Chapter 260 - Flash Drive

~~~Stephanie's office~~

Hysterical sounds of laughter could be heard from Stephanie's office, as she lolled back on her swivelling seat.

"Who knew it would be that easy" She said amidst laughter, as she threw her head backward and bellowed out another round of laughter.

"This is too good. Poor thing" She tsked.

"Who knew a mere video would bring her down? I should have thought of this way before now..... What a shame, I had to wait so long. Let's see what the Jake will think when he gets to know how his stupid girlfriend has embarrassed herself at the company" She rupt out another fit of laughter.

"This is too good, I finally got to you Jade Peterson" She cackled hysterically.

...

"Flash?" Simon asked.

"Yes sir" The man replied as he revealed the flash drive to his boss.

"That's not mine, you should probably ask the others" Simon told him. He certainly didn't have a flash drive that looked like that.

"Sir I already did, but no one seem to own it"

"Really? Well I don't have a flash like that" He turned to Sara and Jade, "Sara you guys should check if it this belongs to any of you" Simon told them.

They all looked at the flash drive which the guy showed to them and shook their head.

"No that's not mine"

"I don't own that"

"No"

They answered simultaneously.

Simon turned to the guy who had brought it over. "I don't think someone from here lost. If he found it by the door, then it might have dropped off from someone else who might have passed through or had dropped by here" He reasoned

"Who could be careless enough to lose a flash? Isn't it important?" Julius scoffed. In an organization like theirs everyone was supposed to be careful with things like that. It might not belong to the company but it might contain something useful.

"He or she might be looking for it" Jade said dismissively as she turned back to face the monitor. She looked at the time, she had two more hours to find that proof. She didn't have the time to bother about a missing flash, maybe some other day she'd had been interested in helping to find the rightful owner. She couldn't even begin to imagine losing hers. A lot of important stuffs were kept there for backup.

"I'll just keep it in the locker for 'found' stuff" The young man suggested.

"Sure" Simon nodded giving the guy a pat on the back, as he turned to leave.

"Wait!" Simon stopped him. The guy went back to where Simon was standing.

"Julius take a look at it, maybe you can find something that could reveal who it belongs to, or atleast what department to go" Simon ordered.

"Yes boss" Julius nodded and took the flash on the guy.

Simon looked at Jade who had a contorted look on her face. He could imagine how fast the neurons in her brain were firing at the moment.

He gave a knowing look to Sara, surreptitiously asking her to comfort Jade, but Sara shook her head. She knew Jade was on a edge right now and being comforted with no actual solution was probably going to make her snap.

Simon feigned a sneer at her, before taking a step closer to Jade. He was about to crouch down next to her, when his eyes caught something by Sara's foot under the desk.

"You ladies can be quite annoying. Why fix them when you can't keep them" He said as he glared at Sara.

"I know it belongs to you, pick it up" He ordered, making Jade to snap out of her reverie. She looked at her boss who was miraculously by her side. She noticed the way he was glaring at Sara's feet and she lowered her eyes to look.

"That's not mine" Sara declared feigning a frown at her boss who had just accused her.

Simon was about to say something to her, when Julius called out from his desk, not too far away.

"Boss you should come see this. Jade you too" He said in a cryptic voice. Jade looked at him with dull eyes but remained on her seat. She wasn't up for anything time wasting. She had to come up with something. Even if she couldn't find anything to expose Stephanie, she had to find a way to make her come clean. There was no way she was going to fall into Stephanie's trap. That was impossible.

"Jade!"

Jade jolted when she heard her name being echoed by so many voices. She turned towards Julius table and was quite surprised to find almost the whole department gathered around his desk, their eyes glued to whatever they found interesting.

"Come on let's go see" Sara said as she stood to her feet. "And here, I don't know who it belongs to. I don't know he had to accuse me" Sara mumbled those last words as she walked to join the party.

She said as she walked away. Jade looked at what Sara had dropped in the desk and she hissed and walked away. Why were people dropping irrelevant things? And by the way that has been there since yesterday.

If only Stephanie was stupid enough to drop any of these, then it would be game over.

Jade reluctantly walked towards Julius table. She was shocked when Julius stood up from his seat and pulled her to the front so she could see.

Her eyes bulged when she saw the video playing on the screen.

"Is that from the....."

"Yes it is" Julius confirmed.

"Seriously?" She asked in unbelief.

"Yes"

"He's not lying" Simon reassured her.

"Sir but who could do this? Who owns the flash?" Sara asked inquisitively as she looked at Simon.

Simon turned to Julius and inquired, "Yes who owns the flash? Did you by chance see anything relating to the owner?" He was also curious to know. He'd be the one to personally report the issue back to the President. He didn't care whoever it was, that person who have to pay for making him and his team lose face.

Jade didn't need to confirm who the person was. She knew the culprit already. She was about to open her mouth and speak, when Julius spoke up first.

"It's Mr Alan"