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CHAPTER 247
The first alarm wasn’t loud.It was worse than that.It was precise.Inside Jared’s corporate command floor, every screen shifted at once, not into panic, but into synchronized red indicators that told a clearer story than any human voice could. Data streams that had been stable only hours earlier now fractured into cascading exposure points, as if someone had opened sealed vaults across multiple systems simultaneously and simply walked away.A junior analyst was the first to speak, his voice tight with disbelief as he leaned forward over his terminal. “Sir… we’ve got a full breach event across three internal clusters. Confidential archives are being accessed externally.”Another voice followed almost immediately, sharper now. “No, it’s not just access—it’s export. Someone is pulling entire datasets out in structured batches. This isn’t theft in fragments. It’s extraction.”Jared stood still at the center of the room, his posture unchanged, but his focus had narrowed to a dangerous cl
CHAPTER 246
Becky found Jared near the quieter edge of the administrative courtyard where the campus noise dulled into distant echoes of movement and conversation. He wasn’t surrounded by anyone, which made the distance between his presence and everything else feel even more deliberate, as if space itself had been negotiated around him without consent. He stood with one hand in his pocket, the other holding a tablet angled slightly downward, though his attention wasn’t truly on it.It shifted the moment she approached.Not fully toward her, not immediately, but enough to acknowledge her presence without breaking whatever internal thread of thought he had been following.“Are you responsible for this?” Becky asked directly, stopping a few steps away from him.There was no hesitation in her voice, only exhaustion layered beneath the question, as if she had already considered every possible answer and none of them had been acceptable.Jared didn’t look up right away. When he finally did, his express
CHAPTER 245
The quiet inside Jared’s private analysis room felt heavier than usual, not because anything was missing, but because everything had become too structured to ignore. Lines of data moved across the curved screens in controlled streams, each one representing financial activity that, on the surface, looked fragmented and unrelated. But Jared had stopped trusting surface-level chaos days ago.He stood with one hand resting lightly on the edge of the console, his eyes moving steadily from one projection to the next. Offshore transfers. Shell companies. Micro-transactions routed through layered intermediaries that dissolved ownership the moment it was traced.Nothing was accidental. Nothing was rushed. It was precise.“They’re not reacting,” one of his analysts said carefully, adjusting the timeline display. “This isn’t defensive trading. It’s structured depletion. Whoever is doing this knows exactly how long they can sustain pressure before triggering instability.”Jared didn’t look away f
CHAPTER 244
The courtyard had not yet recovered from the tension of the previous encounter when it began again, this time with no warning and no audience expectation that things would escalate so quickly. Becky had only just stepped away from the edge of the walkway when Shelly returned, no longer accompanied by hesitation or restraint, but with a kind of focus that made her presence heavier than before.Becky noticed her approach immediately and slowed her steps, her expression tightening slightly as she realized Shelly was not here to continue a conversation. The space between them closed fast, too fast for it to feel accidental, and before anyone nearby could properly react, Shelly reached out and grabbed Becky’s arm.“You think I’m joking?” Shelly said sharply, her voice cracking slightly with frustration as she pulled her closer. “You think this is just some campus drama you can ignore?”Becky’s eyes dropped briefly to Shelly’s hand before she pulled her arm back with controlled force, her t
CHAPTER 243
The trading floor inside Jared’s private corporate command suite was unusually tense that morning, not because of any visible crisis alarms blaring across the screens, but because of the silence that followed each new update. The kind of silence that carried weight, the kind that made even experienced analysts pause before speaking again.Jared stood near the central display wall with his hands loosely behind his back, his expression controlled but his eyes tracking every flicker of red that washed across the stock performance charts. What had begun as a mild dip the previous evening had turned into a consistent downward spiral by morning, and now it was accelerating in a way that didn’t align with any normal market behavior.“This doesn’t make sense,” one of the senior analysts said carefully, adjusting his glasses as he leaned closer to the screen. “There’s no external trigger, no policy shift, no sector-wide movement. It’s isolated to our holdings, and even then… the volume pattern
CHAPTER 242
Becky rested her hand lightly against the back of the chair across from them. “Are we still meeting later for the project?” she asked.The two girls exchanged a glance.It was quick.Subtle.But it was there.“Actually,” the second girl said, clearing her throat slightly, “we already… figured it out this morning.”Becky stilled. “Without me?”“It was last minute,” the first one added quickly, her tone tightening as she avoided direct eye contact. “We didn’t think you’d be available.”“I didn’t say I wasn’t,” Becky replied, her voice still calm, though there was a sharper edge beneath it now.Another pause.Another glance.“It’s just easier this way,” the second girl said finally, her voice quieter now, more careful. “You’ve got… other things going on.”Becky studied them for a moment, her expression unreadable as the weight of that statement settled in.Other things.That was what they were calling it.Not pressure. Not isolation. Not the shift that had clearly taken place.Just… othe
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