days

Aetherion Dynamics. He stared at the glowing mon

lightly that morning due to vagu

been home in three days. He assumed she was hidin

y. He couldn't afford a messy dome

artier bracelet. Something expensive. H

he heavy oak door of a VIP private r

sn't wearing her usual soft sweaters. Sh

box onto the table. It slid across the po

ic said, his tone dripping with condesce

even glance a

se, pulled out a thick stack of docu

owned. He

ge hit him like a physical blow to the

ears, a loud ringing sound drownin

mutated into a blind

nd violently ripped them in half, throwing the shredded pieces into the air. They rained

blink. She looked at him with the cold, detac

nd pulled out three identical copies of the

ld's play to someone who had designed the Pentagon's deepest cyber-defense grids. She had spent ho

said, her voice smooth and deadly. "I know about the $4.2 mi

in pure horror. His bre

ayers of corporate encryption. No

kie continued, ignoring his panic. "And I want the initial seed

He leaned over the table, planting h

nvested nothing! You're a penniless orphan who li

ightly, unbothered by

row morning, every single piece of data proving your f

O. The SEC investigation would instantly kill the

om him. She wasn't the docile wife he kn

dime from me," Domenic h

he way, and stormed out of the room, slam

m. She looked at the torn pa

d box and dropped it