Cyber Knights 1.1

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It took far longer for Karen Spencer, a twenty something U.S. Air Force brat living and working for a private cyber security firm in the UK, to answer the phone than it normally did. In addition to having become hopelessly lost in her efforts to unravel the secrets of a new encryption program that was not yet available to the general public that Andy had been hired to test, neither he nor Tommy were there to tell her to pick the bloody thing up.

Why she was the one Andy expected to take all incoming calls on the official company line, even when he and Tommy were there, had to do with the arcane and very chauvinistic attitude both clung to with the tenacity of a hound that had latched on to the scent of a fox. “Most people expect a well-established and prosperous firm to have a receptionist,” Andy explained one day when she pressed him on the matter. “And since most receptionists are females and you’re the only one in this office who falls within that category, the responsibility is yours. Besides,” he added as he lowered his voice, “the last thing I want is for Tommy to be the first person a prospective client talks to. That would be akin to a French restaurant hiring Genghis Khan as its maître d’.” Though she knew he had a point, from time to time it annoyed her no end when she had to set aside something she was involved in to answer the phone while one of the other members of Century Consultants sat at their desks, either playing online poker on his personal tablet as Tommy did when he had nothing better to do, or reading one of the countless drier-than-dust historical magazines Andy kept on his desk.

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