Julian’s povI threw the crystal whiskey glass against the stone wall of my office.The glass shattered into a hundred jagged pieces. The costly amber liquid stained the white carpet. I breathed heavily, my chest rising and falling as pure anger boiled in my veins.Greg, the head software engineer for Vanguard Corporation, flinched violently. Greg was a tall, nervous Beta who sweated too much. Right now, a dark wet patch stained his shirt. He stood near the door, holding his digital tablet like a shield."I do not want to hear excuses, Greg!" I roared at him.. "You have a team of twenty engineers! You are telling me none of you can unlock a single development server?""Alpha, please," Greg stammered, shrinking back against the door. He pushed his glasses up his nose with shaking fingers. "The code is bizarre. It is a dynamic lock. Every time we try to bypass it, the root code shifts and changes its own password. We have never seen anything like this."I gripped the edge of my mahogany
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