Morning sunlight crept through the thin curtains of Elliot Lane’s apartment, landing directly on his face. He groaned and rolled over, pulling the pillow over his head. For a few seconds, everything was quiet. Then reality returned. The hack. Elliot’s eyes snapped open. He sat up quickly, reaching for his laptop on the bedside table. The screen flickered to life as he powered it on, his heart beating a little faster than usual. “Relax,” he muttered to himself. If there had been any serious problem, he would have noticed by now. Corporate security teams usually reacted fast. If Blackwood Technologies had somehow traced him during the night, his internet would already be cut or authorities would be knocking on his door. The laptop finished booting. Nothing unusual, no alerts, no strange traffic. Elliot exhaled slowly. “See? No big deal.” Still, he ran a quick system scan out of habit. Every hacker had a survival instinct. Paranoia came with the territory. The scan return
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