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Chapter-26

Author: Dumpling
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-02 16:11:43

Kara’s POV.

Two hours later, I felt like bawling.

All my designs were gone. All those fabric prints I’ve worked hard on, drew on paper with watercolors, scanned to the computer, and glossed up so they fit into the satin clothes better…all of them were gone. There were a few rough drafts available, but the rest…

Tears were starting to gather around my eyes, and I couldn’t believe it. How could this have happened? Had the tech department done something to the computers that accidentally deleted all of it? Even the copies in the cloud were gone! How could that have happened? It makes no sense!

Hadn’t I saved them correctly? I could swear I did, I even double-checked. So, how could it have happened? Where did I go wrong?

Suddenly, a bad thought occurred to me.

What if…what if this wasn’t a coincidence? Every company computer had the same passwords, which meant any employee could access it. When I left the office last night, there were still some people in the design department working lat
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