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?”

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,

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

I have to say

log,” Sutton said, 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 team. Just allow us to have control. If everyone’s locked out, Nicole won’t

She knew how she looked, hair mussed, lips

He hesitated.

“Sutton.”

She didn’t stop typing.

I

the keyboard. Her chest ached, full

said quietly. “But right now, we’ve got other things to worry about. Get

and moved to one of the other

across the keyboard,

solve this puzzle.

work doing his job. It didn’t

over her shoulder. “Only you and me

muttered, already

bypassed their internal audit tools, tapping straight into the raw feeds.

was done being

backup files tied to

internal IP logs and copied the identifier.

cameras?” Luca asked. “Fuck, Sutton.

data with security footage,” she said, not looking

fast, tracing

s of

terminal used.

It pinged. She rerouted.

And the feed opened.

footage flickered, then played. Grainy black and

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

the person was a man, but he was wearing a hoodie. His face wasn’t visible, but the security badge he had

looked back at the man. No,

whispered. “He

jaw tightened. “That’s

badge.”

know this man is a lot larger than Jake Sutton agreed. They watched as Nicole handed something to the man…a

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