Chapter 188

• Third person
• Vanessa never expected the backlash to spiral so fast.
• The moment she ended the live stream, she smirked, convinced she had just pulled the plug on Claire’s little charade. Her eyes glittered with triumph as she rewatched her own footage—crying into the camera, holding up old pictures of herself and Nathan, painting herself as the wounded lover. She thought it would shift the narrative, that people would rally behind her, furious at the so-called homewrecker who bewitched the man she claimed as hers.