Page 34 of Axe
“Over the last three years…like five.”
“Okay, so what does this have to do with whatever?” Cal barked and I could tell he understood even less than I did.
“So, last night I was looking through things, checking the security on all the cameras, and I saw a flicker. Normally no big deal, but me being super paranoid and all, I started to look into it. After hours and hours of digging and combing through everything in my system, I found something.” He paused to take a deep, calming breath.
“Look, man, not too much detail, you know we don’t get that shit. Just tell us what’s up,” I said, placing my hand on his shoulder in an attempt to let him know I was there and hopefully calm him.
I could tell he was rattled and I knew he wouldn’t let this shit happen on a normal day. I imagined whoever it was had to be as good as him at that geek stuff. Maybe even better. We needed to find out how this happened and who the fuck it was. Then we needed to figure out how much they knew. This could fuck up our plans for taking down Savage. I could only pray that it wasn’t someone on Savage’s payroll.
“I don’t know who it is. But they got into everything. They’ve been watching us through our cameras. They also have all of our info…everything I’ve ever found out…” His eyes looked to Cal with a deep sadness. “The email is how they got in. It looked legit, it wasn’t until I really started looking and found the one flaw, two of the letters were switched. I can’t believe I didn’t catch it.”
“Isn’t it like a brain thing that when you see shit like that it automatically fixes it, or some shit? Nothin’ we can do about it now, brother. We just need to find a way to fix this, or shut it down, or what-the-fuck-ever you do.” I was trying to be helpful. I was pretty sure I’d heard that first part somewhere at one point in my life.
Bocca’s eyes shot over to me and he gave me a look that let me know he appreciated it, but at the same time, he knew it was no excuse.
“How do we stop them from seein’ or gettin’ more shit?” Cal asked.
“I can shut everything down and install a new security patch. It took me a hot min, but I figured out that every time I updated the security was when I got a new email. I do that and we should be straight.”
“Providing you don’t open any fuckin’ emails, right?” Cal said, his tone was slightly joking but his look was hard.
Cal was a good man despite the rough life he’d led. He was a damn good leader and had one hell of a heart, even if he didn’t show it most of the time. While I knew he was pissed about the situation, and maybe even a little at Bocca, he was like a damn father to most of us. So, he may have been mad and even disappointed but he wasn’t going to cut Bocca down to prove his point.
I believed that was what made him great, he ruled with his head and his heart, not using fear. That wasn’t to say that he couldn’t be downright scary if he needed to be.
“Yeah. No, won’t fucking happen again,” Bocca said, straightening his spine and giving Cal his full attention.
“I’m callin’ church,” Cal said. “We need to let everyone know and figure out how to keep this from happenin’ again.”
