By the third day the internet had decided it had a mystery to solve.
Vanessa had not named Ethan directly in her interview. She had been too careful for that.The internet, which had an extraordinary appetite for filling in blanks, had taken that pause and run an entire investigation through it.
Within forty-eight hours of Vanessa's interview airing, three separate accounts had published threads identifying Ethan Vale as the most likely candidate for the unnamed powerful investor behind Amelia Carter's acquisition. They had connected the dots with the specific enthusiastic inaccuracy of people who had found a narrative they liked and were fitting facts around it rather than the other way around. Vale Enterprises. The early stage investment in Lumière five years ago. The gala photographs w
