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."

can track them," Hannah said,

files with embedded trackers. When they're opened on another system,

soon can you

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

only the files we want Walsh to

even Alexander," Camille instructed. "We need to

silently as Camille and Hannah explained their discovery and proposed response,

beneath her chin.

finally, "you want to manipulate it. Use their own

Camille confirmed. "Walsh

to us as an unwitting

curved slightly. "And

or if the information he passes causes

"We'll

Hannah explained. "The files will appear genuine to anyone who doesn't know our actual

to the window where the Phoenix Grid control

elegance in your

early in my career. A competitor had placed someone in

like Rode has done with Walsh

him close. Fed him exactly what I wanted my competitor to know. When they moved against me based on that information, they found themselves outman Camille felt a rush of

just reacting anymore. You're anticipating, planning

displayed her preliminary design for the false portal. "Everything Walsh accesses will be logged and tracked. Any files he copies will contain hidden markers that will activate when opened

you deploy this?"

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

junction box in the Grid's western sector that

system.

to exploit this 'vulnerability' would be immediately contained and would identify exactly who

anymore. This is about setting a trap, forcing them to expose

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

left to implement it, Victoria gestured for Camille to

changing," Victoria observed. "The woman I found eighteen months ago would never have conceived of such a strategy. She would have reacted with immediate

"And now?"

true power isn't about immediate satisfaction. It's about patience, strategy, control."