Never let down your guard.  Never let anyone see your weakness.  You can’t say I wasn’t warned . . .

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When I first walked into Janus Phillips’s offices, it was right into a high-profile hacking problem the scale of which I’d never seen before.  That word high-profile? Been there, done that. Not stepping through that doorway twice.  But the trouble was I didn’t really have a choice.  And I wasn’t prepared for Janus.  God, no.  He was determined to get through every last defense I had.  And I had no idea how addictive he would turn out to be.

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I could tell you how the gossip columns roasted me, or how I wasn’t prepared for the limelight.  But truthfully? I was blasé and foolish. I dropped my guard. And trusting someone like that?  Well, that’s the worst thing you can do.