Ch. 216..220: My Wife Is A Hacker Chapter 216-220
Chapter 216
The police shoved her and Luka into a patrol car and took them away while Nicole followed Jared to the manor.
Zeke looked thoughtfully at Nicole’s face, then at Jared’s.
Jared did not mind Zeke’s scrutiny.
He brought Nicole to walk out of the castle, behind which was a well-groomed lawn covering a sizable area, and in the middle of which was parked a private jet that was on standby.
Nicole was not surprised.
She had realized something when Jared invited her to leave together.
Only Zeke behind her was wide-eyed.
‘My god, who is Jared, really? He even has a private jet that was much more advanced than that of his father.’ Zeke wondered.
The aircraft was extremely safe.
Nothing could cause damage to it unless there was a missile attack.
‘Wait a minute, Jared.’ It was the Jared whom he had imagined.
Zeke silently looked Jared up and down and had no words because he was great looking.
For his face alone, Zeke could not have any ill feelings toward him.
Jared looked at Nicole’s impassive face with bright eyes and then said a few words to the tall foreign captain before bringing Nicole toward the plane.
Nicole looked at the silver fuselage of the plane and raised an eyebrow.
The plane had been modified, and it cost a bomb.
As the three of them got on the plane, Zeke was stunned.
The inside of the aircraft was spacious, made into a separate living room, with LED displays embedded in the walls of the fuselage and two soft chairs that seemed comfortable.
Another space was installed with sophisticated electronic equipment, where most high-end computer operations run on land could be performed here.
It was worth mentioning that there was even a small wine cabinet in the lounge.
Nicole looked at the wine cabinet and raised an eyebrow.
Jared was keeping an eye on her expression, and when he saw her interest, he explained,” Sometimes I will drink a little when I cannot sleep.”
It was the first time Nicole heard him talking about himself.
She looked up with her upturned eyes and waited for him to continue.
Jared looked at her expression and felt she was adorable.
Even the things that he thought to be too embarrassed to tell previously were no longer so.
He looked at Nicole with a pair of glassy eyes and whispered, “My parents died when I was still small, leaving me to grow up under my grandfather’s care.”
Jared paused, his pupils gradually gushing with an indescribable emptiness, his voice
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seemingly floating in the air with no place to settle down.
“I have an awful relationship with the rest of the family.
They hated me, saying that I was a jinx who would get everyone around me killed.” A faint smile, indescribably cold, crept across his face.
Nicole looked at him and knew he had reached a certain point of limit.
So, she gently held Jared’s hand and said, “Enough, Jared.”
Jared looked at her and blinked as if a beautiful and hazy dream was enough.
Nicole nodded, and her voice was filled with an unmistakable affirmation.
As if thinking of something again, she looked at Jared with a beautiful smile.
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“Thank you for telling me so much.” Jared seemed to wake up from a dream after hearing what Nicole said, his smile on his face saying that he felt appreciated, and his expression looked much warmer now.
The light in the cold ice had finally been lit up.
He looked at Nicole’s beautiful face, and his fingers felt like wanting to touch her involuntarily.
He did, and he gently stroked her cheek with his fingers with a dream-like expression on his face.
“Thank you, Nicole,” he said.
Nicole did not refuse his touch.
She calmly raised her hand to take his somewhat cold hand in hers.
“In reciprocal, I will tell you something about me,” she said.
“Before returning to the
Riddle family, my adoptive parents cared little about me.
I grew up in the company of my grandma.
We were poor, and she sold junk scavenged from the garbage to make a living and pay for my tuition fees.
Because the clothes I wore always did not fit me, I was laughed at and looked down upon, and because I was skinny, I was always bullied by those who were younger than me.”
Nicole looked at Jared.
She was talking about her unpleasant memories, but the look on her face was nonchalant as if it did not affect her at all.
She continued.
“But I still grew up well.
Those people are now far away from my life, and my childhood may follow me all my life, but I will never cocoon myself and live in those painful memories because of those people and things that are not worth it.” There was a hint of sadness flashed in her eyes, as if she had thought of something.
Jared looked at her with some kind of unspeakable emotion in his eyes.
Her composure and calmness in her soul were the things that attracted him.
He let out a gentle smile with spirit in his eyes as if they were stars that would never fall.
“I feel you,” he said, looking at her beautiful face and feeling as if something had lit him up inside.
Just then, Zeke, who was checking the electronic instruments earlier, had come back with enthusiasm.
“Lu— Nicole, guess what I just saw!” Nicole forbade him from calling her Lucifer in front of others.
But he was too excited and almost made that slip of the tongue.
Nicole and Jared looked at Zeke.
They did not look embarrassed.
Just that there was a not-too happy look in Jared’s eyes.
He wondered if Zeke had deliberately picked this time to come back
Zeke looked at Jared, whose hand was on Nicole’s face, and then at Nicole, whose hand was holding to Jared’s.
