w kind of tension. The excited chatter of th

e?" Chloe snapped at the cashi

ith the machine, ma'am,"

to the banking apps. "There's... there's a security hold. All the accounts are

probably terrible anyway. I got a notice about an old unpaid medical bill a fe

stood immediately. My trashed credit score w

"Call the credit bureaus and fi

do that?" I

nd anger. "Ava, stop this! Chloe is trying to do someth

rrified as they eyed the

e hell?" Jessica cr

Ava, just

t a game. You are going to help

The face I used to love, the face I had seen in my ni

pulling my arm a

im not to leave. He had used that threat against me a hu

anym

t me, their panic

er, Ava!" one o

Jessica yelled, her face blotchy with fear. "Chloe will figure

it because the alternative-that they were o

t Chloe, whose bravado was completel

t carrying across the silent store. "Pay