Violet 

I sat back on the chair, my body relaxed even though the air around me felt tense. My thumb scrolled slowly through the school website, through article after article, image after image. Whoever uploaded it wasn’t even trying to hide the target. My name was there. My real picture was there. My department, my year, my scholarship status, every detail laid bare.

The headline made my lips curve into something almost cold.

Medical Student’s Secret Life with Wealthy Benefactor Revealed.

Below it were pictures, some real, stolen without my permission, taken from angles meant to make things look worse than they were. Others were painfully fake. Photoshopped images of...