It started with silence. No headlines. No online vitriol. No lawsuits. For two whole days, the storm that had followed Celeste and Damien for months quieted.
Damien knew better. "She's planning something," he muttered to Graham as they stood in the Sinclair Media war room. "She wouldn't go silent unless she was preparing her final play."
And he was right. On the third morning, it began. An exposé leaked to two entertainment rags and a foreign tabloid, claiming to be written by a "disillusioned insider". It accused Damien Sinclair of leveraging media power to destroy Veronica Hale. It cited manipulated analytics, anonymous leak trails, and "manufactured outrage" allegedly funded through Sinclair shell accounts. The document was detailed, persuasive—and full of just enough truth to sound r
