bChapter /bb101 /b

“What do you mean?” Elianna Stone stared at her.

Mona Gibson leaned in and whispered in her ear.

A smile spread across Elianna’s face, he

earlier gloom vanishing. “That’s a great idea.”

Skr Lambert had just gotten back to her office at Phidon when a notification popped up on her phone.

[Moonlit Hunt lead possibly fixed]

[Sapphire abuses power to make things difficult]

‘I have a pretty good idea what this is about,’ Skr thought, tapping the notification. Sure enough, it was exactly what she’d expected.

Elianna was ying the victim on X.

She imed she adored “Moonlit Hunt,” but Sapphire’s behavior had deeply disappointed her.

She’d invited Sapphire to dinner to pitch herself for a role, only to discover Sapphire was someone she already knew.

ording to Elianna, Sapphire disliked her intensely and tried to leave immediately. Elianna had to humble herself, begging Sapphire to stay just long enough to hear her interpretation of the character.

They’d started off talking civilly, but then Elianna supposedly said something to offend Sapphire, who then bluntly stated Elianna would never get the

role.

Elianna capped it off by insincerely tagging the author’s X ount and apologizing.

What Elianna didn’t know was that Freya was the one behind that author ount.

Freya,pletely blindsided, found herself dragged into the mess, with Elianna’s fans swarming her mentions.

“What in the world is going on?” Freya muttered. She’d just finished a meeting and pulled out her phone to check the time.

A notification caught her eye, but when she tried to open X, the app crashed from the flood of messages. After a long wait, she finally got in, staring bewildered at the random tags and the horde of angry fans.

‘I haven’t done anything! How did I end up trending for all the wrong reasons?‘ Freya Lambert wondered,pletely baffled.

After quickly catching up on the situation online, she gritted her teeth. “Sapphire, you’re just making trouble for me with all this drama!”

She checked the editor’s ount but saw no new posts. She hesitated, then decided not to respond yet.

‘The book’s contract was just signed; the editor and publishingpany won’t let this slide,’ she reasoned. ‘I’ll wait for their official statement and then rify things.’

Skr received a message from her editor and replied, telling them not to worry about it. She was actually curious to see how Freya would bsmooth /bbthis /b

overb. /b

Freya waited ba /blong time, but no new official statement appeared. Thements under her X posts kept piling up, each bone /bnastier bthan /bbthe /bbst/b.

bEven /bthough she wasn’t the “Sapphire” they were mad bat/b, she was managing the ount, so an attack bon /bbSapphire /bbfelt /bblike /ban battack /bbon /bbher /b

bShe /bbcouldn’t /btake it anymoreb. /bbShe /bmessaged Elianna first- b[/bYou need bto /bbget /bthis trending btopic /bbtaken /bdown. Right bnow/bb./bb) /b

b1/2 /b

Elianna replied, [Why are you helping Skr? Don’t tell me she’s gotten to you too?]

[It’s tooplicated to exin right now,] Freya typed back. (Just do as I say.]

[If you don’t exin, then sorry, I can’t do what you ask,] Elianna retorted.

“Idiot!” Freya fumed and immediately called

Elianna toy out the whole situation

“Do you get it now?” Freya’s voice was sharp.

person you sed your fans on

mel”

Elianna, recovering from her shock, asked, “Why didn’t you tell me sooner?”

“I don’t have Skr under 24/7 surveince! How was I supposed to know you’d invite her out and then try to stir up a media storm against herb?/bb” /bbFreya /bwas clearly agitated. “Just fix this, and fast. If this blows up, it’ll be bad for me, and iyou /iwon’t get off easy either.”

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