Ch. 1556..1560: My Wife Is A Hacker Chapter 1556-1560

Chapter 1556

"You're right.” Zeke agreed, as he came to the realization.

“School's starting soon. Your family is always busy. Will they be in danger?”

"Don't worry, I've already gotten a bunch of people to protect them in secret,” she said.

"Good, just let me know if you need help. Judging by the reaction of my father and my grandpa, I believe they'll try their best to help you if you need anything.” Zeke chuckled as he thought it was an honor to help Nicole.

Nicole smiled. “Yeah. After all, the Guzman family is bound by oath to the Reby family. They'll have to listen to and obey the commands of the crest bearer."

"True." Zeke nodded. "Does that mean that... you're my superior now?"

Nicole liked the sound of that. “You're right. I'm going to call you Little Zeke from now on."

Unfortunately, Zeke was extremely uncomfortable with this new name.

“Nah, I'm not your servant, okay?” he retorted.

Unable to hold it in, she burst out laughing. Then, the both of them ate their lunch. As they were at it, Zeke did not ask her much and just chatted with her casually. Naturally, he was just trying to compliment Nicole. The afternoon then went on with jokes and laughter.

Meanwhile, Fiorella was finally bailed out from the San Joto police station.

She walked out of the police station, but much to her chagrin, she could not see her family's car. All she saw was a black sedan. She got into the car and her eyes darkened when she saw the butler.”

Where're my parents? Why didn't they come?"

The butler sighed and looked at her. "Miss Fiorella, Mr. Fisher has already stated that he had severed all ties with you last night. I'm only here to send you to your personal home."

Fiorella was stumped.

She had already had a hard time in the police station before she was bailed out, but it turned out that her father was still furious at her. He even wanted to send her to her private house.

Unable to take it anymore, she immediately called her father.

Soon, her father's voice was heard yelling at her from the speakers.

“How dare you call me, you brat?!"

Fiorella was about to lash out at her father, but she was not expecting her father to beat her to it, and was instantly left feeling upset as a result.

"Dad, I don't mind you not coming to pick me up, but scolding me? Do you really want to sever ties with me?”

“I'm not your father! I don't have a daughter as crappy as you are! Do you know that our company is in a critical state because of you?! Every company that had partnered with us is pulling out! And this only happened because you pissed Nicole off! You wronged the entire Riddle family!" he roared.

Her father had been stressing out about it for the entire night. His eyes were bloodshot and his voice was hoarse.

"Huh?" Fiorella was shocked.

‘‘All I did was get into a petty argument with Nicole last night, and it affected our partnership with the other companies?’

"Why is this happening?! What does my issue with Nicole have anything to do with them? Why did it affect our company?” Fiorella asked, unable to understand any of this.

She also could not understand the way everyone treated Nicole yesterday, as well as her father’s special treatment of the latter.

"Why? It's because Nicole claimed the Fire Crest! She is the bearer of the Reby Family Crest! All of the historical families have to treat her as their commander! The families that went to the banquet last night were all there to see Nicole!" he bellowed.

“What?!” Fiorella was beyond shocked. Though she did not remember the details, the preface of her family's records did mention something about the Reby Family Crest.

"Isn't that just a myth? Besides, the crest was nowhere to be seen for centuries!” she argued.

Fiorella was stunned. She did not expect that the mythical item would appear, and she sure as hell could not believe that Nicole had obtained it.

"Who said it was a myth?! It is with Nicole right now!” Fiorella's father was livid.

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Actually, Nicole had already agreed to let him off the hook. However, those other companies did not wish to risk crossing Nicole and her family. They were afraid that they would be dragged into the dirt with the Fishers, so they quickly revoked their partnership with them.

"Because of you, our company is in a crisis. Many projects are now on hold, so we won't be having any income anymore!"

Fiorella’s father grabbed a tuft of his hair and wrenched it, as he did not know what to do.

Fiorella finally pulled herself together, as she began to grow anxious. "So, that was why my dad was being extra nice to Nicole.However, I was foolish enough to go and stand up against Nicole in front of everybody...’

