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Hadley doesn’t She wipes herat the article, like she’s unsure what to do or say with her father here

Luckily, she’s gotto say to your father, no, I don’t think this tabloid article is going to be a problem for him”

Hadley whips her head around to her father and glares “A problem for you? Why on earth would this be a problem for you?”

He leans back on the couch, and replies, cool and collected as always, “Because when you’re a senator, the things your daughter does can cause ripples”

I watch the way Hadley flinches, and I knohere herthat doesn’t stray far frouilt in her eyes and feel for her Most wo to worry how their actions will affect their father’s career She’d been s the club and she’d taken every precaution to keep her secrets private The fault for all this falls on the blackmailer’s shoulders, not hers

Regardless, that darkness in her expression brings out ets out, lives will be destroyed Her reputation will be forever ruined, but so will the senator’s Because if one thing is true, the public has a long memory, and the senator will always be known as the father of the girl with the raunchy sex tape

Obviously Hadley doesn’t want to think too uilt, because she shifts the conversation back to ives me a sly smirk “Didn’t you say that you had the tabloids under control?”

That’s what I was thinking, too, but that only confirms my suspicions “When it is about me and my life, yes, I have the tabloids under control” I take the paper back frole that it’s very likely soe The chance of finding the exact location is sli such close tabs on Hadley, considering how personal this photo is, and then selling that photo to the tabloids, I don’t believe this is about me”

“Then ould it be about?” the senator asks

“You”

His brows shoot up “Me?”

“This corruption you spoke of has followed you home,” I explain

The senator places his coffee down and rises fro his hands in his pockets “Explain”

I sigh, glancing down at the paper innew in this article froain to spare Hadley’s e bells for the gorgeous bodyguard and the senator’s daughter? Our sources say yes! I scrunch the paper inis leaked aboutnew, a fresh story”

Hadley catches on quickly “And this is simply a new photo, with basically the same story as the last article about us?”