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Chapter One

Jena Taylor hit the send button and smiled “Who says crime doesn’t pay?”

She shifted in her chair Four hours of coding had , she looked around the large expanse of the warehouse

I would’ve never dreamed I’d be in Odessa, Texas

It was already past six o’clock Howto spend?

Apparently, quite a lot

This was the seventh control rooet all this equipment to be more than one hundred thousand dollars It had to be more than a million in all the locations

Going legit felt great, especially with the kind of bankroll Knight had

Time to relax

She sipped on her coffee Just a few et some much-needed rest back at her hotel

She’d drea MIT and escaping Carl, her ex-boyfriend

A real job A paycheck Security

What a difference fro a few bucks here and there fro corporations had been necessary Selecting only the greediest and worst companies to steal from, she’d merely kept a portion of the proceeds to shelter and feed her family The money had been used to keep Kione to the corporations’ former employees who had been laid off to ensure the bastards at the top got their big bonuses

Now, she was getting realthe role of a cyber cri one Her boss was a billionaire who had her testing his company’s security systems She’d already shown him that they weren’t foolproof

What a shock it had been to get Mr Knight’s introduction e-mail

Of course, her first inclination had been that it was a trap

She’d alht last year when she’d siphoned ten thousand dollars from a known mobster The FBI’s trace on his transactions had captured her digital trail That’s when she’d left Kimmie with her mom and hit the road It took three mont

hs of sweat and blood, but now she felt safe fro discovered

God, she s had finally settled down, she believed it would be safe to go get her With the big payday Knight was going to give her once this job was complete, she could have a fresh start with Kimmie and her mom

When she’d verified that the origination of Knight’s e- a trap had subsided

This ht had e-mailed her a virus he wanted to test on the new firewalls When she first tried it, no go Then she put her tweaks in, and voila, she was in

She was definitely doing her job There had to be at least thirty or more sleeper viruses inside their network The past few months had been ht on The security measures were top of the line, but she’d broken each and every one of them