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“I think it’s a good idea.” His eyes were always so fucking pretty. “The Valentine pack is going to need some allies, don’t you think?”

Liam snickered when Cas closed his eyes in exasperation. “I told you she’d like your name better.”

“You two are exhausting.” Cas carried me over to the office and dropped me back in my office chair. “Now get some work done while I clean up this mess.”

Liam yanked me up and sat down in my chair before settling me on his lap. “Come on, let me help you. I want to show you just how good of an assistant I can be.”

I found myself grinning like an idiot as he grabbed a pen and a notepad, asking if I needed him to order Cas to bring us any snacks.

These two were worth it.

They were worth doing things I never wanted to do before because this way…this way I could protect them too.

CHAPTER 41

Lucy

I sighed and pushed away my empty plate.

We were making progress, but it was slower than I would prefer.

All I knew for sure was that data was being sent out of the Valor Enterprises network, and then any trace of where it was sent was deleted.

Consistently over the last year and a half.

Data that would tell me what kind of information was being sent outside of the Valor Enterprises secured network. It was so meticulously done that no one else has noticed the inconsistencies either.

It had to be someone who had access to the Valor servers with the right credentials, or the skills to make them which meant they were somewhere in the building on a regular basis.

Valor Enterprises had better security than most companies which meant certain processes would send an alert and the tech team would look them over to make sure nothing suspicious was going on and only someone with the right credentials could erase those alerts without causing other problems.

So what exactly were they trying to hide?

I tried to ignore the excitement I could feel brewing under my skin. We were finally finding real clues – proof there were things people didn’t want anyone to know about.

I had to be very careful about what I did next. If this person, or persons, saw what I was looking for, or that I was looking at all, they’d probably have something set up to warn them and potentially destroy any evidence I could find.

We had the missing data from the servers, evidence of a second unregistered phone, a missing wedding ring, and cash we couldn’t source from the safe in Gideon’s house.

There’d been nothing else of interest other than the letter of authenticity for the Artemis Genecia painting.

I asked the interns to look through personal bank statements to see where the money might have come from, but I didn’t think we’d find anything substantial which made me curious why he had so much cash on hand.

It wasn’t out of the norm for legacy packs to have some kind of money laundering business but they weren’t usually this sloppy, which made me think it was a personal side hustle of some kind. It could even be connected to the second phone.

There wasn’t much to go off of when it came to that phone either and it was starting to piss me off. I couldn’t find anything on the Valor Enterprises firewalls that would give us a lead, and nothing about unregistered devices connecting to the corporate wi-fi with it.

I’d gone through every device I could find that wasn’t registered to the employees, or visitors but no files or messages were sent from those.

Which meant Gideon was smarter than he’d let on, or whoever he was contacting had advised him not to, but I could still follow him to wherever he’d gone with that phone, and hope he’d connected to a network at one of those locations – a place with unsecured internet access would be the most likely. Somewhere like a café or a library.

No one would ever think to go through a firewall in a place like that. Especially if they didn’t know when that person was there.

I also had Gideon’s cloned computer, but if he was smart enough to keep from connecting to the corporate wi-fi then he might have been extra careful about what was on his company computer as well.

The best way to keep data a secret was to make sure no one could access it without having the actual device and since the safe at the house only had money and not a hard drive, I was pretty sure it was all on that phone.

I had to find it. That stupid phone was going to tell us exactly what we needed to know to make the right connections. I just knew it.

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