‘But even if he does sever ties with me, there's no way we could rebuild our company,’ she thought.

"It's all Nicole's fault! She's definitely picking on us! I'm going to kill her!" Fiorella hung up as she went on to declare war on Nicole.

"Hello?! Fiorella!" her father yelled, but he realized too late that Fiorella had already ended the call.

He then tried calling her back, but to no avail. ‘’Sh*t! Fiorella doesn't know that Nicole has already agreed to let our family go.That is why she's so set on the idea that Nicole is picking on us! God damn it!’’

As soon as he thought about the things that Fiorella was going to do to Nicole, his knees went weak.

Nicole could forgive their family once, but what about the next time?

‘’If Fiorella tries to do anything funny again, it's going to be our family's undoing!’’ he panicked.

With no time to think, he rushed out of the house to stop Fiorella...However, Fiorella had already ordered her aide to trace Nicole's whereabouts.

The butler, who had heard her call, advised her, "Miss Fiorella, I think it's best if you stop crossing her. We can't afford to piss her off now."

Fiorella rolled her eyes. "Please, do you think she will let my family go even if I was in good terms with her? Our family is going bankrupt! She treated us like s*it, and I will not let it slide!”

‘She had already taken Jared away, and now she wants to send my family into bankruptcy! How can I turn a blind eye to this?!" she fumed.

After an hour, Nicole and Zeke were finally done with their meal. Then, Nicole followed Zeke, who was too full to even walk, out of the restaurant and looked at him.

"Nicole, how could you eat so little? The food is great here!" Zeke asked as he patted his stomach happily.

Nicole replied, "You can't eat too much good food. Look at you, you can't eat dinner anymore, right?”

Zeke chuckled. "My dad doesn't let me eat out, so it's only natural for me to eat as much as I can when I'm out here with you."

Nicole shook her head in defeat. "Why would a rich kid from the military be so pitiful?’

“Alright, I'm leaving now. You should go home,” she said.

Zeke nodded before standing up abruptly. "Right, didn't you drag me out here because you needed my help?"

Nicole remembered the excuse she had used back there, so she waved it off and said, "It's just an excuse to take you out. If you had stayed there after I left, your father and your grandpa would definitely have taught you a lesson...”

After all, she had just embarrassed Mr. Guzman Sr. himself. If she had left Zeke behind, he might be using crutches to walk the next time she saw him.

Zeke's eyes became teary in an instant.

"Nicole... You're too good to be true! You're a saint!”

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While Nicole had thought about it, Zeke had not thought about this at all. She only took him out just to save him from a world of pain.

"Okay, cut the sweet talk.” Nicole scoffed when she saw Zeke’s pathetic expression. ‘This kid should grow up a little.’

"Roger that!" Zeke nodded as he watched her get into her car. "Honestly though, just hit me up if you need me."

"Sure." Nicole got into her Lamborghini and drove off.

He was still extremely touched as he watched Nicole leave. Nicole is just too kind.’

Even if he went home now, his father and grandfather would not make things hard for him. They must be thinking that he had gone out to do Nicole a huge favor. They couldn't even help him aid Nicole, so they had reason to reprimand him any longer.

Zeke was over the moon when he thought about the better treatment that he was going to receive back at home. Indeed, Nicole had been his lucky star.

Meanwhile, Nicole had reached the highway in an instant.

At that moment, her phone rang. Noticing that Jared had called, she began to think about the incident that had happened in the morning as her cheeks grew hot.

‘Why is this guy calling me right now?’

After she hesitated for a moment, she answered his call. "Yes?"

Jared’s voice was heard. "Were you eating lunch with Zeke?"

Nicole frowned as she thought, ‘How does this guy even know that I ate lunch with Zeke?’

“You sent someone to spy on me," Nicole asked, upset.

"Not to spy on you, but to protect you. This is a critical time, so everyone in the Riddle family must be protected, and that includes you,” Jared replied, not thinking that he was invading Nicole's privacy at all.

