Freya

“Freya Lennox, an accomplice of Ryder Hawthorne, was accused of seducing Daniel Jenkins, CEO of Jenkins Holdings!”

My heart stopped.

The air rushed out of my lungs in a painful whoosh. My vision tunneled, the phone screen blurring as a cold, heavy weight slammed into my chest. My fingers went numb, the phone almost slipping from my grip. For a second, I couldn’t breathe, just sat there frozen, staring at those words until they burned into my retinas.

Oh God… it was real.

The humiliation from that night crashed over me again — the flashing cameras, the whispers, the way I’d been curled up half-naked on the bathroom floor...