Chapter 3 - Marcus And Victoria Analyze The First Corporate Breach
Back at Marcus’s secluded woodland home, the harsh glow of computer monitors illuminated the darkened room.
Victoria sat at the oak dining table, nursing her sprained shoulder while tracking the ongoing digital intrusion.
“He’s hitting the primary holding accounts now,” Marcus said, his fingers flying across the mechanical keyboard.
“I see it,” Victoria replied, her voice dangerously calm as security alerts blinked red across the screen.
Daniel was attempting to bypass the secondary biometric verifications using Victoria’s administrator credentials.
He didn’t realize that Victoria had already set up a dead-man’s switch across all corporate infrastructure.
Every unauthorized keystroke he made was automatically logged, timestamped, and routed to a secure federal archive.
“He thinks my death gives him immediate power of attorney over Sterling Real Estate,” Victoria noted grimly.
“He’s moving too fast,” Marcus observed, analyzing the IP addresses pinging the corporate firewall.
“Greed always makes amateurs sloppy,” Victoria said, watching another failed password attempt register on screen.
Daniel was sweating in his downtown office right now, cursing at his screen as access was repeatedly denied.
“Should we lock him out entirely?” Marcus asked, pausing his fingers over the master execution key.
“Not yet,” Victoria replied, leaning closer to monitor the specific files Daniel was trying to download.
“He isn't just looking at cash balances, Marcus. He’s searching for the 2018 land acquisition contracts.”
Marcus frowned, pulling up the encrypted historical folders associated with that specific commercial real estate deal.
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“What was hidden in those files?” Marcus asked, noticing the sudden tension in Victoria’s posture.
“Things Daniel never wanted the board—or federal investigators—to ever uncover,” Victoria answered quietly.
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