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.

code and were gearing up to check the Starhaven surveillance when their screens went black. Not just

tech wizards were

the footage has been wiped. It was all blank.” one

was as cold as an oncoming storm. How could he forget that his son,

the terrestrial surveillance! With audio! Pull up every 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 would be audible

be disturbed by the flight, the sound of the plane

“Right away!”

to work, each hacking

finally let a smile crack his concentrated expression. “Done.” he announced with

had only taken two minutes!

so-called best hacker in Starhaven had told him it would take at least five.

it in two, erasing the footage without a trace.

most unexpected places; those who boast about their skills weren’t necessarily

of the picture. Without it, Lysander