Chapter Twenty
(Adrian’s POV)
The final alert disappeared from the screen.
The main monitor turned green.
External access severed.
For one second, no one in the IT department moved.
Then one of the engineers let out a shaky laugh.
“She did it.”
Another voice followed. “She actually closed the breach.”
“Oh my God, she saved the build.”
Nia leaned back from the keyboard, her fingers still hovering over the keys. She looked pale, like the strength that had carried her through the last few minutes was beginning to c***k, but her voice stayed steady.
“The stolen intel is still out there,” she said. “But the leak is closed. I trapped the transfer path, isolated the compromised credential, and blocked the external mirror. We have a trail now.”
The department head stared at her as if h
