The next day, Mayor Sterling posted on X making it publicly clear he wouldn't be working with Damian, and that he refused to accept a Club Dancer as the face of the project. The Lawson Family didn't put out a statement, but they quietly invented a reason to pull out of the hotel contract too. My fanbase went scorched-earth online, hammering Damian for humiliating me by swapping in a stripper as Brand Ambassador. Waves of them showed up at the Plaza site in person and shut construction down.
It finally clicked for Damian. I was the reason the project could move at all. No one had ever really been looking at him as the adopted son of the Thorne name. He'd assumed I was a pretty ornament there to hold up his image, and now he was realizing I'd been the foundation under his feet the whole tim
