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?”

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 to

secrets,” she said, “but I couldn’t risk her getting away with it. I also didn’t want anyone to

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

chair. “You might want to lock down executive–level credentials while I do. Maybe lock

knew how she looked, hair mussed, lips still

He hesitated.

“Sutton.”

She didn’t stop typing.

meant what I said. About

keyboard. Her chest ached, full and

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

and moved to

fingers flew across the keyboard, getting

to the need to solve this puzzle. Soon, there was no trace of

doing his job.

he confirmed behind her, reading over

already rerouting

code scrolled fast. She bypassed their internal audit tools, tapping straight into the raw feeds. No interfaces.

done

worked… someone had tried to delete backup files tied to Kingston’s contract. They’d

and copied the identifier. Then

asked. “Fuck, Sutton. I’m glad you’re on my

turned to grin at him before turning back to her computer. “I’m cross–referencing badge data with security footage,” she said, not looking away. “They logged in from the third floor east end of

fast, tracing the IP

s of

terminal used.

It pinged. She rerouted.

And the feed opened.

played. Grainy black and white, time–stamped, just past

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

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 had used to get into the building

man. No,

“He used

jaw tightened. “That’s not

badge.”

larger than Jake Sutton agreed. They watched as Nicole handed

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