She didn't leave.
Which means someone else opened these gates, cut my power, and came inside.
I move fast toward the control room, each step cataloging details—no alarm trigger, no smashed glass, no signs of forced entry anywhere. Whoever did this had access codes or better.
Professional override.
The control room door is unlocked. I push inside and the darkness swallows everything except the faint glow from my phone.
I sweep the beam across the wall of monitors.
Every screen is black.
Not sleeping. Not dimmed. Dead.
I tap a keyboard. Nothing. Try the backup console. Still nothing.
The entire network—more than a dozen high-definition feeds, thermal overlays, motion sensors, perimeter alerts—systematically shut down from the outside.
I grab for the laptop I keep stowed inside a built-in cabinet beneath the main console, yank it free, flip it open. The screen floods bright white, and I blink against the sudden light, pupils contracting hard enough to hurt.
Password typed. Enter.
Local network infrastructure loads—routers, nodes, circuit diagrams.
Everything offline.
I've got a backup power system designed to outlast a three-day blackout. Industrial-grade battery array with solar redundancy and a diesel generator that kicks in automatically if both fail. The fact that it'salloffline means this wasn't a simple breaker trip or grid failure.
This was a total hack.
Professional.
Military-grade penetration.
I don't think the name.
I don't.
I refuse.
I donot.
It comes anyway.
LaRiccia.
The only people both capable of this kind of operationandwith a reason to do it.
They don't know. They can't know.
Dom and Ricky have been running the deepfake religiously for weeks—Rico posting vacation photos from Manila, Bangkok, Ko Samui. Smiling in club mirrors. Flashing cash at blackjack tables. Fucking Instagram models with geotags proving he's alive and indulgent and exactly where rich assholes go to disappear for a month.
But if they know?—
Theyhaveto know.
This is a major breach. Hell, this is more than a fucking breach. This is a declaration of war.
