Trace Novels & Stories

“There she is.” “Who?” “This woman is ready to dismantle a rival before an interruption stopped her.” Lyra offered a brief, quiet laugh before her expression hardened again. “Trace the transmission origin.” “I’m already running the packet diagnostics,” Hayden said, returning his focus to the console. Lines of encrypted routing code scrolled down the display. For nearly a minute, the trace returned clean nulls. Then, a single hard IP address resolved on the main display. Hayden’s hands stopped over the keyboard. “Lyra.”

"The network doesn't know it happened." "Also yes." I set the tablet down. For a moment neither of us spoke. Victor had worked with me long enough to understand the difference between a mistake and an impossibility. This was drifting dangerously toward the second category. "The trace failed?" "It never started." That pulled my attention back to him. Victor folded his arms. "The caller disconnected five seconds before the trace protocol activates." I stared at him. "Coincidence?" "No." The answer came immediately. Not defensive.

"Wait. Could you track the bracelet? It's custom made and I had it bugged." "Brilliant! We can track it. Give me the code."

𝙸 𝚃𝚁𝙸𝙴𝙳 𝚃𝙾 𝚁𝙴𝚃𝚁𝙰𝙲𝙴 𝙼𝚈 𝚂𝚃𝙴𝙿𝚂 𝙱𝙰𝙲𝙺 𝚃𝙾 𝚆𝙷𝙴𝚁𝙴 𝙸 𝙲𝙰𝙼𝙴 𝙵𝚁𝙾𝙼. "𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝙻𝙾𝚂𝚃?" 𝙸 𝚃𝚄𝚁𝙽𝙴𝙳 𝙰𝚁𝙾𝚄𝙽𝙳 𝚃𝙾 𝚂𝙴𝙴 𝙰 𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙻 𝙼𝚄𝚂𝙲𝚄𝙻𝙰𝚁 𝙵𝙸�

he demanded. "I am not allowed to give you any detail about her without her permission, sir." A smile crept onto his lips as he heard her firm answer. "I need it now," he said with doing something on his computer, he knew that Lora will never give him any information, she was a loyal secretary to Fera's family. He was hacking her system while the call was on, he was using the connection of their call to track her IP address and got into her system. But when he found it, a strong firewall blocked him. He wasn't expecting that Lora would find out about it. He smiled, even more, when he realize how good Lora was in her field.