightened as she stared in disbelief at the blog. To her left, the floor-to-ceiling window of their eleventh-floor Soul Mate office cast a gloomy gray light inside. The sky had been gray and dark since that morning. It looked like it was going to pour, but so far, no rain. The dark sky had only rumbled and threatened and not delivered.

Now, Zara felt like it had only meant to give her a premonition of the doom that was coming her way.

Zara's left ear began to ring loudly, almost drowning out Ally’s frustrated conversation. It popped painfully, making her wince as Ally’s rant made its way to her eardrum.

“I don’t understand how these people can write stuff like this? Do they have no honor or integrity? Rubbish! Spinning up stories that can potentially cause so much damage to someone’s business. We’ve worked so hard on this. It’s taking blood, sweat, and tears to bring value to our customers, and then Kassandra Young! Kassandra Young of all people! She comes up with this dribble? I don’t get it. I admired her. Not anymore. What does she get out of it? Just a few likes and shares?”

Ally paused in her rant, panting, as she continued to pace the office floor. Zara couldn’t peel her guilty gaze from the article. She didn’t want to read it. She didn’t have to read more anyway—the tagline was enough. Zara was the only one who knew exactly what was up with this story. She desperately wanted to defend Kassandra, but how could she without coming off as a complete traitor to Ally?

Her heart beating in her throat, she continued to avoid Ally’s furious glare.

“This is so dishonorable. We have rising download numbers, and this garbage journalism makes us look like our numbers are so bad we need to sell now while we can. Two weeks before we’ve launched to boot!”

“It doesn't matter, Ally.” Zara’s voice was a choked croak. She quickly cleared her throat. “Because we’re not selling, are we? And in due time, everyone will know. We’re going to launch this, and people will see how much better we are than Finder.”

Ally sighed. “Not with this sort of publicity. Kassandra Young’s making us look like amateurs, that we need to sell. People aren’t going to check out an app they’ll think will be shut down in the near future.” She fell into her chair and squeezed the bridge of her nose.

“You and I both know Soul Mate is better than Finder, and people will soon see that. And no one—including Kassandra Young—will be able to publish this sort of stuff.

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