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.

you are fired..." Ewan added, after waiting in vain

sir, please

Give me a report of things at the

phone and strike its effect on the man. He didn’t

opened by our clients and shareholders.

Get a hold

A pause.

was about firing the man for real this time around, when the latter spoke

are not picking

"How long ago?

"Fifteen minutes ago, sir."

phone fall from his hand to the

ago? It correlated with the time he

Had Athena and Zane

to do with his fists. There was no

his shaking hands together, such that the knuckles

Athena and Zane.

about the connections they had, but they would pay for this. They would understand that he wasn’t known as

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

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

up the phone again, and

spoke, without even

the text, and why

A pause.

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

glared at the phone. Higher ups? He was a higher up too! But

and Zane are working

A significant pause.

Sandro wasn’t

sure? Zane is your

They were both cozy there, before I walked in. And when I

I can’t imagine." Sandro replied,

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