THE BILLIONAIRE’S DEBT
"It’s the Vance legacy, Elara. Your grandfather knew that once the machine tasted a human mind, it would never let go. He built this hub to trap it, but he didn't realize that the trap needs a bait."
"I'm the bait," I whispered.
"You're the hunter!" Julian yelled, shaking the bars. "Elara, look at me! You're a thief! You don't take orders from a ghost! You steal the prize and you leave!"
But the console was singing to me. It showed me Arthur Sterling’s private accounts billions of dollars sitting in offshore vaults, protected by encryption that looked like spiderwebs to me now. I could snap them. I could redistribute his wealth to every $4.12 resident in the city with a single flick of my