He was kind of struck dumb for a second.
“You guys…”
Nicole pulled back her hand and walked toward Zeke with a straight face.
“What’s wrong?”
Zeke’s excitement had subsided, but he still said as it was, “I saw a ]W3000.” The JW 3000 was the model number of the world’s most advanced computer.
Only thirty units had been made, and almost all of them were used by weapons research laboratories in various countries.
He did not expect to see one on Jared’s plane,
Nicole could not help but be surprised at hearing that.
There was an imperceptible excitement in her eyes, but she pretended to be calm.
“Show me where it is.”
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Zeke looked hesitantly at the expression of Jared, who was leaning against the wine cabinet, looking at him with stern eyes and a smirk, behind Nicole.
After seeing what Jared was playing with in his hands, Zeke immediately said, “No, no.
It’s okay.
I can handle it.”
Nicole was stupefied, not knowing what was wrong with Zeke, but she did not insist.
“If you have a problem, find me.” Before the two worked together, Specter had been mentoring him personally.
Fiddling with a computer should not be a problem for him.
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Zeke nodded and headed back next door absent-mindedly.
He shuddered involuntarily when he thought about the look in Jared’s eyes.
He also thought about the toy-like, sharp dagger that glinted in Jared’s hand.
The light reflected off the blade was hurting his eyes.
He wondered who Nicole was messing with now.
Zeke turned on the JW3000.
It was a little larger and thicker than those portable laptops.
Probably because of its high-end processor, its chassis looked a little bulky.
For some reason, he felt this machine, which was the most powerful computer in the world, looked somewhat familiar.
It looked as if his father had shown him the picture before.
Shaking the thought from his mind, he started to run a series of testing programs on the
machine.
A flight attendant looked at Zeke’s somewhat baby face with a look of disdain.
‘Mr.
Johnston is the only person who can handle this machine.
‘It’s remotely connected to a local machine in the headquarters of JJ Johnston Group in Mecrounia.
He often handles transactions directly using it.
‘Now, this half-grown brat is blatantly fiddling it.
What’s even more ridiculous is that this brat is just an underling of the girl whom Mr.
Johnston has brought with him,’ the flight attendant thought as she rolled her eyes impatiently.
She then went out to rant to her colleagues about Nicole After all, this was the first time Jared had brought a girl onto his private plane
Zeke did not know he had been despised, along with Nicole.
He was looking at the computer in front of him with his brows gently knitted together.
He was not sure if it was his delusion; it seemed that this computer was slower than he thought.
Zeke had complained about how slow his computer was, and it could not keep with the movements of his fingers, So Nicole had asked for his address and sent him a new one a year ago.
And that was the only time they had a bit of interaction other than this time.
The address he gave was the convenience store at the entrance of the Northon Institute
When the parcel from Nicole arrived that day, it was a black bag with his address and code
name hanging on it without the sender’s name and address.
Zeke complained of it upon receiving the parcel.
But after taking the packaging apart, he was speechless.
The computer’s beautiful silver streamline chassis had conquered his heart, and its speed was so fast that his fingers could barely keep up.
That made him fall in love with the machine.
But that computer that Nicole gave him a year ago was obviously still much faster than the JW3000, which claimed to be the fastest in the world.
Zeke looked thoughtfully at the running scores shown on the screen.
Nicole looked on as Zeke went.
She looked back at Jared helplessly.
Jared was looking at her with a straight face.
As Nicole came over, he let out a gentle, charming smile with two shallow dimples on his cheeks.
If Browning and Dino were here, their eyes would have widened in shock.
Never Jared had ever smiled at anyone like that.
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It was like spring water brought a warm current to melt the ice at the river that had been frozen through the years.
His smile melted Nicole’s helplessness, and she came to sit down on the soft chair beside him, and so he did.
The plane had taken off.
The flight was smooth, with no turbulence.
There was a faint scent of wood inside the plane, the freshness of dry amber and the spice of vetiver, with a hazy sense of comfort.
Nicole looked through the window at the sky outside the plane and sighed softly.
Jared heard her sigh and turned his head to look at her silently as if asking her what was wrong.
Nicole’s gaze was shallow.
She stared at Jared but said nothing.
Nicole did not know how to tell him that she just suddenly realized one thing: she felt really comfortable by his side.
Jared seemed to have figured out something.
There was a tender smile in his eyes.
Instead of asking questions, he stood up, went to the wine cabinet, and took a bottle of red wine out..
After aerating the wine, he poured each of them a glass.
Nicole looked at the bottle in his hand and raised an eyebrow at the nineteenth-century Pétrus.
She felt Jared was generous.
Jared seemed to have read her expression and said nonchalantly, “It’s only proper to treat our gold guests with the highest level of courtesy.
Isn’t it, Miss Doggie Anderson?”
