NOVEL 03 YT

Mara is 31, and she has always been the quiet one in her family, the one who cleans up after her younger sister. Sloane is a lifestyle influencer with two hundred thousand followers, and three weeks ago Mara refused to give her twenty thousand dollars for a studio. Then, at a family dinner at their father's house, Sloane walked into the study, found Mara's work laptop open on a payroll page, filmed it laughing, and posted it for the whole internet to mock. The comments loved it at first. Then someone paused the video. By the time Sloane rushed home, two police officers were standing in the living room, and the salary was the least important thing she had exposed.