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Chapter Two Hundred And Five
Darren is in his study, sitting behind his massive dark mahogany desk. The single desk lamp was turned on, casting long shadows across the dark leather armchairs and heavy bookshelf cabinets.Things had just escalated to a level he wasn't expecting this night, and the weight of the mess was crushing his chest. He banged the table hard in frustration, the loud thud echoing sharply against the silent wood panels of the room.His hand throbbed from the impact, but he barely even felt the sting. He couldn't stop replaying the scene on the staircase over and over in his head like a bad movie loop."How could I be so stupid?" Darren muttered, shoving his fingers through his wet hair and tugging hard at the roots. "I completely lost my damn mind."How could he have stupidly allowed his emotions to take over at the exact moment he needed to stay cool? He was usually so smooth, so calculating, always keeping his cool while everyone else around him panicked.Now he had laid his hands on Riley,
Chapter Two hundred and four
Kaelen paused in the doorway, his mind racing as he glanced up and down the silent corridor. After making sure that nobody saw him, he proceeded to pick up the envelope from the floor. He was smart about it, dropping his pen first to pretend to drop something of course. He knew there were cameras all around his room and its surroundings, constantly recording every single movement. He scooped up the pen and the thick paper in one smooth motion, shoving both into his front pocket before stepping completely back inside. He locked the heavy door behind him and leaned against the wall to catch his breath. He reached into his pocket and pulled the envelope out, balancing it in his palm. The damn thing was heavy, making him wonder if it was a USB, an item that was high tech he needed, or what? He felt extremely skeptical as he ran his fingers along the thick edges of the paper. There was no one he was in correspondence with at the base that would probably want to strike any deal with
Chapter Two Hundred And Three
Kaelen flipped the heavy master switches on the wall, plunging the main laboratory into total darkness. He stepped out into the bright corridor and pulled the heavy door shut behind him. He swiped his high-level security keycard across the wall scanner until the small light turned from red to a solid green. The electronic lock engaged with a loud, mechanical clack that echoed down the quiet hallway. A few feet away, an older man in grey coveralls was slowly pushing a broad mop across the shiny linoleum floor. He looked like a completely harmless, random janitor just doing his night shift duty. Kaelen paused for a second, noticing the way the old man was standing. The janitor was staring directly at Kaelen's hands and the keycard reader. Kaelen forced a polite smile onto his face as he tucked the card back into his front pocket. "Is there something wrong, sir?" The old man stopped scrubbing the floor and leaned both hands heavily on the yellow wooden handle of his mop. He gave
Chapter Two Hundred And Two
Darren stepped out of his car, and the heavy rain immediately soaked right through his expensive suit jacket. He slammed the car door shut and sprinted toward the front porch, cursing under his breath with every single step.He had never had an evening that was as utterly frustrating as today. Everything about tonight was absolute trash, from the miserable weather to his crushed expectations with the Mafia tech guy.He unlocked the front door and slipped inside, pushing the heavy wooden door shut against the howling wind. The house was completely dark and quiet, and for a split second, he actually felt lucky.The absolute last thing he wanted to deal with right now was facing Riley and listening to her endless nagging again. His head was pounding, his clothes were dripping wet on the foyer rug, and his temper was hanging by a very thin thread.Just let me make it upstairs to my room in peace, Darren thought to himself as he stood in the dark hall.Naturally, he realized he had probabl
Chapter two hundred and one
"What just happened?" she asked hurriedly, her eyes wide as she stared at the flashing red error screens. "Why did the trace drop?" The man in the chair took off his headset and threw it onto the desk, leaning back with a long, stressed sigh. "I hit a wall," the guy explained, his voice shaking a little as he pointed at the corrupted data logs. "I met up with a firewall that looked totally simple on the surface, but it was actually a disguised, ridiculously advanced piece of tech." "A disguised firewall?" Darren asked, stepping forward with his forehead scrunched up. "What does that even mean?" "It means it was a trap, old man," the guy snapped, rubbing his tired eyes. "It looked like a basic open port on a local server, but the moment I tried to pull the root files, a secondary counter-protocol kicked in and fried the bridge." "Can you bypass it?" the lady asked, her tone sharp and demanding. "Can you reconnect through a different proxy?" "Hell no," the tech guy said, shaking hi
Chapter Two Hundred
"We're in," the guy in the chair said, his fingers finally coming to a stop on the mechanical keyboard. "I've successfully gained access to the primary server stream."Darren stood right behind the guy, his arms crossed tightly over his chest. He glared down at the bright monitor with a heavy, skeptical look on his face."Is that it?" Darren asked, his voice completely flat and unimpressed. "Is that really everything you have to show for all this talk?"He was unconvinced by the screen in front of him. To his eyes, it just looked like a bunch of random white text scrolling down a black background.He had braced a massive storm just to get to this underground facility tonight. He had lied to his business partners, evaded his own security team, and risked his entire reputation to work with these criminals.There was no way he was going to take a loss here. He had not gone through all that stress just to watch a meaningless performance on a monitor."I need real locations and real names,
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