Chapter 545 - The Senator

"Come in." a melodious voice breaks the silence inside that office.

The door opens and reveals a worried look of her secretary.

"Senator Rizza." The young secretary sounds and appeared nervous in front of the most popular, articulate and charismatic Senator of the country.

She is only 36 years old but she is the most preferred candidate for Presidency.

She is popular among women and younger generations. Probably because she is young and beautiful. Included in her platform is to fight against graft and corruption. And ever since she won the senatorship, she has been boldly fighting against it.

But behind that beautiful and charismatic image is an ambitious and short-tempered woman. She has that overwhelming hunger for power.

"What is it?" She asked not raising her head to look at the secretary.

"I did what you've asked of me. I was regularly checking your bank accounts. And..." The secretary nervously said but had to pause because Senator Rizza raised her head and looked at her.

"And...?" Senator Rizza is starting to get impatient.

"Some...something...h-happened." The young secretary stuttered in nervousness. She cannot bring herself to say the bad news so she passed her the copy of the bank statements.

Senator Rizza reached out for the papers with a frown, her gaze is not leaving the anxious secretary. Until she had the papers in front of her did she only looked at it.

Seconds passed.

Then minutes.

The secretary noticed that the Senator's grip on the papers tightened until the papers had crumpled. Then she started to tremble. The next second, she was startled when the Senator shriek in anger.

The secretary was too afraid to look at the senator, she closed her eyes and gripped the hem of her blouse.

"How did this happened?" Senator Rizza said in a muffled voice while trying to catch her breath that she seems to be lacking because of her anger.

But when she didn't receive a reply from the secretary, she repeated her question in a much terrifying tone.

"How...the...hell...did...this...happened?!" The young senator sure lost her composure. Why not? She lost almost all of her savings in three of her bank accounts. If she doesn't have a dummy account, she probably must've lost from them as well.

Too terrified because this is the first time that she saw the senator this furious, the secretary started to cry as if it was all her fault.

"S-senator...Rizza... The... the bank said that you might be a victim of... a-account phishing." The secretary struggled to say those words but she was still under the accusing gaze of the senator.

"Explain!!" Senator Rizza wanted some explanation and it was only the poor secretary who is there to give her some explanations which she is not sure if she will be able to provide. Or maybe she can be but she is not sure that it will be the explanation that the senator wants to hear.

The young secretary swallowed the knot on her throat and tried to explain what the bank officer exactly told her.

"The bank said that it seems that there were anonymous and suspicious transactions in your accounts a couple of days ago. They already had someone tracked it down but they traced it back in your...residence and there were some irregularities so they cannot exactly tell where and when the transactions were made."

After hearing that, Senator Rizza became more outraged. "In my residence...why would I fucking pull out all my money from my bank accounts! Are they insane! I never did that!"

"Damn!" This time, she is already fidgeting around her office and is kicking anything that is blocking her way.

"Get lost! Call Senator Melvin, tell him I want to meet him. Now!" Senator Rizza pointed at Her secretary then to the door without even looking at her.

The secretary staggered towards the door not wanting to stay for even a second in that office. After witnessing the other side of the senator, she is not sure if she still wanted to work for her.

"Fuck! This is not happening. This can't be." Senator Rizza continued to mumble in herself. It seems that she had totally lost it. She cannot think of a reason who would do this and why would they do it to her. Who is targetting her?