Mutual trust is important in this incident, the way you responded makes it difficult for us to trust you. Making us concern that even if we pay, future attacks might still happen.
Regarding you demand, the requested price is far beyond our budget due to stated reasons. It appears you have a lot of power in deciding the price for ransom, so I hope we can come to a fair deal in these up coming days.
By the way, you sounds educated, I assume this is just a side hustle for you. I'm curious what do you do other than this job and how did you get into this business.