"Noted."
He grabbed the phone inside the pocket and dialed a contact number. He placed it onto his ear and called one of his subordinates.
His eyes gazed at Cheslea, who was busy typing to her tablet. He was mesmerized by her beauty and that's why he started to follow her and worked as a manager in MCSI.
Eliezer Bautista was a big tycoon in a city, a billionaire CEO of a prestigious universities and teaching center around the world. It was a self-made business and used all the inherited money from his parents. He also used his knowledge of being a teacher and somewhat businessman from college.
When he knew Cheslea would be working on MSCI, he took the opportunity when the company needed a manager. He was still focused on his business and his work at MSCI. He wanted to be closed at Cheslea and conceal his identity.
"Send me the footage of the CCTV." Eliezer said.
"Yes boss. Anyway, why do you need the footage of the CCTV in MSCI? I thought you could access it there?" One of his subordinates asked.
"Someone removed the real footage and placed it on the other footage. I need to see the real footage, Jester."
"Okay, I'll try to hack it and send it to you. Just give me 30 minutes to do that, I need to eat my lunch so I can focus."
"Fine… 30 minutes will do."
"Okay boss!"
He hung up the call and looked at Cheslea, who was now staring at him and waiting patiently. He covered his mouth with his fist to hide the blush through his cheeks. Then, he cleared his throat to get his attention.
Cheslea jumped a bit but it turned into a smile. Then, she mumbled softly, "you are handsome when you are serious but I like it when you are smiling. You seem very peaceful."
His eyes widened and couldn't believe his ears. This was the first time Cheslea complimented him and it was over the moon. He looked away and hid his blush.
"I-I… you look beautiful, Cheslea."
Cheslea giggled at his silliness. She fastened her seatbelt and signed him to drive. "I heard 30 minutes so we have time to take out some food and go to the headquarters."
"Headquarters?"
"Yes, I called one of my friends and he was okay with us watching the footage last week."
"That's good to hear. Let's go."
He drove to their destination and went to the drive thru of a nearest fast food chain. They bought a bunch of food for the staff in the headquarters.
After a few minutes of driving, they reached the headquarters. They stepped outside and picked up the food. She looked at her friends and ran towards him.
This man, who's in his mid-20s greeted her.She gave him a hug and greeted him, "Dan, looking good! How have you been?"
"I'm pretty good. You look beautiful as always."
Dan was the operator of the CCTV and a famous hacker in the city. They had been friends since high school and they kept in touch after graduation.
Eliezer scoffed and glared at the man, who kept touching her waist. He walked towards them and crossed his arms while staring at them.
"Eliezer, this is Dan Fryxwell, my friend who's operating the CCTV camera, and Dan, this is Eliezer."
He smiled at Eliezer and offered him a handshake but he just scoffed and looked away.
"Nice to meet you, Dan." He mumbled.
"Okay… Cheslea, you didn't know that you are working at Jaymianne." He exclaimed and didn't even remove his hands around her waist.
"Well, I want to be with her so I decided to work with her."
"That's good to he—"
Eliezer pulled her closer and wrapped his arms around her waist. Then, he glared at him with his fiery eyes.
"We have jobs to do so keep going." He said sternly and gave the food to Cheslea's friends.
"R-right. Let's go inside so we can start." Dan said and signed them to follow inside.
Chelsea giggled when seeing his envious stern eyes. She couldn't believe that he would be jealous at the simple hug and greetings. She leaned closer and climbed her arms around his arm.
"Are you okay? You looked stressed." She asked.
"How can't I stress out? You ran to hug him and couldn't wait for me. You didn't even help me with that food. I can't believe you, Ches."
"Oh Eli. You are just jealous seeing me hugging my friend." She said teasingly and giggled.
He rolled his eyes and pushed her away. He followed Dan inside the headquarters. She laughed at him and held his wrist so they couldn't lose each other.
Eliezer clenched his fist and strived to stop his urge to hold her hand. Cheslea felt his shivered, slowly, she slid her hand and clasped it around his clenched hand.
He jumped from the shock but then, he smiled and held her hands. They went inside the operating system of the CCTV around a place in Nevada.
There's a big screen placed on the wall that could see the map of Las Vegas, Nevada and below that big screen, there were three large flat-screen TV shows footage of the CCTV, and luckily, there was no one around the room.
Dan instructed her to sit beside him while Eliezer sat behind them and mumbled, "Cheslea, tell me what's the place and the time."
"Every footage from last week at 100st Avenue."
Dan responded with a nod and typed on the keyboard. She looked at Eliezer, who smiled at her and ruffled her hair.
"Here we go."
He showed the footage from every day of the week and her intuition was right. Someone helped him leave the place. Luckily, the hacker didn't remove the footage in the city.
Or they couldn't just remove it.
"Someone wanted to remove this footage. A genius hacker but I stopped it and eventually, they didn't attempt to remove it. So you two are lucky to see this." He confessed.
He reached the apartment the day he received the budget. The person suddenly appeared but didn't slide off the hoodie and the mask. Then, it slid off very quickly.
She pointed out the person and instructed him, "Dan, can you zoom in on the person, who was talking to Drake and stopped where it slides off the hoodie."
He nodded and zoomed in closely. Her eyes went wide when it was Drake's girlfriend, who was working in the black market.
"Can you screenshot that person?" He nodded again.
The second footage wasn't the same scenario. His girlfriend walked outside the apartment without Drake. Luckily, the window beside the house was captured by the CCTV.
Drake used the window to leave the place but then, suddenly happened. The footage became blurred and Dan strived to revive it. He cursed it out and clenched his fist.
"The hacker was too fast. This person knew that you'd come here and removed the footage. I can't believe this."
"Can you revive the footage?"
He sighed and strived to do it again but it couldn't just revive the footage. He glanced at them and shook his head.
"You need to leave this place, Cheslea. I think someone was watching your every move."
"Dan… I'm sorry. Are you going to be okay?"
"I'll be okay. Just hurry up and leave this place!"