Daniel stared at the computer screen, his eyes blank, fingers frozen on the keyboard. Every folder he opened was empty. Every file that was supposed to contain crucial evidence had vanished like mist swept away by the wind. The only sounds in the room were the ticking of the wall clock and the faint hum of the CPU, mocking him.
This can't be happening. This can't be happening.
His hands trembled as he opened the external drive he had hidden even from himself, buried beneath layers of encryption. But the result was the same. The folder he once proudly called his last line of defense was now dead silent. No trace. No files. No hope.
Pale-faced, Daniel gritted his teeth and jumped to the next step. He accessed his private cloud account, the one he had guarded more tightly than anything els
