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“Exactly. But it wasn’t true. We were being manipulated.”
Logan really didn’t care about their lame reasons right now. “Get to the part where Mom was going to give me up, and you and Gem were going to raise me.”
Kynan took issue with Logan’s tone and cut him a sharp look before responding. “That was the plan. It was a stupid one. We know that now.” He drove his fingers through his hair and blew out a long breath. “Logan, I have a lot of regrets. We shouldn’t have done what we did. But every time I think that, I remember you came of it. And the Apocalypsewasaverted, even if it wasn’t in the way we anticipated.”
“My parents told me The Aegis tried to kill me.” That wasn’t in Eva’s video. According to The Aegis, they’d attempted to rescue Regan from the evil Horseman’s clutches, but he and his vampire servants had killed almost everyone on the rescue team. “Is that true, or just another lie?”
“It’s true,” Kynan said. “But I didn’t know until afterward. Without my knowledge, a team kidnapped your mother, and while your father fought their forces, they tried to rip you from Regan’s belly and sacrifice you. Again, they were manipulated by Pestilence’s loyalists. When that failed, Pestilence himself tried to kill you. What The Aegis did to your mother and you is why I left. It was something I should have done long before that, but I thought I could save The Aegis and turn it down a better path. I was an idiot, and I was wrong. You and your mother both paid for decisions I took part in, and I’m sorry.”
Logan had no idea what to think, feel, or say.
Fortunately, Kynan filled the void.
“You need to talk to your parents.”
That was the last thing Logan needed to do right now. Maybe after they got Draven—
A series of beeps screeched through the room.
Logan looked down at his comms device. An Aegis alert popped up, and he suspected everyone was getting the same one.
“Turn on the main viewer,” Logan barked at Blade. A heartbeat later, a life-sized color projection of The Aegis’s broadcasting room sprang up from the symbol embedded in the floor.
Logan’s heart twitched a little at the sight of Eva standing next to The Aegis’s Chief Spokesperson. Maybe they were announcing her promotion. Nah. If she’d gotten the job, she’d look less…troubled.
Jennifer started by saying that their people were still looking into the blood rain and insisted there was no reason for alarm.
“Isn’t that the same thing we’re telling people?” Scotty said, and Kynan nodded.
“I’ve got every world leader and military general breathing down my neck, but I’m not saying anything until we hear from Reaver.”
“Eventually, someone, probably Stryke, is going to figure out that it’s angel blood,” Logan said. “Then what?”
“I’ll call Aleka. If anyone can tell us if there’s any historical precedence for angel blood rain, it’s my sister,” Scotty said. “We need something to tell the people and keep them calm.”
“Especially because you know The Aegis will go in the opposite direction. They want to stoke anti-demon sentiment as much as they can, and panic is the way to do it.”
“Bastards.” That came from Mace.
“Shh!” Scotty hissed. “You guys, they’re talking about us.”
“…now that you’re back from DART, congratulations again on your promotion, Eva. You’re going to do The Aegis proud.”
Eva’s smile didn’t reach her eyes. Something was wrong.
“Thank you,” she said. “And congratulations to you on your new venture, Jennifer. Morning talk show host at Global News Now is amazing.”
Jennifer nodded. “With so much going on in the world right now, I’m sure I’ll be busy talking about all the stories. But you…youarethe story right now. What can you tell us about being ambushed by demons in the DART cafeteria?”
A chorus of “What the fuck?” rose around Logan. Shushing them, he moved closer, his heart pounding in anticipation of hearing Eva’s answer. She wouldn’t lie…would she?
“I wasn’t ambushed. I—and Keeley—actually only got to the cafeteria after the argument started.”
Jennifer’s mouth twitched in annoyance. “I see.” She laid a comforting hand on Eva’s arm and gave a dramatic shake of the head. “Well, it’s probably a good thing, or you might have been injured or even killed before Sig was able to stop the attack.”
“Holy shit, this is worse than I thought,” Kynan muttered, and then everyone shouted “Holy shit!” when the feed turned into a video. One that had been altered to show Shanea and Noah as the aggressors.
Kynan swore again and tapped his comms. “Arik! Get our video out to every news source and government that has asked about the incident.”
