POV: Olivia

We felt relieved when Dominic’s tech team delivered their report. The hacking wasn’t just a single incident, a one-time breach motivated by the school passes. It was a system, a deliberate, carefully maintained system that Sofia had been running against us for longer than either of us wanted to calculate. Every crashed date, every ruined evening...

I thought back through the past months and watched them rearrange themselves into a new and damning pattern. The dinner at the VIP club, the intimate reservation Dominic had made weeks in advance, told to no one, discussed only in a private message thread on my phone. And somehow Sofia had appeared...