HATE AND DESIRES (mafia enemies to lovers romance )

CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN

Alex's POV:

Two words to describe the situation come to mind.

We're fucked.

I'm still trying to figure a way out. But first I need to break in.
I didn't think I'd be destroying my life's work this soon.

I must think rationally. Mostly because I told Vi to trust me.
I look at my wife sitting beside me on a chair, worry weighing down her eyebrows.

When I built this software, I knew I might be put through this situation. So I built in a fail safe.

If I was ever forced to hack into it, I'd have to write just one line of code that would destroy the whole software.

But after destroying it, the codes still need protection. And that's the hardest part.

I look at the clock. 3 hours till the deadline.

I've been working non stop for the past few hours.

How do I get the message to Vi that I know what I'm doing?

I hack through a few more walls and then I try to slip in the code for the fail safe.

Felicity is monitoring my every move. So I need to be quick.

It put in the line.

Before I could press enter, felicity stops me.

"What do you think you're doing?" She says and the guards come up to me.

Shit.

"I'm doing exactly what you told me to." I say.

"Do you think I'm a fool? I can see the code out of place. It's a safety measure isn't it? I've hacked into it many times and even though I failed to break through, I know since you made it, you must have a fail safe, isn't that right?" She says.

Then she motions on of the guards and he walks over to Vi.

Vi gets up from her chair and asks, "what are you doing?"

The guards capture her and one of them pulls out a knife and brings it to her throat.

"Hey!" I was about to get up but felicity stopped me.

"I wouldn't do that. If I see you do anything like that again, Vi dies."

"And if I kill them all before that? You know I can." Vi says. That's my girl.

"But you won't. Because if you do, then all the bombs we set up at your places go off. How will you come back for us if you have nothing?" Felicity threatens.
"Time is ticking Mr Forman, better be quick."

I clench my fists. My jaw so tight that it ticks. Then I look at Vi.

I'll get us out of here. Trust me. I say to her through my eyes.

I turn back to the computer and start writing the code. I'm almost there. I just need to put in one more line.

I write a code and then I hit enter. It happens in a meter of a second.

Boom.

"Done." I say but I look to Vi who's shocked I actually did it.

The guards let Vi go.

"Great wor—" felicity begins to say but gets cut off by the alarm on the database.
Her eyes widen and she freezes in shock.
"What did you do?!" She shouts.

"Oh, not much. I hacked into it like you said, except I might have destroyed the whole thing. You know why I called it JACKPOT? Because that's the thing. Once you hack in it, you hit the jackpot. You end up destroying the whole software. And in its place another fail safe activates that keeps changing the passwords or in this case, the nuclear codes every 5 seconds. So if you did even manage to hack into it, you'd be too late." I explain and smirk.