Chapter 17 - Vanessa Launches a Brutal Public Smear Campaign Online
While peace and happiness settled over the lakeside estate, bitterness festered in a luxury high-rise in Miami.
Vanessa Cole sat at her vanity mirror, her face twisted with fury as she scrolled through local Charlotte news articles.
Whitfield Development was featured on every front page for winning the municipal skyscraper contract under new leadership.
Beside Daniel in the photographs stood Grace Parker, smiling gracefully in an executive suit on the 40th floor.
“That cleaning peasant stole my life,” Vanessa hissed to herself, gripping her smartphone until her fingers turned white.
She opened an anonymous social media burner account and began typing a venomous, fabricated expose about Daniel and Grace.
The post claimed that Daniel Whitfield had maintained an abusive workplace environment and manipulated domestic staff.
Within hours, the malicious rumors were picked up by tabloid bloggers looking for juicy gossip on Charlotte billionaires.
By Monday morning, reporters from several gossip magazines were camping outside the gates of the Whitfield estate.
Grace arrived at the executive parking garage in Uptown Charlotte only to be swarmed by aggressive paparazzi flashing camera bulbs.
“Ms. Parker! Is it true you had an affair with your billionaire boss while he was still engaged?” a reporter shouted.
Grace kept her head high, stepping past the flashing lights and walking straight through the revolving glass doors into the lobby.
She took the private elevator up to the 40th floor, her heart pounding with anger at Vanessa’s desperate final retaliation.
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Daniel was already waiting in his corner office, reading the slanderous online articles on his tablet with a cold expression.
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