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?”

Like 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

getting away with it. I also didn’t want anyone to hear

I have to say this has to be very upsetting. She has been with me for years,

already sliding into her chair. “You might want to lock down executive–level credentials while I do. Maybe lock everyone out of the system, including the development

her… Sutton flushed. She knew how she looked, hair mussed, lips still pink, her skin still glowing

He hesitated.

“Sutton.”

She didn’t stop typing.

I said.

the keyboard. Her

now, we’ve got other things to

and moved to one of the

the

to code, to backdoors, to the need to solve this puzzle. Soon, there was

doing his job. It

her, reading over her shoulder. “Only you

muttered, already rerouting

their internal audit tools, tapping straight into the raw feeds. No interfaces. No Ul.

done

to delete backup files tied to Kingston’s contract. They’d failed.

and copied

the cameras?” Luca asked. “Fuck,

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 the building. We’re

tracing the IP

s of

terminal used.

It pinged. She rerouted.

And the feed opened.

footage flickered, then played. Grainy black and white,

leaned in. There she was, Nicole. Just

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

Then looked back at the man. No, it wasn’t him. This man was

she whispered. “He

jaw tightened. “That’s not

badge.”

a lot larger than Jake Sutton agreed. They watched as Nicole handed

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