Control room 🥵💦💦💦Chapter1: Confession 👅💦The security control room for the Meridian Tower was small, windowless, and always a little too cold. I’d been working the overnight monitoring shift there for almost nine months. It wasn’t glamorous, but it paid the bills while I finished my degree online, and I liked the quiet. The twelve screens glowed in front of me, cycling through camera feeds from the lobby, parking garage, elevators, and every floor of the thirty-story luxury office building. Most nights, nothing happened, and that's what made it easier.Currently, I’d gotten used to the routine. Headphones in one ear for music or podcasts, coffee thermos on my left, keyboard under my fingers. I logged entries, did hourly walkthrough confirmations with the roving guards, and tried not to fall asleep during the dead hours between 3 and 6 a.m.Then Captain Marcus Hale started showing up more often.He was the head of security for the whole building. He was an ex-military, thirty-
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