Substitute Wife, Genius CEO novel Chapter 268

"Lily Sutton! Confess."

The interrogation room was as bright as day, the radiator pumping out a stifling heat. The National Security officers wore grim, unrelenting expressions, while Harrison Banks and Wesley Whitmore sat opposite her, their faces entirely blank.

The atmosphere in the room was suffocatingly heavy.

Under the glaring fluorescent lights, Lily's heart hammered violently against her ribs. Her face was deathly pale, her palms slick with cold sweat.

Suddenly, she doubled over, clutching her stomach in agony. "I'm sorry... my stomach is killing me. I'm pregnant. Please, get me to a hospital immediately."

The next day. 3 PM locally, 3 AM overseas.

Every project member cleared of suspicion was called back in—except for the engineers from Sterling Group.

Under Harrison Banks's command and spearheaded by Pax, the team launched a full-scale digital assault on The Global Tech Institute.

The tracking protocol embedded in Summer's code acted like a beacon. With it acting as an inside man, locking onto the target was effortless.

The team looked dead serious, but a thrilling light danced in their eyes.

Fighting alongside legends like Professor Banks and Pax was the honor of a lifetime.

Pop-up windows stacked furiously on screens. Code scrolled at lightning speed.

Summer's slender, pale fingers bounded across her keyboard like springs, moving so fast they were practically a blur.

The enemy detected the breach immediately. A fierce back-and-forth cyber skirmish ensued, lasting several intense minutes.

Keeping an eye on the clock, Harrison barked, "Pull back! Drop the bait."

The team worked in perfect synergy, feigning a system failure and staging a chaotic retreat.

The enemy engineers took the bait, chasing them down in an attempt to counter-hack their servers.

Harrison deliberately lowered their firewall defenses, letting the enemy slip inside before slamming the door shut to trap them.

The trap was an endless labyrinth of dead ends—a digital maze with no exit.

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