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Ethan’s P.O.V. (Continued)I grunted but stayed calm on the surface.“Other than this laptop, do you have any other system somewhere else?” I asked Lucifer when the program showed no sign of invasion.forced myself to breathe.The program was still running.The defensive architecture was processing the incoming traffic.I needed to see the result.But my mind was somewhere else.The flicker had ended, but the man's words were still echoing inside my head.That man knew Lucifer, and he knew me, too.And right now, both of us are together.Whom he wanted to reach.The system approached me after that shootout when I killed that man.So, it might be possible that this man had my early information, as the system agreed to block all the information about me and my siblings afterwards.Still, the question remained the same.What I had that he needed.No…I refused to believe that he was after me.It must be Lucifer.I looked at Lucifer when he didn’t reply to me.He was staring at me with a
testing the program
Ethan’s P.O.V. (Continued)A flicker…Lucifer vanished from my sight, and I saw those rings again.The familiar fingers with those rings….They were moving swiftly over the keyboard.The code running on the screen showed that he was trying to break a firewall.The time in the right corner of the screen showed 8:45 A.M.“Ethan.” I blinked, and the ringing in my head stopped.Lucifer’s face appeared again.He had narrowed his eyes in concern.“You zoned out suddenly,” he remarked, but I was thinking about what that man was doing.The system didn’t appear in front of me, but the flicker showed a future event.I instantly looked at the time on my laptop screen.I sucked in a breath when I saw that it was 8:44 A.M.It meant that he was going to hack a system in a few seconds.But which system?I always see flickers of future events related to my siblings or me.I looked at two laptops in front of me.“What is it, Ethan?” Lucifer asked me alarmingly this time.But my mind was racing.This t
we both modified
Ethan’s P.O.V. (Continued)Lucifer did not answer immediately.His fingers stopped drumming against the edge of the desk.For the first time since I had entered the computer lab, his stoic expression changed.Only slightly.But I noticed it.I had always been good at noticing small changes.Especially when those changes involved people hiding something.“Because I was third in the semifinals.”My eyes widened in shock.I admitted that I had an answer in my head.And it was related to his investigation of my background.For several seconds, I didn’t know what to say.“That was the only competition where I didn’t reach finals,” he continued with the same indifference.“And the irony was that you didn’t even compete in finals.” He shrugged his shoulders while speaking, but there was no change in his expression and tone.“Because I never intended to,” I whispered and slowly withdrew my hand from the keyboard.I took a deep breath and leaned back.A sly smile crept on my lips.“I desperate
a part of my past
Ethan’s P.O.V. (Continued)I read them with interest and tried to understand what Lucifer exactly wanted to do.Our project was to build a security firewall for the corporates.But what he was building wasn’t just a powerful firewall.“The project only needs a pure firewall to protect the data from being hacked or stolen,” I remarked seriously, still studying the structure.“But this is beyond that.” I glanced at him out of the corner of my eye.He still had that stoic expression.“I wrote it. So, I know.” He remarked indifferently, making me roll my eyes internally.Lucifer leaned back slightly on the stool and crossed his arms.“Because a firewall only reacts after someone tries to breach the system.” He spoke calmly, but it wasn’t an explanation.It was a statement about his work.I looked back at the screen.“That isn't entirely true,” I remarked, a valid argument against his statement.“It is when the attacker is good enough.” I bit my lower lip when that man with rings and that
his care was genuine
Ethan’s P.O.V. (Continued)I also smiled widely. “I can say the same thing for you, Mr. Campbell.”I didn’t know why I felt an urge to tease him.He chuckled while shaking his head lightly, glancing at me out of the corner of his eye.“I am taking it as a compliment.” He remarked, and I just smiled.Sometimes, meaningless conversation is what we need to feel light.For a few moments, neither of us said anything.The hallway was crowded with students rushing toward their classrooms.Some were talking loudly, others were complaining about their teachers, and a few were running because they had already heard the warning bell.It looked like an ordinary morning.And I wanted this day to be an ordinary day for my sanity.I didn’t look for the cameras anymore.“You knew that I was near the coast, didn’t you?” Nathan asked me softly, breaking the silence as we stopped at the next turn of the corridor.We needed to part ways from here.“I heard a ship’s horn behind you,” I told him truthfully
he knew about the cameras
Ethan’s P.O.V. (Continued)For a second, I stopped eating and looked at Iris worriedly, thinking about how to soothe things between them.Brian was way out of league of us, and the way Iris was talking to him, it felt like she was inviting the trouble.Brian was so infuriated that he was now shooting daggers at Iris through his eyes, but she was completely indifferent to his anger.I decided to scold Iris after gulping the content of my mouth down.“Look at your sister, Ethan. She….. she…….. she is mocking me.” I choked on the content of my mouth that I was about to gulp and looked at him in disbelief.Not only me, but Nathan and Cavin also choked.We all coughed hard while glaring at him in disbelief.Brian looked like he was about to cry at any time.“Okay, my bad….. you are not bad…. Not eat.” Iris coaxed him calmly, making him grab his sandwich again as if it was normal.“You… you just called me dumb, Iris. This is not fair.” He stomped feet like a child throwing tantrums, his eye
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