Beneath Her Bastard Boss

Chapter 118

Chapter 118

The alarm pierced the quiet like a slap.

Sutton jolted, blinking hard as the sound cut back to the here and now with brutal clarity.

the thick fog in her head. The noise wasn’t deafening, but it was sharp and urgent. It snapped her

Saved by the bell.

She looked over Luca’s shoulder toward her

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the red light flashing on the security panel.

“Shit,” she muttered.

Luca stood quickly, already alert, already all business again. But when he turned to look at her, there was something softer lingering in his eyes. Something that she had never seen in him before.

“You okay?” he asked.

Sutton nodded, even though her body ached and her thighs still felt shaky. “Yeah. Just… give me a second.”

She pulled her dress down as best she could and stood slowly, ignoring the dull ache that followed. Her underwear was gone. Didn’t matter. Her limbs were jelly, her head still going over everything that had passed between them. She moved toward her desk and silenced the alarm.

The screen lit up.

System breach alert.

Her heart stuttered.

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” she

breath

“What is it?” Luca asked, already moving in beside her.

She didn’t answer right away. Her fingers were flying across the keyboard now, checking logs, cross–referencing data, scanning for the entry point.

“It’s not a breach,” she said finall

“It’s an internal trigger I set up without anyone knowing to monitor tampering attempts on the server.” Her jaw tightened. “Someone just tried to wipe a backup file connected to Kingston.”

Luca’s expression hardened. “From inside the building?”

Sutton nodded once. “Yeah.

From a secured login.”

His voice dropped. “Nicole?”

you said, we need proof and I’m going to get that proof. That’s why I set up the trigger.” She glanced up at him. He didn’t expect her to do it without telling him. “But at a guess, we are going

secrets,” she said, “but I couldn’t risk her getting

stood there, jaw clenched, staring at the monitor. “If it is Nicole, I have

lock down executive–level credentials while I do. Maybe lock everyone out of the

looked at her… Sutton flushed. She knew how she looked, hair mussed, lips still pink, her skin still glowing from everything that had happened minutes

He hesitated.

“Sutton.”

She didn’t stop typing.

what I

hands hovering over the keyboard. Her chest

you,” she said quietly. “But right now, we’ve got

moved to one

fingers flew across the

world narrowed to code, to backdoors, to the need to solve this puzzle. Soon, there was no trace

his job. It didn’t take

behind her, reading over her shoulder. “Only you and

already rerouting the

internal audit tools, tapping straight into the

was done

tried to delete backup files tied to

the internal IP logs and copied the identifier. Then she opened a separate

“Fuck,

data with security footage,” she said, not looking away. “They logged in from the

fast, tracing the

s of

terminal used.

It pinged. She rerouted.

And the feed opened.

then played. Grainy black and white, time–stamped,

leaned in. There she was, Nicole. Just as she had

couldn’t see who the person was beside her. Sutton could tell the person was a man, but he was wearing a hoodie. His face wasn’t visible, but the security badge he

looked back at the man. No,

“He used Jake’s

jaw tightened.

badge.”

larger than Jake Sutton agreed. They watched

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