"Delete the girl from your phone right now—who is she in...

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1. Delete the girl from your phone right now—who is she in that hotel selfie?
2. What hotel selfie are you talking about?
3. Langham, 11:14 PM yesterday, you in that blue jacket.
4. Langham? I was there for Sam's work dinner, you know that.
5. Then explain the screenshots of your number calling her ‘Lola’ and saying miss you.
6. Screenshots can be edited, you know that, Maya.
7. They show your exact typo from last week, Ethan, and the same timestamp.
8. Okay fine, I was there with her, but it’s not what it looks like.
9. Not what it looks like? Then what is it, because it looks like you kissed her.
10. She’s an informant, we were running a sting on a corrupt developer.
11. You never told me you were doing stings, you told me you sold software.
12. Saying I was sales was safer for both of us, I couldn’t risk it.
13. Safer for you, not for me—so you used our life as cover?
14. It was to bait a mole who’s been leaking names and photos to the papers.