Chapter 10
A few days later, Gabriella sat in her office reviewing the company’s quarterly sales financials. So far, the company had exceeded its sales projections for the last two months and was on track to do so again this month.
She smiled to herself. She loved seeing the numbers that showed how hard she and her team had worked. She could only imagine how much better the numbers would look once the SK101 project was finished.
Her phone rang, and she picked up the call without looking at the screen. “This is Dr. Landi.”
“I want you to send fifty thousand dollars to the account number,” a distorted voice said.
Gabriella froze, and her heart raced. It was the blackmailer. She’d assumed he’d gone away when she hadn’t heard from him for a while—clearly her own delusion. But fifty thousa
