Chapter 279
Angela already knew everything.
Every headline. Every scandal. Every message is flooding the internet like a tidal wave.
But unlike the chaos outside, she forced herself to stay composed.
She was the Fox family’s matriarch now.
That meant steadiness. Even when everything else was collapsing.
Lauren, overwhelmed and unwell after Arthur’s hospitalization, could no longer remain at the hospital. Once his condition stabilized, Stella personally escorted her home. That left everything—Trey, the hospital, the public fallout—squarely on Angela’s shoulders.
She inhaled slowly, forcing the anger down.
It wasn’t easy.
Every time she opened her phone, it felt like stepping into a battlefield.
The Fox family scandal dominated every platform. Comment sections were flooded with ridicule, speculation, and moral judgment from strangers who knew nothing but acted as if they knew everything.
Each word felt like a needle.
Her carefully maintained reputation—years of effort, polished connections, her “respected socialite” image—was being stripped away in real time.
Even former students. Former friends. Business acquaintances.
One by one, they distanced themselves.
Deleted. Unfollowed. Erased.
Angela clenched her phone so tightly her knuckles went white.
She hated it.
She hated Khloe more.
But she still couldn’t break.
Not now.
She walked over to Trey and helped him up.
He felt hollow.
Heavy in a way that had nothing to do with physical strength.
His eyes were unfocused, as though everything inside him had already burned out.
After a long silence, he said quietly, “You should go home. I’ll stay with Dad. Things are too messy right now—don’t go out and make it worse.”
Angela shook her head immediately.
“At a time like this, we face it together.”
Her voice softened as she held him steady.
“Don’t worry. I won’t let you go through this alone.”
Trey didn’t answer.
But Angela felt a faint sense of relief anyway.
Because in her mind, the worst had already happened.
And now came clarity.
Trey would finally see Khloe for who she was.
He would finally sever whatever lingering attachment remained.
And she… would finally step forward as the true lady of the Fox household without competition.
Public opinion would pass. Scandals always did.
In time, people forgot.
As for Fox Group, nothing was truly lost yet.
They still held fifty percent of the shares.
Khloe couldn’t fully take control without moving further, without restructuring, without time.
And time, Angela believed, was still on their side.
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By afternoon, Khloe had finished the shareholders’ meeting at Fox Group.
The atmosphere in the room had shifted completely from confrontation to submission.
With Trey and Arthur officially removed, she moved immediately into restructuring.
No hesitation. No delay.
Department heads were reviewed one by one. Interim leadership was appointed without sentiment. The company’s upper structure—once tightly controlled by the Fox family—was dismantled piece by piece.
What remained were capable professionals and long-standing employees, many of whom had simply followed orders for years. But the top layer of leadership had always been Fox-controlled, built through family ties, loyalty networks, and inherited authority.
Now that structure was gone.
Cleanly. Completely.
When she appointed an interim CEO, no one objected.
No one even dared.
The company no longer belonged to the Fox family in practice, even if the paperwork still reflected complications.
Every executive in the room understood one thing clearly now—
Their only option was to rely on Khloe.
Because she held the direction of the company in her hands.
Some feared she would destroy Fox Group out of anger.
But Khloe had no intention of that.
She knew this company too well.
It had been built with her hands.
And many of its employees were not part of the Fox family’s ambitions—they were simply workers caught in the storm.
Once the restructuring was complete, she would stabilize operations.
Then rebuild.
And when the time came, she would take Fox Group public again—
on her own terms.