Warning Shot

~Raina~

The alert came at eleven forty-seven PM.

I was still at my desk when Jess's message landed, three words that told me everything I needed to know before I had even read the details.

We have a problem.

I called her immediately.

"Client-facing systems," she said. "Someone is in. Not deep; they are not in the core architecture, not in the AI layer, and not in the government contract data.