“Why think so much, it’s not like you’re going to get paid, here, cheers.” Stephen aimed his glass at the moon: “To such a nice moon today, cheers.”
Jayden yawned and clinked his glass with Stephen’s: “That’s right, but this is red wine, if you’re worried, you shouldn’t drink this.”
Stephen shook the empty bottle: “Red wine is for celebrating, white wine is for forgetting …”
“Celebrate? Celebrate what?” Jayden narrows his eyes and speaks with a slight upward cadence.
Stephen thought for a moment before pointing at the moon and flashing Jayden a big smile, “Celebrate, it’s such a nice moon today.”
Jayden laughed and stopped talking.
Early morning.
Brayden was awakened by a phone call, the end of the phone is the Kirkland Group’s head of economic analysis, he spoke sharply, the tone is very nervous, Brayden answered the phone dazed, but after hearing him talk about things, he immediately sleepless, even the back, all up in a cold sweat.
“Mr. Kirkland!!! Something’s wrong, Gale Technologies has once again acquired two branches under our name!!! Counting the previous ones, it’s the seventh one.”
Brayden sat up from the bed with a carp and swallowed uneasily, “How did this happen, there were no signs before?”
“Not at all, as if it was just a split second, and our economic system did not receive any signs of breach at all, what they did, it was just too untraceable.” The minister’s voice was strained and out of tune, and there was the sound of the crowd talking at the other end of the line, a heavy murmur.
Brayden said in a deep voice, “I’ll be right over.”
Pressing the phone button, he still couldn’t react from this huge amount of information and just lifted the covers and sat dumbly on the bed.
The draught from the quilt lifting sprayed Dolly’s face as she rubbed her sleepy eyes and asked in a daze, “What is it, Brayden, what time is it?”
Brayden turned sideways, his eyes full of disbelief and confusion: “The seventh branch, too, is gone.”
Now even Dolly couldn’t sleep, and she broke out in a cold sweat after the words, with the same unbelievable look on her face: “How could that be? Didn’t they stop attacking our branch for quite some time?”
Brayden shook his head repeatedly: “We were careless, Jayden came to talk to me last time, he told me that Gale Technologies’ goal was the whole Kirkland Group, we didn’t even put it in mind, wrong wrong wrong, wrong from the beginning, they just want us to let our guard down so that they can better and faster of accomplishing their objectives.”
“No, Jayden didn’t do it.” Dolly mumbled, aside Brayden but as if waking up from a dream, he took his phone and started looking for Jayden’s number in the address book, and chanted, “Yes, Jayden, Jayden must know something else.”
Dolly watched as he dialed the number, and only after the cold female voice told them there was no answer after thirty-seven seconds of ringing did the two look at each other, puzzled by it.
Dolly found her cell phone from the nightstand and held it like a hope, finding Jayden’s number.
Thirty-seven seconds later, she looked up at Brayden, the phone in her hand slipping onto the bedspread.
“Still no answer.”
Brayden turned off his phone, the continuous text alerts flashing on it gave him a headache: “No, I have to get to the office quickly.”
Dolly also lifted the covers and reached up to casually tuck her hair behind her head, “I’m with you.”
Really people have not yet arrived, the news first, I do not know where these journalists got the news, actually early in the morning these published on the front page of the major networks.
Skyler was waiting for a red light when she reached for a bottle of mineral water from her bag and was tilting her head to drink the water, only to hear the news playing on the car radio, which almost did not let her drink the water disperse on the seat.
“After many days, Kirkland Group branches are once again acquired by Gale Technologies in quick succession …”
Gale Technologies? Gale Technologies! Something to do with Stephen? Was he taking another shot at the Kirkland Group? Not daring to think about it, she immediately turned the wheel and drove towards Stephen’s office.
The morning exercise Stephen received the latest news push is also a puzzled face, acquisition? Is Jayden again towards Kirkland Group hands, although he is the heir of Gale Technologies, but these things, he has long handed Jayden ah, should not be Jayden dry, he also and his own moon last night.
Stephen told himself that he couldn’t think any further, that anything that happened should be the first thing he should ask the hero of the matter, and that he should call and ask Jayden what was going on.
Stephen hung up the phone patiently and waited a few dozen seconds before dialing Jayden’s cell phone again.
This time it’s no longer a busy line, but a complete no answer. No answer? How could that be? Did he lose the phone forever after answering someone else’s call?
Stephen couldn’t figure it out, he changed out of his morning clothes and into his everyday professional clothes, and just unlocked his car, he saw a bright red Bentley drive by in the distance, and Stephen stood in place waiting for the person in the car to get out.
Skyler stepped on a pair of flat shoes, parked the car steadily after trotting all the way towards him, the bangs in front of the forehead was blown by the wind and did not have time to organize, haphazardly stuck on the head.
She was holding her phone in her hand and the screen was lit up. She had a slightly displeased expression on her face, as if she was about to show him something.
“Skyler, what brings you here so early?”
Skyler held the phone screen up to him, still breathing heavily, “Did you do this …?”
Stephen took a look, it was really about the Kirkland Group branch was acquired, if he said it was not should not what people will believe it, after all, his relationship with Gale Technologies, that is inextricably.
“Would you believe me if I said no?” Stephen asked rhetorically.
Skyler frowned: “What time are you, you still tell me this, if you say it is not, of course I will believe you ah.”
A kind of warmth called trust into Stephen’s heart, he did not think hard to put Skyler in his arms, his chin against her head, against her soft hair, with an incomparably tender voice said: “Thank you for believing me, I tell you now, it really was not me, I do not know what happened, and was about to go to find out a clear. ”
Skyler’s hand on his waist: “Find out? In other words, do you already have a direction in mind to find out, do you already know who it is?”