The Billionaire's Mistake

Chapter 128

MISTAKE 128

Chapter 128: The agency makes its move

For the next hour, Rico and Mia worked in tandem, trying every trick in their considerable arsenal to bypass the box's security. The tension in the vault was thick; every failed attempt pushed up the stress.

"Guys," Leo's voice came through their earpieces, "we've got movement. A car just pulled into the parking lot."

"Shit," Jack hissed. "How many?"

"Just one person. Looks like a cleaner."

Jack ran a hand through his hair. "Okay, we've still got time. Rico, Mia, where are we at?"

Mia looked up, frustration evident on her face. "We've bypassed the biometrics, but this voice recognition is killing us. It's like nothing I've ever seen before." "Wait a second," Rico said, his eyes lighting up." "What if we don't need to bypass it? What if

we could trick it instead?"

"What do you mean?" Jack asked.

Rico grinned. "Mia, pull up that voice modulation program you used on the Stephenson job. If we can get a sample of the right voice, we might be able to synthesize it."

Mia's eyes widened. "That... that might actually work. But we'd need to know whose voice it's looking for."

Jack thought for a moment, then pulled out his phone. He dialed a number, speaking quietly

Chapter 128. The agency makes its thave

when it connected. "Sir, we're at the box, but we're stuck on voice recognition. Any ideas. whose voice

it might be keyed to?"

He listened for a moment, then his face paled. "Are you sure? Alright, we'll try it."

the team. "It's keyed to Anya Shaw's

a moment of stunned

whispered. "As in, the actual

one. Can you do

so. I've got some public speeches of his in my database, but nothing

worked furiously on her tablet, Leo's voice came through again. "Guys, the cleaner's inside the building.

up her tablet to the voice recognition panel. A slightly robotic but recognizable version of Anya's voice emanated from the device. "What do you mean? Password: Dad," the first sentence

nothing happened. Then, with a soft

swung open.

did it!"

the box. "Now let's see what all

feeling

it?" Mia

pulled his hand out, empty. "It's... There's nothing here.

silence fell over the

said. "After all that

shook his head. "Nothing. Not a damn

cleaner's almost at

"Alright, we're leaving.

night, they could hear the faint sound of a vacuum

it was empty. There was nothing there." He listened for a moment, his face growing more

team. "Change of plans. We're

had raised far more questions than it had answered, and they all had a sinking feeling that their troubles. were only

the curb, disappearing into the darkness. Behind

how easy this was-no ordinary bank. This was bank operated

drove through the quiet streets, each member of the team was lost in thought, wondering what

time to process what happened when a dark van slammed

Van withdrew and a row truck replaced it, and the entire crew was dragged away in the car and all into

unaware of

intelligence agency's headquarters buzzed with an undercurrent of tension. Rumors of a major restructuring had been circulating for weeks, leaving agents and analysts alike on edge. Today, those rumors would come

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