Chapter 20:
Kane's POV
Destroying Diane would have been easy.
Too easy.
A single call, and she’d be exiled from every elite social circle she had clawed her way into.
But that wasn’t enough.
Diane thrived on control and in being the one who pulled the strings. If I took that from her all at once, she’d simply rebuild it elsewhere.
No.
I wanted her to unravel.
To feel the loss before she even realized it was happening.
I leaned back in my office chair, phone pressed to my ear.
“Release a statement,” I told my PR manager.
She hesitated. “What should it say?”
I smirked. “That the article is baseless. That Caroline Parker is an artist I personally support because of her talent and hard work.”
“But sir? That would …”
“That would what, Miss Harper?”
There was a pause. Then, “Unde
