Crossed Lines
But she found herself going deeper.
Every server query, every log entry, every access key, she erased them not just from the surface but from the marrow of the network itself. It was meticulous, overkill even, but she couldn’t stop. Damon had kept her shadow intact; the least she could do was ensure his empire remained untouchable.
Gratitude was a dangerous motivator. She knew it even as her fingers moved faster.
She almost didn’t catch her mistake.
In her need to perfect the wipe, she’d run a custom subroutine, one of her oldest tools, designed back when ShadowByte was still carving a name for herself in the underground. It was efficient, elegant… and distinctive. A calling card she hadn’t
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