User A: City folk really know how to party.
User B: No wonder they evaded 1.6 billion in taxes. It all went to funding orgies.
User C: How much do you have to pay those models to be that enthusiastic?
User D: With a face like that, didn’t the other party deserve some hazard pay for emotional distress?
The comments under Fiona’s leaked photos were a storm of mockery, and some of them were genuinely amusing. But Melanie didn’t laugh. She couldn't.
Last night at Intoxica, if she hadn't guessed Fiona’s intentions, identified the drugged drink, and found an excuse to leave after switching the glasses, she would be the one whose reputation was in tatters, the one cornered and reviled by the entire internet.
Melanie gripped her phone, her eyes fixed on the screen, as cold as ice.
Fiona… you brought this on yourself.
Meanwhile, Evelyn and Dominic were at The Hale Group. Normally, Evelyn wouldn't have needed to go, but she wanted to witness Dominic and Gregory’s reactions when they saw Melanie’s naked photos plastered all over the internet, so she had insisted on coming along.
She never expected…
Inside the conference room, Dominic and Gregory were in a meeting, discussing the impact of the current crisis on the company and future plans. Evelyn stood outside, her face pale, her hand clutching her phone trembling uncontrollably.
“How could this happen…”
How did it turn out like this?!
She had thought her plan with Fiona was flawless. When she hired the photographer, she had chosen a package deal where he would immediately pixelate and publish the photos online. So, when he told her he was done shooting, she hadn’t even bothered to look at the pictures before telling him to release them all. They were supposed to be naked photos of Melanie at an orgy; no need to be picky, the more the better.
She never dreamed that the photo scandal she’d see online the next day would star Fiona.
If Fiona found out that she was the one who had secretly hired someone to photograph the events in the private room and then plastered them all over the web…
Evelyn shook her head violently.
“No, she didn’t do it… Right, Melanie did it…” Evelyn had already decided to use Melanie as a scapegoat if things went south.


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