Sign the Papers Mr. Langford novel Chapter 437

The internal Langford investigation began at one o'clock in the afternoon.

Yolanda Clarke, the PR supervisor, sat in the small conference room with a pale, ashen face. Usually, she was a smooth talker in the project team—fast-paced in her presentations, flashing a sweet smile, and an expert at dressing up ordinary cases into "highly marketable stories."

Today, she couldn't string a single coherent sentence together.

Jude placed the export logs from the shared drive in front of her.

"You created the temporary download link."

Yolanda nodded, her voice trembling. "I did."

"Who told you to upload it to the external cloud drive?"

"Nobody told me to," Yolanda said quickly. "I was just making a backup."

Jude stared at her.

"A backup of Langford's internal grievance reports on a cloud drive registered with a virtual phone number?"

Yolanda burst into tears.

"I was panicking. Thorne Corp was investigating, the project team kept asking for materials, and I was terrified of losing the data."

The Langford lawyer frowned. "Yolanda, think carefully before you speak. That excuse doesn't hold up."

Yolanda cried even harder.

"I really didn't mean to leak it. I have no idea how those gossip accounts got a hold of it."

Jude didn't press her immediately.

He flipped to the next page.

"At 7:46 PM last night, you had a phone call with Willow Whitaker. It lasted six minutes and twenty-one seconds."

Yolanda's head snapped up.

"Ms. Whitaker was just asking if the banquet materials had been fully scrubbed."

"And then?"

"There was no 'and then.'"

"At 7:53 PM, you created the temporary link. At 8:07 PM, the first wave of bot accounts posted screenshots claiming Stellaris received anonymous emails." Jude's voice remained even. "Do you expect us to believe that's a coincidence?"

Yolanda's lips lost all their color.

She looked down, her fingers picking nervously at the edge of a tissue.

"Mr. Sinclair, I can't say."

The conference room fell silent.

The lawyer demanded, "Who told you that you can't say?"