"What a nice excuse." Nicole rolled her eyes.

Jared acted like he had been wronged. "Seems like no one is going to have lunch with me today. My girlfriend went out to have a meal with another guy."

Feeling resigned, she replied, "You're on your own, and do yourself a favor. Stop seeing green.”

Indeed, Jared had been becoming more jealous these days.

"A kid like him doesn't bother me," Jared lied.

Nicole proceeded to tease him, “Is that so? Then why did you call me?"

Annoyed, Jared replied, "I just wanted to tell you not to have lunch with anybody but me. You do know that a lot of men have their eyes on you, ever since your identity has been made public, right?”

That was Jared's truth. He used to be full of confidence. Lately however, he had begun to feel insecure, and even threatened.

"Tsk... do you feel threatened now, Mr. Johnston?” Nicole teased, surmising that such was why Jared was really clingy last night.

"No, there are plenty of women who are after me,” he retorted. "You should be the one who feeling threatened."

Nicole played along and said, "Yes, you do have way more admirers than me, Mr. Johnston."

Suddenly, Nicole began to perceive a very strange feeling in her gut as she heard a piercing ring in her ears.

Acar had sped against the traffic and driven up the highway. There were two cars in front of her, which had managed to evade the incoming vehicle. Now, all Nicole could see was a black sedan speeding toward her with no license plates attached.

"Damn it!" Nicole yelled and turned her steering wheel abruptly.

She barely managed to dodge the black car, but it was then that she slammed into the divider with such force that the barrier the particular section of the barrier was destroyed, with the front of her car jutting out, hanging off the highway.

The airbag popped out and buffered the impact, which was the only reason Nicole was spared from having her head dashed against the wheel.

 

Chapter 1559

Nicole rubbed the back of her neck and looked up to have a good look of her surroundings.

When she saw that the first half of her car was hanging off the bridge, she immediately held her breath and stopped moving.

Jared could already hear that something was wrong, so he yelled through Nicole's earphones. "Nicole! What's wrong?!"

Nicole moved her neck around and said, "I got into an accident on the highway across the river."

"What?!" Jared left his office at once the moment he heard that Nicole had gotten into an accident. "Wait for me!"

"Sure." Nicole nodded, but it was at that moment that she suddenly heard a loud screech from the tires of a car.

She whirled around and saw the black sedan that she had avoided. The car had actually turned around and charged toward her again.

With a deafening bang, it struck the door next to the seat that she was. If she took her time, the car door would completely cave in.

Though she had avoided the crash, her car was now on the edge of a cliff, and following a creak, her vehicle plummeted.

"F*CK!" Nicole yelled, quickly trying to open her car door.

"Nicole!" Jared was lost when he heard the loud crash.

Immediately, he asked her what was going on, but Nicole was not able to respond to him anymore.

With a splash, Nicole's car plunged into the water. Unfortunately, she had not opened the car door in time.

"Son of a b*tch!" Nicole cursed as she tried her best to escape.

However, a part of her car was already trapped in the water, and as a result, it was almost impossible for her to open the door no matter how strong she was. Despair began to set in the moment she saw that the water levels were rising.

Though she could wait until her car was fully submerged in the water to open her door, she was afraid that her car would already be deep in the river by then. She had no idea whether she could escape this in one piece.

"Nicole! What's wrong?! Say something!" Jared's voice rang in her ears.

For a second there, she felt a sense of assurance.

The water level had already risen above her knees, so she drew a deep breath.

"Jared, my car fell into the river."

"What?!" Jared sprinted to the car park, going crazy as soon as he had heard the news.

“Don’t worry, my men have been around you. They'll definitely save you!"

Nicole tightened her grip as she looked at the highway that was drifting further and further away from her.

"Even if they do jump down from the bridge, they won't be able to open the car door. The car will be completely submerged in under a minute, and I don't even know if I can swim up to the surface...”

Though Nicole was skilled, she still could not hold her breath for that long...

"Don't give up, you can do it! You have to stay alive!" he pleaded.

