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.

gearing up to check the Starhaven surveillance when

wizards were

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

as cold as an oncoming storm. How could he forget

up every camera around Star Harbor Villa and check every road!” Lysander

personally witnessed the plane taking off from the Star Harbor Villa’s courtyard. The

disturbed by the flight, the sound of

“Right away!”

programmers got to work, each hacking into a

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

– it had only

hacker in Starhaven had told him it

erasing the footage without

could be found in the most unexpected places; those who boast about

Callum said, his tension easing now that the surveillance was out of the picture. Without it, Lysander would have a much tougher time tracking them. Their journey ahead