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chapter 154
The air inside Zain’s war room crackled with a quiet, manic energy. The walls—steel-plated and lined with secure monitors—flickered with rapidly shifting data, command-line scripts, and blinking red security alerts. Zain stood at the center, his right hand clenched into a fist, the other hovering over the digital command panel.He pressed his palm onto the biometric scanner."Initiate BLACK PROTOCOL – Level 9 authorization – Executor Z."The system paused.A moment later, a sterile voice responded.> “Black Protocol confirmed. Commencing purge of all linked assets and communication lines. This cannot be undone. Are you certain?”Zain’s eyes narrowed, heart pounding as he gave the word that would alter the entire battlefield:> “Execute.”In an instant, the screens went dark.From offshore shell corporations to private bank vaults in Dubai, from falsified board records to illegal fund transfers through dummy foundations—all vanished. Encryption wiped, servers fried, backups purged.It
chapter 153
The safe house remained cloaked in eerie quiet, save for the constant hum of surveillance equipment and the muffled footsteps of rotating security personnel. In a back room heavily fortified and dimly lit, Harper sat across from Bryden, a monitor glowing between them with shifting schematics—maps, bunker layouts, and encrypted diagrams all fed from Romanov’s intelligence banks and Zain’s tapped channels.Bryden looked worn. Though no longer in handcuffs, the weight of betrayal and abandonment etched deep lines across his youthful face. His eyes flickered from the monitor to Harper.“He’ll activate the Black Protocol,” he said, voice taut. “If he feels even the slightest tremor of collapse, Zain will wipe every asset tied to him—Stavos, the financial shell corps, server backups, even loyalists. He’ll turn the entire board to ash if it means no one walks away with anything.”Harper leaned forward. “We figured he might, but tell me how. What triggers it?”“There’s a kill-switch, metaphor
chapter 152
Detective Harper sat alone in the secured ops room, the blue glow of multiple monitors painting shadows across his focused expression. With Braise still in custody and Bryden stashed in a safehouse, it was time to follow the next thread—Amelia Reyes.Harper's fingers moved quickly over the keyboard as he pulled up decrypted metadata from previously stored communication logs. Thanks to a deep sweep initiated through Romanov's internal network, they had gained access to transmissions that had bypassed the mansion's firewalls disguised as maintenance pings, wellness app updates, and file sync requests. Someone had been clever. But not clever enough.“Encrypted traffic… origin traced to the mansion’s east wing. Outbound signal spikes between midnight and 3 a.m.,” he muttered. “And again… thirty minutes before the Zia extraction.”His jaw tightened.Click.The logs weren’t just showing transmissions; they pointed to relays buried in the mansion’s hidden architecture. Routes Amelia would k
chapter 151
Chapter 151Amelia Reyes moved silently through the narrow passage behind the east wing wall, her fingers brushing against the cold stone. The faint humming of the mansion’s security nodes reached her ears—too rhythmic, too stable.Her breath caught. Something’s changed.She crouched beside a grated panel that overlooked one of the inner halls near the server vault. Her eyes narrowed as she spotted an unfamiliar shimmer of blue—an indicator light on the newly reinstalled sensor grid. That light hadn’t been there before. Not when she checked two nights ago.Her heartbeat quickened.Amelia pressed a device to her earpiece and filtered into the encrypted feed she'd been tapping. Silence.Static.Then—a flicker.A soft tone pinged in her ear: “Breach Detected: Network Sweep Active.”Her blood turned cold.No...They were scanning. Tracing hidden signals. Something must’ve triggered it—maybe Zia, or worse, Harper’s team finally triangulated one of her encrypted relays.She stumbled backwar
chapter 150
The mansion had grown quieter since the board’s upheaval. But Zia, ever curious and observant, was wide awake.Cuddled in bed with her tablet, she was supposed to be reviewing her assignments—but instead, she had opened a hidden terminal Aiden had once let her peek into. It was only meant for diagnostics… but Zia had figured out more than anyone knew. “Let’s see if I can find where that weird ping came from again…” she whispered.Earlier that day, she had noticed a strange flash on the home security system—a small flicker that didn’t match any of the usual patterns. She’d saved it. Now she was trying to trace it.Her fingers tapped quickly. Behind her, her AI assistant—a small stuffed cat named Whiskers—blinked to life. Aiden had given her the AI toy as a birthday gift months ago, never expecting she’d start modding it.“Whiskers,” she whispered, “run local port ghost-check again.”The cat blinked. “Querying anomaly logs. Cross-referencing internal firewall bounces... anomaly located
chapter 149
Silvana sat in front of a sleek console, her fingers dancing across the encrypted terminal. Despite the heaviness of her pregnancy, her mind moved with precision and fire. Around her, a small team of trusted cyber-financial operatives from Harper’s taskforce awaited her orders.“Begin freezing all shell accounts traced to Crescent Bay’s dummy firms,” she commanded. “Target holdings disguised as agricultural grants and renewable energy bonds.” “Copy that, Ma’am,” said the lead tech. “That includes the Alhena Group and Soltari East?” “Yes. Both are linked to Zain through proxy layers. Collapse their liquidity. Now.”Streams of code scrolled across the screen. One after another, account after account was flagged, locked, and reported.Silvana’s voice never wavered. “Engage cross-border regulators. I want a chain of compliance enforcers across Switzerland, Caymans, and Singapore. If they try to shift the funds—flag and halt it in real time.”“We’ve never done this level of coordinated
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