Can reaches the end of the hall just as the rest of the group finally make it upstairs after the meeting.
"Sanem?" he says when he sees her behind Deren. "Will you go to Emre's office please?"
Sanem looks at JJ for assurance and then nods. She passes Can and Deren and looks over her shoulder at Can worriedly, thinking that she was getting fired and he left the job to his brother.
Can watches her walk down the hall before he turns to the rest, some still on the stairs, others moving past to stand on the other side.
"One last thing before we all get to work...You won't be able to log into any computers for the next few hours, guys." There are a few grumbles. "And from today, everyone will be using a new personal login password that I'll be giving to you. Every employee from director to secretary."
"Uhm, Mr Can?" Leyla starts and he looks at her. "I share data with both secretaries and the financiers, will thay still stay the same?"
"Sorry, the system's changed now. No one will be able to log into anyone else's section." Leyla frowns, unsure if that meant she had less or more work now. "Does anyone use a laptop outside of the office?"
No one answers because no one has a laptop that they bring to and from the office. Except Leyla, who clutches hers with her files against her chest. She slowly lifts her hand. "Me." Can looks at the laptop in her hands. "I have to take it with me, even when we leave for meetings."
"Is it this one?"
"Yes?"
"Give it to me please." Can gestures for it. Every eye turns to Leyla, who's mouth pops open.
"Mr Can? Am I...being suspected...as the spy?" Leyla could barely form a sentence.
"No. It's just a precaution. Don't get too worked up over it. Every computer is being analyzed. That means this one too."
"But Mr Can, I can't work if I don't have it - "
"Then you'll be boarded for a couple of days." Leyla's eyes widen. "There will be no need for you to be here if that's all you use to work." Leyla stares at him in shock. "I'll call you when you can come back."
The 'if' hangs in the air and it almost chokes Leyla with it's ominous presence. She bites on her lip and looks at the laptop, then the floor then Can before she hands it over. It's an awkward exchange with all the employees around them trying to not look as it happens.
Can takes the laptop and then glances at an upset Leyla, before he walks down to go to the IT department without another word.
Leyla stands in the silence for a moment and then she turns to leave as well, pausing to turn the other way, not really sure where she was going but she was determined to go. The crowd disperses and Guliz immediately starts to gossip with JJ.
*
Emre is pacing his office, rigid, staring at his brother's office, that used to be his father's, and then the door, then his still not working computer. He stops next to his cell phone on the desk when it rings.
My Favorite Girl calling...
"I'm listening," he says, answering.
"My love, how are you? I thought you were sending me a file? What happened?"
"Everything's messed up here at the moment," Emre grinds out irritably.
"Why?" Aylin scoffs. "I take it Can took over and caused havoc immediately... Probably from the moment he stepped foot in the building..."
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Early Bird (Erkençi Kus)(Part 1)
Fanfiction* (A Turkish Series Translation) A young woman named Sanem Aydin lives with her overbearing but loving parents, who have certain ideas of how she should be living - and it doesn't involve her working at her family store full time. They thinks she s...
