Their Punching Bag Became The Storm novel Chapter 79

Chapter 79 Keep the Momentum Going

Chapter 79 Keep the Momentum Going

Chase tightened his arms around Emily, rubbing her back gently. He bent down and pressed a kiss to her temple. “It’s okay. We’re on camera. Whitney wouldn’t dare try anything.”

The intimate moment instantly yanked the audience’s attention away from Elian’s screams and onto Chase and Emily. Viewers had always felt these two were way too touchy–feely for a brother and sister, and watching them act like a couple always made their skin crawl.

It was a level of closeness they couldn’t get behind. Hugging was one thing. But now Chase was kissing Emily on the ear?

The chat exploded over the gesture.

Meanwhile, the Anderson brothers sat in front of their monitors, ready to astroturf the comments and gauge the fallout from the trending scandal about Whitney before deploying their team to spin the narrative.

When Elian joined the show, Joel had seized the opportunity.

He immediately put his team of paid trolls to work, using bots to push casual viewers into believing Whitney was sleeping around and had now set her sights on Elian, a kid who had barely turned eighteen.

Elian had debuted through a boy group survival show, making him a grassroots idol. His fanbase was mostly self- proclaimed mom stans who had voted him up one ticket at a time. And mom stans did not play when someone came after their baby.

Ryan’s so–called warrior fans weren’t getting the job done, so Joel decided to weaponize Elian’s fans against Whitney instead. He was sure he could bury her under a mountain of scandals.

The astroturfing was working. But then the internet did what the internet does. The viewers went completely off–script. They shifted their attention from Elian and Whitney to Chase and Emily.

None of the Anderson brothers thought there was anything wrong with how Chase and Emily acted around each other.

They thought, ‘Isn’t this how we always comfort Emily? It is a brother showing concern for his sister. Why do netizens have to make it sound so sick? Do these people not have families? Or do they all have terrible relationships with their own relatives?‘

The Anderson brothers completely tuned out the online comments, never once realizing that so much backlash meant they were the ones in the wrong

Instead, they decided the

wers

Eric spat, hammering his key were all crazy, jealous of the Andersons for being a tight–knit, loving family.

“These people are definitely as he cursed under his breath, “A bunch of unloved losers whose families are probably

all dead. Their real lives must

pathetic that they attack a happy family like ours online.

Whitney’s paid trolls. Deliberately trying to spin the narrative and turn viewers against Emily.

“Backwoods trash will always be backwoods trash. Whitney never had any real bond with us. H

Hiring trolls to about Emily? Isn’t that putting our family in the hot seat? She’s so vicious. She never gave a damn about us.”

As Eric ranted, his fingers flew across the keys, sending his comments straight into the live chat: [Why perverted? Chase is obviously comforting Emily. What’s wrong with a brother comforting his sister?

are

[Instead of obsessing over normal sibling affection, why don’t you worry about whether Elian can escape

stir up

you

drama

that slut Whitney‘

s clutches? If Elian gets tainted, could you still support an Elian who’s been ruined by Whitney?]

Other viewers thought, ‘Are we insane, or is the person posting this insane? Are there actually people who think the way Chase and Emily act is okay?‘

with the

their own sister behind closed doors.

Some viewers fired back, asking if the commenter also acted this way

Elian’s fans called the commenter out, too. [Stop pretending to be an Elian fan. You’re terrible at it. You are obviously an Anderson sibling stan here to stir the pot.]

But all the arguing did manage to shift the topic back to Elian and Whitney.

Meanwhile, in his office at Anderson Group, Brandon was staring at the stream chat. He didn’t even need to make a call. He could already guess exactly who was behind those comments.

His eyes grew cold and sharp as he snapped, “Idiot.”

Brandon thought, ‘How did I end up with a brother this stupid? I need to find a chance overseas for some serious re–education. Maybe that would finally whip him into shape.

o talk

Dan

I about sending Eric

If Eric keeps acting out like this, he’d end up dragging the Anderson family name through the mud.”

Chapter 79 Keep the Momentum Going

Right now, the only thing Brandon could do was use Joel’s dirt to ruin Whitney for good.

Brandon thought, ‘Once Whitney’s reputation is beyond saving, even if Ryan finds out the truth, there is no way he would stand up for a woman whose name is already in the gutter.‘

Even if Ryan and Whitney had a strong connection on the show, Brandon was convinced Ryan was only getting close because there was something in it for him. And once Whitney lost all her value, Ryan would drop her without a second thought.

Brandon grumbled inwardly, ‘If Joel and Eric hadn’t been sneaking around behind my back, stirring up all this drama, and letting things spiral out of control, I wouldn’t be scrambling like this.

But now, there was nothing Brandon could do. He had to minimize the fallout for the Andersons. As long as Ryan stayed out of it, everything would be way easier to handle.

Brandon watched the live comments with a cold glint in his eyes. His finger tapped the desk sharply. “I’ve got a new argle. Push the narrative in this direction.”

Within minutes, a wave of coordinated comments flooded the chat.

The trolls latched onto Eric’s earlier remarks, insisting that Chase’s intimate gesture toward Emily was purely brotherly

comfort.

They emphasized that Emily had looked terrified because of Elian’s screams. Then they deliberately twisted Chase’s reassurance, “We’re on camera. Whitney wouldn’t dare try anything,” into something far more sinister.

The implication? If they weren’t filming, Emily would be the one screaming. Was Emily trembling because she was terrified of Whitney?

The trolls connected the dots with earlier theories: Whitney and the Andersons had known each other before the show, and Whitney had used Chase as a stepping stone to get on the program.

Didn’t that mean the bad blood between them ran deeper than anyone thought?

Chase’s compromise likely had everything to do with Emily and with why Emily seemed so frightened of Whitney.

The more one thought about it, the more horrifying it became.

Laid out alongside the trending scandal, the theory sounded logical and well–supported. Easy to believe.

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