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CHAPTER 218
"You're calling relatives to ship our daughter across the country?" Dominic spat, stopping right in front of her, his tall frame towering over her trembling body. "Behind my back? Like she's some piece of unwanted baggage you can just throw away when things get tough?!""That's not what I'm doing!" Harlyn cried, raising her hands in defense. "I'm trying to protect her!""Protect her?!" Dominic sneered, his voice dripping with disgust as he pointed a harsh finger toward the floor. "I just hired an entire security team to guard this house! I am fighting every single day to save our companies and keep this family safe, and you're behind my back trying to give our daughter away to some distant relative like a coward?!""You don't understand!" Harlyn sobbed, her composure completely disintegrating. "Slayde will find a way through your guards! He can do it! If he takes her—""Slayde isn't taking anyone!" Dominic snapped, gripping her shoulders hard enough to make her wince. His dark eyes b
CHAPTER 217
"You're calling relatives to ship our daughter across the country?" Dominic spat, stopping right in front of her, his tall frame towering over her trembling body. "Behind my back? Like she's some piece of unwanted baggage you can just throw away when things get tough?!""That's not what I'm doing!" Harlyn cried, raising her hands in defense. "I'm trying to protect her!""Protect her?!" Dominic sneered, his voice dripping with disgust as he pointed a harsh finger toward the floor. "I just hired an entire security team to guard this house! I am fighting every single day to save our companies and keep this family safe, and you're behind my back trying to give our daughter away to some distant relative like a coward?!""You don't understand!" Harlyn sobbed, her composure completely disintegrating. "Slayde will find a way through your guards! He can do it! If he takes her—""Slayde isn't taking anyone!" Dominic snapped, gripping her shoulders hard enough to make her wince. His dark eyes b
CHAPTER 216
Meanwhile, the dark Maybach glided effortlessly through empty downtown streets, city lights painting long streaks of gold across the tinted glass.In the back seat, Slayde slipped his personal phone into his jacket pocket, his expression unreadable."Did you send the message, sir?" Viktor asked quietly from the driver's seat, keeping his eyes on the late-night traffic."I did," Slayde replied smoothly, leaning his head back against the plush leather headrest."Is it wise to offer a position to the man who just tried to breach Elsher's servers?" Viktor inquired, a rare hint of curiosity breaking through his disciplined tone. "He's unpredictable and reckless.""He's desperate, which makes him easily managed," Slayde said flatly, a dark glint flickering in his eyes. "More importantly, he understands how Dominic's network contacts operate on the dark web. When the time comes to completely strip Harlyn and Dominic of their remaining assets, I'd rather have his fingers on my keyboard than a
CHAPTER 215
The scrambled voice on the line turned frantic, rising an octave above the rapid clicking of mechanical keys in the background."Wait! Slayde, wait, listen to me!" the hacker pleaded, his breathing ragged as another cluster of his proxy servers went completely dark. "We don't have to do this! You're a businessman, right? Everything has a price! We can make a deal!"Slayde didn't pause his fingers.A fresh stream of dark blue command lines flooded his laptop screen, ruthlessly severing the intruder's tertiary bypass scripts."You have nothing I want.""Forty percent!" the hacker blurted out, panic cracking his voice through the scrambler. "Forty percent of the total payout! The client offered me seven figures for Brec's logistics framework."“I'll transfer forty percent directly into any offshore crypto wallet you want right now, untraceable, clean, instant! All you have to do is close your laptop, walk away, and pretend your defense protocol hit a system latency delay! Nobody loses!"
CHAPTER 214
Slayde’s dark Maybach glided out of the corporate garage, its tinted windows swallowing the streetlights. Instead of merging onto the main avenue, Viktor pulled into an unlit parking bay two blocks from Brec’s headquarters.The engine quieted to a low hum. Viktor sat still in the driver's seat, adjusting the rearview mirror, while Slayde flipped open a custom, military-grade laptop. A blue glow illuminated the hard angles of his face as he logged into an isolated proxy."He's moving, sir," Viktor reported softly. "The main IT team’s vehicles just left.""Good," Slayde replied, his fingers moving across the keys. "Let him think the stage is empty."Miles away, a man sat hunched in a dark, windowless room before a wall of screens. He wore a heavy black hood, his face obscured in total shadow. Strips of thick electrical tape covered every camera on his monitors, laptop, and external hardware.He knew who he was dealing with. Slayde Burgess wasn't just a corporate giant; he was a mon
CHAPTER 213
"I'm not willing to discuss that," Slayde said flatly, his voice smooth and devoid of emotion.Brec blinked, caught off guard by the abrupt wall. "Slayde, it's my company's server."Slayde remained still, his eyes tracking a microsecond flicker in the corner of the tablet screen.‘The idiot is listening right now,’ Slayde thought, his lips pressing into a tight, dangerous line.The hacker hadn't just left a dormant socket in the logistics sub-server, he had tapped into the room's audio-visual feed through the smart ceiling sensors. Every word spoken aloud was being monitored. If Slayde laid out his plan now, the rat would sever the connection and vanish for good.Slayde leaned back in the heavy leather chair and picked up the coffee cup Brec had brought him. He took a calm, unhurried sip, keeping his face unreadable. He wasn't about to give his play away. He would let the intruder think he was safe just a little bit longer.Three hours later, the office floor had quieted into a lo
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