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.

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

wizards were stunned.

the footage has been wiped. It was all

How could he forget that

around Star Harbor Villa and check every road!” Lysander

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

traffic wouldn’t be disturbed by the flight,

“Right away!”

each hacking

let a smile crack his concentrated expression. “Done.” he announced with a sense of triumph, snapping

had only taken two

Starhaven had told him it

two, erasing the footage without a

talent could be found in the most unexpected places; those who boast about their skills weren’t necessarily the

to roll out.” Callum said, his tension easing now that the surveillance was out of the picture. Without it, Lysander would have a much tougher time tracking