Ch. 1596..1600: My Wife Is A Hacker Chapter 1596-1600

Chapter 1596

Although he did not have clear cut answers about everything, he had gotten Ellar to help him take note of everything that had transpired after he had caught wind that Norah had been abusive to Nicole. As they studied in the same high school, Ellar had reported everything he had heard to Sean.

"Nicole..." Gloria looked at Nicole with a look of extreme remorse.

There, it became clear as to why Nicole had previously attempted in vain to dissuade her, only for Gloria to repeatedly defend Norah following another one of her pity parties, hurting Nicole in the process. 'How hurt must this child feel, I wonder?’

‘It's fine, Mom. Water under the bridge,” Nicole said, not bothering with all of the wrongs in the past as she did not want to make things difficult for her mother.

Still, although she had never thought of telling Gloria about Norah's abuse of her to prevent her from being ridden with guilt, she did not expect Sean to know about it.

Yet, that was no longer an issue, as everyone in the Riddle family now knew who Norah really was.

"Come with us, Norah Riddle. We suspect that you are involved in the deliberate murder of your biological parents.” The officers went up to Norah with handcuffs brandished. It was then that Norah's eyes turned from sullen to murderous.

‘Why can this family be all smiles as I head to prison? No! I'll make them regret this for the rest of their lives!

With that thought in mind, she instantly grabbed the pistol she saw bolstered at the waist of the police officer and took aim at Gloria and Daniel. “Think you lot can enjoy a family reunion while I go to prison? Dream on! I'll make you feel so much pain that you'd wished you were dead, Nicole!"

As losing a loved one was leagues more painful than one dying themselves, Norah wanted Nicole to suffer for the rest of her life.

"Stop!" Daniel, Sean and the others cried out!

But it was already too late, Norah had already disengaged the safety lock and was already prepared to shoot.

Daniel instinctively shielded Gloria with his body, and with a loud bang, a deafening gunshot echoed across the room.

Everyone was stunned, and even the butler was on the verge of doubling over in terror.

The faces of the police officers blanched; they had not expected a shooting to happen.

And just as everyone thought that Gloria had been shot, Norah's scream suddenly rang out. "AAARGHHH!"

Her scream jolted everyone back to their senses.

Samuel and Spencer were the first to look at Norah, only to see a stream of blood gushing out from her arm! It seemed that she had been shot in the shoulder artery.

Her pistol then fell off her hand as she tumbled onto the ground and cried out in pain. "It hurts! It hurts! Somebody, help me!"

Norah's screams echoed across the mansion.

Then, everyone began to wonder if it was the police who had shot Norah. But when they turned to the other officer, they realized that the latter had not even drawn his gun at all.

At that moment, Steve sensed that something was not right, and as he subconsciously turned around, he saw... that Nicole was holding a pistol herself.

‘Was she the one who fired the shot just now?!’

"Nicole... why do you have a gun?" Steve's face turned pale, for it was illegal for citizens to bear arms.

Moreover, Nicole was just a high-schooler, and so, they could only wonder where she had gotten the gun from.

At that moment, everyone turned their attention to Nicole.

Catching the look of shock on their faces, she sighed and calmly put the pistol away. “Don't worry, my firearm is legal."

As she said that, she turned her digital watch on as an image of her ID card appeared before the police.

The two police officers were dumbfounded the moment they saw it. Sighing, Nicole supposed they had not seen such a thing before.

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Then, she said, "I'm a former Interpol officer, call sign S. I'm now serving under Spears’ Group of the Interpol Intelligence Service. Once you report this back to the station, someone will call me for verification."

The moment those words were uttered, the two young officers looked at each other. ‘This girl just looks like a high- schooler.'

It was already shocking enough for them when she said she was an Interpol officer, let alone an intelligence agent overseeing the Interpol.

They had never seen this document before, so there was no way for them to verify it. However, they dared not arrest her straight away while one of the officers immediately made a call. In a split second, Nicole received a call too, and after a few brief explanations, the officers seemed to have been notified as well.

Under the gaze of everyone in the Riddle family, they apologetically said to Nicole, "Sorry for the trouble. We'll be taking her back to the station then."

