You Drive Me Crazy novel · Chapter 22 of 24

Chapter 22: The Crew Chief

On the screen, the woman in the raincoat zipped her canvas bag and walked out of the garage.

The clip ran twice.

Nobody in the tent made a sound for all the seconds it took.

Vivian stood at the microphone with her mouth slightly open.

For the first time since I had known her, she did not have a sentence.

Then she found one.

"That video has been altered," she said.

Her voice was thin.

"Anyone can fake a face with a computer. I was at this very museum two days ago. I have a hundred witnesses."

"You left at a quarter to twelve," the committee woman said, from the side of the stage. "I walked you to the door."

"Then it's a rendering."

"It has a time stamp," a man called from the crowd.

"It's a deepfake!"

"Did you cut the line, Vivian?" someone else said.

Her lawyer picked up his leather folder, stepped back from her, and walked off the stage without looking at her.

A murmur rose, ugly and low.

A man in a polo shirt I recognized from her office stood up in the third row.

"Haskell Motorsports is withdrawing its sponsorship from this event," he said. "As of now. And from the number nine program."

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