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.

Starhaven surveillance when their screens went black. Not

tech wizards

wiped. It was all blank.” one

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

terrestrial surveillance! With audio! Pull up every camera around Star Harbor Villa and check every road!” Lysander commanded with the

taking off from the Star Harbor Villa’s

the flight, the sound of the plane would

“Right away!”

hacking into a different intersection’s surveillance feed.

at the airport, Atticus finished erasing the Starhaven airspace footage and finally let a smile crack his concentrated expression. “Done.” he announced with a sense of triumph,

– it had only taken two minutes!

in Starhaven had told him it would

two, erasing the footage without a trace.

and enlightened. True talent could be found in the most unexpected places; those who boast about their

picture. Without