Chapter 1679

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“You’ve got this!”

“Trust your instincts!”

Raymond was nothing if not brutally practical.

Before he had seen her raw talent, he had treated her like a spoiled nepotism hire, practically starting a war over her presence.

The second she proved her genius, he was ready to disown his own student and forcefully adopt her as his ultimate protégé.

“Well, Raymond, are you ready to admit my scouting instincts are flawless?”

Ulysses, feeling intensely vindicated, demanded a full apology.

Raymond wasn’t too proud to admit defeat.

He nodded begrudgingly, though he still shot Ulysses a vicious glare.

“It’s your fault for failing to clearly communicate her technical specifications! You caused this entire misunderstanding!”

If he failed to recruit this girl to his department, he was absolutely going to make Ulysses pay.

Ulysses was stunned. He was literally just doing his job, and now he was the scapegoat?

He had never realized Raymond was this petty.

Analyzing the drive, Claire realized the underlying architecture was truly a masterpiece.

Anyone else would have absolutely triggered the kill switch.

But having just dismantled a nearly identical self-destruct protocol, she was pulsing with confidence.

Barely thirty minutes later, Claire emerged from the secure server room.

Raymond and the rest of the brass were pacing anxiously in the hall.

“Well?” Raymond asked. Even though he had prepared for failure, he was desperately praying for a miracle.

To put it bluntly, the entire future of national security rested on this single piece of hardware!

“It was too complex, wasn’t it? Don’t worry if you couldn’t…”

Raymond couldn’t even finish his sentence before Claire cut him off. “The firewall is down.”

What?

Raymond aggressively rubbed his ears, convinced he was hallucinating.

Did she just say it was done? As in, successfully decrypted?

“You actually cracked it?”

Ulysses was vibrating with even

more excitement than Raymondet

The agency had burned through entirely too much time trying to

salvage this intel. fo FindNovel.net

If ‘S’ hadn’t ghosted them, they wouldn’t have been pushed to the absolute brink.

Now they finally had a world-class hack-wait, no, Claire definitely wasn’t a hacker! She was an elite Cyber Guard!

The second this operation closed, he was personally recommending her for the highest commendation!

A sheen of sweat coated Claire’s

forehead. Those thirty minutes had been infinitely more mentally exhausting than performing a grueling trauma surgery.

“Ulysses, what the hell are you standing there for? Get the girl some water!”

Raymond finally snapped out of his shock and practically shoved his way to her side.

Swatting Ulysses away, he hovered over her protectively.

“Claire, you need to sit down and rest. Cracking an algorithm like that drains a massive amount of glucose.”

He snapped his fingers at his student, ordering him to raid the kitchen for high-sugar snacks to replenish her energy.

It was painfully obvious that Raymond deeply cherished true genius.

If Dane hadn’t been standing right

there exuding absolute lethal intent, Raymond would have absolutely

ordered his apprentice to start

flirting with her. , FindNovel.net

Thankfully, with the terrifying billionaire watching his every move, Raymond kept his matchmaking schemes to himself.

Raymond wasn’t crazy; he knew Dane was completely untouchable.

Plus, actively encouraging his student to steal another man’s fiancée crossed a serious ethical boundary.

Raymond liked to believe he possessed at least a shred of professional dignity. Claire took a bite of the provided pastries, genuinely surprised by the rich flavor. “Incredible, right? Our cafeteria serves Michelin-level food. Three hot meals a day, plus morning and afternoon high tea.”

“We run intense hours during an operation, but on downtime, it’s basically a luxury resort. No mandatory office hours, unlimited time off.”

“Even when you clock in, you just sip coffee, chat, and monitor global feeds.”

“If you switch your major to computer science, I will hand you a senior executive contract the second you graduate.”

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