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    She froze for a second, holding her breath, then snatched the drive and hurried out.


    Everything had gone off track. Ste must have realized something was wrong. Leaving the USB there was her way of saying she’d caught on. If Nina hadn’t acted fast, her cover could’ve been blown.


    Back in her car, she examined the drive and felt her stomach drop—the chip inside had been crushed beyond repair.


    Just then, her phone buzzed with a message from Ste: “It shouldn’t cost much to get a new USB, right?”


    Nina’s grip tightened around her phone. Anger surged through her, and for a moment, she thought she might actually break it.


    She’d underestimated Ste from the start. Even if she hadn’t been exposed today, Ste had still figured everything out.


    Nina looked out at the traffic, trying to steady her breathing. For a few seconds, she just sat there, lost in frustration.


    When she finally calmed down, one thing became clear—she needed a new n.


    If technology couldn’t do the job, she’d have to take matters into her own hands. She got in touch with Erebus and asked them to send someone to follow Ste.


    “I want you to keep an eye on her. Watch what she does every day, where she goes, and get me everything from herb,” she ordered.


    The person on the other end agreed right away, as if the job was too easy to bother worrying about.


    Three nightster, two figures slipped into Ste’s research institute under the cover of darkness. They avoided the security systems with ease, picked the locks, and went straight to her workstation.


    At that same time, Ste was in the Briggs Group CEO’s office with William. Both of them watched the live surveince feed, eyes glued to the intruders moving quietly through the emptyb.


    Ste watched the screen with a calm smile. “Just as expected,” she said. “They took the bait.”


    William frowned a little. “You’re really going to let them take some of your files?”


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    Ste’s tone stayed cool. “They need to think they’ve won. That’ll make them careless. The real data’s already gone. Whatever they steal won’t help them.”


    The two intruders, unaware they were being watched, hurried to copy the files and snap photos of her research notes.


    Once they finished, they slipped out the same way they came and handed everything over to Nina.


    Thrilled, Nina plugged the USB drive into herptop—but the moment she opened the files, her excitement faded. Most of them were locked and encrypted.


    She stared at the screen, frustration rising.


    Her mind raced as she kept her eyes fixed on the screen.


    If Ste bothered to protect these files, they had to be worth something. Maybe breaking the code could reveal something big.


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