SILICONE HEARTSTRING: A TALE OF LOVE AND DISRUPTION

heart racing, holding onto the telephone tight against my ear. A

he AI killed someone, and they'

ng I'd ever taken on. A major tech company covering up a fatal accident caused by their own

to steady my own voice. "You're doing the

ceiling tile had crashed to the floor, missing me by inc

whistleblower asked,

ed on the debris. "Just a little offic

flash drive peeking from under the fallen tile.

back," I said,

f my past. Plug it into a computer, and in a fla

into some corporate archive praying I would not get caught. The musty smell of old files filled my n

as she sobbed. She had lost everything in a Ponzi scheme, and I was the only listen

corrupt pharmaceutical company. He glared at me, but I didn't

documents. Clandestine meetings with sources. That rush o

urnalism award on stage. The applause was deafening, the lights bli

um was empty, silent. I stood alone on the sta

reen was the flash drive, replete with the ghosts of stor

leepless nights, the broken relationships

ontemplate that before my p

st instincts kicking in

VegaTech isn't what it seems. There are ethical breaches. "massive on

ilicon Valley, revolutionizing the world with

anced across it, off before I could make anything of them. I tried to

l there?" I asked, b

ymbols on it a minute ago, one message star

It was it-the big one. The s

barely paused to knock. "Olivia,

h? You do know how powerful they are, right? We can't just go

a's desk phone rang. She looked down

d, before answering. "Mr. Ve

EO of VegaTech, calling our offic

It showed Olivia much younger, standing beside an older man who l

hat was this? How

. "Well, Sophia, it seems you've caught a big fish. Alex Vega want

shot, but something was off. Why wou

eadier than I felt. "But Olivia,

poked his head in, holding a thick envelope.

documents-page after page of damning evidence against VegaTech. I scanned wide-eyed

ddle of some report. Tied to an event from m

urious eyes. Who else knew? Ho

in. I clutched the documents to my chest, head

he was a mile away. "What is it

st instincts at war with my survival instinct. "Just some backg

d see the doubt in her ey

eeded to get out of here, to think. The VegaTech story was

. Well, I definitely found one. So the question was, could I

gainst the wall. One thing was for sure: there was no turning back now. Whatever secr

what it