chapter 27

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Late one afternoon Jungkook gathered one more set of data to review

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Late one afternoon Jungkook gathered one more set of data to review. As he dug deeper a pattern emerged. 

He traced it for hours until the facts came into clear focus.  He sat stunned, looking at the information again.  How could he have missed this?

He redacted some information and called his best cyber expert to review the details. 

He sat starting out his window eyes unseeing as the sun sat in glory in front of him, the beauty completely lost on him.

An hour passed until his expert returned.  She placed the file in front of him, a huge smile on her face.

“You did it!” she exclaimed” Mr. Kim will be so appreciative.”

He nodded at the women and dismissed her, gathering himself to go to Jin.

Jin sat exhausted, struggling to focus on the report in front of him.  He did not hear the knock on the door and was startled when JK stepped inside. 

He knew immediately something was terribly wrong by the look on his face.

Jin jumped to his feet and met him halfway, grabbing his arms.

“Dae?” he asked, panic creeping up on him.

He drew a deep breath as the young man shook his head.

Looking at Jin, fear and worry in his eyes, he whispered “Lyra.”

Jin just stood blinking at him, trying to understand the worry.

“Lyra? Ms.Min?” Jin looked out at the desk where the young woman had just returned from an errand, both fear and hope flaring in her face, her breath coming more quickly, a flush staining her fair skin as she saw JK.

Jin nodded at her to get back to work and shut the door, pointing at JK to take a seat.  He noted that the young man glanced at his secretary, his face a blank, before turning away.

They sat in silence as JungKook organized his thoughts. He straightened and looked his mentor in the eye and gave his report.

“We were finally able to trace the encrypted data on the emails, and that led to more information on the stolen documents.” He explained. “Both came from inside our company.”

Jin cursed, suddenly seeing where this was going.

“We were able to pinpoint the location of the breach.  It came from your office Jin.” He said quietly.

“My office? Explain,” Jin demanded.

“The data trail indicates the documents were taken from one of the two computers in this office.  Yours…..or Lyra's," JK’s face was tight, his emotions tightly held in check. 

He watched as Jin recalled the same details he had already put together, the misplaced files, her presence in Jin's office when he was not there, her constant mistakes and her nervous behavior.

Anger and disappointment flooded Jin.  He had come to like the timid girl.  Hell, she had even made it a record ten days without tears.  Now this.  This could ruin him.

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