He exhaled. Not a sigh of relief—more like the quiet breath of a bomb tech who’d just snipped the right wire.
The download was just 48 MB. Small. Suspicious. He exhaled
The headset’s blue light turned .
Marcus’s heart thudded. His serial number was a launch-day unit. Would it even be whitelisted? He exhaled
The notification pinged softly on Marcus’s monitor, almost lost in the clatter of his third coffee of the morning. He exhaled
He laughed—a real, startled laugh.
The progress bar crawled. 10%... 40%... 70%... Then a flicker.