The Omega Team: Cyber Tracked: The Cobra Project (Kindle Worlds Novella) (IATO Series Book 4) by Eliza March Read Free Book Online Page A

total security to the cyber world the way world threat of annihilation from a nuclear winter kept nuclear attack at bay. Her program would stand guard against all future threats of cyber sabotage.
    She stalled trying to think—to decide how much to share. “It could take a minute. What do you have on your end?”
    “I don’t see anything.”
    “Not even a shadow?” Did she dare risk Groot?
    “No.” He sounded preoccupied while he tapped keys looking for a break in the system. “Nothing here at all.”
    He was safe for now at her Eindhoven office, and he couldn’t be traced to her location in London. Both he and the startup business in Eindhoven had been part of her plan to develop techies out of former hackers, and eventually bring their talent into the mainstream cybertronics business.
    “Just to be sure we didn’t miss anything, run the scan, Groot.”
    “I am. The security isn’t picking up anything, either. The system is secure. Nothing has compromised our data or the system. So, did it work?”
    She stared at the information from the system in Eindhoven scowling up on her screen. Groot was wrong, but she never planned for him to find anything.
    “Rowan, did the program work?”
    She couldn’t bring herself to involve him.
    “Rowan are you there?”
    “Aye, I’m here. But it didn’t work. Must be a glitch in my code. I’ll see what the problem is and get back to you next week.”
    “Rowan? Hey…sorry, boss. If you’d let me see the changes, perhaps I could help.”
    “You know I appreciate the offer, but the company I’m developing the program for wants complete security around this. I gave them my word.” He had no idea what the program was meant to do, and she intended to keep it like that.
    Groot was a talented programmer, and she trusted him more than anyone she’d ever worked with, but not with this. Besides endangering him, she couldn’t trust this information to a nineteen year-old with bragging rights meant to impress some tattooed female gamer into bed. And so far, here was no client. This was her baby, and hers alone.
    Rowan grinned, satisfaction warming her heart.
    It worked. And was fast, too. She’d expected speed, but COBRA struck and recoiled quicker than even she’d anticipated. In less than a blink of an eye, the program located the target, entered, imprinted the data, spit it back, and blinked out. Laser speed, with no unnecessary drag time, when milliseconds could mean the difference between success and detection.
    And the bonus…COBRA left nothing behind, no evidence it had ever been there. No shadow or trail to track back to the source. Groot Becker and their security system in the foreign office would have found it if it had been there.
    COBRA did its job. It worked.
    With the objective of the test completed, Rowan cleared the deck and shut down her system. The next time she ran COBRA, it wouldn’t be a test. The next intended purpose was stopping an illegal arms dealer and the miserable terrorists he dealt with. Snake’s client list and bank codes would be hers to sell to the Omega team, a paramilitary group that had been hunting Snake for years. Ironically, she planned to use the proceeds to benefit her children’s development charity.
    Rowan chuckled as she picked up her bag to leave. The concept of Snake’s funds inadvertently doing good instead of creating chaos warmed her heart.
    God willing, he’d never discover how or who had broken into his system, and the Omega team would finally have their revenge.
    She’d need to contact Cade soon. Grey wouldn’t wait long before he took action. If she knew Jacqui, she was already informing Cade about the rumored bounty. Ugh, why couldn’t everyone just mind their own business? She had to think.
     
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    Jacqui contacted Cade securely on a private link to let him know what Grey had told Rowan. “I’ve picked up new chatter regarding the project Rowan was working on.” She warned him. “This time it