The live stream chat was losing its collective mind.
[Oh my god. What am I even watching? How is Joanna this psychotic? I can't even look at her anymore. Boycott Joanna immediately!]
[Look at that smug face. The parasite has officially shown her true colors. She set up the real daughter just to feed her own greed. Karma is going to hit her like a freight train.]
[She is dangerously good at acting. She's always playing the innocent victim in public. Who knew she had the mind of a serial killer?]
Back in Joanna's penthouse apartment, Maxwell was frantically watching the stream. He dialed her number repeatedly, but it rang out every time.
He glared fiercely at the screen, watching Joanna's deranged monologue. She was usually so careful. How had she blindly walked into Wendy's trap?
Wendy had masterfully manipulated her into confessing everything on camera.
Joanna's entire acting career was dead in the water.
He had been banking on her skyrocketing to superstardom to pull in massive cash flow, and now, it was all reduced to ashes.
Across town, Sebastian and Sean were also glued to the live broadcast.
Sean looked baffled. "Boss, why hasn't Mrs. Scott brought your name into this? You were the one fueling a lot of this chaos. Why didn't she expose you as the villain too?"
The moment the words left his mouth, a suffocating, lethal pressure filled the room. Sean offered Sebastian a stiff, panicked smile. What had he just said out loud? Why was his mouth constantly outpacing his brain?!
Sebastian shot him a chilling, predatory glare.
"Because I surrendered everything to Natalie. Mrs. Scott is grateful for that, so she kept my name out of it. As for Joanna, she doesn't want to drag Maxwell's reputation down with hers."
"That's why neither of them mentioned me."
Sean gave him a side-eye. Thank God his boss had finally come to his senses. Otherwise, even Sean wouldn't have been able to stomach working for him anymore.
"Tsk! Joanna looks absolutely feral right now. Boss, how on earth did you manage to treat her better than you treated your own mother?"
"Sean!"
Sebastian growled a vicious warning.
Sean jumped, instantly taking a wide step backward.
"Right, anyway! Boss, the reason Timothy has been off the radar lately is because he left the country."
"I just pulled his flight records today. He hasn't come back yet. I'm guessing he's cooking up something overseas."
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Sebastian scoffed darkly. "This time, I'm going to protect her. I won't let anyone touch her."
He couldn't stomach looking at Joanna's repulsive face for another second. He needed to find the perfect moment to worm his way back into Natalie's life.
Meanwhile, Natalie had been tied up in a brief, thirty-minute meeting. Once it wrapped, the explosive broadcast was still running.
Luna slid her tablet across the table so Natalie could see.
Natalie took one look at Joanna's unhinged expression and realized she was sitting across from Wendy. She knew instantly that Wendy had set up a hidden stream to obliterate Joanna's entire life.
Listening to Joanna's venomous rant, Natalie felt a familiar dull ache in her chest.
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Joanna was merely the weapon Wendy had weaponized against her own daughter.
Natalie read through the wildly chaotic live comments, each message more brutal than the last.
But honestly? She found the whole spectacle mind-numbingly boring. A bitter smile touched her lips. "What's the point of her doing this now? It's too late."