Most people at Starlight Elite Academy had already moved on.
The system failure had become yesterday’s news something to gossip about, exaggerate, then forget.
But Damien Lane didn’t forget things.
He leaned casually against a pillar in the courtyard, his posture relaxed, eyes half-lidded like he wasn’t paying attention.
He was.
Always.
“Still thinking about it?” Cole Knight asked, tossing a bottle of water in the air and catching it again.
Damien didn’t answer immediately.
“Something about it doesn’t sit right,” he said finally.
Cole scoffed. “Yeah, no one knows who the hacker is. Big mystery.”
“That’s not it.”
Damien’s gaze drifted across the courtyard, scanning students one by one.
“It’s how it ended.”
Cole frowned. “What do you mean?”
“It was too clean,” Damien replied. “