Jared could not bear to lose her. After all, their good life together had just begun.

"I will... But if anything happens to me...”

"Nothing's going to happen to you!" Jared shouted.

"I won't allow you to leave me, Nicole!"

"I know... I just want you to remember... No matter what happens... I love you."

It was the first time Nicole had confessed her love to Jared when she was in danger.

Jared’s heart sank. “I love you too...”

“Yeah, and that’s all I need. I'll try my best to fight for my life, just for you." Nicole stared at the water, which had already risen to her chest.

"Keep your word. I'll be right there!” Jared hurried out of the car park as he yelled.

He sped through multiple red lights and raced his way toward the highway across the river.

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The water was already at Nicole's neck by then. She attempted to kick the door open, but she just could not do it. Seeing that, she had no other choice but to stick her face close to the roof of the car and draw a few deep breaths as she waited for her last chance.

And when she noticed that her earpiece would soon be submerged in water, Nicole murmured, "Jared, I'll see you later.”

"Definitely!" Jared nodded as he heard the sound of water rushing in.

Jared could only imagine what Nicole was going through. However, the only thing he could do now was to floor the pedal. Yet, that would not be able to get him next to her in time.

With the entire car being filled with water by now, Nicole took a deep breath and dived into the water, and at the very last second, she managed to throw the door open.

Then, she immediately began to swim to the surface of the water with all her might.

The car sunk to the bottom shortly after, but Nicole tried her best to escape the water with just the one breath that she had drawn in the car anyway.

However, the speed at which she was swimming upward was way slower than the speed in which the car had fallen.

One stroke became two, two became thirty, and thirty became forty. Her lungs were running out of oxygen, but all she could do was keep swimming.

However, no matter how much she swam, she just could not get out of the water, even though she could see the light shining through the surface.

Then, as she felt herself being asphyxiated, she let out a cough. As soon as she did so, she choked, though she continued to hold her breath. At this rate, she might really die of drowning. Her range of motion began to decrease, and so did the speed at which she was rising.

After a few second, she realized that she could hold it in anymore. She opened her mouth, and that was when she choked again.

This time, however, she gave in, and just like that, water rushed into her lungs, causing her to feel as if they were burning as she began to sink.

With that, her vision began to become blurry.

All she could see was a ray of light beaming down onto her.

This is it...

And sadly, this could really be it for her, but what about Jared? She swore that she would keep herself safe. They had also promised each other that they would never live alone if either of them died.

Nicole struggled for one last time as her consciousness began to fade, but the surface was simply too far away.

Her vision slowly became dark.

‘‘Jared. JTn afraid that I'd have to break my promise...’’

Suddenly, Nicole heard someone jumping into the water with a splash. She forced herself to lift her head up and that was when she saw a figure swimming toward her. However, she could not see that person's face at all.

She felt a familiar large hand reaching out and grabbing her arm right before she was about to succumb to the water. Then, her world around her turned dark, and she lost consciousness.

As expected, the bridge and the shore were crowded with people.

"A car just fell into the water!”

"I saw a man jumping into the water too!"

“Hey! The man is right there! He has someone in his arms too!”

The crowd was chattering and yelling about.

"Mr. Johnston, the doctor's here!” One of his bodyguards rushed forward.

They had called an ambulance right after Nicole had fallen into the water and had already arranged for a team to take a speedboat over to Nicole. However, Jared had arrived at the highway much earlier and had dived into the water first.

It was a long jump, and so, the impact must have been great. Yet, Jared still took it in stride and saved Nicole.

Jared was drenched in water, but he would still not let go of her. He took her to the shore and placed her on a soft mat.

"CPR!" The doctor quickly went to Nicole's aid.

Jared could only watch from a side. Nicole's face had turned completely white, and she had already stopped breathing.

Jared had never seen Nicole in such a state before.

"Save her now! If not, you're all going to die with her!" Jared screeched.

Everyone there knew who Jared was. If they could not save this lady, they would all have to shut their hospitals down.