Chapter 137

Claire's POV The story was everywhere. No one was even talking about the fact that PIlls pharmaceuticals had announced a stolen success. By the time I forced myself to walk through VM Group's lobby, the scandal had metastasized across every conceivable media platform with the viral intensity that only the most sensational betrayals achieved. News websites, social media feeds, industry publications, even entertainment gossip blogs—all of them featuring my face alongside headlines that painted me as the ultimate corporate traitor. I was branded as more than just a spy. I was a calculating criminal who had systematically destroyed the trust of everyone who had believed in me. The public opinion that had once hailed me as a promising scientist, a breakthrough researcher whose innovations would change werewolf medicine, had turned against me with vicious force that felt like a physical assault on my soul. The harassment was a thousand times worse than anything I'd experienced during the pre