THE BILLIONAIRE’S DEBT
He set me down on a wooden crate, his hands trembling as he checked my pulse.
"The relay, Marcus! Now!"
Marcus pulled a heavy, Pelican-case-sized unit from his pack and slammed it onto the floor. He flipped the switches, the internal fans whirring to life. "It’s a patchwork, Julian. I’m bouncing the signal off a satellite in the Low Earth Orbit. It’s not the Alpine server, but it’ll keep her brain from frying for a few hours."
I felt the connection hit. It wasn't the smooth, clinical flow of Silas’s system; it was a jagged, erratic pulse of data that felt like drinking liquid fire. I arched my back, my eyes rolling into my head as the Medusa code stabilized.