The title was simple.
Used and Abused
The video opened on a face that nearly every person in the country recognized.
Alexandra.
The girl who had destroyed Maximilian Vice. The fragile blonde who'd wept before a camera and dismantled the most powerful man in the awakened content industry with nothing but the truth and her own broken voice.
Her confession had trended alongside the presidential conference. It had turned public opinion into a weapon that put Vice on death row and made Kaiden Grey's name recognized all around the globe.
That girl was sitting in a dark room. The lighting was soft, warm, carefully placed to illuminate her face while leaving everything around her in shadow. She looked different from the video that had made her famous.
The devastation was gone. Sadness still lived in her eyes, but it was the kind that had been carried long enough to become familiar, grief that had settled into her bones and found a place to rest instead of tearing her apart.
