The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance novel Chapter 1404

Jake hesitated. "But Leonard didn't do anything to Aurora. There's no concrete evidence... Are you sure this will work?"

Joshua's expression was impassive. "When Sherman Burton framed Star back then, he didn't have any evidence either. But people still believed him."

Jake froze.

He finally understood. Joshua's goal wasn't just to create an irreparable rift between Leonard and Aurora. He intended to make them suffer the same humiliation Stella Cameron had endured.

"Simone is still too green," Jake mused. "She didn't manage to make the situation stick. If she had drugged Aurora as well, things might be more advantageous for us."

But Joshua shook his head. "If a man is determined not to touch a woman, it doesn't matter if he's been drugged or has a knife to his throat. Whether Aurora was drugged or not would have made little difference. Besides, I wanted to confirm something."

Joshua was an enigma. Even Jake, who was always by his side, often couldn't decipher his thoughts.

"And did you?" Jake asked instinctively.

A chilling light flickered in Joshua's dark eyes.

"I did."

Joshua didn't elaborate, and Jake knew better than to press further.

"I'll have Harold get right on it," Jake said. "But... if Leonard, the Williams family, and the Burton family all work together to suppress the story, it will be difficult to get it out there."

This wasn't Aetheria, after all. They didn't have complete control here.

"It doesn't matter if the general public knows," Joshua said. "As long as our entire social circle knows, that's enough. Since the normal channels of information are blocked, we'll use the traditional ones."

This time, Jake didn't need any more prompting. He knew exactly what to do. While Leonard's camp focused their efforts on scrubbing the internet, it would be a shame not to throw a few digital breadcrumbs their way to keep them busy.

Jake immediately contacted Harold. They would launch a two-pronged attack.

One person would be responsible for creating trouble online, drawing all the fire.

The other would handle the dissemination of the rumor through high society, achieving their true objective.

When Harold heard the plan, he was floored by Jake's newfound shrewdness.

"Jake, what's gotten into you? Since when are you so sharp?"