Love's Bitter Edge (Eva and Leonard)
Chapter 71

Chapter71 Confess

The next day, really did me to Harmon Group, but she made it clear that it wasn't the one handing the project, there wouldn't be any deal

After finishing a meeting, Theaded to the conference room with Emma.

ill looked a bitte better when she saw us, but she quickly got angry again.

"ova, can't your deal with Lily? She's toying! How can Leonache so blind? Can'the see what she's really like?

That was when I found out Lily had tried to cozy up to Il ewlier, but fill wasn't having any of it and told her oft What I didn't expect was that tily had started crying and even tried

"In Leonard e cazy? What was I even thinking when I liked him? Was blind?"

"ch, why did you like him back then

Honestly, he was really impressive back then, and ridiculously handsome," said flatly.

jul didn't say anything for a moment because she knew was right.

Leonard used to be this bright, positive guy-full of energy and always the center of attention. Wherever he went, he brought this the that was hard to ignore.

But now...

I pulled out the documents and said, "Emma will handle this project, and I'll help with the design."

Jill looked like she wanted to say something but saw Emma and decided to stay quiet.

Texplained, "Jill, I'm not trying to avoid responsibility. I didn't say this at dinner, bet Zack and 1 had a major problem-the project data was deleted, I just don't have the energy right now."

cant for Emmato establish herself.

Also, since beleving soon, it'd be important i

Jill accepted this, and we finished the discussion and signed the contract.

Back at the office, I started looking into the data loss

it turned out that many computers in the design department had a virus. The vires started from computer and spread through the internal network. Since my computer had the most important tiles, the damage was significant Losing other tes is one thing, but we couldn't afford to delay the project with BrightweGroup

I went to the security department to check the surveillance footage.

The staff told me, "Sorry, Ms. Green, but we lost a lot of footage during a system upgrade."

"Upgrade? Why was it done at night?" I asked, already suspecting something

They told me that Lily had come in with others during that time and claimed it was Lean's desince everyone knew about Lilly and Leonard's relationship, no one thought much of it and let the upgrade happen.

When I looked at the system, it showed the upgrade was complete, but several days of footage were gone and hard to get back

Feeling discouraged, I went back to my attice, realizing that figuring out what happened might be impossible.

Thad a bunch about Memphis, who had mysteriously disappeared that day. It seemed suspicious.

But Tom, who got along well with Lily, also bothered me. Could he have caused trouble to provoke me and then take advantage?

Still, I'd seen Tom drinking a lot of vodka and beer that day. With all that alcohol, he probably wasn't in any condition to pullot something like this.

While I was thinking about it, James from Design Department One nervously locked on my door.

"Ex, Ineed to confess something, Please don't be too hard on me. It's okay if you cut my pay, just don't firme," James pleaded, looking very andious.

His nervousness made me wonder if he was involved James had always been a good worker, though he sometimes slacked off, which was common for someone his ægr.

Inodded slightly "Go ahead, be honest."

James handed me a video file and said, "Sorry, Eva Twas upgrading my game and left it running en auto-play"

He added, "The the stream feature turned on by mistake. Dut my laptop was in the habray, not the office"

I watched the video. I was from a low angle on the hallway windowsill. You could see a person entering the office that night. The person seemed like a man based on his height and build. But the angle was too low to clearly see his face. James kept apologizing, saying he new brought his laptop into the office and wasn't responsible for the virus.

Isighed, "only the laptop had been in the office, we might have seen who it was."

Jatus nodded nervously, watching me closely.

An dira suddenlycame tone. "James, If you want to make up for this, help me with something."

Stan, everyone knew that James had left his laptop and camera coming that dan

"We can ask the tech team to improve the video quality," james said loudly, trying to fix things. "We"liderinkely replace out who did this."

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