The Princess and the Pauper (Arabella)

Chapter 1346

Chapter 1346

“Hmph, that clueless woman, all her scheming amounts to nothing. She has no idea that Arlen's playing for our team!"

Eunice watched their retreating figures with a curious glint in her eye. Although she didn't have any concrete evidence to reveal

who the mole really was, the sight of the tascending the stairs together gave her a strong hunch that the traitor wasn't acting

alone.

“Arlen, what did that woman say to you earlier?" Calvin whispered urgently as they reached the top of the staircase. "How much

does she really know?"

"She blabbed a whole lot of nonsense at first, nothing of value. But then she handedthis USB drive, claimed all the secrets

were on it"

Arlen pushed open the door to the study and booted up the computer, plugging in the USB drive.

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There it was, an encrypted folder!

Arlen typed in ‘123456’, but the password was incorrect. He tried again, sresult.

"Is that woman tricking me?" Arlen's face darkened with suspicion, wondering what kind of gshe was playing.

“Earlier, she asked if you remembered, and you said you did. You bragged about not being senile, so why can't you remember

now?"

Bess was suddenly skeptical. Could it be that Arlen was deliberately entering the wrong password, planning to keep the contents to

himself once they left?

Arlen frowned, irritated. "Bess, what are you insinuating? Are you suggesting that I'm faking the password error so you can't see

what's inside?"

"You said that the secret Eunice gave you was simple, but you got it wrong. So, what's the real password?"

“123456.

"Who sets such a simple password? If the contents were that important, she would never use something so basic!"

Arlen was getting annoyed. “That's what she told me, the password!"

“You said earlier that she spouted a bunch of useless nonsense before mentioning the USB drive. Based on what | know about her,

she’s not one to beat around the bush. Could it be that she said something beforehand that you're not comfortable sharing with

us?" Bess pressed on with her suspicion.

“What could possibly be so uncomfortable? Did you or Calvin do something in the past that might cback to bite you if | found

out?"

"That's out of line!” Bess exploded like a cat with its tail stepped on.

Seeing Bess’ reaction, Arlen suddenly considered the possibility.

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But Eunice's business took precedence.

“Eunice only talked about her life with Alexander and how sincere his feelings were for her. She didn't say anything else!"

That's why he thought Eunice had been rambling on about irrelevant things.

“Nothing else, are you sure about that, Arlen?"

When Arlen realized he was getting nowhere with Bess, he turned to Calvin. "Calvin, you don't trusteither?"

"Let's do this. Do you have anyone who could crack this password?"

Calvin's words were cut short by a sharp nudge from his wife. "Honey, have you forgotten? We have our own tech whiz. It's Arlen's

birthday today. We can't bother him with this. Let's take the USB drive back and have someone on our team look into it”

Upon hearing this, Arlen realized that Bess wanted to see the contents first. Could it be that there were things even he wasn't

aware of?