The Art of Humiliation

Sloane read Ryker's intent. After a deliberate pause, she asked, "That blood-throwing spectacle? Your design to humiliate Dorian?"

Ryker's eyebrow arched, a smirk playing on his lips. "Catastrophically effective. Wouldn't you say?"

Sloane conceded silently. Public shaming was common, but drenching a narcissist in blood on camera? Diabolical. Framing him as a "homewrecking seducer"? A masterstroke