Ch. 2261..2265: My Wife Is A Hacker Chapter 2261-2265

Chapter 2261

“Jared, has work been alright for you?” Daniel asked, his face was filled with concern.

“Yeah. Everything’s fine,” Jared replied.

“That’s good to hear.” Daniel felt an immediate sense of relief upon hearing that everything was going smoothly for Jared.

After breakfast was over, everyone left to go about their daily routine, with Jared dropping Nicole off at work.

“Let’s go,” Jared told Max after Nicole had entered the building.

“Mr. Johnston, are you not going to tell your wife about this? ” Max asked hesitantly.

“No. I know for sure that she’ll be worried,” Jared said, feeling indifferent about the situation.

“What if Lawrence beats you to it and tells her?” Max blurted out, worried on behalf of Jared if Nicole discovered the truth.

A cold look flashed across Jared’s eyes, and in a cold voice, he replied, “If he wants to tell her, then he can go ahead. I’ll have to see how thick skinned he can be if he does.”

Max paused for a moment before nodding in agreement. ’He probably wouldn’t want to embarrass himself either.’

“What’s the update on Iris?” Jared asked, changing the subject.

“The police are on the lookout to arrest her,” Max responded.

The biggest threat to the Johnston Group right now was Iris Brown. Even after they had dismissed her, she was still running around disclosing company secrets and projects to others. This sort of betrayal was completely unethical and unacceptable. As such, Iris ought to pay the price for her conduct.

Jared leaned back against his seat as he looked out the window, for his mind had drifted off elsewhere.

Meanwhile, Nicole had just entered the office with Lulu following in tow.

“Nicole, Mr. Royce has returned the money back into your account.”

“Returned?’ Nicole was astonished by the news. ‘Why didn’t he inform me?’

“Let me ask him.’ Nicole dialed Lawrence’s number.

“Leo.” Nicole immediately said after Lawrence had picked up-

“Is it because of the funds?” Lawrence cut right to the chase.

“Yeah, did something happen?” Nicole asked.

“No, for the time being I don’t need it just yet. I’ve been busy, I haven’t had the time to inform you.”

“Oh.” Nicole uttered, relieved that it was nothing serious. “So the matter has been resolved?”

Nicole asked with the knowledge that Lawrence was suffering a shortage of funds for this project.

“Yeah, pretty much.” Lawrence brushed it off like nothing had happened.

With that said, Nicole was relieved to hear the news from Lawrence. “Well, if there’s anything you need. Don’t be afraid to reach out to me.”

“Okay,” Lawrence agreed, and soon, they hung up.

Nicole looked at Lulu. “It seems like he doesn’t need the funds anymore.”

“How can it be?” Lulu had a puzzled expression on her face,’ Are funding problems solved this easily?’

“I don’t know the specifics of how he did it, but he did say that he’ll be okay and won’t be needing it.”

Nicole knew that Lawrence was not a reckless man. Him asking her for funds was one thing, but to solve it easily in a time of urgency was indeed odd.

“I see…” Lulu said, and left it as it is.

 

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Nicole glanced at Lulu, “Spencer did not come home last night. Did he stay at your place?”

Lulu’s cheeks reddened, and she stuttered, “He stayed in the guest room!”

Nicole chuckled, and that was when she teased, “I didn’t ask about this. What I meant was, did you guys reconcile?”

“Nicole, stop teasing me!” Lulu’s face became as red as tomato as Nicole gave her a playful look, knowing that she had done it on purpose.

“Are you…embarrassed?” Nicole teased.

“Of course not! He slept in the guest room,” Lulu squealed.

“Okay. Spencer slept in the guest room.1 Nicole repeated with a devilish smile. “Have you guys made up or not?”

“Um…’ Lulu bit her lips. “We’re okay.”

Lulu was unsure of what to believe but she trusted that Spencer was telling the truth and went along with it.

“That’s good to hear. It’s obvious that Icyln had done it on purpose. Don’t buy into any of her words. It’s not worth it.” Nicole sighed.

Nicole herself was unsure what Icyln had said to coax Spencer into sending her back home personally, let alone fall.

‘If the incident was as he said, an accident, then Icyln’s fall would be downright suspicious. I mean come on. Who would fall right into the arms of another person unless they’re deliberately throwing themselves around. Does she think everyone is a fool?’ Nicole wondered.

Lulu nodded. “I do know what her intention was, but it just feels uncomfortable to stand there and watch.”

“Did you tell Spencer about how you felt?” Nicole raised her eyebrows, looking at Lulu.

“No.” Lulu shook her head.

Hearing this, Nicole could not help but respond with a hint of irritation in her voice. “You have to tell him how you felt. Otherwise, how would he know how you were feeling?”

Nicole went on to coach Lulu on how to deal with Icyln. If Lulu were to continue idling around at the sidelines, their relationship with one another would be strained, sooner or later.

“I don’t want to burden him…” Lulu lowered her head and murmured.

“So, is this what you’re planning to do? Put all that burden on yourself to test how long you can endure all of this crap? Or are you going to go head on with this until everything falls apart?” Nicole.

Lulu’s face turned pale, whereupon she sullenly replied, “I don’t know…”

Nicole could not help but roll her eyes at that point. “I think

the best solution for us now is that you two should get married as soon as possible. A double wedding should be nice.”

‘Wedding?!’ Lulu’s eyes widened in shock at Nicole’s brazen suggestion.

Nicole mentally sighed as she saw Lulu’s expression, “Never mind about it. I think you should think about yourself first.”

‘Perhaps she never thought of a solution to this yet, I’ll give her some time to think things through.’

“Okay, then I’ll go back to work.” Lulu left as soon as she finished speaking.

