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.

more than once again, you are fired..." Ewan added, after waiting in vain for

sir, please don’t...

a report of things at the moment!" Ewan shouted again, annoyed at the manager

past the phone and strike its effect on the man. He didn’t understand why and where Sandro had employed the man

opened by our clients and shareholders.

a hold of one

A pause.

firing the man for real this time around, when the

are not picking their

ago? This hack in?

"Fifteen minutes ago, sir."

let the phone fall

ago? It correlated with the

Athena and Zane put their plans to motion

with his

shaking hands together, such that the knuckles went

Athena and Zane.

pay for this. They would understand that he wasn’t

to build his empire up from the pieces that his father had left it at.

the first play, right? He would make his

the phone again,

know, Ewan, I’m on it. I’ve hired the best hackers." Sandro spoke, without even being spoken to. He already

text, and why none of our clients

A pause.

heading to the home of one of our shareholders. And I’m not leaving without an

at the phone. Higher ups? He was a higher up too! But no. He hadn’t

and Zane are working together to

A significant pause.

Sandro wasn’t

Zane is your best

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

can’t imagine." Sandro replied,

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