Chapter 16 - A Coward's Retaliation

But Chloe, deeply entrenched in her own narcissistic delusions, simply could not accept defeat. A few weeks after the charity launch, an obscure, shady gossip blog published an "anonymous" audio recording.
In the heavily distorted clip—though the cadence and venom were unmistakably Chloe's—a woman claimed that Valeria Sinclair had entirely fabricated the stolen wig incident to garner Liam’s pity and manipulate her way into high society.
The rumor caught a brief spark on social media. That evening, I sat in my home office, staring at the malicious headlines on my monitor. I didn't shed a single tear. I didn't feel a drop of anxiety. I only felt a profound sense of amusement at my sister's pathetic, flailing desperation.