I Was His Wife, Then His Widow, Then No One's But My Own novel Chapter 383

Seraphina shook her head, her lips trembling wildly. "I—I haven't had the chance to tell him yet."

Sterling thought for a moment and let out a heavy breath. "Then keep him in the dark for now. The Fletcher family still hasn't made their stance clear, and after all this time, they haven't formalized a marriage with you. If Finnegan starts believing this evidence, your position will be completely compromised."

Seraphina frowned in panic. "Dad, what are you talking about? The internet is blowing up. It's not like Finnegan doesn't own a phone. There is zero chance he won't see the news! We can't hide this from him, and I don't know how he's going to react!"

Elena paced frantically beside them, her voice cracking with hysterical sobs. "I told you this scheme was a disaster waiting to happen! But you two insisted on pushing forward! Look at us now! The truth is out!"

Sterling snapped at her sharply. "Enough! What good does crying do now? I'll call some people and see if we can buy our way off the trending lists."

But it was a lost cause. The hashtag exposing Seraphina's academic fraud had already surged into the top ten trending topics, and the comment sections were an absolute war zone.

The public outrage that had previously been aimed at Nora was now entirely concentrated on Seraphina, the woman who had shamelessly paraded around as an intellectual elite.

"She stole a poverty-stricken student's life and still had the nerve to strut around the Institute?! That is genuinely repulsive."

"Wait, does that mean all those smear campaigns against Dr. Newman were orchestrated by her too? This woman is an absolute psycho."

"The evidence is right here in black and white. There is no coming back from this unless she literally saves the world."

Reading the comments one by one, Seraphina's hands shook so violently she nearly dropped her phone.

If she couldn't fix this, she wouldn't just lose her job—she would lose her pristine reputation and her entire future. Would Finnegan even want her after this? He had already been showing signs of pulling away.

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