Chapter 21: An Emergency

Ewan was a few miles away from his house when he received a call from the operations manager of his company.

Ewan looked at his wristwatch. Why was the man calling this late? Annoyance reared its head, but he pushed it aside. This was a first. It must surely be an emergency.

He finally conceded, and picked the call. "Mr. Suarez, what is the issue?"

There was so much heavy breathing and tension at the other side of the phone that Ewan sat up on his seat and asked his driver to increase the car’s speed so that he could get home on time. There was trouble. He knew it.

"Mr. Suarez, make a report or get out of my phone. I don’t have time for this." He ordered, after waiting in vain for the manager to speak.

"I’m sorry sir. I just didn’t know how to break the news to you. As you know, we had fortified our systems last year, after the last hack-in, with the best tools. But all those efforts were nullified tonight."

Ewan exhaled roughly. "There was another hack in?"

"Yes sir."

Ewan rubbed his face tiredly. "For what? What are the hackers doing?"

A pause which spoke of an evil foreboding.

"Are they taking the money in the storage account?"

A pause again.

"It’s worse sir."

Ewan piqued an eyebrow. What could be worse than rendering him bankrupt?!

"The hackers are collecting our users’ data, and that of our shareholders. They are sending an anonymous text message to them. The problem is that our team can not decipher the text."

"What do you mean you can’t decipher the text?!" Ewan shouted, causing his driver to screech the car to a halt.

Ewan glared at him. The middle aged fellow apologized profusely and started the car again.

fired..." Ewan added, after waiting in vain for

so sorry sir, please

report of things at

his glare could walk past the phone and strike its effect on the man. He didn’t understand why

was encrypted. It can only be opened by our clients and shareholders. I’m not sure how it was done,

Get a hold of one of

A pause.

real this time around, when the latter

not picking

silent. "How long ago? This hack in? How

"Fifteen minutes ago, sir."

the call, and let the phone fall from his hand to the

It correlated with the time

Had Athena and Zane put

what to do with his fists. There was no wall

together, such that

Athena and Zane.

would pay for this. They

up from the pieces that his father had left it at. He won’t let it go because of a woman and

He would make his own play soon, right after he

picked up the phone again,

the best hackers." Sandro spoke, without even being spoken to. He already

you know the content of the text, and why none

A pause.

home of one of our shareholders. And I’m not leaving without

ups? He was a higher up too! But no. He hadn’t offended anyone, except

I think Athena and Zane are

A significant pause.

allowed it. Sandro wasn’t the operations

Zane is

I walked in. And when I told him about the shares Athena wanted, he sided with her. Can

I can’t imagine." Sandro replied, after another

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