Liam didn't look up. "Yeah."
"Everyone's calling you a monster," Maya said, pressing record.
Liam pulled a dusty VHS from his bag—the master copy, labeled UNCUT - DO NOT AIR . He slid it across the table.
But one journalist, a twenty-two-year-old named Maya Ross from NME , refused to write the easy outrage piece. She had watched the banned video—the uncensored version, leaked from a disgruntled editor’s VHS. And she knew something the tabloids didn't.