“
I’m sorry,” Clark said quickly. “I didn’t mean to intrude.”
“Yes,” she said. “I trusted someone. I believed him. I wrote a story based on his claims. But he was lying to me. He was using me to protect his criminal activities.”
Clark longed to touch her. To hold her. To soothe away her distress. “Aw, Lois, I’m so sorry.”
She looked up, facing him directly. “Perry demanded evidence for what I wrote. I told him I had a rock-solid source. I told him that if he didn’t publish, I would leave.”
“Did he publish?”
“No.”
Lex is such a monster. This was probably part of a long-term plan to destroy the Daily Planet using the information from Lois' story which would have brought the paper to its ruin.
“I think Jack Mackenzie is the result of one of my father’s affairs.”
Urgh!
