After almost four hours of trying to crack the encryption on the files Nadiya had stolen and hidden in her locket flash drive, Trick was glad his customized hybrid processor was good enough for the job. For a moment, he had feared they would need a supercomputer or quantum. That would have presented more obstacles and stress to an already difficult situation.
Of course, the job would have gone much faster if he had done it from the penthouse, where most of his advanced hardware was installed, but he wasn’t going to dwell on that for the sake of peace. It was bad enough that his temper soared every time he remembered that the woman had had this vital information on her the entire time, but had chosen to keep it to herself and put them all in danger. He couldn’t focus if he let himself thin
