Evan slammed his hand on the desk, frustration etched into his face. "Murder? Seriously?" he muttered, shaking his head in disbelief. "Where do they get the nerve to say such nonsense?"
Aurora's calm voice cut through his anger. [What can I say? They clearly don't want the truth to come out.]
She paused for a moment before continuing. [USL has already developed treatments for most types of cancer, and the USR is on the brink of creating a vaccine for AIDS. But the Federation's politics had kept them from releasing it. Now that you've taken the lead, it's like you've exposed their hypocrisy.]
Evan scoffed as he leaned back in his chair. "They're fuming, but they still won't release what they've got. What a stubborn lot of fools."
He had expected a backlash—bans, condemnation. What he didn't expect was the global powers sitting on their cures instead of retaliating with their own solutions.
