They contacted a high-society media outlet and leaked a completely fabricated narrative.

“The High-Society Kidnapping: Tech Billionaire’s Wife Abandons Her Husband in Financial Ruin, Concealing the Newborn Heir With the Help of Her Conglomerate Family.”

The piece heavily implied that I’d systematically manipulated Dominic, used his company, and was now weaponizing his son to break his psychological health.

It featured old, cropped wedding photographs, a staged image of Dominic holding Leo at the hospital, and anonymous quotes from “devastated family sources.”

But Charles Brooks wasn’t an executive who reacted with public shouting matches. He was a master of risk management who waited for the exact moment his opponent overextended their position.

“Let them run the copy,” he said calmly when Mr. Vance presented the clippings. “Let them fully expose their own tactics to the public.”