Zoey was struck down with a severe fever, the kind that scorched her body to a sweltering 104 degrees. In the dead of night, she

was rushed to the hospital.

Throughout her fevered dreams, she muttered Ozzy's name, one moment envisioning Ozzy turned into a hot dog, the next

witnessing Wendy tossing Ozzy off a cliff.

The doctor pumped her full of every medication under the sun, but nothing took.

Ozzy had becZoey's haunting obsession.

Cornelia, feeling a pit of worry in her stomach, called Maja.

After hearing the full story, Maja's head throbbed with fury.

Hanging up, she dialed the property management without hesitation.

She had negotiated the contract with them and had no trouble remotely accessing the surveillance footage.

Maja also had Beck look into Wendy's international rap sheet and sure enough, Wendy's mean streak abroad was as clear as day.

She'd led a bullying crusade against a classmate at Windhelm Academy, driving the poor soul to drop out and, rumor had it, to a

suicide attempt. It cost the Bennitts a cool $200,000 to smooth over.

But since the incident was abroad, it barely made a ripple, at least not all the way to Windhelm.

Maja's fingers flew over her keyboard, her expression grim.

In no time, a bombshell dropped on the domestic trending charts.

Breaks into a

face, and even her cruel words about turning a dog into a hot dog were

protect Zoey's reputation, her

logged onto her domestic Twitter and retweeted without a

account wielded significant clout in the entertainment industry; ever since her company pivoted to showbiz, they

stars. Plus, the buzz from her fling with lan only boosted

the charge in sharing the news, it cemented the

tweet. She also posted a video

that footage, Wendy's arrogance was

"When I'm around, do yourself a

share a school doesn't mean

can't touch my

her face hidden, sobbed and

rose

video, paired with the pet-snatching footage, Wendy was catapulted to the

fire, tweeting, [Quite the sense of entitlement

a heavy blow, dragging the entire

exploded. Netizens turned Wendy's video clips into a slew

the target of over a million vitriolic

and screenshot

blasting another tweet.

and then taunting with a braised meat video? Dog

exclusively for the Bennitts?]

screenshot sent

through the mud, except Tyler, who had long declared his estrangement from the

not having

with messages urging him to break free from such a

the online ,

Maja struck, Wendy's

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