REGRET UNTIL SHE SAYS GOODBYE
By the time I reached the conference room, half the team was already seated—including Leah, who shot me a look that felt like a sharp, sugary blade.
Alaric walked in moments later, crisp, composed, expression unreadable. No trace of last night’s warmth.
Everyone sat straighter automatically.
The internal audit team filed in behind him, carrying laptops and printed reports. The atmosphere shifted with their arrival—tightened.
“Let’s begin,” their lead officer said.
A projector flickered on, displaying a timeline of the corrupted document access.
My stomach knotted when the first analyst spoke.
“We recovered the missing files,” she said, “but the system flags indicate intentional digital corru
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