A Little girl whispers “There’s a camera in your office ” Millionaire exposes spy fiancée…
Maybe it was the memory of her mother’s voice. Telling her that truth was more important than politeness. Or maybe it was simply that eight-year-old hearts know things that thirty-year-old minds have forgotten.
Isla walked to Eli’s chair and gently tugged on his sleeve. He held up one finger without looking at her. The universal adult signal for wait.
But Isla had waited long enough. She tugged again more insistently. Just a second, sweetie, Eli murmured, still focused on his screen.
This time, Isla didn’t wait. She leaned close to his ear and whispered the words that would change everything. There’s a camera in your office.
But it’s not yours. The effect was immediate and electric. Eli’s fingers froze above the keyboard.
His entire body went rigid, as if he’d been struck by lightning. The executive on the Zoom call continued talking about quarterly projections, but Eli heard nothing except the echo of those eight words from the small girl beside him. Gentlemen, I need to call you back.
He said abruptly, ending the meeting, without explanation. The room fell silent except for the gentle hum of electronics and the thundering of Eli’s heartbeat. He turned to look at Isla.
Really look at her, perhaps for the first time since she’d arrived. Her brown eyes, usually so quiet and watchful, now blazed with urgency. What did you say? He asked, though he’d heard her perfectly.
There’s a camera in your office. Isla repeated, pointing toward the painting above his bookshelf. Behind the gold frame.
I’ve been watching it blink at night when you’re not here. Eli followed her gaze to the expensive oil painting Sabrina had insisted on buying, for him last month. A romantic landscape of rolling hills and wildflowers.
To brighten up your workspace, she’d said with her devastating smile. Every successful man needs beauty in his environment. His mouth went dry as puzzle pieces began clicking into place with mechanical precision.
Sabrina’s sudden interest in his work schedule. Her habit of tidying his office while he was on calls. The way she always seemed to know exactly when he’d be working late, arriving with coffee and kisses at precisely the right moments.
How long? Have you been watching it? He asked Isla, his voice barely above a whisper. Since she hung it up? Isla said simply. I use my tablet to scan for signals when I can’t sleep.
There are lots of them in the house now. But that one’s different. It’s not connected to our network.
Eli stared at this small girl who’d just turned his world upside down with a single sentence. In six months of living together, they’d barely had a real conversation. He’d hired the best nannies.
Enrolled her in the most prestigious schools. Bought her everything a child could want. But he’d never really listened to her.
He’d never imagined that behind those quiet, watchful eyes was a mind sharp enough to detect surveillance equipment that he, a cybersecurity expert, had missed entirely. The weight of what she was telling him began to settle like ice in his chest. If there was a camera.
If someone was watching. If Sabrina was involved. The prototype security algorithm he’d been developing, worth potentially hundreds of millions of dollars, sat on the very computer he used every day in this room.
Isla, he said. And for the first time, he truly saw her. Not as a responsibility or a good deed.
But as a person. As someone who might just have saved him from a catastrophe he never saw coming. We need to talk….