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 waiting in vain for an answer

sir,

things at

from his ear and glared at it, as if his glare could walk past the phone

our clients and shareholders. I’m not sure how it was

Get a hold of

A pause.

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

are not

ago?

"Fifteen minutes ago, sir."

phone fall from his hand to the plush

correlated with the time he had

Had Athena and Zane

do with his fists. There was no

shaking hands together, such that the knuckles went

Athena and Zane.

they would pay for this. They would understand that he

from the pieces that his father

right? He would make his own play

the phone again, and called

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

text, and why none of our clients are picking our

A pause.

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

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

and Zane are

A significant pause.

Sandro wasn’t the

Zane

I walked in. And when I told

I can’t imagine." Sandro replied,

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