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Chapter 208 The Intruders

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My wolf remained on edge as Damian ordered the warrior to keep the information confidential, but I could barely concentrate on anything else.

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Someone inside Midnight Society had accessed F-Tech, and the timing felt too deliberate for me to believe it was a coincidence.

Damian pulled me toward a quieter section of the hall before speaking again. “Rhys said the person used senior executive credentials.”

I frowned. “Whose?”

“He’s still checking.”

I crossed my arms. “Then whoever did this knew exactly what they were doing.”

Damian nodded, and my thoughts immediately returned to everything that had happened before my suspension. There had been too many people willing to interfere with my career, and now someone was trying to gain access to a company system while I was already under scrutiny.

“Nathan,” I said.

Damian looked at me. “I think we should look at Nathan.”

His expression stayed controlled. “Why?”

“Because someone trying to undermine me would need access from inside the company.”

Damian’s jaw tightened. “I won’t accuse anyone without evidence.”

“I know.”

He reached for my hand. “We’ll get the evidence.”

His confidence settled something inside me, and my wolf relaxed slightly. Across the hall, Phina was receiving congratulations from several guests, but I noticed her attention kept returning to Harold.

The moment she caught him alone, she approached him with a smile that looked forced even from where I stood.

I couldn’t hear what she said. Harold answered briefly, and whatever his response was, her

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expression changed at once. Then she turned away from him.

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I looked back at Damian, but his attention had shifted to his phone. He read a message, and his entire expression hardened.

“What happened?”

He turned the screen toward me. The access to F-Tech had come from a terminal registered to Stonehedge Holdings.

I stared at it. “That can’t be right.”

“Why?”

“That office belongs to Ragnar.”

My wolf immediately grew restless. Ragnar was one of the most powerful people in Stonehedge, and his reputation could not simply be destroyed by a careless accusation. If his credentials had been used to access F-Tech, someone had either betrayed him or deliberately framed him.

Damian’s eyes darkened. “Do you think he did it?”

“No,” I said, my answer coming immediately. “I don’t.”

He studied me. “Why?”

“Because whoever did this wants us to think he did.”

The realization made my stomach turn. Someone had been manipulating the conflict around me for too long, and now they were expanding it into Damian’s own family.

If they succeeded in making us suspect each other, they wouldn’t even need to attack us directly.

Damian’s phone vibrated again, and he answered it. “Rhys.” I watched his expression while he listened. “Confirm it,” he said, then ended the call,

I stepped closer. “What did he say?”

“We found the access point.”

“Where?”

“Ragnar’s private office.”

My chest tightened. “Who had access?”

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“One of his executive assistants.”

I frowned. “Where is he?”

Damian’s eyes turned colder. “Missing.”

I stared at him. “Since when?”

“Twenty minutes ago.”

The noise around us seemed to fade for a moment. Someone had accessed F-Tech using credentials connected to Ragnar’s office and then vanished almost immediately after.

The more I thought about it, the clearer it became that whoever was behind this had planned every piece of it carefully.

“Can Rhys track him?”

“He’s trying.”

My wolf suddenly lifted its head, and I froze. There was a scent nearby, faint beneath the perfumes, food, alcohol, and hundreds of werewolves gathered in one room, but my wolf recognized something unfamiliar underneath it all. I turned slowly toward the corridor behind

Damian noticed my reaction at once. “What is it?”

“I smell someone.”

His posture changed instantly. “Who?”

“I don’t know.”

Before we could move, every light in the hall went out. A wave of panic swept through the guests, and someone screamed.

My wolf surged forward as I reached for Damian, but a hand suddenly clamped over my mouth from behind.

I tried to pull away, but another arm locked around my waist and dragged me backward.

I bit down hard on the hand covering my mouth, and the person grunted in pain. I kicked out and tried to shift, but the attacker moved fast, forcing me toward the dark corridor before I could get my footing.

A voice whispered against my ear. “Your marriage was never supposed to happen.”

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My blood turned cold, and I fought harder, but the attacker only tightened their grip around

Then the lights returned, and I heard Damian roar my name across the hall. I twisted desperately toward his voice, but the crowd had already closed in and separated us completely.

For one brief second I saw him standing several feet away, his eyes glowing with Alpha fury as his wolf pushed violently toward the surface.

Then someone pulled me through the corridor, and the doors slammed shut behind me.

When Damian finally reached the place where I had been standing, there was nothing left except my wedding ring lying alone on the floor.

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