Connor couldn’t care less what anyone else thought. Right now, he only wanted to know what Lydia was thinking.
By the time he caught up with her, Lydia was already sitting at the little coffee table, hugging Mikey’s laptop, her eyes glued to the screen. Her fingers flew across the keyboard so fast it almost made him dizzy just watching. The screen was full of streaming lines of code, so dense Chris could only stare in total confusion.
Mikey couldn’t hide his shock. He never would have believed Lydia was hiding this kind of talent.
Connor felt a little left out when Lydia didn’t even notice he was there. She must have always known who he was. That would explain how calm she’d been when they met earlier. He’d nearly lost his mind searching for her these past few days, and she just pretended she was just some stranger.
About five minutes later, Lydia handed the laptop back to Mikey and said, “Everything’s in this folder. You’ll find the footage of Neil and Chris’ competition, plus everything that happened afterward.”
Mikey’s jaw dropped. “How did you pull that off?” On the way over, he’d told his people to check the security cameras at the scene, but they said the system was down and would take a while to fix. Lydia had recovered it all in just five minutes.
Lydia blinked at him. “It wasn’t hard. There’s also evidence in there about Neil’s father. Stuff on his corruption and all those nasty comments he made as Country D’s ambassador. You’ll probably need that.”
Last night, Lydia had spent maybe ten minutes looking up Neil and his dad. She’d found plenty of dirt—enough to get their whole family sent back home to face the consequences.
Chris looked like he’d just seen a magic trick. “Wait, Lydia, are you… are you some kind of hacking genius?” He’d never heard of anyone this good in the entire hacker community.
Lydia just shrugged, totally used to this kind of reaction. “It’s nothing, really. There are lots of people better than me.”
“Why are you just standing there? Move already.” Connor glared at Chris, looking like he wanted to drag him away from Lydia himself.
Chris could only stand there, completely at a loss.
Mikey stood up with a half smile. “Well then, Miss Norwood, please take another look at Connor.”
Connor didn’t waste a second. He sat down right where Mikey had been and shot Chris a pointed look. “Go find something else to do. Don’t hang around here.”
Chris was left standing there, totally confused.

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Olha a história bem boa só algumas coisas são chatas ( nesse tipo de história sempre troca as filhas pela a da empregada ou então pegam uma menina pra criar) pelo menos eles tratam a filha bem só enche o saco que até agora a Lucinda tá lá enchendo ! Fora isso tá bom Connor é um fofo a família dela a ama muito só Lucinda pra abaixar o nível do livro já era pra ter resolvido isso e fazer ela pagar mais tudo bem li um livro chinês que era parecido só algumas coisas diferentes ,ais mesma coisa tipo ela salvou o Connor no início lá ela salvava o avô dele , no chinês ela não tinha um irmão mais novo com os pais adotivos , a mãe dela tinha 2 irmãos e todos os avós estavam vivos mais história quase igual e tem coisas tipo o triângulo que lá TB tinha até a Lucinda que no chines TB ficou o livro todo aprontando só no final a família descobria e se livrava dela aí ela ia morar com o cara que ela usa pra disfarçar que não gosta do Connor aí depois ainda quase matava a irmã dele e a mãe dele que ele via como ela era...
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