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Chapter 68

Author: Ella Reeds
last update Last Updated: 2025-02-08 00:17:03

Aria could still taste Alejandro on her lips as she sat at the desk in his study, a laptop in front of her. But there was no time to dwell on the way his kiss had made her feel she had work to do.

Alejandro and Jace stood behind her, their presence heavy. The tension in the room was thick, but Aria tuned it out, fingers flying over the keyboard.

She was in.

The Varela Cartel wasn’t as secure as they thought. Their servers were old, their encryption sloppy. A few backdoors and she had access to their internal communications.

"Got something," she murmured.

Alejandro leaned over her shoulder, his breath warm against her neck. "What is it?"

Aria swallowed, forcing herself to focus. "They have an encrypted message scheduled to send out in…" she checked the timestamp, her stomach twisting, "ten minutes."

Jace cursed under his breath. "Can you stop it?"

Aria smirked. "I can do more than that."

Her fingers danced over the keys. She bypassed their firewalls, rerouted the mess
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