KELLAN WARD
He didn't want to respond. He wanted to stay there, in that half-dream, where Aurora was safe and in his arms, where he could pretend that the world outside her hospital room didn't exist.
But Jingyu's voice was tight with urgency. He would only call because the problem needed his direct, personal attention. He knew how he felt about his wife. He knew how much he worried about her.
How much he didn't trust anyone else to care for her.
Only he could do that.
"Sir?"
He sighed, eyes fixed on Aurora's sleeping form. "Speak."
"It's the company. The servers are down. This is not a simple outage. The IT director says it's a full-scale cyberattack. They've locked us out of the finance division and are threatening to release sensitive client data if we don't pay a ransom."
