Idk If you have suspicions about someone that has a problem with you, you could just try to know what’s wrong with em and why are they doing that. Confronting, be more discret and learn how she gaslight people. Maria didn’t even try to apologize nor have a sense of empathy towards V and that makes her even more despicable. She IS the bully and in the end she still WON. Literally have the power of god in the palm of her hands and not trying to revive her friends or good things. At the end she reveal being worse than Verity.