After catching Mirabe''s "royal disdain" re, Collins sheepishly shut his mouth, dragged a chair over, and plopped down next to her, fixing his eyes on the


    The footage zipped by at breakneck speed, but it was still clear enough to follow. Collins straightened up, fully focused.


    Leo''s dash cam ran all day. On October 13th, his car left his private vi at 10:30 AM and headed to the office.


    Then, the car stayed parked in the office garage until 3:05 PM, when someone blocked the cam, plunging the video feed into darkness. After about thirty seconds, the dash cam shut down entirely, and that was the end of the recording.


    That was all they had for the 13th-no wonder someone tried to erase the day''s record.


    After watching, Mirabe turned to look at her "little prince," "Any recollection of that day?"


    Leo met his sister''s gaze, confusion etched across his handsome face. He didn''t utter a word for the longest time.


    Mirabe massaged her temples and looked away, "Got it."


    She''d have to get him on The Pill, the memory-enhancing drug, as soon as they got back.


    Feeling snubbed again, Leo could only offer a silent, bewildered look.


    Mirabe then swung her gaze back to Collins, "Collins, yourpany garage, it''s got surveince, right?"


    Collins nodded affirmatively.


    "OK." Mirabe closed the video on theputer, her fingers dancing swiftly across the keyboard.


    Collins, clueless as to her intent, asked, "Sis, what''re you doing?"


    By then, Mirabe had hacked into the surveince system of Leo''spany using the address from the video. It didn''t take her long to pull up the parking garage footage from October 13th.


    Predictably, the footage, especially around 3 PM, had been tampered with.


    A sly smile tugged at Mirabe''s lips as her cool gaze stayed fixed on theputer; she started restoring the deleted records.


    Collins watched Mirabe''s movements, once again struck with awe.


    For the first time in his life, he was witnessing the stuff of legends-hacker magic unfolding right before his eyes.


    Though he couldn''t understand a bit of it.


    As he marveled inwardly, Collins nced at Leo, whose stunned expression


    mirrored his own disbelief. He just shook his head.


    Same parents, but why such a world of difference?


    The surveince footage was swiftly restored, and Mirabe hit y.


    On the screen, right at 3 PM, a tall,nky man in a baseball cap approached Leo''s car, timing perfectly with the dash cam''s cut-off.


    The garage cameras didn''t have a 360-degree view, so the screen only showed the man tinkering with the car for about ten minutes.


    Sabotaging a car''s brakes in ten minutes wasn''t outside the realm of possibility.


    Mirabe found an angle and hit pause, "This guy, look familiar to any of you?" The man had worn the cap intentionally to avoid the cameras, always keeping his head down, so even when they zoomed in, all they could see was the top of his head.


    Leo shook his head, "Don''t know him."


    Collins stroked his chin, scrutinized the image for a good while before admitting, "No bells ringing. Probably never seen him before."


    Mirabe crossed her arms and leaned back against her chair, about to speak when her phone''s ringtone cut through the silence.