The Billionaire’s Secret Quartet (Thalassa and Elowen)

Chapter 1040

Callum hauled over the laptop and dragged an extra chair up for Atticus to sit down and get cracking on hacking the surveillance system on the spot.

The pressure was on; they knew that Lysander might have already rallied his tech troops and started scouring the monitors.

A second’s delay could blow their cover wide open.

Wiping the surveillance footage clean was critical, a race against time.

Atticus booted up the laptop, and his little fingers danced across the keyboard at lightning speed. His cute, boyish features were a mask of serious concentration, so absorbed in his task that the world around him might as well not exist.

Thalassa, the other three kids, Evelyn, and Callum huddled around Atticus, watching in awe as his fingers blurred over the keys, almost creating afterimages.

They were all breathing slowly as if treading on eggshells, terrified of distracting him.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the town, Lysander’s ten coding elites was also in nonstop action.

radar code and were gearing up to check the Starhaven surveillance when their

tech wizards were stunned.

wiped. It was all blank.” one of the programmers reported.

face was as cold as an oncoming storm. How could he forget that

camera around Star Harbor Villa and check every road!” Lysander commanded with the authority he was born with.

off from the Star Harbor Villa’s courtyard. The plane’s noise

wouldn’t be disturbed by the flight, the sound of the plane would

“Right away!”

each hacking into a different

expression. “Done.” he announced with a sense of triumph, snapping the laptop shut and

had only taken two

in Starhaven had told him it would take at

did it in two, erasing the footage without a trace.

and enlightened. True talent could be found in the most unexpected places; those

now that the surveillance was out of the picture. Without it, Lysander would have a