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.

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

tech wizards

It was all blank.” one

as an oncoming storm. How could

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

had personally witnessed the plane taking off from the Star Harbor Villa’s

the flight, the sound of the

“Right away!”

got to work, each 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.

had only taken

told

did it in two, erasing

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

picture. Without it, Lysander would have a much tougher time tracking them. Their journey ahead