Taking Control From Her

With the raised volume, Alex sat back on the sofa, excited to see what Katherine would do. He knew she hadn't been wearing that broach for nothing.

And by the tone she had over the phone, he could tell she was pissed.

***

"Oracle! You are making unreasonable demands! How could we even amass fifty trillion dollars in twenty-four hours?! EG isn't even worth that much!" Constantine argued.

But the person on the screen seemed hell-bent on taking everything she owned.

Of course, this was all a script. There was no hacker on their servers; therefore, there couldn't be a ransom request.

This was an elaborate ploy her assistant had devised to try to make the public see that they were fighting back.

With her back to the cameras, Constantine was grinning from ear to ear. She could hear the reporters behind her chanting at the screen to be reasonable.

'They are all on our side already. This is great. I should give her a raise. '