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.

were gearing up to check the Starhaven surveillance when their

wizards were stunned.

was all blank.”

storm. How could he

surveillance! With audio! Pull up every camera around Star Harbor Villa and check

plane taking off from the Star Harbor Villa’s courtyard. The plane’s noise would be audible throughout

by the flight, the sound of

“Right away!”

programmers got to work, each hacking into a different intersection’s surveillance

Starhaven airspace footage and finally let a smile crack his concentrated expression. “Done.”

it had only taken two minutes!

best hacker in Starhaven had told him it would take

did it in two, erasing

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

time 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 them. Their journey ahead was now a lot smoother.