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tips spilling around her like a dark halo. Her onyx black eyes wer
silence around her was almost palpable and the only hint of life in her was
arships don't get, including a weekly allowance of fifty Euros. Even with that, the weekly allowance barely covered all her expenses. She'd been using the same sm
ke state, suddenly snapped into focus. Her gaze intensified and her eyebrows furrowed. Her ey
curled into a hint of a smile, her entire face lit up as she sprang up from her bed a
for a laptop and two heavy books which she'd borrowed from the university's library. Drawing the black
in hacking, with a mixture of guilt and desperation had snuck into her mother's room where her mother laid motionless, the empty alcohol bottle beside
. She opened the laptop's lid, the hinges creaking softly as the screen sprang to life. It emitted a faint, slightly screeching sound as
et plugged into the wall underneath the table. She aligned her foot with the socket, her big toe finding the smal
eyboard, her eyes glinting with determination and excitement. She
up." She muttered to herself, her fingers flying
scholarship, thereby trying to break the promise she made to herself. Olivia was hell-bent on hacki
d gain access to the coveted list of sponsors, including the p
d admission, Olivia had worked harder and gained more insight into hacking, making her proficient and confident in her sk
cessed the list of the wealthy alumni, her onyx eyes scrol
ofaci..." S
ian. Makes
from France, making it unlikely that their digital trails will cross, more to Olivia's relief.
as she finally accessed his account after breaking some barriers. The number wa
he won't even n
, feeling like she'd pulled
er way into the Italian business man's account with great effort before anot
for a mere
greed got the better of her, her fingers flying across the keyboard as
and turns off her VPN, her chest rising and falling in a way that defies logic as the rush of excitement and a
it screeching against the floor as she hastily abandoned her laptop.
nd shaking as she forcefully pressed the button and unlocked it. And right at t
e, the corners of her mouth twitching upwards before s
her table and pushed her laptop's lid close. The laptop was overheating, but Oliv
, slipped in comfortable home slides and steppe
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