Chapter 2 - The Override SequenceWhen the camera screens cut out, the house plunged into a quiet, heavy darkness illuminated only by the faint red glow of the digital door panels.
Outside, Diane tapped her manicured nails against the glass, her sweet expression hardening into irritation as her video recording froze.
âClaire!â Diane shouted through the frame. âTurn those lights back on! Stop acting like a child!â
I ignored her completely.
I stepped across the polished marble floor toward the concealed master server nook concealed behind the living room bookshelf.
Before marrying Grant six years ago, I had been the lead system architect who designed the core encryption protocols for his firm, Nexus Medical. When Grant took credit for the patents and pushed me out of active operations under the guise of "resting after our wedding," I had built a hard-coded backdoor into the homeâs smart security systemâa system directly linked to the corporate data vault.
I pulled a small, silver flash drive from behind a decorative bronze statue on the shelf and inserted it into the master server port.
A blue command interface illuminated the wall display.
[NEXUS CORE SYSTEM â MASTER OVERRIDE INITIALIZED]
[USER: CLAIRE BENNETT â ACCESS LEVEL: ROOT FOUNDER]
I typed in a sixteen-character passphrase that Grant had spent three years trying to decrypt.
Within seconds, every camera feed across the entire home, every digital lock log, and every encrypted audio recording from the last six months popped up on the high-definition monitor.
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Grantâs voice filled the room, recorded by the living room mic two weeks earlier: âOnce the board approves the conservatorship at the gala, we liquidate her founding shares and transfer forty million to Zurich.â
I smiled coldly, hitting [BROADCAST TO NETWORK].
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