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.

gearing up to check the Starhaven surveillance when their screens went black. Not just one, but all

tech wizards

has been wiped. It was

an oncoming storm. How could he forget that his son, Atticus,

Harbor Villa and check every road!” Lysander

from the Star Harbor Villa’s

disturbed by the flight, the sound of the plane would

“Right away!”

hacking into a different

airport, Atticus finished erasing the Starhaven airspace footage and finally let a smile crack his concentrated expression. “Done.”

astounded – it had only taken two minutes!

Starhaven had told

it in two, erasing

could be found in the most unexpected places;

out.” Callum said, his tension easing now that the surveillance was out of the picture. Without it, Lysander would have a

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