The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance novel Chapter 1033

The next day.

News about Leonard and the Williams family exploded, both inside elite circles and all across the city.

Just as everyone had predicted, Lerman Group’s stock price went into freefall, plummeting with no end in sight.

As details of Leonard’s kidnapping and torture of Stella came to light, so did his brutal history—stories of how he’d tormented numerous women surfaced, each tale more disturbing than the last.

Some victims were left disfigured. Others had their arms or legs broken. A few had even been sent away to psychiatric clinics.

According to sources familiar with the matter, Leonard’s cruelty was simply monstrous.

Most of the women he “disciplined” had once clashed with Aurora—some had bullied her, others had merely crossed her path. But among them were innocent people, too.

Leonard would rather punish the wrong person than let anyone go unscathed.

Rumors went further: Leonard had stopped at nothing in his ruthless quest to become the family’s heir, even going so far as to harm his own brothers.

The former heir apparent of the Lerman family? He’d been in a car accident, left paralyzed and blind—everyone now knew Leonard was behind it.

With Leonard’s crimes plastered all over the internet, even Aurora was caught in the backlash.

People scoffed, “What kind of person chooses to be friends with a monster like that? She can’t be any better.”

Worse yet, most of Leonard’s violent acts had been committed for her sake.

Someone commented, “Wasn’t Aurora supposed to be the city’s golden girl? The perfect socialite? But when Leonard was hurting people for her, she never once tried to stop him. It looks to me like she only stayed on top by letting Leonard destroy her rivals.”

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