Third Person's point of view
Lucretius was irritated when his phone started grumbling successively upon he left his car. He still felt tired from his hangover, so he didn't care. He merely threw it on his bedroom and went straight into shower.
When Lucretius didn't answer his almost one-hour rumbling phone, the rumbling was transferred to the main telephone of the house. Alejandro was the one who answered. His already foul expression turned even uglier upon hearing what the incessant phone call delivered.
"What do you mean by this?" he asked as he starts looking for his phone.
When the other side was finished, he immediately starts ransacking his phone. Then and there, he saw his master with Agatha on a very intimate picture all over the internet. Especially the higher top circle of the internet. Without wasting a single breathe, he starts running towards Lucretius' room.
"Sir, are you awake?" was his first statement upon knocking his door.
"Yes, why is it?" came a frustrated voice behind the door.
"Please do open your phone. There is a...." Alejandro paused for a moment, not knowing what's the right term." very significant scandal entertaining the internet."
The room went silent for a couple of minutes before a loud banging and a crack growled inside the room.
Alejandro opens the door only to step on a cracked phone. "Sir...." he muttered as he quickly and carefully picked it up.
"What happened sir?" He cautiously yet curiously asked. Wondering why there are even photos like that in the first place. 'Perhaps are they digitally edited?' he asked to himself upon recalling the photos that's freely creating a rucus in the other world.
"I don't know. But from the looks of it, that insane woman took them when I was asleep. "
A long moment of planning walked before Lucretius stood up and went to his car.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Esmeralda was distracted from baking breads for their costumers when her mother came to her almost running but very meticulously because of her old age. "Esmeralda dear," she called out.
"What is that my dear lovely old mom?" Esmeralda teased while dancing towards her over the counter.
"Have you seen this? Isn't this your client?" She showed her phone with the intimate photos of Lucretius and Agatha.
Upon seeing, Samantha's expression turned into a mixture of emotions as she quickly distanced her eyes away from the phone. "Oh mom, where on earth did you see those?" she asked quite looking disgusted. "I didn't know you are into those kinds of scandals internet." she commented.
"Oh no, it's just it's very popular. See?" she showed the screen of her phone again. "It's taking over the digital world. So, he was your client, right?" she asked again.
"Well....yes. But mom, I'm already done with him so let's just not pry into their private lives." Esmeralda coldly retorted while checking the donuts she put in the oven.
"But just look, he is already having a relationship, and it's also worldwide. Does this mean he is already healed?" Her mother asked curiously while still scrolling her phone. "Oh look, the woman in the picture was the one who acted on the movie 'Turned out to be you', so she's a rising mega celebrity! That's why Esmeralda!"
Esmeralda, instead of being bothered, laughed. "Mom, why are you so invested? Of course, that man would have a relationship to those kinds of people. He is a distinguished businessman not just in the west but even here in Asia."
"That's true, but what I am curious is, how on earth did he allow such thing to be posted? They literally look like they on a very intimate thing and will this not affect his business?"
"Mom," Esmeralda exasperatedly muttered, "I already told you, he's powerful enough to be challenged by such issue. I don't think his company will even be affected negatively, the woman, as you told is a celebrity. Which means it will only increase his, and his company's reputation and fame."
"Well," her mother nodded upon hearing the explanation. "I see. Well, the woman is beautiful but very typical. I didn't imagine that eccentric guy would only fall for such kinds of woman. He was a very ideal man for me because of his apathetic nature. What a loss he merely fell for an American gir-"
"Mom!" Esmeralda immediately halted her mom when she noticed that almost all of their foreigner costumers are looking curiously at them. Esmeralda's mom seemed silenced by the looks, so she just smiled at them before tapping her daughter with a knowing look and then returned to where she was. Arranging the plates at their bodega.
Meanwhile, Lucretius fixing the consequence of his carelessness, went straight to the managing principal executives of biggest publishing network and controlling directors of the internet and ordered, as well as paid, them to delete the photos entirely. In a mere tap, all the photos, even the saved ones, became just memories of the world. One would think that that is impossible but knowing the experts of the internet themselves, they could do it instantly. Lucretius on the other hand, spent half a million US dollar on that but he didn't even painfully blink an eye. He continued fixing his issue by calling Aunt Amabel, he knows she can have a great suggestion for these kinds of predicament because she was a thriving celebrity in Italy before, and he knows she experienced them.
Upon calling, he wasn't able to avoid the incessant and inquisitive questions of the old woman. "What on earth was that Lucretius? What is happening? Why is that woman with you? And how on earth did you allow that to happen? Where is my dear Esmeralda? Lucretius answer me now."
Lucretius sighed after putting the phone a meter away from his ear. "Are you done aunt? That's why I called you."
"Because?"
"I want your strategies."
"Well, you have to tell me first the very reason and nature of that issue, or else I will not help you. In the first place, who's fault, is it?"
Lucretius sighed, thinking for a brief moment before responding. "I was drunk." was his only justification before turning off the phone and screeching his car to his aunt's house.
"Well, well, well, would you look at my charming nephew. Women all over the world are expressing both their joy and jealousy of you being, for the first time, with a woman. Such as lucky woman."
Amabel's sarcastic welcome merely made Lucretius shrug and sat tiresomely.
"So, where's Esmeralda?" the ignored question was repeated and this made him shift from his position.
"She went on a vacation."
"I see why you really need her, it's merely weeks before she left and now, you're in a very big trouble. Worst is that it's with that bitch. Did you two really slept together?"
Lucretius' mood was fast to turn foul upon the raised silent main question from the beginning. "She took advantage of my unconsciously sleeping state."
Hearing that, Amabel's mood followed Lucretius'. "That bitch. Wait for me here, I will call my manager best friend."
Lucretius responded nothing but he remained seated for a while. When Amabel returned, she held the smile and eyes of someone who is planning some crime. "So, my dear innocent nephew, worry not as I have found the best solution." She sat across him with a tea in her hand. "Listen, so this is the plan."