The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance

Chapter 1155

In the end, as if she'd finally run out of ways to fight back against the relentless trolls, Stella wiped her entire social media presence clean. She deleted every post, turned off comments, and deactivated her account.

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The Lerman Group.

Israel felt a rush of satisfaction as he watched the victory unfold.

Ever since Stella's return, he'd felt a tightness in his chest, a pent-up frustration with nowhere to go. But now, at last, he could breathe easy again.

Everything was falling into place exactly as he'd planned, and his mood soared.

"This whole media fiasco has plunged Stella's company into a major PR crisis. If things keep going like this, she won't be able to hold out much longer."

He turned to Leonard, a glint of pride in his eyes.

"Leonard, this 'Q' guy was expensive, but damn, he's good. That twenty million dollars was worth every cent."

Q's fees were outrageous-Israel had hired plenty of hackers to strengthen his company's firewalls over the years, but none of them had ever charged this much. Looking at the results now, though, he had to admit-Q was worth it.

in her company were buried under layer

"That T

Stella's managed to keep herself together all this time. She actually had a

failed to uncover that critical piece of information, not only would Israel have wasted all that money, but he'd have gained nothing from this whole affair- except maybe making Stella's life slightly more difficult. And trying to intercept her

he could bring Stella's company down for good, it would all be worth it.

success was

buy up shares of the Pearce Group. He might even get

his

after a win like this, they'd have to see him in a new

...

grew more intense by the day. Discontent

dissenting voices growing louder and more

course, forcing Stella out was

for the hateful noise online, Stella barely gave

online outrage against her reached fever pitch, Joshua reminded her it was time for the final phase of their

didn't know the

she had no idea what Joshua had in mind for

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