25 Bad To Worse
A thick silence descended in the room.
What could be heard only was the deep heavy breathing coming from both the two males in the room, and the third male on the other side of the phone. It lasted for a full minute.
“Two billion dollars? That would create significant damage to the company. Sandro finally spoke.
Ewan was too rippled with shock and anger at the turn of events.
Suarez concurred. “I told them, Mr. Sandro, but they threatened to hack into our storage unit if
we don’t comply.”
Ewan inhaled sharply. Things were going from bad to worse. The only way to turn the tides was to convince the hackers.
“Can you patch the call to me? Can I speak with them?”
“Hold on, sir.”
A shuffling of network and feet.
“Here sir, you are patched in.”
Ewan took his lips in, and centered his mind. He was talking to his attackers.
“Hello, I’m Ewan Giacometti, CEO of the Giacometti company. Can you state your name, and why you are attacking my company?”
No response greeted him, except static.
Ewan looked at Sandro. His assistant and friend shrugged his shoulders.
“Were you hired by Athena Caddell and Zane Patterson?”
Silence greeted him again.
Ewan was angry now. “Why did you agree to the transfer of call when you won’t speak!”
Static greeted him still.
He decided to wait it out. He didn’t have to wait long.
“You are a bad man, and you will pay for your crimes.”
He heard some struggling in the background, even cusses, before the line went dead.
But that wasn’t what stopped Ewan cold.
What made him immobile for a minute was the voice he had heard. It was a child’s voice.
Was that a tactic of the hacker to disarm him?
“Ewan, I think you should call Zane’s father. Let’s hear what he would say. These people are bent on toying with us
Ewan nodded soberly to Sandro’s advice. He was still hung up on the voice that was familiar, yet his mind was too full to remember where he had heard it.
25 Bad To Worse
Howbeit, he grabbed his phone and dialed a number.
Zane’s father answered immediately. “I just wanted to call you now, Ewan. Come to my house as soon as possible!”
26 An Advice
Ewan watched absentmindedly as the butler kept a tray of cookies and tea on the table.
Opposite him was Zane’s father, Herbert, reading a newspaper.
Ewan didn’t bother to ask how the older man had gotten his hands on today’s paper, when it was barely six a.m. The man had his ways.
What grasped his attention however, was the headlines of the first page.
“Ewan Giacometti at the brink of deterioration?”
Ewan balled his fists. If the news was already on papers, then everyone in the city would see it soon, everyone would know of his incompetence.
His fists flexed and then relaxed. At this rate he won’t be surprised if his heart gave up on him.
He let himself inhale and exhale softly. This too shall pass away.
Ewan stifled his response. He hadn’t done anything wrong!
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