Chapter 286
Later, Shane Porter even pinned the complete destruction of the Mercer and Scott families entirely on Mara, turning her into a pariah and a jinx that everyone
despised.
By that point, the Mercer family members who had once loved and protected her, as well as the Scott family who had been her backing, were either dead or ruined by her own hands. No one was left to help her. Even if they had the capability, they would never have protected her again.
But that wasn’t enough. Worried that she might leak the secrets of how he had used her in the early days, Shane had Mara trafficked to a lawless region overseas. She suffered long-term abuse and torture, and eventually had her organs harvested alive. Her end was a hundred times worse than Mira’s in her past life.
But she deserved every bit of it; she was unworthy of any sympathy.
The past vanished like smoke in the wind, and Mira’s thoughts snapped back to the present.
It seemed the Lydia Fontaine that Mara had mentioned was already playing both sides as a mistress. She wondered if Shane would discard Lydia too once he succeeded.
Shane really knew how to buy people’s loyalty. In the Mercer family, he had Mara and Norman. Who else might there be? In the Scott family, he had bought off someone as crucial as Lydia p>
Every single one of them was a heavyweight player.
No wonder both families’ empires had been swallowed whole by Porter Entertainment in her previous life, leaving them completely ruined.
Coupled with the relationship between Mara and Lexie—Lydia’s daughter and Mara’s sidekick-Mira wondered if they were passing information between themselves, or if they were completely unaware of each other’s hidden affiliations and inadvertently manipulating one another.
Next, Mira checked the photos Lenny had just sent. There were three in total, all showing Shane and that woman looking intimately close. Two of the shots clearly captured both of their faces.
She saved the photos; they would definitely come in handy when the time was right.
Then, Mira called Harvey Rivers, telling him about Porter
Entertainment’s E-Scooter Program and instructing him to spread negative news about it. After
moments thought, she also called Owen and asked him to have the PR department spread rumors to sabotage their fundraising efforts.
The next day, Mira arranged to meet up with Liora Bennett and Celine Ward. Unexpectedly, Mr. Blake and his wife—the couple who had sold Mira her house and owned the bicycle factory-showed up.
They were no longer the struggling
business owners who couldn’t even pay their workers Riding the
coattails
of EcoRide, they had
expanded their operations across major cities nationwide and were raking in cash. People were already calling him the Bicycle King.
His only regret was that he hadn’t built the bicycle factory in Aethelgard. The city had moved faster, and at the time, the Blakes hadn’t yet formulated a plan to open factories nationwide.
The couple brought a ton of gifts for the holidays, expressing their gratitude for Mira’s business support over the past six months.
Since she had guests, Mira couldn’t leave immediately, so she texted Liora and Celine that she’d be a little late. Thankfully, the private room they booked was for later in the afternoon.
“If our bicycle deployment reaches saturation, what will you do? Will you have to lay off workers?” Mira asked.
“No need, we’ve already thought ahead. When you no longer have massive bulk orders, we’ll keep one production line at each branch to handle your routine replacements. The rest of the workforce winshift to producing electric scooters. Not the shared ones, but the standard models for the general public.” Mr. Blake clarified, worried Mira might misunderstand.
Honestly, Mira didn’t care if they cornered the market on producing electric scooters for others, as long as they didn’t use her proprietary technology to manufacture shared bikes for competing companies.
“Our steakhouse is expanding next, and we’re building an in-house delivery fleet. If your designs are good, we can order our delivery scooters from you in the future p>