Chapter 14 —

The clip took three minutes to become the city’s newest fever.

Nicole’s collapse at Mulberry looped across platforms: a red dot, a hand to the stomach, a scarf slipping, a face leaning in the shadow. Ten seconds, thirty seconds, a minute — trimmed and re-trimmed with captions and outrage: Scandal, Breaking, Is she a mastermind? Two hashtags trended before dawn. A thousand strangers typed verdicts from screens that blurred sympathy into accusation.

Camille saw it ...