Chapter 425
“It’s fine. When Julian recovers, he can drive for me. We’ll figure the rest out later,” Damon replied smoothly.
Adrian and Lacey remained dead silent. Even with two sons officially walking away, they still chose Mara.
Seeing his parents’ stubborn silence, Ethan picked up his phone and dialed the lawyer’s number once more p>
“What? Another one?” Mr. Grant wanted to ask if the Mercer family was trying to turn severing ties into a professional sport. But he was being paid handsomely to do a job, so he kept his mouth shut.
The silver lining was that drafting one document meant he could reuse it endlessly.
After Julian’s paperwork was finalized, Ethan and Damon aggressively negotiated on his behalf, securing five million dollars for his future medical expenses and ten million dollars for his lost career. This was entirely Mara’s fault, so making her pay for it was completely justified. The fact that Julian hadn’t thrown her directly into prison was already a massive act of mercy.
That very afternoon, the media exploded with the news: two Mercer sons had officially severed ties with the family, including the A-list actor, Damon Mercer.
Even Mira hadn’t anticipated that exposing Mara’s crimes would push Damon and Julian to completely cut off their family.
But it meant that when the Mercer family inevitably collapsed, those two wouldn’t go down with the ship.
It didn’t affect Mira’s grand design much. Her true enemies were Mara and the Porter family. As for the rest of the Mercers, they were just standing on the wrong side of the board; she didn’t view them as mortal enemies.
Still, she would never acknowledge them as family again, nor would she ever have anything to do with them.
With this massive scandal dominating the news, Mira’s plan to expose Mara’s true parentage had to be temporarily put on ice.
If she played that card now, Ethan would be too well-prepared. Besides, knowing Shane Porter’s manipulative nature, he wouldn’t let Mara sit idle. If Mara was destroyed too quickly, the friction between the Mercer and Porter families would fizzle out, which was bad for Mira’s endgame.
Deciding to let the chaos brew, Mira concluded that this recent wave of exposure was enough to keep Mara trapped in a desperate corner for now. The rest could wait until after her national exams.
Meanwhile, when Roxanne saw the news about Mara sabotaging Julian, a chilling realization hit her. The person who had hacked into her and Mara’s phones was definitely not Ethan.
Knowing his personality, if he had found that evidence early on, he wouldn’t have waited until now to expose it. He likely wouldn’t have exposed it at all to protect the family’s image opting to quietly punish Mara behind closed doors.
So, who exactly was targeting her?
Could it be Mira? Impossible.
She was just a wet-behind-the-ears teenager. There was no way she had that kind of power.
Over at the urban development department of Melvion City, the
fallout from Mara and Roxanne’s espionage scandal forced an immediate decision: the
infrastructure project’s bidding
process was reopened.
Mira spoke with Harvey Rivers. “Your family needs to secure this bid p>
“If we do, we’ll have to partner with the Mercer Group. Our construction firm is too small to swallow a project this massive on our own p>
But regardless of who won, Porter Entertainment was completely out of the running. The government simply didn’t trust them anymore. p>
With that handled, Mira poured all her focus into preparing for the national Academic Decathlon for high school seniors.
Winning first place wouldn’t just guarantee her admission; it would secure her massive bonus points for the college entrance exams.
On the exact day Mira left for Aethelgard, Kieran Holt called. “Boss, Damon Mercer
just applied for a spot at Solflare Entertainment. Do we take him p>