Chapter Nine
The public relations machine belonging to the professional hockey team worked much faster and much more efficiently than I had ever expected it to.
By the very next afternoon, the worst of the scary online storm had completely quieted down. Khalid’s personal team of handlers had officially released a very short, classy, and highly professional statement to all the major news outlets: “Khalid Al-Mansour and Venessa Thompson are currently in the very early stages of a private relationship. They kindly request that the public grant them privacy and respect during this personal time.”
Combined with some very smart, strategic social media posts from the official Chicago Arctic Wolves team accounts and a few big, well-known sports influencers who suddenly started shifting the co
