Chapter 521
Mira was orchestrating a slow, imperceptible drop in Porter Entertainment’s stock. She scattered funds across multiple accounts, carefully entering the market. While she placed a few long positions, her overarching strategy relied on aggressively shorting the stock under her alias, Lady Oracle. This move was designed to lure in a swarm of retail investors later. If Roxanne had been paying close attention, she would have only noticed Mira’s short positions. Seeing the lingering long positions, Roxanne would assume Mira lacked the capital to make a real impact, dismissing her as a minor nuisance. She hadn’t yet realized that the moment Mira pulled her safety net, Porter Entertainment would face utter annihilation.
But that was a problem for another day. When Mira received word of Norman’s death, she crossed his name off her list. He had paid the price. As for his widow and child, as long as they stayed out of her way, she wouldn’t waste another ounce of energy on them. What truly surprised her was the revelation that Roxanne was actually Adrian Mercer’s biological daughter. Still, this sordid detail did nothing to alter her grand design.
It didn’t take long for the storm to hit. Before Shane and Roxanne could even finish integrating the assets they had stripped from the Mercer Group, their stock took a catastrophic nosedive. In a single day, Mira liquidated all the long positions she had built up through burner accounts, catching the Porters completely off guard.
The father-daughter duo scrambled to assemble their crisis management team.
Television networks blared the news of Porter Entertainment’s sudden collapse, drawing glaring parallels to the Mercer Group’s recent downfall, though the exact cause remained shrouded in mystery.
Industry insiders whispered that the Mercer family was finally serving up a cold dish of revenge.
That afternoon, Roxanne desperately called both Ethan and Mira. “Let’s talk,” she pleaded.
“Not a chance,” they both replied in unison.
Her goal was obvious to offer them a slice of the pie in exchange for a truce. But Mira had already readied the guillotine for Porter Entertainment. There was nothing left to discuss.
“Don’t be ungrateful,” Roxanne snapped over the line. “If we negotiate now, we can still offer concessions. But if this turns into a bloodbath, you won’t necessarily win p>
She refused to believe that her massive empire, now boasting assets well over a billion dollars, could be toppled by the likes of Mira.
Although Solfare Entertainment had deep pockets, liquidity was always the bottleneck. Even under the best circumstances, Mira could only
the
scrape together a fraction of the capital needed to shake a giant like Porter Entertainment.
They weren’t the hollowed-out shelt the Mercer Group had been when Shane took them down. When Ethan walked away, the Mercer Group was Worth a fraction of its former glory.
If they had been at their peak, Shane wouldn’t have been able to swallow them whole.
But Porter Entertainment was currently on an aggressive upward trajectory after devouring the Mercer assets.
Shorting a company was a different
beast from everyday day-trading lt
wasn’t just about accurate
information and sharp analysis. required a mountain of cash as a backbone.
Because of this, Roxanne felt invincible.
Meanwhile, Adrian, who had been wallowing in misery at home, felt a sudden jolt of electricity when he heard about the Porter stock plummeting.
He immediately dialed Shane. “Hey, old friend. I hear karma finally caught up to
you p>
“It’s just a standard market correction,” Shane spat back. “Sorry to disappoint you p>
“A standard correction? Do you even believe your own lies p>