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.

than once again, you are fired..." Ewan added,

sir, please don’t...

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

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

opened by our clients and shareholders. I’m not

a hold of one of our shareholders

A pause.

the man for real this time around, when the latter

not picking

ago? This hack in? How long

"Fifteen minutes ago, sir."

hung up the call, and let the phone fall from

correlated with the time he had left

Athena and Zane

burned within Ewan. He didn’t know what to do with his fists.

clasped his shaking hands together, such that the

Athena and Zane.

they would pay for this.

money, he had struggled to build his empire up from the pieces that his father had left it at. He won’t let

had made the first play, right? He would make his own play soon, right after he stopped

the phone again, and

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

the content of the text, and why none of our clients are picking our

A pause.

I’m heading to the home of one of our shareholders. And I’m not leaving without an answer. Don’t worry, Ewan. But did you offend anyone? The higher

at the phone. Higher ups? He was a higher up

and Zane are working together to

A significant pause.

it. Sandro wasn’t the operations

you sure? Zane

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

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

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