Chapter 3 - Security Chief Examines the Blinking Camera Lens Up Above
Chief security officer Marcus Vance stepped up to the edge of the patio, staring intently at the security dome.
The small red light on the camera housing blinked rhythmically against the white eaves of the mansion roof.
“Pull the archives from the last six months, Marcus,” Vittorio ordered, walking over with measured strides.
“Every single file, every backup tape, and every cloud snapshot stored on our encrypted servers.”
Marcus nodded grimly, tapping commands into his encrypted tactical tablet linked directly to the estate mainframe.
“Sir, the local storage array has a three-tier redundancy protocol,” Marcus reported, his brow furrowing.
“If someone tried to tamper with past footage, the system would have flagged an unauthorized override.”
Vittorio glanced back at Bernadette, whose face had turned completely pale at the mention of archived data.
“Did she ever request maintenance access to the security room, Marcus?” Vittorio asked sharply.
“Not directly, sir, but her nephew works in the IT department handling network maintenance,” Marcus replied.
The pieces of the dark puzzle began snapping into place with terrifying speed across Vittorio’s mind.
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“Lock down the main server room right now and detain her nephew before he wipes the drives,” Vittorio commanded.
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