Chapter 6: Viral Justice
Chapter 6: Viral Justice
Over the next few grueling days, Elara’s heavily guarded hospital room became the epicenter of an unprecedented media storm. The "Sterling Confession," as the internet quickly dubbed it, had become the most-watched live broadcast in digital history, surpassing Super Bowls and royal weddings.
However, it wasn't just the visceral horror of the domestic violence that caught the world's attention. In his arrogant, unhinged rant in the study, Julian had bragged to Elara about his absolute invincibility, inadvertently admitting to bribing key city zoning officials and personally overseeing the cover-up of a massive toxic chemical spill at one of his family's upstate manufacturing factories. He had handed the authorities the keys to his own destruction.
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Bouquets of exotic flowers, thousands of handwritten letters, and folded origami cranes poured in from survivors and supporters around the globe, filling the sterile room with overwhelming colors and sweet scents. Elara, heavily bruised but rapidly healing under the care of top doctors, watched the news on the wall-mounted TV as the Sterling family empire’s stock plummeted by a staggering forty percent in just forty-eight hours.
Yet as she watched Arthur Sterling, Julian’s terrifyingly stoic father, aggressively shoving past a mob of reporters without uttering a single word, a cold chill ran down her spine. She knew from experience that a wounded animal was the most dangerous kind. The war wasn't over; the battlefield had simply shifted from a locked penthouse to the ruthless court of public opinion.
