Parker exhaled, finally sinking into the couch, letting his head tip back slightly. That was the first step handled—the easiest one, and even that had been a fucking mess. The cyber brats? Dealt with. But that was just the prologue to this bullshit. Everything after this? A whole different level of complicated, like stepping into a game where the difficulty was cranked up to hell mode.
He rolled his shoulders, shaking off the lingering tension from the little digital war he just waged. His mind was already moving to the next phase—because, yeah, he'd been considering what to do with those hackers long before this conversation. The thought had lodged itself in his brain the moment they tried to breach Naomi's phone.
Talented, reckless, and already deep in the game? That wasn't something you just discarded. But he wasn't about to say that out loud.
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