Too Late to Hold Me Back novel Chapter 400

"Yeah! How did you know?"

"Is her father Shane Porter, the CEO of Porter Entertainment?"

"Exactly! Do you know my future sister-in-law?"

"No, just heard the name."

"She's incredible. Plus, she's a billionaire heiress, so it makes sense you've heard of her."

Mira went utterly still.

Roxanne Porter was the prized daughter of the Porter Group. The only reason the Porters wanted her to marry Xavier Bennett was to sink their claws into the Bennett family's political power.

Liora's father was a high-ranking police commissioner.

And her older brother, Xavier, was a police captain who had already reached a senior executive rank despite his young age.

Liora wasn't just a rich kid; she was the daughter of the city's highest-ranking law enforcement elite.

If Roxanne successfully married Xavier, Porter Entertainment would gain an impenetrable shield of political protection. They would become a hydra—impossible to kill.

Mira's crusade to annihilate Porter Entertainment wouldn't just be a corporate war anymore. It would mean going to war with the city's justice system.

In her previous life, it was exactly because Roxanne had married Xavier that the Porters had the audacity to act with such terrifying impunity.

No matter how much the Mercers had despised Mira in her past life, she had still been a Mercer. Even if Adrian and Lacey hadn't cared, Ethan would have intervened. Ethan would have investigated.

But the Porters had murdered Mira anyway, without a second thought.

They had only pulled that off because the Bennett family's authority was covering their tracks.

Xavier Bennett might not have actively committed any crimes, but his wife had weaponized his badge to terrorize her enemies. Add to that the eager-to-please subordinates in his precinct who looked the other way, and Xavier had effectively become an accomplice to mass murder.

In her previous life, Mira was killed right before her college entrance exams. Under the crushing weight of physical and psychological abuse, her grades had already begun to slip.

Once the Mercer Group was absorbed, Shane and Roxanne hired an army of paid shills and smear campaigns to flood the city with vicious rumors.

Whenever a Mercer dared to show their face in public, they were relentlessly harassed. They were spat on, screamed at, pelted with rotten vegetables and eggs, and frequently beaten by angry mobs.

Adrian Mercer suffered a massive stroke from the stress and was permanently paralyzed.

Ethan was framed for illegal trafficking and thrown in federal prison.

Lucas was falsely accused of conducting illegal human experiments and was locked away right beside him.

Damon Mercer was ambushed by a mob of 'anti-fans' on a film set and beaten so brutally he suffered severe brain damage.

But Julian got it the worst. Unable to endure the public humiliation, he had gotten into a street brawl with a mob of 'outraged citizens.'

He was a skilled fighter, but he was only one man. And hidden within that mob were professional hitmen hired directly by Roxanne Porter.