Serena jolted awake to the incessant buzzing of her phone on the nightstand. She groggily reached for it, squinting at the bright screen that seared her sleep-blurred vision. Serena's brow furrowed. Why was her manager calling so early in the morning? "Hello?" she mumbled in a voice still thick and groggy with the remnants of slumber. "Oh my god, Serena! Have you seen the news?" Kate's voice was high-pitched with panic on the other end, causing Serena's stomach to clench with a tendril of dread. "Seen what news?" She rubbed her eyes, trying to shake off the lingering cobwebs of sleep clouding her mind as wakefulness slowly seeped back in. "There's a video circulating online of you being intimate with some strange man!" Kate babbled in her frantic rush to get them out. "It's going

