Chapter 43: Hila's Determination..

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She moved quickly and silently to her desk, where she had hidden her portable device. It was time to cover her tracks. With ease, she connected the device to the secure network, her fingers flying over the keyboard.

She accessed the security footage from the night of Alyssa’s rescue, meticulously erasing all traces of their presence. Each frame was replaced with looped footage of empty hallways and unoccupied rooms. It was as if they had never been there.

Just as she was finishing, an alert flashed on her screen. An alarm from a surveillance drone that had followed her from the Night Owl. Her eyes almost missed it, but she thanked her stars she saw it. Panic surged through her veins momentarily, but she quickly regained her composure.

She accessed the drone’s data, tracing its commands. It had been transmitting real-time data back to the Night Owl facility. Hila's jaw tightened. She isolated the drone's memory files, deleting all stored footage. She then issued a com