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Or stop.

Finn had a choice. Feed the answer. Keep the money. Stay safe. Vaarbewijs4all

Tonight’s client was a problem. Meneer Van der Heijden, CEO of a logistics firm, had paid for the Premium Plus package: two cameras, a heartbeat monitor bypass, and a direct line to Finn’s ear. The exam was in twenty minutes. Van der Heijden was already sweating through his Musto sailing shirt. Or stop

Finn grabbed his coat, Lars’s photo, and a thumb drive with every transaction, every client, every backdoor he’d ever built. Outside, the rain had finally stopped. The IJsselmeer was still as glass. Keep the money

“Take the real exam next week,” Finn said. “You might surprise yourself.”

The rain hadn’t stopped for three days. Not the gentle coastal drizzle the locals joked about, but a hard, slanting downpour that turned the IJsselmeer into a slab of hammered lead. Inside the cramped office of Vaarbewijs4all, the world had shrunk to the glow of two monitors and the ticking of a radiator that hadn't worked since the '90s.

Finn muted Van der Heijden’s earpiece. Then he unmuted the room’s microphone—the one he’d installed to record proctors, but never used.