"It's you!"The embarrassment of being left on his knees disappeared quickly as Oliver sprang up, slamming the jewelry box on the table.He remembered Levi clearly. The man who had robbed off the particular set of rings he had wanted to purchase.The mysterious man with the mysterious black card. How could he be robbed of those rings and his girl too? This is simply unacceptable!"Yes, it is me," Levi answered him coldly. He pulled off his coat and wrapped it around Brooklyn which made her flush crazily."It's so cold here compared to San Jose but you still wear so little... Did you deliberately dress up for someone?"Brooklyn could sense danger from his eyes so she quickly shook her head."Of course not. The only man I'll dress up for is my husband."Gasps from the crowd came again. Someone even said,"Husband... Wife... What's going on? Is Brooklyn married?""I guess the ex-fiancée you mentioned earlier was Brooklyn," Levi turned his attention to Oliver who was already beyond humili
Brooklyn's face was red with shame as the car pulled up at her residence. Her swollen lips added to the sensual view.Click!Levi got out and held out a hand for her, clearly pleased with his hand work but she snorted at him, too angry to chastise him.She simply turned to the other door and got out, rushing into the house as if afraid to allow the chauffeur see her current physical state."Welcome home young missus," The housekeeper seemed delighted to see her and greeted heartily.But her eyes went round like saucers when she saw her young missus' unusual disheveled appearance.Brooklyn's ears flamed and she rushed up the stairs. Levi wasn't too far behind. The housekeeper stifled a smile at this scene."Hey, wait up," Levi tried to catch up with her but she was one step faster and burst into the room.She finally came to a stop when she was enveloped by darkness. "Huh, why is the light off? Did the circuit blow off?"Her fingers moved on the wall to find the light switch and she al
Levi's eyes flew open with a start. His jaws tightened and he slowly removed his arm from Brooklyn's body, careful not to wake her up.[Some people were researching my father? How is he now?]Response came very quickly showing James was still awake.[Young man, I intensified the security around him so he is safe. As for those people, we haven't managed to find them but we are working on it]Levi was confused. He sat against the headboard and thought who it could be researching about his father.He didn't really remember much about his father's family so could it be someone from there? Why did they choose to only do their findings about his father now?Ding!His phone vibrated again and Brooklyn groaned again in complaint. She threw her hands around his waist and drew closer.Levi picked up his phone to check the notifications.He saw messages from the stock webpage, Dark Web and Twitter but just as he wanted to open one of the notifications—Ding!This time, it wasn't his phone. It wa
[Webpage Loading]Levi sipped his wine slowly as he twirled in the swiveling chair waiting for the desktop to load the Dark Web. It was almost a few minutes to the time stated for the tournament.He glanced at the balcony for a minute. Brooklyn was on the phone, her iPad and a stylus pen on the other hand as she jotted some things down. She looked serious but that wasn't what attracted his attention.It was the loose fitting shorts and matching top she was wearing which clung to her curves and accentuated the fact that there were no underwears underneath.His eyes darted to the bed which now had a new bedspread as the previous one had been stained."Great, she'll be the cherry on top of the icing," His eyes curved mischievously.If he wins this tournament, he'll be more than happy to have Brooklyn as his celebratory reward.Ding![You're finally here. Look, I entered our team into the contest]Valkyrie sent a screenshot and Levi almost facepalmed when he saw the name she had chosen fo
[Attention please, everyone. We can see there is a bit of an argument going on in the community chat box. If care is not taken, we might just decide to lock the chat box][There are guests all over the world watching us. It speak well of us to begin a conflict when the challenge has barely begun]The host's words disrupted the fight that was ongoing in the chat box.Levi directly exited the chat box and focused on the challenge.[I told you not to reply to them, didn't I? Don't diminish our reputation especially in front of people like DarkCipher]- Valkyrie added a tearful emoji to the message she sent to the group chat.Others raised a brow and Chubby sent a message.[Valkyrie, do you perhaps have a crush on Dark Cipher?]Levi's eyes curved mischievously and he waited for her response. He was already beginning to suspect this and Chubby only helped in voicing out his support.[What are you talking about? He's just my idol... Haha]One could feel the nervousness from her message and L
"Go ahead. I'll meet you. I just have to deal with something real quick," Levi stroked Brooklyn's hair and glanced in the direction of the desktop. She nodded, dropped her iPad and headed out when she suddenly cussed, "Shit..." She turned around and rushed to the bedside drawer. Levi looked at her for a minute wondering why she was panicking but he already put the headphones and just then, the host spoke, "We'll all just have to wait till the time for the challenge to elapse so other teams who have already gotten through to the next stage can take a break." "Great, my back is aching. Blackwing, you narcissistic rascal, you are back?" Valkyrie spoke when she saw that Levi was typing. [Yes but I'm going to log off now. I'll be back just in time] [Okay. I'll just log off then and study more codes. I assume, the challenge will only get harder from now on]- Slime sent a message and logged off almost immediately. [Great job... See you guys later]- Chubby didn't stay online for too lo
[Attention please! The next stage will commence immediately. The remaining eight hundred teams will be advancing to the second stage now] Levi sat back comfortably on the swiveling chair awaiting the host continuation. Ding! [Anyone made a wild guess at what the next challenge might be?]- Chubby sent a message to their group chat. [Who knows? I spent my break going through more tactics about firewalls. It's inevitable in this case]- Slime sounded impassive but he was also eagerly waiting on what the next challenge would be. [Same here. I'm a bit weak in the firewalls aspects so I tried to study some... Didn't expect it would be so difficult]- Valkyrie added a sticker that showed a girl collapsing from exhaustion. [Pfft!]- Chubby flooded the group chats with laughing emoticons and stickers. Levi shook his head helplessly at Valkyrie's words. Lazy thing... If you want to survive as a hacker, you need to know at least the basics in firewall tactics. [If you pay attention, you will
Levi's brows knitted as he watched the screen with a discerning look. The timer continually slowly counted down. His eyes flashed with realization and he had just adjusted his mic to say something when Chubby's voice came through, "I have an idea! We can all start sending random code to the virus. It might confuse it and slow it down, giving us time to get past it." "Sounds like a good idea. Let's get on with it. There are only four minutes left," Valkyrie drew her keyboard closer. Levi, seeing they agreed with it, didn't voice out his own opinions. As soon as they began to type furiously, he joined. Tap! Tap! Tap! Strings of code appeared on the screen as their fingers worked hastily across the screen. The spider seemed to pause for a moment, as if it was trying to make sense of the information it was receiving. "Good job Chubby!" Slime praised when he saw the spider paused movement. He attempted to move his icon forward to the finish line when— The spider started to move a