Not expecting that Nicole would still be fine after shooting her in the arm, Norah furiously roared, "Why are you only arresting me? She had shot me! She should be arrested too!"

‘What Interpol? These two cowards must've been afraid to arrest a member of the Riddle family! she thought.

However, the police officers proceeded to cuff her before they hissed, "Go make it viral then! I dare you! She's an Interpol officer doing her duty, and you're just a criminal. Now, move!"

It was only then that Norah knew she had been totally defeated.

She had thought that the two officers were merely playing along with Nicole for fear of offending the Riddle family, but she had never anticipated that Nicole could really be an Interpol officer.

Seeing that Norah was still in disbelief, Nicole smiled. "So now you know why I could dig out your entire dirt sheet?"

In an instant, Norah understood everything. ‘The reason why Nicole could find out about all that had happened abroad so quickly is simply because she is in this field!"

‘How am I supposed to fight her when she is of this sort of background?’ 'It is like throwing straw against the wind! She is armed and if she had wanted, she could have killed me many times over,’ she concluded.

Once again, her fear gripped her. Norah said no more as she gritted her teeth while the officers took her away with a look of humiliation and agony on her face.

And just like that, peace finally returned to the Riddle's residence.

The lawyer Norah had brought over fled with shaky legs. Meanwhile, the butler’s heart began to race upon seeing the bloodstains on the ground. He immediately ordered the servants to clean the stains up as he went to a corner and took a fast-acting chest pain medication.

Even after the servants had left, Gloria's face was still as pale as a sheet. She was clearly in shock but at the same time, she was moved that Daniel had protected her by standing between her and the gun.

‘If Nicole had not brandished a pistol moments ago... Daniel would've...’

Soon, Daniel arrived at the realization too, and took a deep breath to calm himself down.

His voice was still trembling as he asked, "Nicole... you're... an Interpol officer?"

"My goodness...Who is my daughter exactly? She excels academically, she's a skilled medical practitioner, and it was already surprising enough for us that she is the bearer of the Fire Crest. But to think that she’s also a member of the Interpol?!" he pondered.

"Former Interpol officer," Nicole reminded them with a whisper.

She did not want to scare them so she had left the details out. But Sean knew everything, and so, he was still a little flabbergasted.

After taking a deep breath, Nicole said to Daniel. "The Spears ' Group, is a supervisory organization to the Interpol. I'ma special agent of the Federal Intelligence Service, in charge of intelligence as well as the safety of some heads of states.

The second the words ‘special agent' left her mouth, everyone fell silent. Both Samuel and Spencer, in particular, were so shocked they did not dare to take another breath.

‘‘So, this is why Nicole is so skilled, as if she had undergone some sort of training...’

‘‘As it turns out, it is because she was a special agent!"

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“Yo, this is way too cool!’’

“But Nicole had never brought this up with anyone before!’’

‘‘But since she's an Interpol officer, she must be capable of just about everything right?

‘’But everyone thought she was a loser during the initial semester!’’

Now that they thought about it, they realized they were literally too blind to recognize greatness. They did not know that Nicole was indeed a special agent.

‘A special agent would definitely know everything. The Math Olympiad is nothing to them!"

At that very instant, Stanley snapped back to reality as he wiped the sweat off his brow.

Then, with a whisper, he asked her, "When was this... Why didn't you tell us?"

Nicole took a deep breath. "Our duties are classified and our identities are to be kept secret from our friends and family. It is for your safety that I stayed at school."

With the way things were now, Nicole was afraid that they would be too worried about her bearing arms illegally, so Nicole decided to reveal the truth to them. And the instant her family heard that the reason as to why she stayed in the dormitories was to protect them, everyone felt an aching pain in their heart.

"You should've told us sooner. There's nothing a family cannot weather through together," Steve then said with a serious look.

"Yeah, isn't it more dangerous for you to stay in the dormitory because of this?" Spencer looked at Nicole with concern.

The fact that she had survived the previous semester truly left him puzzled.

‘‘To think a genius like her is forced to go to school with us.’’

"It's okay. I've rarely ever had time to enjoy such an idyllic school life. This is a good time to experience it if ever,” Nicole answered.

