Chapter 10: The Puzzle Snaps Shut

Her Ex-Fiancé Humiliated Her at a Corporate Gala, But Her CEO's Sudden Appearance Reversed Everything — Then the Gaslighting Began

Chapter 1: The Centennial’s Unveiling

Chapter 2: The Ghost in the Machine

Chapter 3: A Schedule in Shambles

Chapter 4: Mother’s Counsel

Chapter 5: Marcus’s Keen Interest

Chapter 6: An Unexpected Encounter

Chapter 7: The Metadata Trick

Chapter 8: Marcus’s Late-Night Dance

Chapter 9: Leo’s Little Secret Agent Game

Chapter 10: The Puzzle Snaps Shut

Leo’s innocent words hung in the air, a devastatingly simple revelation that silenced the entire dining room. The shock of it, the sheer audacity of Ethan using a child, resonated through me, pushing past anger and landing in a place of cold, hard certainty. The puzzle pieces, previously scattered and confusing, suddenly clicked into place with horrifying precision.

“On your computer,” Leo had said. Not “on the network,” not “on the server.” *My personal laptop*. The distinction was crucial. It explained *how* the corrupted file (Twist 2), the one mimicking my past professional mistake, had appeared on my machine. I had assumed remote access, or a network transfer, but this was far more intimate, far more invasive. Ethan hadn’t just used legacy network access; he had leveraged a child’s trust to gain

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