Chapter 13
Julian jumped out of his leather executive chair, knocking his coffee mug crashing to the concrete floor. Before he could reach the concealed pistol on his desk, three red laser dots locked firmly onto his chest.
Chloe stepped through the ruined doorway, walking slowly into the brightly lit server room with icy composure. Julian’s eyes widened in sheer terror as he recognized the billionaire heiress he had tried to ruin.
"C... Chloe Vance? How did you find this location?" Julian stammered, his voice trembling uncontrollably. "Your cyber-security protocols are about as sophisticated as a high school science project, Julian," Chloe mocked coldly.
She walked up to his main server console, pulling a specialized decryption flash drive from her pocket. "What are you doing to my servers?!" Julian shrieked, lunging forward before federal operators pinned him to the floor.
"I'm downloading every offshore account, every mercenary payroll, and every digital threat you ever made," Chloe answered. She plugged the flash drive into the master port, initiating an automated total wipe and data transfer sequence.
Julian thrashed against the floor operators, screaming curses and threats into the cold concrete room. "You can't do this! My network is protected by international privacy laws!" Julian yelled hysterically.
"Privacy laws don't protect domestic terrorists who wage cyber-warfare against American corporations," Chloe stated firmly. The download progress bar hit one hundred percent, locking Julian out of his own infrastructure permanently.
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She pulled the flash drive out of the terminal, slipping it securely back into her tactical pocket. "Take him to the same federal penitentiary cell where his brother is currently crying," Chloe commanded the operators.
As Julian was hauled away kicking and screaming, the threat to Vance Global was finally, permanently extinguished.
