On the road with Ryder Crawford (Haylor Fanfic)

LVI - Damage Control

"How the hell did this happen?! And why didn't anyone saw this coming!" Ryder's voice echoes to the room making me jump off my seat a little. He's fuming from the current hacking and the photos surfacing basically exposing us.

An emergency meeting was called in a conference room from the hotel a few hours after the first show in Tucson with his whole team - and I mean his whole team, most of them I've never seen before from his assistant, agent, publicists, community management, attorneys, Capita representative and Scoot.

"The photos came out of nowhere. We're always on top of media articles coming, we get tips of blasts so we can immediately act on them and manipulate to out advantage but this just dropped out of nowhere." Ryder's publicist replies, by the looks of her she's definitely top level. She screams confidence and class.

"Let's push back passing blames Amelia and focus on what to do next" Scoot chimes in.

"This isn't necessarily bad press for us, play it out as another fling that ended even before it got out" Amelia, I assume is her name replied quickly.

Ryder shifted his eyes to me for a second and then looked at Amelia with hardened face and sharp eyes.

"And Silver?" He says through gritted teeth.

Amelia shifts her legs and looked at me "She'll be the new sweet girl broken by the Hollywood playboy, it's a win for both parties Silver can play out the heartbreak and Ryder will fortify his brand"

"I agree to this" The Capita representative backs up.

Scoot's forehead creases as he furrowed his brows and then looks at Ryder.

"The claims everything started while she was dating Andrew what of that? I don't care about bad press I have those week in and out. My career can take hits and will come out fine, can you say the same for Silver's?" Ryder replies in a challenging tone.

Everybody went silent and his secretary clearly is about to explode with her nerves.

"From now on, you will all be handling Silver's affairs in her career along with mine. Change her agent Scoot change everyone to everyone who's in here and I'm not negotiating" Ryder continues.

Scoot's eyebrows shot up and looked around the nervous table.

"Done" He replied then rested his elbows against the table. "Then we'll go with outright denial" he continues then peers his eyes to Amelia.

She lets out a sigh "I'll set up interviews for both of you separately and we'll stick with our friendship claims. The pictures aren't that damning luckily." She says while scribbling down on her notebook.

"Album sales for fearless have taken a steep drop within the lapsed hours, we need to turn this around quickly" The Capita representative chimes in then looks at me.

"What can I do?" I asked meekly.

"Promos, interviews and more fan interactions. Remember your brand play out you're still hurting over the lost of your first love and be adamant that you and Ryder have gotten close whilst writing. Nothing over the top keep it casual, Media training will be set up as soon as possible" Amelia cuts in casually.

"Legal actions I definitely want to take legal actions" Ryder says suddenly.

The attorneys straighten and nods "We'll work on it as soon as we're done here" one of them answers.

"Alright set everything in motion, everything passes through me first" Scoot says and then stood up queuing everyone to stand. Ryder takes my hand as he stood then pulled me gently with him outside the door.