Love on the Fast Track (Derek and Norah)

Chapter 444:

If a man lied once, Norah feared he might fabricate more lies.

She had heard a story about a 30-second blackout in the library. A couple, together for many years, were celebrating the girl’s birthday. As she made a wish with her eyes closed, the boy was busy texting another girl who had been frightened by the brief power outage in the library. Was he concerned for the other girl during those 30 seconds, or did he imagine celebrating every future birthday with his girlfriend?

Norah wasn’t sure. All she understood was that feelings would eventually fade.

Though love knew no bounds, could it bridge the vast distances and insurmountable obstacles that lay between two hearts? She knew people could choose to give up.

She wouldn’t surrender easily, but if she felt the other person might, she would gracefully retreat, avoiding further entanglement.

At her desk, Norah’s mind buzzed with scattered thoughts, stirred by Alice’s recent remarks.

She dismissed these baseless musings and powered on her computer.

As the computer came to life, she stretched her fingers, gearing up for more work.

Logging into her favorite hacker forum, she stumbled upon an intriguing post.

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It was from Star.

out! Just breached a hospital’s system in Cesland,

mostly complimentary. Star had secured the fifth spot on the hacking

sourced

unfazed. If Star erased the record, they disappeared forever, eliminating any chance of

Norah had already

private message to Star. She had just seen him responding to comments on the forum, so she was

have a question. Who hired

in high spirits, responding to the effusive praise. A simple hack into a minor system to delete a file had earned him

riding high on

message

he saw

was asking him questions? What a

rise to prominence, they had never

had thwarted his planned attack on an international bank, costing him a significant profit and leaving him seething for

top hacker, right? Can’t you dig this up

that there was something the renowned hacker couldn’t

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