Elena POV
My heart pounded against my ribs as I slid the hacked security card into the reader. The private elevator to Damien Vale’s top-floor suite opened with a soft chime that sounded way too loud in the quiet of midnight. The whole building belonged to him, this towering glass-and-steel empire that had destroyed my father. Tonight, I was finally going to start taking it back.
I gripped the small USB drive tightly in my palm. It carried just enough digital poison to ruin his precious merger. All I had to do was slip inside his office, plant the files, and disappear like a ghost.
But the moment I pushed open the heavy door, everything fell apart.
A woman’s raw, broken moan cut through the air.
“Oh god, Damien… f**k, yes!”
The huge floor-to-ceiling windows showed the glittering cit
