"No," Aylin shook her head vigorously, fresh tears streaming down her cheeks. "No, my dad wouldn't do this. He wouldn't betray his team. He wouldn't…"
But the files weren't lying. Encrypted messages, financial transactions, and meeting logs all traced back to Marcus Alston as the source of the leaked information.
"My dad was the one who turned Charles into a traitor," Aylin whispered, her voice cracking. "According to this, he's the one who set him up."
She stood up so suddenly that her chair fell over. "No! This is wrong! My dad was a good man! He would never…"
"Aylin," Jane said softly, reaching out for her.
But Aylin pulled away, typing like a whirlwind and pulling up file after file. "There has to be something. Some proof that he didn't do this. Someone else must have planted this evidence. Someone..."
