The Hacker Heiress Strikes Back novel · Chapter 22 of 32
Chapter 22: The Gala: The Screen
"Turn that off," Lucinda said.
She said it to the woman in the headset, quite calmly, and the woman bent over her laptop and began to type.
Nothing on the wall changed.
"Ma'am," the woman said, "it won't take input from here."
"Then pull the plug."
"It's the hotel's system. I can't."
Four hundred people watched the code run, and a murmur began to climb the room.
I stood up, at last, with my laptop open in my hands.
"Good evening," I said. "I was asked to give a live demonstration, so I will."
I tapped a key.
The wall went still on one page, a log with a single highlighted line.
"This is the signing record for the repository that was used to call me a thief," I said.
"It was made on a Saturday night at 11:40, the night before Marlena said it across a dinner table."
Thirty feet of screen read it for me.
SIGNED 11:40 PM. KEY ISSUED TO: MERRIMAN FAMILY OFFICE. ACCOUNT HOLDER: LUCINDA MERRIMAN.
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