Chapter 34: The Scandal of Smoke and Shadows
The morning sunlight streamed through Amara’s boutique, but instead of customers, the door brought in silence — and side-eyes. Employees whispered nervously, scrolling through their phones.
When Amara walked in, she felt it before she saw it. A heaviness in the air, sharp and bitter. Darius was already waiting in her office, a folded newspaper on her desk.
“Don’t panic,” he said gently.
But when she opened it, her breath caught.
“CROWN TABLE QUEEN OR MASTER MANIPULATOR?
Amara’s Web of Men Exposed.”
The article was a poisonous blend of photos — her with clients, her with staff, her with Darius — twisted with suggestive captions. Words like seduction, opportunism, betrayal screamed from the page.
Her employees looked at her differently now, uncertain. The boutique felt colder, almost hostile.
“Jason did this,” Darius said, his jaw clenched. “These are doctored. Anyone can see it.”
But Amara knew the truth — people don’t see facts; they see headlines.
She closed the newspaper and straightened her shoulders. “Then let them look. Let them whisper. I won’t let Jason’s smoke and shadows define me.”
Darius searched her face. “So what’s the move?”
Her eyes burned with a quiet fire. “We don’t fight shadows. We burn so bright they disappear.”
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And as Jason watched the city’s gossip columns light up with his story, he smiled like a king who had checkmated his opponent.
What he didn’t know was that Amara wasn’t playing defense anymore.
She was preparing her own endgame.
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