The 24th Century Warrior Became a Fake Heiress novel Chapter 44

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He was mostly just livid that Isabella had the audacity to talk back to him, let alone negotiate

terms.

Adrian’s face remained dark as he barked coldly, “Fine. But this is the absolute last time!

“And stop constantly making excuses for her.

“Look at her–she’s gotten completely out of control lately.

“When we first brought her back, she at least had the decency to keep her mouth shut.”

Even if she had been painfully awkward and looked incredibly insecure and fragile.

Isaac waved it off carelessly, completely unbothered. “Relax, she’s doing just fine.

“Honestly, it’s better this way. At least nobody can walk all over her.

“Otherwise, you’d just complain that she’s embarrassing the family again.”

Isaac shrugged his shoulders dismissively.

Sure, he agreed that Isabella was acting a bit too aggressive and cocky lately.

But considering she had just returned to a massive household, what was wrong with her flaunting a little attitude once she found her footing?

The Powell family wasn’t some two–bit, low–class household.

What was wrong with an heiress having some fire?

Since when did a real high–society heiress need to act like a timid, fragile wallflower anyway?

Completely left speechless by Isaac’s logic, Adrian hung up the phone with a sharp click.

Meanwhile, Isabella was deep inside the Bexley Group’s private intranet, and she stumbled across some incredibly juicy data.

Arched an eyebrow, she compiled a dossier of the compromised logs and dispatched it straight to Edward Hanks’s secure inbox using her underground alias, “Deity,” along with a brief note: “Complimentary after–sales intel. On the house.”

The instant the data cleared, Edward’s terminal inside the Hanks Group headquarters flashed with an encrypted alert.

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Staring intently at the secure transmission from Deity, his eyes narrowed as he snapped to his team, “Run a full audit on the Bexley Group immediately!

“I want to know if they had their filthy hands in our core data breach.”

Edward’s eyes flashed with lethal cold.

The corporate espionage targeting their flagship blueprint had nearly brought the entire Hanks enterprise to its knees.

If they hadn’t intercepted the stolen files at the absolute final second, they would have been completely slaughtered in the market today!

Looking at the absolute carnage among the hedge funds that had shorted his stock, Edward felt a chill run down his spine.

He was actively working with federal investigators to hunt down the masterminds when Deity suddenly dropped this massive bombshell.

This hacker hadn’t just saved the Hanks family from total ruin; she had just handed him a silver platter.

Sure enough, the digital footprints Isabella unearthed inside the Bexley servers proved they were directly linked to the syndicate targeting the Hanks Group.

Well, not an open alliance per se.

The masterminds behind the hit had paid off the Bexleys to run a series of corporate smoke screens, throwing the Hanks security team off the scent.

Completely blinded by raw greed, the Bexleys had signed right up for the gig.

Taking advantage of their existing joint ventures with the Hanks Group, they intentionally sabotaged their own data lines to shield the hackers.

They had even dumped an insane amount of capital into shorting the Hanks stock themselves during the panic.

If it weren’t for the massive payoff they received from the syndicate, the Bexley Group’s losses right now would be infinitely worse than the Powells‘.

That was exactly why they only threatened Adrian instead of executing an immediate pullout.

They desperately needed this joint venture with the Powell Group to recoup their massive shorting losses and stay afloat.

Reading through the unassailable proof Isabella sent, Edward was filled with absolute,

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