"He’s going to kill her."The glass in my hand shattered. Ice and water soaked my boots. I didn't care. On the monitor, the progress bar for the vault crawled toward ninety-one percent. Below it, a grainy sub-window showed a basement. Concrete walls. A single flickering bulb. And Sophia. My sister was zip-tied to a wooden chair, a black box with a blinking red light taped to the pillar behind her."He won't." Caleb didn't look up from his keyboard. His fingers were a blur. "He’s a businessman, Ethan. He doesn't destroy assets unless the ROI hits zero. As long as that bar is moving, he’s paralyzed.""Look at her face, Caleb! She’s bleeding!" I lunged for the desk. My heart slammed against my ribs like a trapped bird. "Give me the override. I’m aborting the sequence.""Touch that key and I’ll break your hand." Caleb grabbed my wrist. His grip was iron. Cold. Lethal. "If you stop the upload, the leverage dies. If the leverage dies, we’re just two corpses in a high-rise and Sophia is a he
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