For a moment, the brothers were at a loss for words. ‘To think that Nicole being so low-key at school was just so that she could experience a peaceful school life...’

Indeed, the elites were in school just to experience life.

Realizing how an understanding of a girl Nicole was, Daniel was pleased. "We didn't even know we had such a good daughter in you... When did you join the Spears Organization?”

‘I have no way of getting in touch with such a high-level organization myself, and Nicole is just a high- schooler. This truly defies belief,’ he thought.

Seeing that the servants had cleaned the bloodstains on the floor, Nicole sat down and looked at her parents. "This tale will be quite long, so I'll make it short..."

In truth, Nicole was not the best when it came to recounting her past, and she just wanted to simply gloss over it.

However, Gloria stared at her with bloodshot eyes. "No, I want to hear everything... I want to know all about your past."

‘She is my daughter, but even after her return, I still don't know who she truly is. I don’t know what she had been through, what she had experienced. I'm... such a failure of a mother,’ Gloria agonized.

When Nicole saw the sincerity in her mother's eyes, her gaze softened.Her brothers too took their seats, wanting to hear everything about Nicole.

Nicole's eyes grew distant as she recalled her past. "When I was eight, I released a child who was being held by human traffickers for his organs, and that was when they captured me. It was Zane and his men who showed up and saved me..."

It was also that year when she met Lloyd, who could not locate his family due to his amnesia, so Zane had to bring the two along with him.

"That person got injured trying to save me, so he stayed with Grandma and me for a period of time. He then taught me some martial arts to defend myself, but he also found out that I had some innate talent in it. So, later on, he decided to take me, along with another child into the organization's youth training base,” she said.

It was also then that she had become partners with Lloyd for several years until he was discovered by his family and was taken away. Due to her outstanding abilities, she became Zane's right-hand woman after he had established the Spear's Organization.

She had tried to keep things short and simple, but her experience made her family both emotional and distressed.

They were saddened that she had suffered so much out there and were left aghast at how she had weathered through everything on her own. Even up until now, she was the one protecting them.

It was simply a stroke of fortune for them to be able to get such a good daughter back.

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And yet, they had still wronged her gravely, and with both Damien and Dillon thinking that her academic results would bring shame to the family, they had also failed to defend her due to the fact that their relationship with her wasn't strong at all.

At this moment, Daniel's guilt wracked him. "Nicole, Mom and Dad have really done you dirty...”

Both Sean and Steve too looked at Nicole. "It's because we did not have much time together, and we didn't get to know you better..."

The time that should have been spent with Nicole back then was stolen by Norah. They were unable to understand Nicole better, and they did not spend nearly enough time together for the past 6 months either, and that made them feel extremely guilty.

Nicole looked at the display of guilt on the faces of her parents and brothers, and for the first time, she felt quite conflicted. When she returned home to this family, she knew that they were blood-related. However, she had never expected herself to be as close to them as family members who had grown up together since they were children. After all, they had been separated for so many years, and were like strangers who just got to know each other again. Thus, even she could not directly open her heart to them, much less to these few adult men.

However, Stanley, Spencer and Samuel had tried their best to help her in school already. Both Sean and Steve had graduated but would treat her well every time they saw her, and she really felt that the Riddles owed her nothing.

Taking a deep breath, Nicole said, with a serious look on her face, "I've never blamed anyone for this. I need time to blend into the family, and all of you needed time to understand me too. Everything that

had happened was normal. If you want to pin the blame onto something, then blame the time stolen away by Norah."

She too had secretly thought of the time that Norah had taken from them. However, it was also because of the mistakes back then that had molded her into a strong individual today. That was why she could not blame anyone for it.

The last words Nicole said moved Daniel and the rest of the family.

‘Yeah, if we had not mistaken Norah for Nicole back then, we would have definitely continued to look for her.’

If she had come home a little earlier, everyone would have treated her like a princess. It was just that all of the love and enthusiasm they had was misplaced on Norah instead. As such, they needed time to know and better understand Nicole, and work hard to integrate her into the family.

Smiling, Sean got up. “You're right. We finally know all that we need to know about you, and from today onwards, no matter what sort of danger you'll face in the future, you have this big brother standing by your side.”

Although Nicole was strong, the danger she faced was something they could never expect.

