Liana's POV
My computer was working.
I noticed it the moment I sat down. The login screen appeared without the access denied message I'd been staring at for days. I typed my credentials slowly, half expecting it to reject me again.
It didn't.
Full access. Everything where I'd left it. The shadow protocol folder. The hidden documents. The logs I'd been building by hand in my notebook because I hadn't been able to reach the system.
All of it is still there.
I exhaled slowly.
I didn't celebrate or react visibly. Just opened my email, pulled up my calendar, and began the business of returning to a normal working day like the suspension had been a minor inconvenience rather than four days of me panicking and a five day countdown that currently had one day left on it.
One day.
I was sti
