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We were sent this by DART. We need your team to edit.
She clicked on the video. It was the one Kynan had shown her. He’d obviously sent it to The Aegis to prove that Sig had killed Shanea and Noah not in self-defense, but in cold blood. This first email asked for it to be edited, not fit into an allotted time, but changing it so it looked less like The Aegis started the fight in the cafeteria.
Holy shit.
Her hand shaking a little, she quickly sought out the whistleblower blog, and her gut plummeted. The timestamp on The Aegis’s internal mail to alter DART’s video was dated several hours before the blog’s post.
Which meant The Aegis had doctored and leaked the video themselves and were now planning to publicly address it before DART could release their video. DART would claim theirs was the original and may eventually prove it. But by that time, it would be too late. Public sentiment would be with The Aegis.
Eva felt sick to her stomach.
“Hey.” Jennifer popped her head into the room. “You about ready?”
No. No, she wasn’t. She couldn’t discuss that video, knowing it was fake, knowing The Aegis was manipulating the public.
Knowing that she’d done it herself in the past.
“We can’t do the video segment, Jennifer.”
“Why not?”
“It’s not legitimate. It’s been manipulated.”
Jennifer rolled her eyes. “What are you talking about?”
“Come look.” Eva gestured to the files. “I have proof.”
With a huff, Jennifer came over, gave the emails a cursory glance, and then shrugged.
“So what? We don’t have time to change the script. The Elders want us to go with the version of the video we have.” Jennifer gave her a condescending smile. “I know a lot is happening all at once. Of course, you’re confused. But you’re a professional, and I have all the faith that you can do this. You gave a presser with a broken ankle once. That’s why I recommended you for this job. Don’t make me regret it.” She glanced down at her comms device. “Let’s go. We’re on the air in sixty seconds.”
Overwhelmed, angry, and so fucking tired of being lied to, manipulated, and forced into situations over which she had no control, she wanted to walk off the job. She wanted to tell Jennifer where she could shove the video.
But that wouldn’t right a wrong.
She couldn’t stop The Aegis from putting its spin on things, but shecouldslow the spin and give DART a chance to get the truth out.
She’d probably be unemployed by the end of the day and blackballed from the media by tomorrow, but her conscience would be clean.
Too bad clean consciences didn’t pay the bills.
Chapter Thirty-Four
By the time Kynan returned to the alcove, Logan had calmed down.
A little.
He was still steamed by the knowledge that he’d been lied to his entire life, but he was willing to hear Kynan out.
So were Scotty, Mace, and Blade, whojust happenedto be gathering in the lobby while Logan was meeting with Kynan.
“I just got off the phone with your dad,” Kynan said, taking a stance next to the arched entryway. “I know you’re hurt, but you were out of line.”
“I don’t want to talk about them,” Logan said, mainly because he couldn’t get the look of utter devastation he saw on his mom’s face out of his head. “I want to talk about you. How could you have taken part in of all that?”
Kynan braced his shoulder against the archway wall. “I’m not proud, Logan. I was in The Aegis when Pestilence’s Seal broke. We were desperate to avert the Apocalypse.”
“Yeah, I know. You sent my mom to seduce my dad because you thought I was the key to keeping his Seal from breaking.”
