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Chapter 102: Elena's Name in the Press

Author: Mary Sampson
last update publish date: 2026-10-12 20:40:21

By morning, my name was everywhere.

I read it on my phone at the kitchen table, thumb moving down the screen in slow, careful strokes, as if the words might bite. Some of the headlines were serious. *Wife of Embattled Executive Breaks Silence.* *"I Will Not Be Spoken For": What Elena Carter Said.* Those I could bear.

The others, I couldn't stop reading.

*WHO'S SPEAKING FOR ELENA CARTER?* *The Rival, the Wife, and the Statement That Shook a Boardroom.* *Conspirator or Pawn? Experts Weigh In.*

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