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Chapter 49 – Truth in the Shadows
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2025-08-12 02:28:19Evelyn sat at her desk well past midnight, the warm light of her reading lamp casting shadows on the walls. The flash drive Mason had given her sat plugged into her laptop, its contents unfolding like a map of betrayal.
At first, it was just documents, internal memos, audit trails, unsigned directives but then came the audio clips. Recordings from the break rooms and elevator conversations. Quiet voices. Familiar ones.
One name came up more than once: Yoon-hee Park.
Evelyn blinked at the screen. Yoon-hee was a mid-level marketing coordinator. Young. Sharp. Always polite. Evelyn had barely registered her until now.
But according to the timestamps, Yoon-hee had been meeting privately with someone in Claudia’s inner circle, feeding details about Evelyn’s campaigns, strategies even her personal routines.
Evelyn’s heart pounded. The betrayal wasn’t devastating because of the information leaked. it was the realization that someone
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