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#Chapter 17 – Life Away From Each Other
Third Person POV
Sebastian’s eyes remain on Stella’s hazel ones. The man relaxes into his spot, the warmth from the side of her face still lingering on the tips of his fingers. Stella clears her throat and nods, pulling away from him.
She knows that he is telling the truth. She knows that Sebastian, alongside the rest of the Obsidian Pact brothers, are all willing to kill for her if she ever needed it. It is all part of their undying and unflinching love for each other.
Sebastian takes a step to close the distance again but one of his higher up subordinates crosses the shooting range, approaching them. He sighs and looks down at the man, his hands resting on his hips. The subordinate bows his head before handing Sebastian a tablet.
“The firewall has been breached, sir!” There is urgency behind the subordinate’s voice. Stella’s head snaps to look at them, the woman fully being pulled out of her inner dialogue,
She is both shocked and confused about how someone was able to break through the firewall she set up all those years ago. She snatches the tablet from Sebastian and begins to look at the code with her full attention.
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need to go,” Stella says, finally looking up at Sebastian. He nods and the two of them leave their four brothers behind, following Sebastian’s subordinate to the car.
They speed across the city. The car swerves through the late afternoon traffic, the driver opting to take a few shortcuts as they find themselves at the main mafia building. Once inside, Stella and Sebastian immediately head towards the server room, running as fast as they can.
The door bursts open and Stella looks around, her eyes landing on the man in charge. It is the same man that questioned her ability in the meeting she attended a few days prior.
She sucks in a breath and sits at one of the empty chairs beside him, the attack from the unknown hacker now flashing across her screen. The man gasps as she begins to furiously type away, trying her best to fend off the hacker.
“You can’t be here,” the man says, his fingers wrapping around Stella’s arm. He tries to pull her away but Sebastian’s subordinates pull him off of her. “She has no experience! We can’t trust her with our servers! She’ll do more harm than good!”
Stella gets back to work, her skills speaking for themselves. A few minutes pass by and Stella has successfully fended off the attack, the system now restored.
The older man sits in awe, staring at Stella with disbelief in his eyes. She ignores him and scrolls through the endless amount of code, trying to find any traces of the hacker before she calls it a day.
The hacking method that this person used is eerily similar to that of the hacker that infiltrated Adrian’s company’s servers. The same trap had been left behind, causing Stella to quickly form a plan inside her head. She’ll take the bait, yes, but will use their own trap against them.
After a few moments of being inside the hacker’s trap, Stella quickly reverses the power dynamic and hacks into their computer. After a few clicks around, Stella finds the stolen information from Adrian’s company and sends herself aa copy before deleting it from their servers.
Cipher. It’s you. If you don’t join us, then we will hunt you down.
Tracer: I’m not interested in joining you
Stella rolls her eyes and quickly types in a quick line of code into their mainframe, changing many of their
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commands with the simple prank.
She shuts off the computer and stands up. A wave of satisfaction hits her body. She no longer feels like she has to depend on the world around her.
Stella feels like herself before her marriage with Adrian. She feels like the young woman who was able to hold her own and didn’t have to rely on him and his money to get by in life.
She pulls her phone from her pocket as she exits the server room. She switches to her hacker mainframe and quickly sends off the files to Adrian and his company. Not even a few seconds later, Adrian responds to her with the payment.
Adrian: We should work together again.
Tracer: Never contact me again
Every time Stella interacts with Adrian, whether it is as herself, her hacker persona, or from behind the mafia princess‘ mask at a ball, she always ends up in turmoil. Having more contact with him will only make her sad. Besides, the money she made from this job is more than enough for her to move out Adrian’s mansion and into her own place away from him.
Adrian, on the other hand, grew frustrated with the hacker’s response. It reminded him so much of Stella and how cold she has been towards him lately. He turns off his phone and tosses it to the side, irritation flooding his body.
He is already annoyed with his private investigators, too, since the investigation into Stella’s man friend has turned up with nothing. He is like a ghost in the wind with no dirt against him.
At least there is one good thing that came out of this night. Tracer got the files back, especially one in particular. It’s a file that tricked his competitors into thinking his company was going to go in one direction when in actuality it went in the complete opposite direction.
Because of this, Adrian’s company quickly seized control of the market and is now basking in the profits. His business has garnered more fame and Adrian found himself with an invitation to a prestigious gala that only the wealthiest CEOs are invited to. It’s rumored that the famous financial mogul, Sebastian, will make an appearance at this event as well.
“I should take Stella,” Adrian says as he stares at the invitation.
“Why would you take Stella? All she’s done is cause trouble wherever she goes,” Clara coos at him. “She’s bound to embarrass herself and you. Let me go with you.”
Adrian hesitated to agree but eventually gave in, knowing that what she was saying was true.
The day of the event was busy but when Adrian and Clara showed up, it was clear that other guests were excited about the finance mogul’s appearance rather than his. Rumor has it that he’s bringing a date tonight and everyone wants to see who managed to snag the man’s heart.
Clara beams with excitement too, hoping to get a chance to speak with his partner and become friends with her. Of course, Clara plans on using this friendship to elevate her status in society and become a big player instead of a small one.
Gasps erupt across the ballroom. People turn to look at the entrance doors of the grand room. It’s as if the all of the fights in the room have been turned to illuminate the man’s entrance.
Clara’s eyes widen once she stares at the finance mogul and his date. They glide inside the room and people begin to whisper amongst themselves when they pass. The woman’s arm is wrapped around the man’s arm and he escorts her through the crowd.
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Clara pinches Adrian’s arm and he finally turns to look at the couple. His breath gets caught in his throat when he stares at the familiar looking couple.
Stella and Sebastian turn to face the room that stares at them. He pulls her closer to him, protective over her. Adrian’s fists clench at his sides.
What is she doing here with him? Why is she allowing him to touch her like that? What is going on?!
The actor that Stella hired to make him jealous is famed financial mogul Sebastian.
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#Chapter 10–Second Guesse
#Chapter 18 – Second Guesses
