Chapter 10 - The Mask Slips
The morning sun cast long shadows across the trading floor of Halcyon Tower. I sat at my executive desk when Marcus Vance walked into my office without knocking, holding a red tablet computer.
“Evelyn, you need to see this,” Marcus said, placing the tablet on my desk. “Vanessa is trying to smuggle the quantum encryption backup archives to Richard Sterling at Vanguard Global.”
“It was safe until our cyber-intelligence team cloned the drive and replaced the files with a corrupted decoy payload containing a tracking worm,” Marcus smirked. “The moment Sterling plugs that flash drive into Vanguard’s mainframe, every single proprietary file on their server will be locked down.”
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I leaned back in my leather chair, a slow smile spreading across my face. “Let Richard Sterling take the bait. Once they commit the crime, we won't just destroy Adrian and Vanessa—we’ll break Vanguard Global’s monopoly.”
“Consider it done,” Marcus nodded, turning toward the door.
