Talented Heiress: A Rose With Thorns

Bernice looked smugly at Yvette. She looked certain that Yvette wouldn't be able to produce any evidence proving her innocence.

Yvette smiled. She looked beautiful from the start, so now that she was smiling like this, she looked even more breathtaking. Everyone present was entranced by her smile.

A bad feeling inexplicably rose in Bernice's heart.

"What are you smiling at, Yvette!" she said sharply. "Stop pretending to be all mysterious!"

"When I built the firewall, I planted a little something in the system," Yvette said slowly. "It just so happens that this little something can monitor everything, so the actions of certain people have all been recorded." It was a little software she had developed that was not yet on the market. Other than Yvette and her subordinates, few others knew about it. Naturally, Bernice wouldn't have been privy to

that information.

Bernice's expression changed instantly at Yvette's words. But before she could do anything, Yvette's fingers were practically flying over the computer keyboard. A video popped up on the screen and started playing.

The video showed Bernice sneaking into the security center late at night and turning off the firewall Yvette had built. This was what allowed those foreign hacker groups to steal a good

deal of confidential information.

The evidence was solid as steel, laid out right in front of Bernice. She had no way of denying it and could only slide bonelessly to the ground.

She was doomed.

The other security center staff were both shocked, hurt, and disappointed in equal measure. It was no wonder they still received attacks from foreign hacker groups no matter how much they repaired and upgraded the system. It was because Bernice had been leaking the information to them,

"Why would you do this? Do you know how much damage you've caused Croedal with this?"

The truth had already been exposed. Bernice decided that she might as well go down with the sinking ship.

"They promised me a reward of 50 million dollars after the deal was done. I can't earn that much money even if I were to work my butt off in Croedal my entire life!

"All I had to do was leak some information to them, and I'd easily earn all that money! Why wouldn't I agree?"

Someone uttered in pure shock, "Y-You've been completely blinded by greed!"

Everyone's eyes on her were filled with disappointment, but Bernice didn't think that she had done anything wrong at all.

"I made no mistakes! Who doesn't love money?" she yelled with a crazed look in her eyes. "If you guys were in my shoes, you definitely wouldn't have been able to refuse either!"

"There's nothing wrong with loving money, but there are lines we should never cross." Yvette gazed at her coldly, enunciating each of her next words. "You don't deserve to be Croedalian." There was no need to get physical and dirty her hands. All Yvette had to do was completely expose Bernice's schemes-that was all there was to it.

Bernice was now as white as a sheet. She was still collapsed on the ground like a puppet with broken strings.

Jonathan looked coldly at her. "Lock her up. We'll wait for the official report before deciding on what to do with her."

"Understood, Lieutenant Colonel Vaughn," said the guards.© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

"I never expected Ms. Lowel to be a spy! It's our fault for realizing it too late. Otherwise, we'd have been able to stop our confidential information from being stolen by those foreign hacker groups!" Seeing them beating themselves up, Yvette spoke up. "None of you should blame yourselves because the confidential information wasn't stolen. That was just a little diversionary tactic I used.

"What the hackers stole wasn't the base camp's confidential information."

She had long harbored suspicions about Bernice, but she hadn't had enough proof at that time. That was how she had thought of laying this trap and simply waited for her prey to take the bait.

"What?" Everyone was at first stunned, then whooped for joy.

"We truly have you to thank this time, Ms. Murray! Not only did you uncover the spy in our ranks, you even kept the confidential information safe. We'll definitely report this incident to our superiors and make sure you're highly commended!"