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Chapter 32 – Sinking In
Chloe stared at her phone. The numbers couldn't be right. 14,159 followers on Instapic. She rubbed her eyes and looked again. The number remained the same. With trembling fingers, she grabbed her laptop and opened Instapic there. The same picture. Was this a prank by Ben? She opened a new tab and navigated to Hitter. The little blue check mark next to her name – when had that appeared? – sat enthroned above another impossible number: 11,764 followers. Last week it was a thousand,…-
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The first thing Chloe felt when she woke up was pain. It was still deep in her abdomen, a dull, throbbing ache that grew sharper with every movement. She carefully rolled onto her side and groaned in unison with the bed. Okay. This can't go on. She stared at the ceiling of her shabby apartment and thought of all the reasons she didn't want to see a doctor. The questions, the looks, the judgment, the possibility that someone would recognize her. But the pain didn't subside. If anything, it had…-
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Chapter 24 – Pineapple Juice
Steve was sitting on the couch, laptop on the coffee table, frantically trying to close a tab. But it was too late, she had already seen it. Her Throat Me video was on the screen. "Oh shit!" Steve's face turned bright red. "Sorry! I swear, I was just checking out the new releases on Naughty Net and yours was featured on the front page!" Unsure what to do, he hastily closed the laptop, then opened it again, closed it again, like a nervous clam. "I didn't know you were filming for Throat Me!" he…-
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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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Chapter 62 – Artsy Fartsy
Chloe put on her sunglasses and set off, with no particular direction, except, of course, roughly toward home. She could still take the bus or call a cab after she'd spoken to Morgen, whose number she was just dialing. This time she even picked up after the first ring. "How was it?" "He knows something." "Let's hear it." Chloe told her everything, from Daniel's unrequited crush on Samantha, the rejection, what he'd said about the tumultuous on-again-off-again relationship between Samantha and…-
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Chapter 55 – Late Night Wine
"What shall we drink to?" Chloe thought for a moment. "To a successful penetration?" Morgan snorted, half amused, half guilty. "Fine. To a successful penetration." They clinked glasses, and Chloe took a big sip. Chloe's gaze wandered through Morgan's living room, which now, in the warm light of the desk lamp and the small floor lamp in the corner, seemed less chaotic than the first time she was here. More cozy. It was obviously the mess of someone who thought too much and tidied up too…-
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Chapter 64 – Behind the Lens
They ordered from an Asian restaurant that Daz found on a delivery app, and while they waited, Chloe threw one of the fluffy bathrobes from the bathroom on and sat down on one of the bar stools at the kitchen island. Daz sat across from her with his laptop between them, scrolling through the footage he'd recorded so far. While they waited for the food, she complained to him about her supposed woes over completely made-up dating stories, and Daz proved to be a sympathetic listener, it was a pleasant and…-
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Chapter 65 – Beware the Pattern
Her apartment greeted her with merciless heat. Chloe closed the door behind her, tossed the keys onto the kitchen counter, and pulled her tank top over her head on the way to the bathroom without even turning on the light first. She took a quick lukewarm shower and then put on an oversized T-shirt and shorts. Her damp hair stuck to the back of her neck. She flung the windows open briefly to let the stale air out, but not even the slightest breath of wind came through the open window. Chloe sat down…-
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