Too Late to Hold Me Back novel Chapter 264

"Thank God Solflare uses that VeriScan Probe, or who knows how many people would be in the hospital right now!"

"Rat poison is lethal! Even if they pay out millions in damages, the victims would be dead!"

"And they're claiming it was the assistant acting alone? Does anyone actually believe that garbage?"

"Why would an assistant randomly decide to poison a market without orders? He's not a lunatic."

"If that market vendor had sold those tainted vegetables, it would have been a massacre."

"Porter Entertainment is pure evil!"

"Lock them up!"

Despite Alvin taking the fall and claiming a personal grudge, the public outrage was a tidal wave. Owen had mobilized his PR department to fan the flames early on, and Mira guessed the Mercer Group's PR team was doing the exact same thing.

"Should we short Porter's stock?" Owen asked, his eyes glinting with predatory intent.

"Absolutely. We hit them the second the market opens tomorrow," Mira replied.

She wasn't going to invite the other branch leaders to this bloodbath. Time was tight, and they needed to operate from the shadows. She had no intention of outright destroying Porter Entertainment—not yet. She didn't want to trigger a desperate, cornered-animal counterattack from a massive corporation. This was just about bleeding them out.

Besides, Ethan Mercer would undoubtedly jump into the fray, along with every other Wall Street shark who smelled blood in the water. Porter Entertainment would have countermeasures ready; if they didn't pull out fast enough, they'd be caught in the crossfire.

Mira injected twenty million dollars of her own capital. Master Ellis and Owen tossed in ten million dollars each. She pulled another fifteen million from EcoRide's reserves and five million from Solflare Entertainment's accounts.

When Kieran Holt and the other executives caught wind of the move, they immediately asked to join.

Mira didn't hide her play; she sent a quick message to the senior leadership group chat.

"Get the funds together and send them over quickly; time is of the essence," she wrote.

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