The Billionaire's Debt-Bride
Aara, if you break the alignment too violently, we lose the ledger forever, Damian warned, standing at the base of the telescope, his hands ready on the manual tension levers.
We lose it or they take it, I said, my muscles straining against the cold iron. I’d rather it be lost.
I slammed the lever home. A deafening metallic screech echoed through the tower as the telescope jerked three millimeters to the left.
The hum of the servers changed pitch. The red lights on the security panel turned a steady, mocking amber. Lorenzo let out a ragged breath.
The handshake is broken, he whispered. They’re hitting a wall of static. You just turned their high speed data stream into a pile of digital g