Nicole glanced at him and saw the teasing look in his eyes.
She said nothing but just picked up the wineglass and took a gentle sip.
She then looked at Jared again with a faint smile in her eyes, raising her glass to make a toast to him, “I like the taste of this wine,” she said softly, but her interest was apparent.
After all, it was twenty-thousand-Esperian-dollar red wine.
It tasted slightly astringent at first but quickly turned sweet in the mouth.
The extremely full-bodied taste made Nicole squint slightly
Jared looked at her, feeling a powerful attraction toward her.
‘She is so adorable,’ he said in his mind.
He also raised his glass and made a toast to Nicole with an apparently amorous look in his eyes.
His eyes upturned carried a hint of languid charm.
“Glad that you like it.”
The bottle was quickly emptied, and a flight attendant came in to clean the table.
Both Jared and Nicole were still sober, So Jared looked at Nicole and challenged her for another round.” How about another bottle of whiskey?”.
No way Nicole would concede She looked up at Jared in front of her as if returning to the time when the two first met and nodded unequivocally
The co pilot was standing outside the door, just about to knock on the door.
When he heard
what seemed to be a drinking challenge inside, his mouth twitched, and he had no words.
He was exasperated because this woman was a bad influence on his employer, who had been leading a clean and healthy life all this while.
With this in mind, he walked in with a sour face but said respectfully to Jared, “Mr. Johnston, Dino would like to talk to you.”
Jared looked at him with a smile still in his eyes.
“Bring the things in.
I’ll deal with it here,” he said in a gentle voice.
The co-pilot looked at Jared’s expression, feeling surprised to see the other side of his boss.
Hearing Jared’s gentle voice, the co-pilot was flattered and quickly went out.
He then came back with a communication instrument and an extremely thin tablet and handed them to Jared with both hands.
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Nicole understood Jared had to work, so she did not want to bother him.
She turned her head to look out of the window at the twilight outside.
The person sitting next to her gave her a sense of security.
The half-bottle of red wine gradually fermented and precipitated in her body, making her feel warm.
Nicole unconsciously closed her eyes.
Jared was making a video call.
He seemed to have felt something and took off his headset, then looked over at Nicole.
The ray of sunset fell on her face, making a beautiful picture of her in his eyes.
On the other end of the video call, Dino saw the side profile of his boss’s face and was wide eyed.
His boss looked so gentle as if a boat drifting at sea had finally found a harbor to dock.
It was also as if a drowning man had seen a lighthouse in the vast sea.
His boss had landed on an island that belonged to him alone.
Jared took a thin blanket from beside him and gently covered it over Nicole’s body.
He then turned his face around expressionlessly and cut off the video call with Dino.
Dino stared at the black screen, still wide-eyed.
Suddenly, a window popped up along with a concise line of text.
(She has fallen asleep.
Send the message now.)
Dino looked incredulously at the message, realizing that the relationship between Nicole and his boss was indeed unusual.
Still, he told Jared about the unfinished business.
Mecrounia had held an election recently, and the new president seemed to have a lot of opinions about the Hustuaburgian; business in the Mecrounian market was tough, with many projects facing problems.
He asked Jared what he should do and whether he needed to adjust their strategy.
Jared looked at Dino’s messages expressionlessly.
He then casually replied, (Wait a little longer.
Dino raised an eyebrow.
He was in the middle of a mountain range, and when he received this message, he immediately understood Jared’s meaning and replied with a confirmation.
(Onderstood.)
Jared put his things aside and sat there, quietly looking at Nicole’s face while she slept.
There was a look of hesitation in his eyes as il a traveler stumbled upon a treasure,
Wait a little longer
it was said not only to Dino but also to himsell
He did not want to put some kind of an irresistible burden on Nicole.
He was happy as long as the two of them felt comfortable with each other, and she would smile at him without having
to guard herself against him constantly.
Jared stared at Nicole for a long time, unaware of the time, the setting of the sun, and the rising of the moon outside.
He was as if a carving, also as if an unknown guardian spreading his white wings and half-wrapping the girl in front of him in his arms.
Nicole only slowly woke up when the plane landed.
She looked at the closed porthole, heard the beeping sound of the plane landing in her ear, and let her eyes adjust to the dim light in the cabin before she stood up straight.
The busy work these two days had exhausted her.
But her long-term habits allowed her to go on unaffected.
Nicole did not expect to be able to get such a long, good sleep.
Upon waking up, Nicole looked around.
Her vision at night was good.
The dim light hardly affected her.
Soon, seeing Jared sitting with his eyes closed beside her, she took the thin blanket that covered her, wanting to put it on him.
Just then, Jared opened his eyes and looked at her with very awake eyes, as if he did not sleep at all just now.
“You’re awake,” he said.
His gentle voice sounded as if a mountain spring flowed through her heart, bringing with it a kind of icy reverberation.