Too Late to Hold Me Back novel Chapter 796

With Gabriel's departure, Mira and her team emerged as the absolute victors of the night.

Meanwhile, everything Jude and Lawrence had painstakingly built over the past few weeks had been reduced to a pathetic joke.

"I never realized Owen's backing was so terrifyingly solid,"

Hank murmured.

"It's mainly because we were on the right side of the law."

Otherwise, no amount of connections would have brought a man like that through the doors.

"Did you reach out to Gabriel?"

Mira asked Owen.

"Dominic made the call."

By now, the executives who had previously shunned them were practically tripping over themselves to rush back to Mira's side, desperate to salvage their relationships and pitch collaborations.

Since the foreign heir's entire political safety net had just been dragged out by federal agents and his grand monopoly was dead in the water, what was the point of licking his boots?

For all they knew, Jude's firm would be packing up and fleeing the country by morning.

"Owen is in a league of his own. Lawrence was never even a threat."

"Did anyone actually think the former shadow king of Aethelgard would go down that easily?"

"That foreign brat really thought we were easy targets. He just got slapped back to reality."

...

The whispers of the crowd had violently shifted in Mira's favor.

The once impenetrable mob surrounding Jude and Lawrence had evaporated, leaving them completely isolated in a desolate corner.

Jude looked absolutely nauseated, as if he had swallowed a mouthful of glass. The humiliation burned through his veins.

This was the first time in his life he had been publicly annihilated, and it happened in a market he had entirely underestimated.

He shot a venomous glare at Lawrence. "I thought you said that man was untouchable. He barely opened his mouth before he was dragged away like a criminal!"

"How the hell was I supposed to know Gabriel would show up?"

Lawrence was just as furious, his voice trembling with a mix of rage and terror.

He sounded like he was on the verge of breaking down. "Gabriel never makes public appearances! He's never intervened personally like this before!"

With this massive political card completely torched, he didn't even want to imagine how his grandfather would punish him.

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