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.

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

sir,

don’t care for an apology, Suarez! Give me a report of things at the moment!" Ewan shouted again, annoyed at the manager whom he considered

could walk past the phone and strike its effect on the man. He

our clients and shareholders. I’m not sure how it was done, but that’s

a hold of one of our shareholders

A pause.

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

are not picking their

silent. "How long ago? This hack

"Fifteen minutes ago, sir."

phone fall from his

minutes ago? It correlated with the time he had left Athena’s

his fists. Had Athena and

to do with his fists. There was

hands together, such that the

Athena and Zane.

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

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

would make his own play

phone again,

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

you know the content of the text, and why none of our clients are

A pause.

I’m not leaving without an answer. Don’t worry, Ewan. But did you

the phone. Higher ups? He was a higher up too! But no. He

think Athena and Zane are working together

A significant pause.

it. Sandro wasn’t

you sure? Zane is your best

just coming from Athena’s house, Sandro. They were both cozy there, before I walked in. And when I told him about the shares

can’t imagine." Sandro replied, after another

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