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Chapter 25 – There Are Limits
The Valley City Armory, a massive brick building from the late 1800s, was larger than anything she had ever filmed in before, even larger than Sinful Studios. As she approached the entrance, she reminded herself of everything she knew about Ethan Cooper. Last night she had tried to find out more about him, but the internet revealed surprisingly little. A few credits as a cameraman for two mediocre Hollywood films fifteen years ago. A grotesquely self-indulgent personal homepage featuring "erotic…-
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Chapter 52 – Planning the Heist
"You hacked into Ben's system?" Morgan raised both hands. "Tried. I tried to hack into his system." Chloe stared at her. She sat on Morgan's worn-out sofa, her legs tucked under her. Morgan's notepad and two now-empty coffee cups were on the coffee table between them. "It didn't work." Morgan leaned back in her desk chair and ran both hands through her short dark hair. "And I failed. Miserably, if I'm honest." "How miserably?" "Four days wasted miserable. Four days in which I tried…-
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The next few days blurred together in her memory since there wasn't much happening. Then on Friday, Chloe woke up at seven and went through her yoga routine, even though her knees still protested as soon as she went into downward dog. The marks from the studio floor at Throat Me had faded to ugly green and yellow stains on her knees, and her throat felt almost normal again. Swallowing no longer hurt, and her voice no longer sounded like she was a chain smoker after a night of heavy drinking. Her cell…
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Chapter 27 – Bound.com
The word echoed through the Armory, and Buck stepped up to her. Oh God, here we go. Chloe hung limply from the ropes of the bondage rig, her wrists and ankles secured in the soft but unyielding leather restraints that held her in a spread-eagle position. At the edge of her field of vision, she saw a microphone appear, which a sound engineer carefully positioned above the rig, staying out of the camera's view. When she turned her head, she saw him, and Ethan at the camera, and further back in the…-
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Chapter 46 – Impasse
The cursor blinked. Blinked. Blinked. Chloe stared at the screen as if she could force the words in her investigation document to make more sense through sheer willpower. Three days had passed since the party, during which she had read the same fragments over and over again, trying to read something else into them than what she feared they meant. Thompson. John. Logistics. Girls. Merchandise. Dubai. She scrolled up to her older entries. Then back down. Then up again. As if that would change…-
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Chapter 29 – On Your Marks
"Ben!" She forced herself to flash a radiant Chloe Heart smile and stood up. "What a surprise!" He spread his arms as if to hug her, but then changed his mind and patted her on the shoulder instead. "I heard you were absolutely fantastic, handled the shoot like a pro!" "Oh, thank you." She kept her smile going, but let a little bit of her displeasure creep into her voice. "It would have been nice to know you were coming." Ben raised his hands reassuringly. "Hey, I had stuff to do here anyway, I…-
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Chapter 21 – Backdoor Escape
She had to get out of here. But how? Just leaving was not an option. And then she saw Elena. The Latina was leaning against the wall next to the French doors leading to a terrace. Even from a distance, Chloe could see that something was wrong. Elena was swaying slightly and her eyes were glassy and unfocused. A man was standing way too close to her. Sixty maybe, with thinning hair and hands that seemed to be everywhere. On her hip, her arm, her butt. Elena barely reacted, just stared into…-
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Chapter 60 – Dirty Dreams
"Action!" Guido clapped his hands once, and suddenly everything was silent except for the almost inaudible hum of the cameras. The cameraman with the Steadicam moved closer to her. Daniel smiled at Chloe with that warm and somehow far too honest smile and took a step closer, placing a hand on her hip as if it were the most natural thing in the world, as if they did this every afternoon when he came home from work. His other hand brushed a strand of hair behind her ear. "Hey, beautiful," he…-
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Chapter 14 – Breakthrough
She gasped for air like a fish out of water. Every breath felt like she had swallowed sandpaper. Her throat burned like fire, no, worse, as if someone had pushed a red-hot poker through it and twisted it a few times just to make sure there was enough damage. A production assistant, young, maybe twenty, wearing a "THROAT ME CREW" T-shirt, rushed over with a towel. Chloe took it gratefully, wiped her face with it, but her hands were shaking so much she almost dropped it. The training had helped, yes.…-
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Chapter 51 – We
"What did you find out?" Chloe took a deep breath. "Quite a bit. But a lot of it is fragments that I can't piece together. What do you have?" "Ladies first." Chloe snorted. "Not sure I'm much of a lady, but okay." Then she began to recount the results of her investigation, chronologically and step by step. About Ben Ziegler, Randy Miles, Valeria Cruz, and what went on at their parties, Elena Rodriguez, Trevor Knight, Madeline Stokes, Lucia DeVries, and Ethan Cooper. Morgan took notes…-
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