Kelsie didn't know about this when she woke up from sleep a few hours ago.
Before she check her phone, a call came in from the babysitter she had who was supposed to look after the triplets for the day.
"Oh, you slipped in the bathroom while having your bath this morning and broke your back? So sorry about that, Ms. Winston. I hope your surgery goes well."
"No, it's fine. Just worry about your surgery. When your back has been operated on, make sure you listen to the doctor and rest as much as you need too."
"Ah, I see. It's not really serious. I still think you should recover fully before you start work. Right. Goodluck on your surgery. Bye."
As soon as the call ended, she heard Zade's yell from inside their room.
"Mommy, Keira dropped my shoes into the bathtub!"
"Hey, what are you screaming for? I already told you it was a mistake!"
"But you took it even when I kept telling you not to!"
"I was just trying to play with you. Had you not chased me into the bathroom, I wouldn't have been frightened and dropped your shoes into bathtub!"
"Even though!"
Jesse suddenly snapped at them.
"Do you two know what the time is? Mommy could still be asleep. What would you say if you happen to wake her with your pesky voices?"
That did it. Zade and Keira immediately went mute.
Kelsie arranged the foods she had ordered from the kitchen downstairs on the table and subtly called out to them, "Jesse, Zade and Keira, come have breakfast."
Almost immediately, tiny little feets ran towards her direction.
They took their seats at the table and smiled up at her sweet before digging into the food.
Kelsie had just taken her seat beside Zade when she felt her phone buzz in her pocket.
She slipped it out, intending to hang up until she laid eyes on the caller ID.
"Hello?"
Almost immediately, the voice belonging to the man who had called her at the airport came up sounding disgruntled and disappointed.
"Hey, when will you stop using this darn voice changer that makes you sound like a young woman?"
"We've known each other for five years now and I still don't know what your real voice sounds like."
"Can't you learn from me? I've been using my real voice with you ever since we met. Five years have passed already, I should've earned your trust already."
"And given how I'm not hiding my gender to you, I'm sure you would've run my voice through your system by now and found out exactly who I am."
Instead of patronizing him, Kelsie impatiently cut him off, "Why did you call?"
She heard the man sigh from the end other before he spoke up again.
"How cruel. Sigh. We've known each other for five years now and you still speak to me like though I were a stranger."
"Even though you totally sound like a woman now, the coldness of your voice sends frightening chill down my spine when you speak to me like this."
Kelsie sloppily draped her arm over the chair behind her and hummed, "Red, if you have nothing important to say to me, I'm going to hang up now."
"Wait! Don't hang up! Why are you so stuck-up? I can't even mess with you a little bit. Hmph!" The man hurriedly huffed, sulking for a second before he continued, "Anyway, have you seen the news?"
Kelsie raised a brow, "The news? What news?"
He immediately scoffed. "You see, this is why you need me. Don't you have one of those pop-up ads that show on your phone all of a sudden?"
"No, I made sure to block them all." She calmly replied.
"Hey, reading the news is important!" He got agitated and yelled at her, forcing her to take the phone away from her ear.
"I know." She mumbled nonchalantly and said nothing else.
Red smacked his lips and huffed in frustration.
"What is that tone? You're totally treating me like a pesky talking stage whom you can't wait to get rid of!"
"Anyway, I'm callling to let you know Jett Adler's is asking around for a good cybersecurity company."
"He's really persistent this time around and is no longer hiding the fact he wants you caught. Answer me truthfully, did you steal from him again?"
"No." She promptly responded.
Although she couldn't see the look on his face, Kelsie could tell what it looked like as she heard him murmur to himself.
"Then why is he working so hard to find you? Or could it be I'm reading it all wrong? Maybe someone else stole from him and he just needs to teach the punk a lesson."
"I hear he has a big ego. Could it be he's still sulking from the fact you stole his coins? Yes, must be it."
"Someone of his status wouldn't take such a thing so easily. Once people hears a hacker stole from him, I'm sure other hackers will think he's an easy target to steal from. He's definitely trying to teach you a lesson."
"Either way, do you think you can handle him or do you want me to find a wannabe hacker to fill in for you?"
"It's too late to be worried about me. If he couldn't find me five years ago when I was toying with my computer, why would he find me now."
"Yeah, yeah, you're right." Red sighed in agreement.
Kelsie was silent for a moment before she suddenly smiled and got up from her seat.
She strutted to her room and turned on her laptop to see the numerous warning she had received from her tripwire about someone attempting to pin the location of her cellphone.
"One more thing, Reid. Stop trying so hard. You'll never be able to hack me."
Then she hung up.
In a dark apartment in Zeen, a lanky man in gray shirt with anti-blue light glasses sat across his laptop, his witty eyes pinned on the numerous blinking red lights on his screen.
He dropped his phone on the table when he heard the familiar short, sharp beep followed by the line disconnecting.
Then he subtly raised his left thumb to gently massage his thin lips as he scoffed.
"This is riculous! Five years ago, no one could hack into my computer let alone keep their computers safe from me, but I've spent five years trying to hack Q with no result! I've become pathetic. Utterly pathetic!"
Back in Silicon Valley, the triplets had just finished breakfast and retreated to their room to go about their daily routine when Kelsie's phone buzzed in her pocket again.
She reached for it and answered it without looking at the caller ID.
As soon as the call connected, a woman's voice came through from the other end.
"Sorry I wasn't able to call you when you got home yesterday. I had to be at the farm house."
"I understand, aunty."
"How are you four settling in? Does the kids like the apartment? It was the best place with a good security I could find ."
"I heard the owner hires a top notch security company every year. So I doubt you have anything to worry about when it comes to their safety."
"But even though something does happen, the place is literally swarming with surveillance camera. They'd never miss it."
Upon hearing her, Kelsie's mind flashed back to the man she met yesterday in her apartment.
He kept blabbing about her eldest soon looking like Jett Adler.
While it was true she didn't know who the father of her children were, the man from that night was nothing like Jett Adler. She was sure of it.
Furthermore, she had met him in a low cost pub. A person of his status would never go there to drink. Talkmore of getting drunk and sleeping with an overweight woman.
She didn't trust a word the man yesterday said, but it was concerning that her son looked like Jett Adler. The last thing she wanted was someone mistaking him for that rude man's don.
So after she ended her call with her aunt, she went into her children's room to tell her she was going to the supermarket.
"I'm going to the supermarket. Is there anything you need me to get for you?"
As expected, Keira was the first to look up from her phone.
"Cookies!"
"Strawberries! We only had imported ones abroad. I want to study the plant anatomy. So pluck me fresh ones instead of buying it." Zade replied secondly without looking up.
Jesse looked up at her and calmly shook his head.
"I don't want anything, mommy."
Kelsie nodded and walked out of the room. She grabbed her phone from the couch and strutted out of the house.
Outside the apartment building, a man stood beside the door with numerous boxes stacked ontop each other.
When he saw Kelsie walk out and board a cab outside the gate, he turned and walked into the building.
He got into the elevator and went straight to floor 49.
He rang the doorbell and waited to see a pair of eyes.
"Zade, they delivered your medicinal herbs. May I come in?"
Zade initially had it in mind to turn him away the second he saw his face, but when he heard his medicinal herbs had been delivered, the thought flew out the window and he immediately unlocked the door.