ring lights outside the bulletproof glass
h, cold glow of three massive monitors r
System warned her that neural load was at sixty percent, but her fingers
ough. She wanted to rip Colten's empi
moved like digital ghosts, slipping through the
nto the Chief Financial Officer's encrypted cloud drive. The system be
ater, the barr
he found the massive tax evasion on government contracts. She tracked millions of dollars be
tory. Hundreds of pages of explicit, graphic texts proving they h
hing. Her heart rate stayed at a flat 60 BPM. The original
ority intake portal, exploiting a backdoor to flag it as a Tier-One National Security threat. She calculated the explosive nature of the evidence would guarantee f
Trojan horse. She injected it directly into t
red warning flashed
empting physica
ered the direct connection and d
ng a highly aggressive, incredibly sophisticated al
through her veins. She engaged the unknown hacker i
tiny gap in her firewall
ntum processing power to reverse-engineer the tracker'
e tower in the heart of Wall Street. The h
sharp laugh. The snake
her opponent, because an angry man makes mistakes. Instead of a childish image, she attached a single, chilling line of text, and fired it st
cer-stared in horror as his screens locked up, displaying nothing but that glowing, mo
nections. She wiped h
took a sip. She checked the wall clock. 4:00
er on freezing cold. She stood under the icy spray, let
ored, pitch-black women's suit. No jewelry. No makeu
lide, chambering a round with a sharp metallic clack, and s
s. Erica hung a micro-USB drive around her neckr sunglasses and slid them on, hi
elevator down to th
f Range Rover she had ordered the night befor
er was cold. She hit the ignition. The heavy en
e and merged into the chaot
up Headquarters. The exe
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