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.

into

and even her cruel words about turning a

protect Zoey's reputation, her nwas omitted

the news hit the trend list, Maja logged onto her domestic Twitter and

wielded significant clout in the entertainment industry; ever since her company

buzz from her fling with lan only boosted

in sharing the

also posted a video of Wendy bullying the Windhelm

that footage, Wendy's arrogance was

the face repeatedly, sneering, "When I'm around,

Just because we share a school doesn't mean we're in the sleague. The lifetearnings of your

touch

her face hidden, sobbed

hand rose again and

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

to the fire, tweeting, [Quite the sense of

was a heavy blow, dragging the entire

turned Wendy's video clips into a slew

herself the target of over a million

unlock Zoey's phone and screenshot the braised

blasting another tweet.

taunting with a braised meat video? Dog lovers out there get

exclusively for the Bennitts?]

chat screenshot sent the online

Tyler, who had long declared his estrangement

having returned

with messages urging him to break

,

once Maja struck, Wendy's

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