Back at the mansion, Ethan stood humiliated and broken, Eleanor was mortified, Chloe was in ruins, and the remaining guests whispered under the relentless flash of cameras.
By the end of the night, the birthday dinner had become the biggest scandal Bellemont had seen in years.
By that night, #MrsCarterGoesPublicWithDivorceAtEliteGala had shot to the top of the trending charts on Twitter and TrendScope, while the financial headline #ReedHoldingsCutsAllTiesWithCarterTechnologies dominated every major business outlet.
Clips from the gala spread across t****k and i********: at a terrifying speed. Within an hour, #CarterGalaScandal and #MrsCarterDivorce had both passed ten million views.
Carter Technologies' PR team scrambled to contain the damage, but every denial only pushed the story fur
