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Chapter 70 – Fire and Thread

작가: Raphella Herbert
last update 최신 업데이트: 2025-07-07 16:14:20

The first strike came in Cape Town.

An Echo data relay station one of only five remaining unencrypted hubs was hit with a cyber-pulse that mimicked Echo’s own backup signal. The system opened automatically, believing it was receiving a trusted update. By the time the safeguard protocols activated, it was too late.

Fifteen terabytes of internal communication logs wiped.

No trail. No alarms. Just silence.

But that wasn’t the worst part.

Buried in the system logs was a short video, fragmented and corrupted but Lena recognized the voice before the image even stabilized.

Calix.

“Thread by thread,” he said, staring directly into the lens. “Let’s see how long it takes for the fire to reach your hands.”

He didn’t yell. He didn’t gloat. He simply watched the camera like a man reciting history.

Back in Geneva, Lena sat in her private ops room, the screen paused on a single detail—a patch on Calix’s shoulder. Weathered, cracked, but unmistakable.

Echo Field Unit 4.

His old team. The one Lena her
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  • The billionaire’s contracted wife   Chapter 70 – Fire and Thread

    The first strike came in Cape Town.An Echo data relay station one of only five remaining unencrypted hubs was hit with a cyber-pulse that mimicked Echo’s own backup signal. The system opened automatically, believing it was receiving a trusted update. By the time the safeguard protocols activated, it was too late.Fifteen terabytes of internal communication logs wiped.No trail. No alarms. Just silence.But that wasn’t the worst part.Buried in the system logs was a short video, fragmented and corrupted but Lena recognized the voice before the image even stabilized.Calix.“Thread by thread,” he said, staring directly into the lens. “Let’s see how long it takes for the fire to reach your hands.”He didn’t yell. He didn’t gloat. He simply watched the camera like a man reciting history.Back in Geneva, Lena sat in her private ops room, the screen paused on a single detail—a patch on Calix’s shoulder. Weathered, cracked, but unmistakable.Echo Field Unit 4.His old team. The one Lena her

  • The billionaire’s contracted wife   Chapter 69: Inheritance

    The flight back to Geneva was silent.Lena sat alone near the tail of the jet, Rafael’s journal in her lap, the final page still open to the word that hadn’t left her since Kamchatka:“Daughter.”Calix had a child. A daughter hidden under an alias, tucked away in a school system built on forged documents and forgotten nonprofits. It wasn’t a vulnerability Lena had expected. It wasn’t even a weapon. It was a revelation.For all the destruction, for all the chaos he unleashed, Calix had still protected something.And that meant he could still lose.But it also meant he wasn’t completely lost.Ruth slid into the seat across from her, offering a slim tablet.“Interpol confirmed the coordinates,” she said softly. “The girl exists. Name: Emilia Varga. Age thirteen. Enrolled in a private academy just outside Bucharest. Dual citizenship. Raised by a guardian registered under a defunct aid organization tied to one of Calix’s earliest ghost accounts.”Lena studied the photo. The girl was sittin

  • The billionaire’s contracted wife   Chapter 68 – Tier Zero

    The Kamchatka Peninsula was nothing but snow and fire.Volcanic ranges cut through the tundra like jagged teeth, and below the frozen expanse, Lena’s black-badge team touched down in silence. There were no cities here. No ports. Just geothermal vents, extinct research stations, and the oldest Echo vault left unspoiled.Tier Zero.Lena stepped off the transport sled, her boots crunching on frozen ash layered beneath the ice. The wind howled like it had a soul, and every breath came with a bite. Carson and Ruth followed behind her, their gear silent, signal cloaks already active.“This place shouldn’t exist,” Ruth muttered, scanning the horizon. “There’s no record of it anywhere. Not even in Corelight’s main archive.”“That’s the point,” Lena replied. “Tier Zero isn’t just off-grid. It was built for one thing only—survival after collapse.”A sharp beep pinged on her wrist module. The entrance beacon was still active—meaning someone, at some point, had returned.Or never left.Faiza’s vo

  • The billionaire’s contracted wife   Chapter 67: The Corelight Protocol

    The room was dim, lit only by the flickering white of the old interface and the hum of oxygen cycling through the command unit’s secure vault. Lena stared at the blinking coordinates on the screen—latitude and longitude locked into place, cold and final.Buried beneath the ice and ancient stone was the one system Calix couldn’t touch. Because even he had forgotten it existed.Or so Lena hoped.She reached for a secure microkey embedded in her watch band. With a soft click, it disengaged, revealing an old alloy strip engraved with the initials: L.W.O. — Lena Wellington O’Connell.“This key isn’t digital,” she said quietly. “It was never linked to the grid. It only opens one thing.”“The vault,” Ruth said. Her tone was somewhere between reverence and disbelief.Carson moved closer. “Why Iceland?”Lena ran her finger across the old crest on the screen. “Because the last time I felt Echo was truly safe was before it expanded. Before it was weaponized. That moment happened in Reykjavik, in

  • The billionaire’s contracted wife   Chapter 66: Casablanca Trap

    The shipping container arrived at Casablanca’s port just after midnight.Unmarked. Standard size. Ordinary on the outside, but Echo’s scanners painted a different picture—thermal anomalies, disrupted radio frequencies, and a heartbeat sensor picking up faint but consistent movement inside.Lena stood inside the Echo mobile command unit with Carson, Ruth, and Faiza, their Moroccan liaison. On a high-definition screen, the container flickered in infrared, pulsing softly like a sleeping animal.Faiza tapped into the surveillance feed. “There’s a jammer in place. Low-frequency loop. No GPS, no RFID. It’s wrapped in a static field to confuse drones.”“Calix’s trademark,” Carson muttered. “Make it look easy to find—then bury it in noise.”“We’ve seen this before,” Lena said, her eyes fixed on the red pulse. “Same method in Moldova during Echo’s early years. It’s him.”“Could be a decoy,” Ruth offered.“Maybe. But it still breathes,” Lena replied.By 00:40, Echo’s black-badge extraction team

  • The billionaire’s contracted wife   chapter 65 – Turkmen Shadows

    The desert outside Ashgabat was as unforgiving as memory. Under a crescent moon, the Echo black-badge unit crouched behind a sand-swept ridge, eyes fixed on the steel-clad warehouse pulsing faintly with blue light.Lena observed through binoculars; her earpiece linked to Ruth’s feed from Geneva. Carson lay prone beside her; rifle trained on the compound’s upper watch point.“This is the hub,” Ruth confirmed through comms. “Fiber optics trace back to at least six Echo Phoenix nodes. And Lena... Calix’s biometric tag was picked up ninety minutes ago. He’s inside.”Lena lowered the binoculars slowly. “Then this is our window.”Carson checked his watch. “We go in silent. No alarms. If he sees us coming, he’ll vanish for another five years.”They dove into the smoke and ran for extraction.As they emerged into the cool desert air, the detonation echoed behind them. A blast of compressed heat lifted sand and steel skyward. The facility collapsed inward, flames licking at the night like veng

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