Chapter 5: The Invisible Breadcrumbs
Stripped of his CEO title and locked out of his own headquarters, Alexander retreated to his mother’s modest countryside home. The media was hounding him, and former friends were ignoring his calls. But Alexander Sterling was not a man who surrendered easily.
He converted his mother’s dining room into a makeshift war room, plastering printed emails, financial charts, and server logs across the walls. He hired a brilliant, underground cybersecurity expert named Maya to trace the origin of the forged documents.
For three days, they barely slept. "Look at this," Maya said, pointing to a string of code on her laptop. "The documents were uploaded to your server using an outdated administrative backdoor. Someone who used to work there, someone with high-level clearance, did this."
Alexander’s eyes narrowed. "Pull up the login timestamps and cross-reference them with terminated employee credentials."
Lines of green code reflected in Alexander's determined eyes. Suddenly, Maya hit the enter key, and a name flashed on the screen in bright red letters. Chloe Vance.
"It's her," Alexander whispered, the realization hitting him like a freight train. "The manager from the boutique. But she’s not smart enough to orchestrate a global financial forgery of this magnitude. She has a backer."
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He knew he couldn't just go to the police. The forged documents were too good; it would be his word against a ghost. He needed a confession. He needed a trap.
👇 Alexander has found the traitor! But how will he catch the mastermind pulling the strings?
