《Trapped by the CEO》全部章節：第 41 章 - 第 50 章

To give the Covenant’s ultimate weapon the keys to the Thorne Tech global mainframe was corporate suicide. It was the kind of catastrophic risk that Julian Thorne’s board of directors would have him institutionalized for even considering. Julian looked through the bulletproof glass at his wife. She was sitting on the floor, wrapped in his oversized jacket, looking entirely terrified of her own shadow. "Do it, Leo," Julian commanded over the intercom, his voice ringing with absolute, unyielding authority. "Unlock the terminal slot and send in a secure laptop. Full administrative access.""Sir, with all due respect, are you out of your mind?" Marcus’s voice crackled over the secure channel, panic completely overriding his usual professional stoicism. "If her subconscious programming is active, she could wipe our offshore accounts, shut down the tower's defense grid, and crash the Eastern Seaboard's stock market in about four minutes.""Then she crashes it, Marcus," Julian replied cold

The laptop screen snapped to black, leaving only the glowing reflection of Julian and Maya in the dark glass. The silence in the South Wing was absolute, deafening, and heavy with the weight of a catastrophic revelation. The Old Man did not want a master bypass protocol. He had formatted his own daughter's mind simply to discard her, clearing the board so he could hunt the true prizes: the Thorne children. Julian Thorne did not panic. The billionaire CEO, the desperate husband, the man who had just wept on the floor of his nursery—all of those men vanished in a fraction of a millisecond. What rose from the hardwood floor was the Ice King. Absolute, ruthless, and terrifyingly cold. Julian stood up, his massive frame radiating a lethal, predatory energy that seemed to drop the temperature in the room by ten degrees. He reached down, grabbing the laptop, and snapped it shut. "Marcus," Julian’s voice echoed over the open comms. It was not a shout. It was a low, vibrating command that

Beep. Beep. Beep.The high-pitched electronic pulse of the detonator sliced through the howling wind of the shattered nursery. They had less than ten seconds before the floor vanished in a ball of fire. "Move!" Julian roared. He didn't wait for Maya’s wiped mind to process the threat. He lunged forward, his massive arm wrapping securely around her waist, and physically hoisted her off the splintered floorboards. He spun on his heel and launched them both out of the destroyed room and into the dark corridor. Seven seconds.Maya didn't scream. Her hands instinctively clamped onto the heavy tactical webbing of Julian's vest. She tucked her head against his chest, making herself as small as possible as the Ice King sprinted down the hallway with terrifying, explosive speed. Three seconds.They reached the heavy, titanium-reinforced fire doors of the emergency stairwell. Julian hit the crash bar with his shoulder, throwing them both through the threshold just as the timer hit zero. Th

The freezing blizzard howling across the roof of Thorne Tower was nothing compared to the absolute, suffocating ice in Julian’s veins. The decoy blanket lay discarded on the frozen concrete. Julian pressed two fingers to his earpiece, completely shutting out the chaotic roar of the storm. The billionaire CEO was gone. What remained was a father pushed to the absolute brink of murder. "Leo," Julian commanded, his voice dropping to a terrifying, deadly calm that vibrated through the comms. "Do not panic. Put your tablet on speaker. Let me talk to the doctor." A moment of static hissed in his ear, followed by the sound of a terrified little girl weeping. "Julian!" Dr. Evans’s voice cracked over the channel, high-pitched and frantic. He was no longer the composed, traitorous physician; he was a desperate rat backed into a corner. "Call the helicopter back! Tell Elena to return to the roof, or I swear to God I will pull this trigger!""Elena is gone, Arthur," Julian lied smoothly, his

The chaotic, strobing lights of the command center were finally replaced by the sterile, bright halogen glow of the Thorne Tech medical emergency team.Paramedics flooded the room. Two armed guards dragged the unconscious, bleeding Dr. Evans out by his collar, while a medic carefully stabilized Marcus on a stretcher. Through it all, Julian Thorne did not let go of his wife.He kept Maya tucked firmly against his side, his large hand resting protectively on the small of her back. Leo and Mia clung to his legs, refusing to let go, while a shaken but relieved night nurse carefully took the bassinet holding Alexander."The tower is fully locked down on the analog grid, sir," the lead medic reported, glancing nervously at the shattered glass and bullet holes. "The South Wing is structurally intact. We can move your family there.""Do it," Julian commanded, his voice exhausted but unyielding. "Post a heavily armed detail at the end of the corridor. No one enters the wing without my explicit