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hands of two

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coat. Her voice was soft, a stark contrast to her sev

p a pair of imaginary glasses on hi

cise, it's our n

a-thin tablet. His fingers flew across the scre

smile far too old for his five-year-old face. "The fi

eyes. "Be clean, Leo. Our first 'welcom

nds. "Go, brother!

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breached!" The shriek of the tech director, Ke

had dissolved into gibberish. In its place,

stem! My God, it's like a ghost

bed the internal phone. "Paige, get the CEO, n

was in the middle of a video conf

ered, her face grim. She leane

ared in his deep-set eyes. He spoke calmly into the

ed the top button of his suit jacket a

was quiet, but it cut through the

en hit by an elite hacker. Their techni

en. He stared at the insolen

ounge, Leo typed one final

iped all traces of the intrusio

een suddenly vanished. The system retur

h of relief, an encrypted file po

forged transaction logs, flawlessly created. All evidence point

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creen. A flicker of amusement crossed hi

phone rang. It was her

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skyline, a cold smile touching her

against her side, his small face showing a h

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