Amber POV
The moment the door closed, silence filled the room completely.
I stood motionless near the center of the suite while Jason locked the door behind us automatically.
Then he turned toward me slowly.
“This hospital belongs to one of my companies,” he said quietly. “The staff here are loyal.”
A pause.
“My grandfather will be safe here.”
Safe.
The word felt meaningless now.
I looked directly into Jason’s eyes.
Really looked at him.
At the exhaustion buried beneath his calm.
At the anger hiding behind his control.
At the fear he refused to admit existed.
Then I said the thing already burning inside me.
“I’m going to end them.”
Jason went still.
Completely still.
Not shocked.
Not confused.
Just… listening.
I pulled my phone from my pocket and sat down at the small table near the bed.
My fingers moved automatically across the screen while layers of encrypted systems unfolded one after another.
The Vincents had spent generations believing they controlled the shadows.
That no one could see them.
Touch them.
Reach them.
Fine.
I would crawl directly into the center of their empire and burn it from the inside out.
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Jason moved beside me quietly while watching lines of code appear rapidly across the screen.
What are you doing?” he asked softly.
“Planting bugs.
His eyes narrowed immediately.
“Into what?”
“Their core systems.”
Jason stared at me for half a second.
“Amber…”
“I know.”
Because this was dangerous even for me.
Especially now.
The Vincents would absolutely have elite cybersecurity teams protecting their infrastructure.
Probably government-grade protection layers.
Possibly military.
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I was angry enough to become reckless.
But not stupid.
Several hidden gateways opened silently beneath my fingers while I moved deeper into encrypted company structures connected to Vincent international holdings.
Shipping.
Finance.
Private investment accounts.
Communications servers.
The sheer scale of it almost made me sick.
They were everywhere.
Jason watched quietly while I bypassed another security layer.
“You’re smiling,” he observed carefully.
I blinked once before realizing he was right.
Not happiness.
Not amusement.
Something colder.
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“I usually explode systems like this,” I admitted quietly. “Erase barriers. Destroy infrastructure. Leave chaos behind.”
My fingers continued moving steadily across the screen.
“But not this time.”
Jason leaned slightly against the table beside me, his expression unreadable.
“What are you planning?”
I finally looked up at him fully.
“I want them to suffer.”
The honesty in my own voice startled even me.
“I want them comfortable,” I continued softly. “Confident.”
A pause.
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“I want them to keep believing they’re untouchable while I slowly dismantle everything underneath them.” Jason’s gaze darkened immediately.
Not disapproval.
Understanding.
“I don’t want them to know I’m inside their systems,” I whispered. “At least not until it’s too late.”
A small notification flashed across my screen.
Access point established.
Good.
I inserted the first hidden bug directly into one of the Vincent financial relay systems.
Completely silent.
Invisible.
Designed to collect information slowly without triggering security alerts.
Jason watched the code scrolling across the screen for several seconds before finally speaking again.
“You’ve done this before.”
Not a question.
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