Crowned by the Man They Feared (Amelia and Jeremy) novel Chapter 680

But the fact that they'd wiped the phone so thoroughly, yet didn't dare destroy it or take it away?

That was classic hypocritical coward behavior.

The whole "nothing to see here" routine only proved there had to be something buried in the first place.

They probably thought they'd cleaned it well enough, so they didn't bother destroying the phone. What an arrogant move.

Amelia was stubborn by nature. The more it looked like that, the more determined she became to get to the bottom of it.

Unfortunately, after messing with it for hours, it was already deep into the night, and exhaustion crept back in.

Especially when she glanced at the man beside her—clearly tired himself, yet still staying up with her. He had to get up early and go back to the office tomorrow.

Her heart ached for him.

So, she finally gave up, turned off the lights, and climbed into bed, wrapping herself around her human-shaped body pillow, ready to sleep.

"Don't be bummed. We'll go over it every night if we have to. One day, something we missed will suddenly stand out."

Jeremy knew how anxious she was. He couldn't directly fix it for her, which frustrated him too, but he still comforted her gently.

"Okay. Go to sleep." Amelia agreed.

But the moment she closed her eyes, she felt wide awake instead of sleepy.

And as her thoughts drifted in every direction, something suddenly flashed through her mind.

It wasn't the first time that feeling had come to her.

But before, she'd never managed to catch it in time.

This time, she focused hard and seized it the instant it flickered past.

Everything clicked.

A thought struck her—before Raymond died, he had a habit of encrypting important information or storing it in a private cloud space no one else knew about.

Every message, every email on his phone was automatically uploaded to a hidden cloud only he had access to.

That was exactly the kind of cautious thing he would do, and hardly anyone knew about it.

She'd overheard him mention it once when she was younger.

Maybe it was because he trusted her. It felt like she was the only one he'd ever told.

Her eyes flew open. In the faint moonlight spilling through the window, she turned toward Jeremy, her voice trembling with barely contained excitement.

"Jeremy! I think I figured it out! The person who deleted everything wiped the surface data clean—but they missed one place!"

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