Calvin’s POV
When I saw the news trending, I knew Summit Industries was done for.
I had been watching everything unfold from my hotel suite, stuck here because of a major acquisition that couldn’t wait.
Evelyn was getting torn apart online while I was trapped halfway across the world.
I scrolled through my phone, looking at the photos they had posted everywhere. Soone had badly photoshopped pictures of Evelyn with random n and added disgusting lies about her.
My hands clenched around the phone. I wanted to punch sothing.
A knock at the door.
"Co in," I called out.
Beta Zeon walked in with serious look.
"Alpha Calvin, we took care of everything like you asked," he said, standing straight by my desk. "All those fake posts are gone from every website."
I put my phone down and rubbed my forehead. "What about Evelyn? Is she okay?"
Zeon paused for a second. "She went ho after the police station and hasn’t left since. Her study light was on until three in the morning."
That worried . I knew Evelyn better than anyone. She wouldn’t just sit there and take this. She was probably planning sothing big, and with her brain, it would be calculated and brutal.
I tapped my fingers on the desk. Work papers sat there waiting for to sign them, but I couldn’t stop thinking about Evelyn and our kids at ho alone.
"Watch over them," I told him. "Give her anything she needs. Everything."
Zeon raised an eyebrow. "Even if she wants to—"
"Anything," I said again, aning it. "Summit Industries went too far this ti."
"Got it, Alpha."
After Zeon left, I opened the file on Cyrus Johnson and his daughter Liri.
I sent a ssage. "Cut all ties with Summit Industries right now. Tell everyone we work with that doing business with Summit ans they can’t work with us anymore."
They wrote back imdiately. "Yes, Alpha Calvin. Starting now."
I walked to the window and watched rain sliding down the glass.
The storm outside matched how I felt inside. I thought about Viremont, about those two weeks when Evelyn and I got back together after being apart so long. It had rained like this then too.
Two days went by full of boring etings and phone calls.
I acted normal the whole ti, but my mind kept going back to ho. Word spreads fast in business. Summit Industries lost almost half their value in one day after we dropped them.
Beta Zeon ca back in after knocking. "Alpha Calvin, we stopped working with Summit Industries completely. All our companies cut ties with them."
"They’ll be bankrupt soon," I said coldly.
Zeon cleared his throat. "Should we tell Miss Evelyn what we did? She might want to know—"
"No," I cut him off. "She doesn’t need to know."
Zeon looked confused. He never understood why I helped Evelyn secretly instead of just telling her about it.
How could I explain that I didn’t know any other way? I still couldn’t say the right things to fix it?
"She does things her way. I do things mine."
I turned away from the window, suddenly wanting to go ho badly.
"Get ready for us to leave," I ordered.
Third Person POV
Cyrus Johnson woke up feeling like his world was collapsing around him.
"What the hell is going on?!" he roared into his phone, his face flushing with anger. "I thought all those posts were taken care of!"
The subordinate on the other end of the line trembled audibly. "Elder Cyrus, our PR departnt is already contacting all the dia outlets to remove everything. We’ll report back the mont we have any updates!"
Liri Johnson ca downstairs humming cheerfully. Seeing her father’s distressed expression, she frowned with concern.
"Dad, did you not sleep well? You look terrible," she said, studying his pale face.
Looking at his daughter, Cyrus felt suspicion rising within him. Could the Brownfur Pack be behind this? His wolf growled uneasily inside him, sensing danger.
"What exactly happened yesterday?" he demanded, his Alpha voice making the staff nearby lower their heads instinctively.
At the ntion of it, Liri lifted her chin proudly. "Dad, don’t worry about it. I’ve handled everything perfectly!"
Cyrus warned her to keep a low profile before hurrying off to Summit Industries headquarters, his mind racing with contingency plans.
Liri sipped her organic almond milk, eagerly waiting to bask in another wave of online support. However, when she opened her social dia accounts, she discovered all traces of her campaign against Evelyn had vanished. Even her video channel with over a million followers had been suspended.
"What the hell?" she gasped.
She imdiately ordered her team to restore her accounts, only to learn that the app developed by Summit Industries had been reported and taken offline completely. Her planned attack had been stopped overnight.
Over the next three days, Summit Industries subsidiaries began collapsing one after another like dominoes. Financial reports leaked, contracts mysteriously canceled, investors pulling out without explanation.
After failing to intercept Evelyn’s children at their school, Liri imdiately went online to cry victim, posting from a newly created account.
"I thought my family had enough resources to protect us from being bullied," she wrote, tears streaming down her face in the attached video. "I never imagined these howreckers would be so brazen, using their wealthy backers to fabricate false information about my family!"
She continued her tearful performance. "Though they’ve managed to suspend my accounts, justice cannot be silenced! I will ensure these people who cannot bear the light of day remain buried in darkness forever. Please continue supporting , my darlings!"
Based on the negative press surrounding Summit Industries over the past few days, her followers believed her completely, their collective anger intensifying.
The situation escalated rapidly, dominating social dia trending topics.
Many influencers publicly supported Liri, bringing their followers into the attack. Soone even located the twin’s school and bribed teachers and parents for insider information. However, whenever they attempted to post any of this content online, they found it mysteriously impossible to upload.
This bizarre "internet censorship" phenonon was itself reported online, resonating with many others experiencing the sa issue.
Unable to discover Evelyn’s exact address or company information, they organized protests at twin’s school, bringing banners demanding "Howrecker’s sons get out of our school!" and threatening to vandalize the property.
For the safety of all children, the school administration announced a week-long closure. In the school parents’ group chat, Evelyn was subjected to relentless verbal abuse.
Liri was delighted with how everything was unfolding. What she didn’t realize was that with each lie she spread about Evelyn, her father’s company lost another major project.
In just three days, Cyrus Johnson was drowning in business disasters.
When he learned that Wolfe Haven International’s subsidiary was withdrawing from all collaboration agreents, he nearly had a stroke.
He tried desperately to contact Alpha Calvin directly but couldn’t even get through to his beta. Other businesses began canceling contracts, and the bank loans they had been counting on were suddenly denied.
Summit Industries was already struggling with internal deficits. Without capital injection, they wouldn’t be able to pay employee salaries that month. Bankruptcy lood on the horizon.
In desperation, Cyrus sought help from his old friend Silas Robinson, only to be told that Brownfur Pack was now under Alpha Leon ’s control. To make matters worse, Liri had publicly insulted Leon just days earlier.
Cyrus pleaded with his daughter. "Liri, please, just apologize to Alpha Leon. I’m begging you."
"Dad, have you lost your mind?" Liri snapped. "Leon publicly pursued that shaless howrecker, which was a direct insult to . I absolutely refuse to apologize. My pride won’t allow it!"
Cyrus nearly choked on his rage. "Summit Industries is about to collapse, and your pride is worth what exactly?" His wolf clawed at him from within, demanding he assert his Alpha authority over his rebellious daughter.
While father and daughter were locked in their heated argunt, Evelyn made her move.
Soone online filed a nad report against Liri, accusing her of campus bullying:
[My na is Jenny Whitman, a Southern University graduate. I hereby formally report Liri Johnson (online userna: BigPearGirl) for subjecting to four years of campus bullying. I also report her father, Cyrus Johnson, for bribing the university president to threaten my graduation as a ans to cover up his daughter’s bullying behavior!]
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