scoffed lou

a few nearby employees, who snickered in response. "

mad his meal ticket got canceled. What's h

them and k

e based on a lie that Sarah and the Smith fam

new me by a

overnments and multinational corporations battle

in existence, a ghost who could build or break fortresses of code at w

he live-in husband, fo

't a close friend, just a business acquaintance of my father's, but he offered a lo

ks that threatened to sink it, I saw my chance to repay the debt. I approached him, offer

, but desperate

ore personal proposal: marry his daughter, Sarah. He hoped I could be a stead

e years patching every hole, anticipating every threat, crea

was treated

ck of interest in high society as a personal failing. The more secure the company became, the less she believed I did anything at

the humiliation of the party felt distant. It

led up, the hotel's autom

ai

rrying towards me, a l

ing anywhere y

ed, Mark. I think I c

car key. The one

was for the modest sedan I drove, a car I' d bought wit

d. "The Bentley is hers

snapped, grabbing for the key. "She s

the key

al property. It do

the Smiths for three years. Nothing you have is your

ate one last scene for the onlooker

t him, my patie

want to do