MY BULLY PRESIDENT
The air was heavy, not with the clinical scent of the day’s stabilizers, but with the unfiltered, raw intimacy of two souls who had spent hours in each other’s pockets.
Thalynn was hunched over a localized terminal, his fingers dancing through a forest of code. He had discarded his uniform jacket hours ago; his white shirt was rumpled, the top three buttons undone to vent the heat of his rising fever. Beside him, Lucian was reviewing the loyalty heat-maps Kyra had demanded.
"The encryption on the Senator’s offshore server is cycling every sixty seconds," Thalynn murmured, his voice a low, tired rasp. "I need you to authorize a brute-force bypass from the primary uplink."