“Nothing makes a man wanna protect more than his ego, right? Especially someone like Brendan. We can see that from what happened a few years ago. How could someone like that even allow news of himself being cucked to be leaked to the world? It just doesn’t make sense.”

The man sank into a pensive silence. The underling was not wrong, yet he could not help but think something was amiss about this entire event—even if he could not connect Brendan to the mastermind.

A long beat later, the man finally broke his silence. “Charlene McKinney is not salvageable by this point. Time to use this. Add fuel into Brendan’s chaos.”

-

Three days later, another story related to Charlene made the rounds. This time, intimate photos between herself and other men were under the spotlight. The leaker had stories, too. While Charlene was “a sl*t”, Brendan was described as someone whose apparent chastity and self-control were completely faked. He had predatory relationships with many minors, the leaker c