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CHAPTER 70Governor Clint’s words were immediate and final. There were no ifs or buts about it. The Smiths were officially banned from doing business anywhere in the state. The Governor went as far as announcing it on live Television the next morning, drumming support and creating sympathy for Jack Bolton and the Blackbolt group.The news went viral, the bigwigs in the state and other parts of the country became interested in the story and everyone wanted to own a piece of the biggest hotel the country would have in decades.Soon Blackbolt’s coffers were lining up with billions and billions of potential investor’s funds.“It’s crazy how things can change in an instant. How do you always do it bro? You take the most disastrous situations and just flip it on its head,” Mildred asked days later as they sat analysing the plans for the new hotel building.With the new funds coming in and the public interest in the hotel, Jack and his team had to come up with a new plan for a bigger hotel,
CHAPTER 71White Finger was a notorious and dangerous hacker group who worked for top government agencies and countries. They were formally special agents in various countries' international crime forces.Since they banded together after turning rogue, they have devastated and destroyed countless lives and properties at the whim of their highest bidder.White Finger consisted of five members. None of their official government names were known, except to themselves. Rumour even had it that they medically induced a selective amnesia so they can completely forget who they were in the past.The five of them gave themselves names according to each finger on the hand. Their leader was called the Thumb, their second in command and master strategist was called the Index, their main hacker and tech genius was called the middle finger, since all their work majorly revolved around his.Their muscle was called the ring finger and the pinkie was a hardware tech developer who was also as important
CHAPTER 72Christopher Newton, Jack’s uncle still harboured deep hatred for Jack. Even though Aaron Bolton, Jack’s father had used his powers to keep him in jail, Christopher lived like royalty in there and he knew everything that was going on in the outside world.The White Finger with their many connections had done extensive research on Jack, his family and businesses. They knew all the enemies and allies that he had in Coral city and that he had crippled many of them financially or otherwise.The only person who hated Jack with the kind of resources they needed was Christopher Newton.The thumb and the index decided to pay him a visit in prison to clearly state their position. They had two plans to get him to join them. The first one was to bank on his hate and hope he would join their crusade and the other was to coerce him with incriminating information that they found about him.“To what do I owe the pleasure. I haven’t had anyone visit me in years. Well except for the strippers
Chapter 73Jack was in the middle of a meeting when he got a phone call from Milton Penitentiary. Naturally he ignored the call. Why would they be calling him? He didn’t know anyone in prison there or so he thought.The number kept calling but Jack was determined to ignore it until he was done with his meeting.The new plans for the hotel were complete and Jack and his team were planning to go overboard this time around. The capacity would be double what the last one was and if the plan was top tier luxury before, now it was above top tier.“How are the bids coming with the construction company we’re awarding the project to?” Jack asked his Project manager, Floyd Hall.“We’ve narrowed it down to two companies. We were hoping to give it to Delta Builders who handled it the last time but Reign Construction are a pretty good company with a nice portfolio as well, plus their quotation is a bit cheaper compared to Delta’s,” Floyd replied.“Hmmm, send both of their quotations and portfolios
CHAPTER 74“I already told you mom. I forgive him but I cannot forget what he did. He deprived me of my family for years because of his actions,” Jack said to his mother.He was now back home in Milton city and the family of four had just concluded dinner when his mother brought up the topic of Jack going to see his uncle again.“I know what he did was wrong and I do not support or condone his behaviour in any way. In fact, it was I who made sure your father had him locked up for a long time when everyone else wanted to keep it hush and within the family but you have to at least hear what he has to say. It’s the first time he’s reached out since he has been locked in there, maybe the time that has passed has caused him to have a change of heart.”Alice was not happy with Christopher in any way. In fact, she was probably more mad at him than Jack himself but at the end of the day, Christopher was still her brother.“Maybe you should just keep the same energy mom,” Mildred chipped in, ro
CHAPTER 75“So this flash, what did he say it’s supposed to do?” Mildred asked Jack two days later after they returned back to Coral city.She was holding the flash in her hand and was looking at it like a ticking time bomb. Jack had vaguely told her what Christopher said the other day but now they were both alone in his office and Jack was struggling with making his decision.Toss the thing away or actually accept the money his uncle had given to him. The emotional and betrayed side of Jack was leaning towards the former, to toss the flash into the ocean but the businessman and logical side of him was also telling him how stupid a decision that would be.A free trillion dollar that they didn’t need to pay any dividends or interest on would go a long way in boosting his company’s finances significantly, especially since they were investing so much into this new project and because the money was given to him as a gift, a grant, under the laws of the state, it was completely tax free, wh
CHAPTER 76Two weeks later, Jack was fast asleep when the Smiths and their cronies struck. They struck him hard and they struck him well. There was no way he would have seen it coming. The series of events that accumulated to the eventual strike were so random and so coincidental that Jack would never have thought they were so carefully planned out and that his own tendencies to do what was logical over what was emotional was used against him.“Bro! Bro!” Mildred frantically ran into Jack’s room at the wee hours of the next morning. She had been fast asleep too but the rapid sound of notifications hitting her phone for minutes unending woke her up.“What is it, Mildred? It’s still early in the morning. My fucking alarm hasn’t gone off yet,” Jack replied in a groggy voice, stretching his frame and yawning.“There’s trouble bro. Trouble,” Mildred replied in a shaky voice. “The bank just called…..there was a glitch, a…someone hacked. Our money, all of our money is gone.”“Slow down Mildre
CHAPTER 77A deep frown covered Jack’s face as soon as he saw Laurel Smith. He thought his enemies had come to mock him. Not once did it cross Jack’s mind that they could be behind his predicament, it was just hard for him to think in that manner because he truly believed that their account was impenetrable.The software engineers and developers were left clueless. The only thing they kept telling Jack was that the transaction was authorised from his end but the only problem was that the IP address wasn’t his, it wasn’t even there.“These people looked up to you Jack and you just let them down like this? That’s not a good quality for a leader to possess,” Laurel continued in a smug tone, walking to the middle of the room.Everything was going according to their plan. Jack would grovel and beg just like they wanted him to and when he was done, they had a plan to bury him alive, so he could keep dying and reawaken under the weight of the sand above him. An eternal punishment for the man