“Say one more word... And you'll end up beside them.”
I watched his cruel, smirking face on a loop. I didn't cry. My tears had dried up the moment I heard that smartwatch recording. I was no longer a grieving mother blindly searching for answers; I was an architect mapping out a demolition.
Victor was the charismatic CEO of Vanguard Security Systems, but he was just the salesman. I was the engineer. I held the patents. I wrote the code. I designed the algorithms that protected the homes of billionaires, politicians, and celebrities. Victor thought that because I preferred the quiet of a laboratory over the spotlight of a boardroom, I was weak. He thought the grief of losing Maya and Oliver had broken my mind.