Claudia's heart sank. Clicking on the picture, a sharp line of text jabbed at her: Mr. Dreskin was seen with a mysterious beautiful woman at midnight.

The picture below depicted Bennett and a young woman, her face obscured by a mask, exiting a car and entering a hotel late at night. The timestamp on the photo read zero fifty from the night before.

Bennett had sent his message to Claudia at eleven ten last night. Could Bennett really have been with this Kayla last night?

Claudia's emotions were in turmoil. For a fleeting moment, she felt fortunate that she hadn't acted on impulse and confessed her feelings that night.

She struggled to formulate a response to Aurora's probing text. Eventually, she settled on sending a meme that read, "I don't know."