"No, Everett! That was my last shot. Do you want me to die?!" She clutched at Everett's shirt collar with a manic desperation, biting down hard and pounding at him with her fists.

Everett didn't flinch, not so much as a furrow in his brow, as he let her vent her fury.

Gradually, Dorothy's strength ebbed away.

"Everett, my mom didn't do anything wrong. Why was she the one to get killed. It should have been me. Why didn't your mom just finish the job and take me out too. Everett, since you could erase the video, can you just erase me too? I'm so tired, I'm really just so tired." Tears brimmed and spilled over, streaking down her cheeks.

Everett lifted a hand, gently wiping them away.

But the tears wouldn't stop, so he kept wiping them one by one, as if this simple act could make her stop crying.

against me the moment you got the evidence, to raise your banner in defiance and cast me as your enemy."

never earn

"Okay." He let out a sigh, stepping back to put some distance between them, "After these last three days, I'll

maybe he never really had a grip to begin

bet he made demands in exchange for the full thing, right? In three days, I'll

it?" "My mom is no fool. The video Byte 7 recovered has a self-destruct code and comes with a virus that infects the restorers computer. Heather and my mom set it up that way on purpose, so there's no way it would survive until you got

of evidence would vanish in an instant,

copied the video earlier and then deeply destroyed it, wiping out the tracing code as well, which meant the virus- infected computer belonging to Langston also went dark, and Byte 7's

it would be

just say so from the start? He was deliberately

situation, and he wanted to see where

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