SCORNED EX WIFE Queen Of Ashes (Camille and Stefan)

Chapter 125

Hannah Zhao stared at her computer screen, the blue light reflecting off her glasses as she analyzed access logs to the Phoenix Grid's secure database.

"I found it," she said as Camille approached with coffee. "The leak in our team.”

Camille set down the cups, suddenly alert. "Show me."

Hannah displayed a series of highlighted entries. "Someone's been accessing our secure servers between 2:00 and 3:00 AM three times weekly. Always the same nights, always looking at Grid specifications, s "Do you know who?" Camille asked, leaning closer,

Hannah nodded grimly. "I installed a silent tracker last week." She opened another

window showing screenshots. "It's Walsh."

"The maintenance technician who installed the

modified circuits?" Camille's eyes narrowed.

"The same. We were watching his physical access, but overlooked his digital footprint." Hannah pulled up financial records. "He's still receiving payments from an offshore account." "Rose," Camille said, the name like a curse.

"I've prepared termination paperwork," Hannah continued. "Security can escort him out today."

Camille didn't respond immediately, her expression shifting from anger to calculation.

"Don't fire him," she said finally.

"What?" Hannah looked up, startled. "But he's leaking critical information!"

"Exactly. And now that we know, we can control what information he leaks." Camille straightened. "We've been on the defensive with Rose and Herod for too long. It's time we took control."

"You want to feed him false information?"

"Not just false, misleading. Information that serves our purposes." Camille pulled up a chair. "What if Walsh received access to files suggesting vulnerability in the Grid's west junction? Nothing that would actuall Understanding dawned in Hannah's eyes. "We create a trap, and they walk right into it."

"Better yet, when they act on this information, we'll know exactly where they'll be and what they'll be targeting."

track them," Hannah said,

"I can create dummy files with embedded trackers. When

you

tonight," Hannah promised. "I'll create a special portal that looks

only the files we want Walsh

even Alexander," Camille

and Hannah explained their discovery and

beneath her chin.

eliminating the threat," Victoria said finally, "you want to manipulate it. Use their own weapon against

Camille confirmed. "Walsh

unwitting double agent than

slightly. "And the risk?

trap, or if the information he

"We'll

he sees," Hannah explained. "The files will appear

the Phoenix Grid control center was visible

in your

unlocked! sed early in my career. A competitor had placed

has done with Walsh Everyone advised me to fire

him close. Fed him exactly what I wanted my competitor to know. When they

just reacting

portal. "Everything Walsh accesses will be logged and tracked.

you deploy

accesses the system between 2:00 and

They identified a junction box in the Grid's western sector that would appear vulnerable based on the false

system.

immediately contained and would identify exactly who was

appreciation. "This isn't just about defending anymore. This is about setting a trap, forcing them to

the beginning," Camille said.

to implement it,

a strategy. She would have reacted with immediate retribution." Camille nodded. “That woman was defined by her

"And now?"

I understand that true power isn't about immediate satisfaction. It's about patience, strategy, control." Camille met Victoria's gaze. "You taught me