Chapter 5 - THE DIGITAL COUNTER-ATTACK"You aren't hiding, Sophia—you're surviving," Dominic said, grabbing my shoulders. His fingers were warm, his grip fierce, and for a fraction of a second, I saw the raw, agonizing fear behind his cold exterior. He was terrified of losing me.
"Listen to me," I said, pulling away just enough to look at the main console. "Julian Vance doesn't just want me as leverage. He wants the master cryptographic keys to the offshore accounts we used to consolidate the real estate holdings. If he gets those keys, he cripples your entire empire in thirty seconds."
Dominic frowned. "What are you saying?"
"I'm saying I built this digital architecture," I said, my hands already flying across the keyboards, unlocking the deep-level encryption protocols. "You taught me how to protect your assets. Now let me use them as a weapon. If they want my codes, I'll feed them a logic bomb that will wipe out every single dollar of funding they have linked to this operation."
