Back Cruel
Chapters (70)
  1. Quote
  2. Prologue
  3. Dark Mind
  4. Alex
  5. Bully
  6. Blakely
  7. Target
  8. Blakely
  9. Identify
  10. Alex
  11. Cock-blocked
  12. Blakely
  13. Collect
  14. Alex
  15. Kindred
  16. Blakely
  17. Hypothesis
  18. Alex
  19. Target
  20. Blakely
  21. Test
  22. Alex
  23. 10. Outsider
  24. Outsider
  25. Blakely
  26. 11. Chemistry
  27. Chemistry
  28. Alex
  29. 12. White Rabbit
  30. White Rabbit
  31. Blakely
  32. 13. Bait
  33. Bait
  34. Blakely
  35. 14. Experiment
  36. Experiment
  37. Alex
  38. 15. Captive
  39. Captive
  40. Blakely
  41. 16. Defunct
  42. Defunct
  43. Alex
  44. 17. Committed
  45. Committed
  46. Blakely
  47. 18. Monster
  48. Monster
  49. Alex
  50. 19. The Little Death
  51. The Little Death
  52. Blakely
  53. 20. Entropy
  54. Entropy
  55. Alex
  56. 21. Metamorphosis
  57. Metamorphosis
  58. Alex
  59. 22. Escape
  60. Escape
  61. Blakely
  62. 23. Affliction
  63. Affliction
  64. Blakely
  65. Epilogue
  66. Alex
  67. Sneak Peek
  68. Also by Trisha Wolfe
  69. About the Author
  70. Acknowledgments

I fill his personal account with ads from The Naughty Playroom. Then for good measure, I retarget his social media account with the same ads featuring scantily-clad escorts.

Now, on to Rochelle’s latest victim.

I unkink my neck with a stretch, then dig into research on Katy Dee. She’s just a baby. Twenty-two years of age living right here in NYC. She’s an artist whose focus is on saving endangered animals. Her most popular art prints—zebras, pandas, and other various black-and-white mammals—were picked up by a known clothing brand, and the line proudly touts its use of all natural material.

I roll my eyes. All material is natural. But honestly, the mesh of sateen and voile boasts to be both posh and comfortable. I buy a few shirts before I tank Katy. What Rochelle doesn’t know won’t hurt her.

Okay—so what Rochelle is asking for technically can’t be done. Well, it can be, but the nerds will have Katy’s account back up not long after I take it down. She might not even register a blip in inactivity.

But there are other ways to nix a social media account. One just has to be creative.

I set the password cracker—that I proudly coded myself—and then go downstairs to make a cocktail. As I return to the loft, I’m surprised to see that my program has already cracked Katy’s Instagram password.

Pandas1234.

“Christ,” I mutter. Someone this naive is just asking for it. But her password gives me a terrible idea—and I love those.

I set to Googling endangered species hunters, and within a few minutes I find what I’m looking for. Brooke Cannon, a young socialite herself, likes to brag to the world about her number of kills. She’s quite the little serial killer of the world’s most endangered animals. And lucky me, she has a photo of her standing next to a dead panda—pink riffle held high in the air—that she shot herself.

How much sport is there in shooting a panda? Even I’m a little mortified.

More research proves that pandas bring in a lot of money for their fur.

Perfect.

With a little help from Photoshop, I have a believable pic of Katy Dee and Brooke sitting together and laughing over chardonnay as they toast the good life. The image goes up on Katy’s account. The post reads:

Throw back to that time me and my gal pal Brooke partied together! She was the inspiration for my panda prints!

I make sure to tag Brooke (so all Katy’s followers can hop over and take a gander at the mortifying images she posts to her account), and hashtag the shit out of the post, so every activist in the world will see.