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Excerpt
Shilo
By
Jaden Sinclair
Star Murray’s fingers flew over the keyboard with such speed the
system could hardly keep up with her. Codes, words, all of it was
working as fast as the computer would go to keep up with what she
was keying in to hack the E.I. Corporation.
Her system was flawless. Monitors were in a U shape around her, at
least twenty with a different program running on each one with a
keyboard linked to each, and one special flabby keyboard that she
took wherever she went. She was an elite hacker, in hiding, and damn
proud of it.
She hid out in an old warehouse building she'd converted to her
home, and with the money her ‘uncle’ gave her was able to do
whatever her little heart desired, but for a price. She could have
every system that was out there, and the run of the whole building,
if she only let him have a small part of the basement for his
experiments. She agreed easily, and together, they'd built a home
that was a first for her.
Her mother went through several men after the death of her first
husband, who was not her father. A pity because, what she
knew of the man, she would have loved to have him as a father. So
the one father figure she had, who she called uncle with no problem,
treated her like a daughter, and she watched the beauty of his mind
create something that she never would have thought possible.
A human body.
As she sat with her computers around her, working on her hack and
getting the data she needed for him, she glanced over at the cooling
chamber. All the monitors showed the life in the body, but without
the spirit or soul.
Standing, he would be about five-eleven, his hazel-brown hair
touching his shoulders, and when his eyes were open, they were
greenish-blue. Her uncle had told her that this was not the first
one but the second. To tell them apart, he'd given them different
color eyes as well as this one having a small brown patch next to
his belly button—a birthmark.
At first, she thought it was spooky to have a living body in the
basement next to her computers, but after a while, she'd gotten used
to it and started talking to it as if it were alive. When her uncle
gave her the project she was working on now, everything finally
started to fall into place.
His name was Shilo, and he had what her uncle liked to call a twin
named Seth.
Star knew the whole story. Knew how Seth had broken out and was now
free, hiding somewhere, and that one day, he would come knocking on
her door for help. It was strange to think about it really, mostly
because she didn’t like people. They didn’t understand her or her
way of thinking and, most of the time, treated her like a freak.
She didn’t date. Gave up on the whole romance—there’s someone out
there for you crap—and focused all of her attention on her work. She
didn’t believe everyone had someone out there for them, but when she
looked at the body for Shilo, she started to wonder a little. What
was his lucky girl going to feel like once those strong arms of his
wrapped around her?
She shook her head and went back to typing the commands. There was
no use thinking about things she couldn’t have when there was shit
she could have and do.
“Damn it!” she yelled when her link up went down. “Not again.”
Are we playing this game again?
She glared at the screen. Once more, she'd been booted out of a
system with a program that was sure to get her in this time. How the
hell did he keep kicking her out?
You can’t keep me out forever. I will get what I want, she
typed back.
You can keep trying, but I’m not going to let you in.
She gritted her teeth in anger. Who the hell are you?
Wouldn’t you like to know?
He was messing with her! The prick was fucking with her on the
computer. You think you are fucking funny, don’t you?
Such language. Do you swear when you don’t get your way?
“I don’t have time for this shit,” she mumbled to herself. She
worked to disconnect the link, only to discover she was no longer in
control.
What’s wrong, Princess. Did the hacker get hacked?
What the fuck did you do?
Stop snooping, Princess, or you might just get more than you
bargained for.
She glared at the screen again. You don’t scare me, dipshit. I
can take you on whenever and wherever.
LMAO…We shall see.
Her whole system shut down right before her eyes. “How the fuck did
he do that?”
For weeks now as she was trying to hack into the system for her
uncle that same hacker came on and blocked her. She didn’t know who
the guy was, but he sure was doing a fine job at pissing her off.
She pushed away from the computer, stood up and stretched. The long,
button-down shirt she seemed to live in it came down to the top of
her legs.
“You don’t know who you’re messing with.” She spoke to the black
computer screen. “I will get the information I’m after, one way or
another.”
She turned and left to get some sleep since it was after three in
the morning. Not once did she notice that her web cam was turned on
or that she was being watched as she stopped in front of the glass
window of the cooling chamber. She didn’t see the smiley face show
up on her screen or wink at her as she shut off the lights and left
the room.
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