Eternity Crux by Jamie Canosa Read Free Book Online

stairs I assumed I was meant to take to the third floor. Second door on the . . . Right? Left? I stood there, eyes darting back and forth between my two options. 50-50 chance of walking into some serious trouble.
    Mind made up, I turned right for no other reason than my gut said so, and the door behind me opened.
    “Auralia. Where are you going?”
    So much for my gut. Cringing at how close I’d come to messing everything up, I spun around and followed Jaz inside a large dressing room. Clothes—everything from evening gowns to pantsuits—hung along the walls, makeup and hair supplies coated the vanity, and I caught the reflection of a woman with curly black hair seated primly on the edge of a chaise.
    “Auralia?” Her voice was familiar. I’d heard her on TV, or the radio, or something.
    “That’s me. I’m assuming you’re Dev?”
    “You’d be correct. I hear you have something for me.” Dev stood and crossed the area rug, hands reaching for the file.
    I’d made copies of everything before I ever left the hospital and stashed them right where Sayer had, but it was still beyond difficult to hand it over. I was putting all of my faith in a woman I’d known for all of ten seconds. And trust wasn’t something I was feeling in bulk supply as of late.
    “This is . . . perfect.” She scanned page after page, quickly moving through the documents. “There’s no way they’ll be able to deny all of this.”
    “How soon can you have it on air?”
    “It’ll take a little rescheduling. And I’ll have to go over all of this in a meeting with the executives of each individual station.” Dev glanced up and caught sight of my need for speed. “By this afternoon, at the latest. Give me a few hours.”
    Good enough. “I want this included with it.” Handing over the only picture I had of Sayer was even harder than giving up the file. “His name is Sayer Cane. He used to be a security officer for the Legion until he found out what they were doing. He’s the one responsible for all of this. For exposing the Legion. You make sure everyone knows it.”
    If he was still alive—I was loath to admit, even to myself, that there had to be an if attached to that statement—they couldn’t execute him after this without turning him into a martyr.
    “I will. I promise.” Dev took the picture and tucked it inside the file.
    “Ready to go?” I’d almost forgotten Jaz was still in the room, she’d been so quiet, pacing in the corner like an anxious cat.
    “Yeah.” There was nothing else to be done here. And there was somewhere else I needed to be.
     
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    “Where to?” Jaz sat beside me as I cruised along the back streets, actively avoiding traffic cameras.
    “I’m taking you home.”
    “Where are you going?”
    “The Legion.” Jaz looked at me like I was crazy. Possibly because I was crazy. I was planning to walk right into the headquarters of the people who wanted nothing more than my head on a silver platter. It didn’t get much crazier than that. “They have Sayer. When all hell breaks loose, I don’t want some trigger happy goon,” AKA Galen, “to get carried away and take his frustrations out on him. I have to get him out of there.”
    “How do you plan on doing that?”
    “Like you said, it’ll be chaos. I’m hoping that’s enough to get me in and both of us back out.”
    Jaz looked thoroughly unconvinced by my foolproof plan. “And what if it’s not? What if you both end up captured?”
    “I’ve done what I can to help Sayer. At least I’ll be there to point out the flaw in their logic if they decide to kill him.”
    “What about you?”
    Including a picture of myself along with Sayer’s might not have been a bad idea, but too little, too late. “I’ll figure it out.”
    “Auralia—”
    “Thank you, Jaz. For all your help. I can’t tell you how much Sayer and I appreciate it.” I stopped outside her complex and left the unit running. “I suggest you stay inside for the