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“Okay, ma’am let me check and see what is happening.”
She kept me on hold for several minutes before she came back on the phone and informed me that she would have to transfer me to someone else. The next person came on the line, and I had to go through all the verification questions before I went through the process of telling him the exact same story I told the other person. He put me on hold for several minutes. I wanted to jump through the phone and slap every employee of the bank. I knew that it wasn’t their fault, but they were not making this any easier.
“Ms. Patterson?”
“Yes?”
“You don’t have enough money in your account to cover the transactions that tried to come through.”
“I know that! That is the reason for my call. I am trying to find out what is going on. I have several deposits that hit that account at the beginning of each month that more than covers the automatic transactions that come out the account. Also, my payroll has to come from that account tomorrow. Are you telling me that it won’t be covered?”
“Right now, your account is negative ninety thousand dollars. That does not include the fees that will be attached to each transaction that was declined. You don’t have access to your account because it looks like some fraudulent behavior is happening and it’s been forwarded to our fraud department. They will contact you within five business days to discuss your account. Would you like to make a deposit to bring your account back into good standing?”
I hung up the phone. He was about to get the tongue lashing of his life, and all he was doing was his job. I was glad that I stopped myself because I was about to call him every name in the book.
“LIDDY!”
“Yes?” she said as she ran back into my office.
“Any word on Freda?”
“Nope. I will keep trying though.”
“You know what? Get me Countee on the phone and ask Laila to come here please.”
A few minutes later Laila walked into my office. She’d been at lunch.
“I’m sorry to pull you from lunch but I called Countee, and he is on his way over here. I think something may have happened to Freda.”
“Freda the flirt? What she got a man so she can stop cheezing in Countee’s face?”
“Laila, I’m serious. My business account has been drained and Freda is the only person that can tell me exactly what happened.”
“What do mean drained?”
“I mean empty. Like one day there were several hundred thousand dollars in it, and today it’s negative tens of thousands.”
“Okay, calm down. Sit down. We will figure this out,” Laila said while gently pushing me into my chair.
She pulled out her tablet and started typing away on it while I watched email after email come in from the bank. After a short wait, Laila’s phone rang.
“It’s Countee,” she said while connecting the call.
“I sent one of the guys over to her house. Freda was unconscious in her basement. Someone gave her some type of drug and locked her down there. Based on her home alarm she has been down there for about two days.”
“Is she going to make it?”
“She should be fine. The ambulance is on the way. I am headed there now. Averie, call Samuel and fill him in. Laila stick close to Vee.”
Samuel
I rushed down the hall to the elevator as soon as Averie called me. I jabbed the button until the door finally opened then jabbed the twelfth-floor button until it opened on Patterson Law’s floor. I rounded the corner and saw Liddy at her desk talking to someone on the phone. She waved me in, and I walked into Averie’s office. Averie was sitting on the couch in the office with her head against the back of it.
“What’s going on?” I said looking between Averie and Laila.
“My accounts have been hacked. I thought it was just my main business account, but it’s also my account where we hold all the money in escrow. It’s all gone.”
“Did you call your accountant?”
