MASKED AND RUINED
Chapter Fifteen
By six in the morning the clip had over two million views. Wren watched the number climb in real time from Alaric's kitchen table, coffee going cold in front of her, Priya's laptop propped between them with three news sites open in separate tabs, each one running some version of the same headline.
VOSS ADMITS TO YEARS-LONG COVER-UP IN LEAKED AUDIO.
"They're not even pretending to wait for comment anymore," Priya said, scrolling through a fourth outlet that had already published a full timeline of the "scandal," most of it wrong, all of it damaging. "This is moving faster than anything I've ever tried to contain."