The Ex's Revenge: Escaping the Hollywood Alpha Novel

Chapter 6: The Ghost of PR Past

The industry doesn't sleep, and neither did Carter’s scandals. Without my "cleanup" protocols, the footage of him and Hailey outside the police station leaked. The narrative I spent a decade building—the "devoted, professional artist"—began to erode. I watched from my grandmother’s porch as he tried to release his own statement. It was defensive, tone-deaf, and riddled with the kind of arrogance I had spent years editing out of his vocabulary.