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Chapter 306: Slut-Shame
By the time Nathan and Nina reached the Braxton gates the next morning, the video had already been debunked, flagged, and taken down from every major platform. It hadn't mattered. The internet doesn't forget just because a fact-check catches up to it a few hours late, and neither, apparently, did a college campus.Nina felt it the second she stepped through the doors. Heads turning. Conversations dying mid-sentence and starting up again the moment she'd passed, a beat too loud, a beat too pointed. A girl she barely knew actually took a photo of her walking down the hall, not even pretending to be subtle about it."Ignore it," Nathan said, low, beside her."I'm trying."They almost made it to her first class clean.Four guys were leaning against the lockers near the science wing, the kind who traveled in a pack because none of them had quite enough nerve to say anything alone. Nathan recognized one of them vaguely from the gym, the loudest one, a broad kid named Trent who'd been trying
Chapter 305
Nathan turned the phone so she could see it, and watched the color drain out of Nina's face in real time.The clip was already past ten thousand shares by the time it loaded, climbing while they stood there watching it climb, the counter refreshing itself every few seconds like something alive. The thumbnail alone was enough. A woman who moved like Nina, tilted her head like Nina, tucked her hair behind her ear in that exact small habit only someone who'd sat across from her a hundred times would ever think to fake."That's not.." Nina's voice came out thin. "Nathan, that's not me. I swear to you, that never happened, I don't even know where that footage..""I know it's not real.""How do you know that so fast, you haven't even..""Because I know you," he said, simple, flat, no hesitation in it at all. "And because whoever built this got the walk right and the voice wrong. It's close. It's not you."She grabbed the phone from his hands and watched eleven seconds of it before she could
Chapter 304
Nathan turned the phone so she could see it, and watched the color drain out of Nina's face in real time.The clip was already past ten thousand shares by the time it loaded, climbing while they stood there watching it climb, the counter refreshing itself every few seconds like something alive. The thumbnail alone was enough. A woman who moved like Nina, tilted her head like Nina, tucked her hair behind her ear in that exact small habit only someone who'd sat across from her a hundred times would ever think to fake."That's not.." Nina's voice came out thin. "Nathan, that's not me. I swear to you, that never happened, I don't even know where that footage..""I know it's not real.""How do you know that so fast, you haven't even..""Because I know you," he said, simple, flat, no hesitation in it at all. "And because whoever built this got the walk right and the voice wrong. It's close. It's not you."She grabbed the phone from his hands and watched eleven seconds of it before she could
Chapter 303: Deep Fake
Nathan turned the phone so she could see it, and watched the color drain out of Nina's face in real time.The clip was already past ten thousand shares by the time it loaded, climbing while they stood there watching it climb, the counter refreshing itself every few seconds like something alive. The thumbnail alone was enough. A woman who moved like Nina, tilted her head like Nina, tucked her hair behind her ear in that exact small habit only someone who'd sat across from her a hundred times would ever think to fake."That's not.." Nina's voice came out thin. "Nathan, that's not me. I swear to you, that never happened, I don't even know where that footage..""I know it's not real.""How do you know that so fast, you haven't even..""Because I know you," he said, simple, flat, no hesitation in it at all. "And because whoever built this got the walk right and the voice wrong. It's close. It's not you."She grabbed the phone from his hands and watched eleven seconds of it before she could
Chapter 302: Aftermath
The Delano house didn’t feel like the house Nathan had walked out of days earlier for a court hearing. Someone had opened every curtain. Someone had put music on low in the kitchen, something with a bit of brass in it, and the smell of actual cooking, not catering trays, drifted out into the hall the moment Nathan stepped through the front door.“You’re on time,” Nina said, meeting him in the entryway. “I’m shocked.”“I told you I’m not a billionaire. Billionaires are late. I’m just a guy with a car.”“Sure.” She took his jacket like it was the most natural thing in the world, hung it on the hook by the door, and for a second neither of them said anything, just stood there in the quiet hallway with the whole exhausting week finally, briefly, somewhere else.Dinner itself was almost aggressively normal, which felt like its own kind of miracle after the last seventy-two hours. Delano carved a roast at the head of the table and told a long, exaggerated story about a campaign stop years a
Chapter 301: Not A Billionaire
They stayed on the courthouse steps longer than any of them meant to, the crowd thinning slowly as reporters got their footage and moved on to file their pieces, the last of the cameras packing away as the afternoon light started going gold and low over the buildings across the street.Delano got pulled aside twice more, once by an aide with a stack of statements that needed his signature before the evening news cycle, once by an old political ally offering congratulations that sounded, to Nathan's ear, at least partly like a man already calculating what the win meant for next year's budget fights. Delano handled both with the easy patience of someone who'd been doing this longer than Nathan had been alive, and eventually waved off the rest of the line waiting to shake his hand, telling them all, cheerfully, that his daughter had somewhere to be and so did he.Nathan finally caught a quiet moment alone with Nina near the car, the folder still tucked under her arm like she wasn't ready
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