Chapter 79

Month after the Unity Council decision, I stood in the garden of our New York home watching my family prepare for what might be our last crisis together.

"The intelligence is solid," Solana said, reviewing reports from our international offices. she'd become our global security coordinator. "There's a coordinated effort to expose the psychic children's program. They want to paint us as a cult that exploits vulnerable kids."

"Who's behind it?" Dominic asked.

"Coalition of religious extremists, academic skeptics, and politicians who think we have too much influence," Isabella reported from her position as our legal director. "They've spent two years building a case against us."

"What kind of case?" I asked.

"They claim we're brainwashing traumatized children into believing they have supernatural powers. That we're using fake psychic abilities to manipulate governments and donors."

Kai looked up from his laptop where he'd been monitoring social media. "The disinformation campaign goes l