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"Oh, please, I could care less" Of the warring eer, but in truth, I was secretly curious about what Alli ing by the way they let hielcom, he must have so with obvious interest I finally caved "Well, what does it say?"

"He’s a hacker"

"What?" She h he’d hardly looked like an upstanding corporate citizen this

"Well, he used to be anyway He has ruroup that coh-profile bank accounts about fifteen years ago It doesn’t say anything else about it though Officially, he’s the founding developer of Banksoft, which was acquired for twelve billion dollars He’s the executive director of Angelcoe Internet companies"

"Self-made billionaire, then"

"Sounds like it He’s only twenty-seven Says his parents were teachers"

The inforer I felt toward hi my pitch, but it did fill in so he wasn’t handed his fortune, but between hied brat of two "Well, I don’t suppose it ain anyway"

CHAPTER THREE

It had been drizzling rain for hours Streams coursed down the sill beside my desk where I overlooked one of the many courtyards on campus The dorms were quiet as most of the students had already left for the ter the traffic statistics on Clozpin when a new nize The subject line read, "TechLabs Conference Panelist" A thrill of exciteh me It was a request to fill in for a last est tech conference of the year

"Alli"

She gru fro

"Do you want to go to Vegas?"

"I thought you were hung over"

"I aot invited to speak at the TechLabs Conference this weekend"

Alli threw the cover off and sat up "Are you serious?"

"Very They had someone cancel on their social network CEO panel, and they want me to fill in"

"We should do it, no question This could be an a opportunity" She clapped her hands excitedly

The trip would be expensive, but how could I pass up an opportunity to potentially launch us into the spotlight? What the hell I couldn’t justify going half way at this point