Studying To Help The Family Chapter 9

Skyward Sights, Los Angeles, California:
When Arabella, Jenny, and Gina walked into the drone factory that Arabella and Jenny owned. All hell broke loose when Gina introduced herself and announced that Arabella and Jenny were her daughter and daughter-in-law. On top of that, all the reconnaissance that Arabella had been doing while keeping her and Jenny’s secret.

She made a list of people who should be promoted. She also had a list of people who should be removed and a list of those who should be watched. The ones who should be watched were on her possible firing list, but she would give them a second chance.

After personally delivering the pink slips and final paychecks. Arabella heads back to the CEO's office, where her mother was looking over the books. She knew her mother was going to go over everything and make sure they weren’t missing anything.

Gina didn’t like what she was not finding. Someone has been shipping some of the drones the company made out the back door. Production had reported making a large number of advanced drones, but the inventory was showing several drones missing or not accounted for.

Gina looks over towards her daughters, “I need you to go and do a visual for me.”

“Okay, mom.” Arabella and Jenny leave the office and head down to the warehouse, and start looking around.

It takes them several hours to locate some of the drones they were looking for. However, they didn’t find at least thirty advanced drones that were used for law enforcement and government use.

“This isn’t good, Arabella.” Jenny looks towards Arabella when she mentions what she didn’t find.

“I know. Someone has been selling these drones out the back door to someone else.” Jenny didn’t like the fact that this happened.

“If those drones are used in a crime, and it leads back here. The company could be held responsible and give us a bad name.” Arabella was worried about her investment.

“We'd better let your mother know.” Jenny knew Gina would want to know.

“It’s not going to make her happy.” Arabella knew how her mother was.

After completing the task, her mother sent them on. Arabella and Jenny return to the CEO's office and inform their mother. Both ladies watched Gina’s face.

“I was afraid of this.” Gina leans back in the office chair.

“We could interrogate the shipping manager and the production manager. They are still working here.” Arabella knew the production manager oversaw all production at the factory.

Gina looks at her daughter, “I think it's time to continue your training.”

Arabella got a bad feeling when her mother said those words. She knew her mother could make anyone talk.

“I’m not going to use that type of technique, you’re thinking about sweetie.” Gina saw the look on her daughter’s face.

“Sorry, mom.” Arabella felt embarrassed for thinking her mother would use the other style of extracting information.

Arabella retrieves the production manager, George, and the shipping manager, Bruce. She puts them in separate conference rooms for her mother to speak to. While her mother is doing that, she heads down to her new office.

She starts working on a few ideas and plans. She’ll let her mother deal with the production and shipping manager. She digs into the system and gets stopped several times from accessing certain files. She tries again and again, but her hacking skills aren’t at the level she needs.
Arabella pulls her cellphone out and presses the stored number for Camelot Networking. She waits as the call goes through.

Camelot Network Solutions:
“Good afternoon, Camelot Network Solutions. How may I help you?” Debbie checks the number coming through and notices it belongs to an Arabella Bounty.

“Good afternoon to you as well. Who am I speaking to?” Arabella didn’t recognize the voice.

“Debbie, Mrs. Bounty. How can I direct your call?”

“I need to speak to Morgana or one of her people, please.” Arabella knew Morgana was the best hacker she knew. She has worked with Morgana and one of her people.

“Mrs. Morgana isn’t available right now, but I can transfer you to Mr. Tristan.”

Arabella had to think for a minute. She couldn’t recall if she had ever had any interaction with Mr. Tristan.

“What is his security clearance, Debbie?”

“Mr. Tristan’s clearance level is Alpha level.” Debbie wonders why Mrs. Bounty wanted to know Mr. Tristan’s security level.

“Okay, transfer me to him, please.” Arabella decided to try Tristan out.

Tristan’s Office:
Tristan was finishing up a job when his screen started flashing, letting him know a call was waiting for him. He presses a button on his keyboard and answers the call.

“Tristan speaking, how can I help you?” Tristan looks at the call log and notices it was one of the Bounty’s.

“Hi, Mr. Tristan. My name is Arabella Bounty, and I need your expert help.”

“How can I help you, Ms. Bounty?” Tristan brings up Arabella’s identification and notices she was the daughter of Gine Bounty, Jack Bounty’s second-oldest daughter.

“I own a company and I can’t access certain files in the computer system. Can you remote in and give me access to those files, please?”
Arabella sits and stares at the computer screen in front of her.

“What’s the name of your company, Ms. Bounty?” Tristan wanted to make sure she owned the company.

Arabella tells him and waits as he checks to make sure she owns the company. She sends a message to her mother to let her know what she is doing.

Tristan verifies the ownership of the company. He enters the system through the remote access Arabella has and locates the files she was calling him about. He tries a few simple hacks, but nothing works.

“Hhmm! What are you hiding?” Tristan gets more aggressive and breaks into the files.

Arabella had been watching as Tristan logged into the system and tried several times before being rejected. After that, a smile appears on her face as Tristan breaks into the file.

“Thanks, Tristan.” Arabella wanted to dig through the file.

“You’re welcome, Ms. Bounty. I’ll send you the bill.”

“Okay. Thanks again.” Arabella watches as Tristan logs out of her system. She starts looking through the files she couldn’t get into.



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