Love on the Fast Track (Derek and Norah)

Chapter 120:

Suddenly, Norah’s opponent had vanished, leaving nothing behind.

Norah was caught off guard. She hadn’t seen it coming—that her opponent would pull back just as she swiftly broke through the firewall. Even though she had gotten through, she found no information.

“He escaped quickly!” Norah had to acknowledge her opponent’s speed, managing to erase data while keeping himself safe.

She found herself intrigued by the mystery hacker on the other end. She felt this person was a formidable hacker, and it would be fascinating to share thoughts with him someday.

Back on the hacker forum, she noticed a new private message from her opponent.

The single question mark made Norah think her opponent must have been quite annoyed at that moment. Considering he had just logged into the forum, only to be pursued by her into deleting data, it must have been quite a blow to his pride.

Norah felt slightly guilty for acting on a whim, but since her opponent went by “N” as his username—quite similar to her name—she couldn’t help but play a little.

Norah thought her opponent was pretty clever, keeping her from learning anything about him.

“Apologies for this time. Let’s have another go later,” replied Norah.

Sean saw the new messages appearing in the chat window and was visibly upset.

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“Moon didn’t track you down, did she? Luckily, you escaped in time, or your information would have been compromised.”

The voice sounded somewhat gloating. “But why did she go after the firewall? And why did you suddenly switch your username?”

“Just skip the questions you don’t need to ask. Anything new happened lately?” Sean asked.

Sean glanced down and typed out a response. “Did I upset you?”

“No, Phillip should have filled you in on most of this. A foreign princess who needed medical treatment had been desperately looking for information on the Supernatural Doctor, going so far as to turn to Sacredice once, offering tons in return for any leads,” the voice in his earpiece reported.

“I get it. But from this point, we’re not sharing any info on the Supernatural Doctor,” Sean replied.

Then another message appeared in the chat window.

I’m just really curious

paused before replying, “What are

Going to check the forums again. If that ‘Moon’ tries to hit you

whether you’re a guy or a girl, what kind

all his details. He chose not to reply, yet the messages kept

real talent. Why don’t

of them having topped the hacker leaderboard for years without much interaction, this marked their

long

that, Sean

message. “Sure thing. I make a great friend. Just so you know, if I really wanted to, breaking through your firewall to

this, Sean couldn’t help but

through on her threats. His firewall had, at least for now, kept

skills, Sean felt no harm in their being friends, seeing potential

playing on her lips. She always enjoyed connecting with talented people. “Hey there, new friend. Let’s share some tech tips when we find

“Sounds good.”

goal was merely to learn more about N. But now that they were friends, she

call and held his breath. The group searching for him had

did he go? He ran this

right?

find him and bring him back, or we’re going

voices grew nearer, his heartbeat thundering in his ears. The blood

moments away from being discovered and

of what they had done to Norah ignited a fire of anger within him. He was convinced that

that far? We’ve already covered so much ground, and we’re exhausted. Given he was shot, he couldn’t have gone much further. I think we should turn back and

point. Let’s split up and search. We need to find him, and

on, no time

some retracing their steps, while others ventured deeper into the forest. Their voices faded

He began to

of relief, he turned, only to find himself

and a ringing

could make out the man’s face, twisted in malice, resembling

cut through the silence. “I’ve got

after sharing