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Chapter 5
As soon as Dailey switched on her computer, she knew something was wrong. It was taking longer than usual to load up, and three little black dialogue boxes flashed across the screen.
'He's hacked me,' Dailey thought. 'Of course he has.'
Luckily, she'd deleted the awful pictures and didn't have anything else too incriminating on there... unless...
When she opened her emails, she found a new message from Drake. Inside was a screenshot. She didn't have to open it up to see it was the dreaded naked shots. Clicking through, she found something different to the images of her peach flesh.
She enlarged it to find it was a message exchange between herself and the guy she'd paid to write her college admissions essay. The one that had landed her a place at one of the best colleges in the country.
"Shit, shit, shit," she muttered. This was way worse than the threat of
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