Meanwhile.
Cynthia sat on her bed, staring at her phone with a perfectly calm expression.
She picked it up and fired off a message to her subordinate: "Push it harder. Drive the engagement to the absolute peak."
"Remember, redirect all the bot farm activity and trending hashtags to point back to Seraphina. Make sure nothing traces back to me."
After sending the text, she set the phone down on the nightstand. She placed a hand over her flat stomach, murmuring under her breath, "I'm willing to sacrifice my own child for this. A little public backlash is nothing..."
As long as it made Dominic feel sorry for her and hate Seraphina enough to send her to prison and secure that massive payout, she was willing to sacrifice anything.
She looked up at the mirror, the light in her eyes turning icy.
Early the next morning, Dominic received a call from his PR team.
"Mr. Lockwood, the trending topics are down, but the discussion volume is still climbing. People saved the video screenshots and keep reposting them. It's going to be hard to suppress this entirely in the short term."
Dominic's eyes were shadowed with gloom.
He paused for a moment before speaking. "The Sentinel Protocol was scheduled to launch next month. Move it to today."
The PR team was stunned. "Mr. Lockwood, the press conference for that software has already been scheduled. If we move it up, we won't have time to prepare the event flow..."
"Make the time."
Dominic's tone left no room for argument. "Notify the press for ten o'clock this morning. The focus is the Lockwood Group's proprietary anti-hacking system. I'll do a live demonstration dismantling a foreign cyberattack. I want every single camera focused on that."
The team agreed and scrambled to arrange it.
At exactly ten o'clock, the press conference began.
Dominic stood at the podium, his tone steady and commanding. "The Lockwood Group's proprietary anti-hacking software, The Sentinel Protocol, is officially launching today."
Lines of code cascaded across the massive screen behind him.
He stood before a laptop, laser-focused, publicly dismantling a string of foreign invasion code that was touted as the hardest in the world to crack.
The entire process was executed with surgical precision, completely flawless.
The sound of camera shutters echoed through the hall like rapid gunfire.

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The readers' comments on the novel: Unloved Unwanted Unstoppable (Seraphina and Dominic)
Dominic is an idiot, stupid, foolish and brainless, Cynthia is the worst kind out there always getting saved by stupid Dominic...
Cynthia needs to be dealt with, she has caused too much trouble already!...
Dominic is such a fool, he doesn't seem to be able to think for himself. He believes what other people say without question....