‘I must protect Nicole.’

"Me too! You don't need to live in campus this semester. Well have your back.” Steve added with a serious look as he kept his gaze at Nicole.

"Yeah, I don't think you should stay in campus.” Stanley piled on.

"We'll move back home to keep you guarded as well!” Samuel and Spencer decided at once.

Seeing that her five brothers were intending to protect her, unafraid of the danger that might come, Nicole felt warm and conflicted at the same time. She had never felt something quite like this before. 'So, this is what it feels like to have a family, a bond...’

 

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Nicole suddenly felt that she was in constant danger and had brought harm to them all by extension.

"Nicole, please promise me this. If there's anything that you need, we will help you. We are a family. All of us will help you,” Daniel said as he eyed Nicole's look of embarrassment, trying to comfort her.

‘‘I wasn't aware of her situation before, but now that I know, how could I let her live by herself?’’ he thought.

"Yes, bring Mrs. Wallace Sr. over and keep her protected as well,” Gloria said.

Nicole was not only an agent, but she was also the bearer of the Fire Crest. Thus, it was inevitable that she would become the target of many others. Because of this, being at the Riddle residence would somewhat be the safer option. Still, Nicole could not believe that her parents had thought of Mrs. Wallace Sr.

"Okay, thanks Mom and Dad," she said.

It was not until today that Nicole felt that she had an actual spot in the family.

"Don't be silly. You don't have to thank us." Daniel frowned, pretending to be offended.

"Now that we have gotten it all settled, we will protect you no matter what from now on. To us, you're still that little girl of ours, and we will not allow you to face anything perilous on your own in the future. Do you understand?" Gloria said while wiping her tears away.

"Understood...," Nicole nodded as she looked at Gloria, feeling unspeakably moved in her heart.

But upon beholding her mother’s complexion, she could not help but whisper, "Mom, I'm sorry. I must've scared you when I fired the shot...”

Gloria shook her head quickly, "You didn't scare me. Your mother isn't that weak. It was Norah...I was afraid she would take a shot at your father. Fortunately, you...” Gloria choked up and her eyes became red as she attempted to speak.

"Let's not talk about it anymore...I'm going to go upstairs and calm down for a bit. You guys can get Albert to prepare dinner."

‘It seems that she no longer has any strength to make dinner tonight,’ Nicole thought.

"Okay." Nicole nodded her head.

Daniel helped Gloria up the stairs as he noticed that she was still terrified.

As they were going up the stairs, Gloria began complaining," You idiot... You almost died!"

The Riddle children watched as their parents went up the stairs while bickering. They all looked at each other and smiled. Nicole had also joined along, which was a rare sight to see.

As night approached, Nicole laid down with a sigh of relief after taking a shower.

It was then that Jared called her, his voice a little lower than usual. "Did Norah shoot you today?"

As it was totally unexpected for Jared to have heard of this news so soon, Nicole issued another sigh. "No, but it would've be much worse if she had pointed the gun at me, or else, I wouldn't have opened fire.”

Though Nicole did not mention who was in the right and wrong, Jared had already guessed that something significant must have transpired. Otherwise, she would not have shot Norah in front of her

whole family.

"Don't worry, I won't be going easy on her. Until the murder charges are set, I will let her rot in prison and let her feel what it's like to be living in a hellhole," Jared said, his voice stern.

Jared was the sort of person who would not let anyone get away with hurting those around him. He was definitely determined to make Norah's life a living hell. Nicole had not expected that Jared would be so determined to prove Norah's crime in a single day, so much so that she was impressed that he had done this.

"Thank you." Nicole thanked him in a low voice, knowing that Jared must have spent a lot of time and effort.

However, Jared was frustrated by her word of thanks.” Boyfriends are not for thanking, but for kissing. You owe me three kisses."

"Since when do I owe?"

‘What kind of nonsense is this guy talking about?’ she wondered.

"Didn't you say you wanted to thank me? I don't take verbal thanks. Tangible actions are required. Three kisses, no less than that," Jared demanded.

This left Nicole dumbfounded. ‘For a kiss this guy really went all out.’

A helpless smile crossed her face as she agreed. "Okay, I'll give you five the next time we meet."