Chapters tagged voyeurism

by TerraKhanus

Chapter 7

The tuxedo had been a mistake from the moment the rental clerk pinned the cuffs, and Wallace spent the first hour of the gala proving it, tugging the lapels square, rolling his shoulders against a jacket cut for a man with more chest and less doubt. The trousers sat a half inch t...

by TerraKhanus

Chapter 8

Wallace sat in the dark, and a man’s barking laugh drilled directly into his brain. The thirty-first floor had gone silent hours ago, the motion-sensor lights winking out one by one, leaving only the cold blue glow of his monitors and the steady green heartbeats of the server ra...

by TerraKhanus

Chapter 10

The discrepancy was small, which was what drew his attention. Eleven kilobytes of mismatch between an archive index and the folder it claimed to describe, the sort of rounding error most administrators would have logged in a ticket and never touched again. Wallace had never been...

by TerraKhanus

Chapter 11

The gravel announced her before the house did, a dry, deliberate crunch that Katya shortened by a quarter inch with every step, because Illiana never rushed a path. She let her hips swing with her sister’s unhurried arithmetic, weight rolling heel to toe, chin lifted a degree abo...

by TerraKhanus

Chapter 12

The server room kept its own weather. At eleven at night the air in it was colder and drier than anywhere else in the tower, a thin, filtered chill that smelled of warm dust on hot circuitry and the faint metallic sweetness of recycled breath, and Wallace sat inside it on the rol...