CHAPTER 21

GAIA

This was the first time I was going to be seeing the security footage. The way it was heavily guarded made me wonder what exactly it showed.

As he pressed play on the remote, I removed my eyes from the screen and moved to Javon. He still didn't seem fazed, didn't seem like someone who was on trial for doing anything wrong.

And it bothered me.

As soon as his eyes met mine, I looked back at the screen.

For the first few minutes, there was nothing there, and then I saw someone.

It was just a figure, just a figure of a man walking into the building.

They had got to be kidding me. How did they figure out that it was Javon just from this? I could barely even make out the race of the person because of how disturbed and distorted the video was.

There was a storm and this person was covering their face with their jacket.

His lawyer paused the video and turned back to Clay.

“So, as we can see from that very short clip, we see nothing. It is pretty obvious that it's a man from the b