"A secondary encrypted alert bypasses Zhea's defenses, displaying a taunting message left by an unknown, equally skilled rival hacker."
Zhea stared at the flickering monitor, her emerald eyes wide with a mixture of shock, fury, and dark fascination as the glowing red text pulsed on the screen.
"Read the message aloud, Zhea," Rafael commanded smoothly, his deep baritone cutting through the low hum of the server banks in the armored SUV.
"The shadow king moves quickly, but every king leaves footprints in the dust," Zhea read, her voice dropping into a tense whisper as she decoded the embedded packet.
"Does this intruder possess a direct location trace on our mobile array?" Rafael asked, his silver eyes fixed on the cascading lines of foreign code.
"No," Zhea answered, her fingers
