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."

them," Hannah said, fingers already moving

can create dummy files with embedded trackers. When

you set it

"I'll create a special portal that looks

but contains only the files

else yet. Not even Alexander," Camille instructed. "We need to brief

Camille and Hannah explained their discovery and proposed response, her

beneath her chin.

Victoria said finally, "you want to

confirmed.

to us as an unwitting double

slightly. "And the

or if the information he passes causes

"We'll

every bit of data he sees," Hannah explained. "The files will appear genuine to anyone who doesn't know our

the window where the Phoenix Grid control center was

your approach,"

in my career. A competitor

Walsh Everyone advised me

him close. Fed him exactly what I wanted my competitor to know. When they moved against me based on that information,

not just reacting

the false portal. "Everything Walsh accesses will be logged and tracked. Any files he copies will contain hidden

will you deploy this?" Victoria

system between 2:00 and 3:00 AM on Tuesdays, Thursdays,

junction box in the Grid's western sector that would appear vulnerable based on the

system.

would be immediately contained and would identify exactly who

about defending anymore. This is about setting a trap,

dictating the terms of this battle from the beginning," Camille said. "This

the plan. As Hannah left to implement it, Victoria gestured for Camille

"The woman I found eighteen months ago would never have conceived of such a strategy. She would have reacted with immediate retribution." Camille nodded. “That

"And now?"

about immediate satisfaction. It's about patience, strategy, control." Camille met