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.

again, you are fired..."

sir, please

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

his glare could walk past the phone and strike its effect on the man. He didn’t

The text was encrypted. It can only be opened by our clients and shareholders. I’m not sure how it

Get a hold of one of our shareholders

A pause.

real this time

are not picking their

went silent. "How long ago? This hack in? How long

"Fifteen minutes ago, sir."

up the call, and let the phone fall from his hand

ago? It correlated with the time he

fists. Had Athena and Zane put

didn’t know what to do with his

shaking hands together, such that the knuckles went

Athena and Zane.

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

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

play, right? He would make

phone again, and

best hackers." Sandro spoke, without even being spoken

the text, and why none of our clients

A pause.

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

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

Athena and Zane are working together to

A significant pause.

Sandro

Zane is your

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

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