Lulu had never considered marriage as a solution to her problems until Nicole brought it up. Tm just a mere secretary to the Riddle family. As his girlfriend, I am a bit too much of an Average Jane as compared to him.’

Lulu was so distracted by the thought of it that she did not see the delivery man coming over with a bouquet of flowers. She bumped right into him.

“Oh my.” Lulu’s face planted right into the bouquet of flowers, her face engulfed by the scent of florals.

“Shit.” The delivery man got a mental breakdown right away as he saw the bouquet of flowers all messed up.

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“I’m so sorry,’ Lulu apologized.

“Who is the flower for, may I ask? I’ll apologize on your behalf or replace one for her.”

The delivery man looked at the details before replying, “Lulu Barrera.”

“Huh?” Lulu’s jaw dropped. “Me? For ME?”

The delivery man was taken aback by how coincidental it was.

“Who sent these?” Lulu wore a puzzled look on her face.1 Who would send me flowers?’

As she spoke, Lulu grabbed the bouquet of flowers, before reaching out to take the card.

As she read the card, a smile appeared on her face, ‘Spencer sent these!’

Lulu hugged the bouquet of flowers and went back to the office. She immediately placed the flowers into a vase. A silly smile appeared on her face as she stared at the flowers in front of her in a daze.

Though it was not the first time Lulu had received flowers, she thought it was the most beautiful bouquet of flowers she had ever received.

Suddenly, the office phone rang, and she snapped back to her senses. She quickly answered the call and went back to work afterwards. Then, Lulu took a quick glance at the bouquet of flowers once more before continuing her work.

Meanwhile at Genesis Group, Lawrence leaned against his seat while he was in deep thought. There, he wondered about how he had lost his wife and his army. Iris had also failed at her job and even all the projects abroad had suffered tremendous losses.

Lawrence had never thought that Jared would step in and block Nicole’s transfer of funds, consequently halting all of his plans.

‘If Nicole’s money had been successfully wired over, I don’t think Jared would do such a thing, as Nicole, someone he cares so much about, but too bad…’

Suddenly, Lawrence’s phone rang, snapping him back in reality. He stared at the phone for a while before picking it up.

“Mr. Royce, please, you have to save me. I have nowhere to go.” Iris’s panicked voice echoed over the speaker.

“If I help you, the things you’ve promised me will not be fulfilled. How can I help you?” Lawrence said, his voice icy and deep.

‘If it was not for her stupid mistake, this should’ve been accomplished a long time ago and I would not have ended up like this,’ he fumed.

“I ended up like this because of you. You can’t just leave me stranded and defenseless.” Iris protested, not expecting Lawrence to brush her off like that.

She panicked, ‘If he doesn’t help me, I am doomed.’

“We had a deal. You did not fulfill your promise. Our deal is over.” Lawrence hung up immediately after he had set things straight.

“Mr. Royce, I heard the police are looking for her. If she’s caught…, won’t we….,” Ian hesitated.

‘What if Iris betrays Mr. Royce?’ Ian thought.

“She has no proof at all. Who would even consider her alibi credible?” Lawrence replied nonchalantly.

Ian issued a sigh of relief, ‘As long as it doesn’t mess with Mr. Royce, then all should be fine.’

“Have the international offices stay quiet for a few days. I’ll find a way to recover our losses,” Lawrence said, as he did not want any sort of affiliation with Iris.

“Yes, I’ll reach out to them as soon as possible.” Ian agreed before turning around to leave the office.

The office immediately became silent after Ian had left. The sinister look in Lawrence’s eyes as he thought, ‘Countless hours of planning ended up in flames. Jared Johnston is not an easy feat and that idiot of a person, Iris Brown, caused this foolproof plan to burn down in flames.

‘Jared Johnston, I will not be defeated. I will not lose.’

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The police had not found any traces of Iris. This is odd. It’s as if she had vanished into thin air.

“Mr. Johnston, do you think Lawrence had a hand in hiding her?” Max asked, his face displaying hints of skepticism.

“No.” Jared remained calm, knowing that Lawrence had long washed his hands of Iris, and would not help her let alone hide her.

Max frowned. “Then where on earth could she be?”

While San Joto was a huge place, for the police to scour for her would not be that difficult of a task. ‘But why is there no news about her at all?’

Nevertheless, Jared was confident. “She’s bound to show up sooner or later.”

‘Iris can keep hiding like this, but sooner or later, she will show up. I just have to wait for that moment.’

Max agreed with a nod, understanding where Jared was coming from. “I will have someone keep a lookout.”

“On the other hand, Lawrence’s side seems awfully quiet these days.” Jared’s eyes darkened with doubt.

“Yeah. They aren’t doing anything. All they’ve been doing is contacting their offices abroad. It’s probably to cut their losses,” Max replied.

Jared snorted. “Cut? Oh there’s no way he will recover from that.”

‘How can he even think of backing off? Does he think everything will end when he flees?’

“Mr. Johnston, do you mean…”

Jared cut Max off. “Take all of their projects.”

“Yes, sir.” Max said, his voice bordering on a yelp as he was unable to contain his happiness.

He was eager to take Genesis Group down.

The adrenaline from taking their enemies down were the little joys that gave Max the push to go on. After all, they were the ones who had initiated the fight.

Soon, the car came to a stop, and when Jared saw Nicole coming out of the building, his gaze immediately softened up. Nicole jogged up to the car and got in, putting a smile on his face.

“Nice timing.’ He reached out and pinched her cheek.” There’s no need to rush, I’ll always wait for you.”

A playful look flashed across Nicole’s face “Aren’t you such a charmer. Did you do something wrong?”

“No,” Jared replied with a serious look.

This stunned Nicole for a moment before she burst out laughing. “I was joking. Why are you taking it so seriously?”

“There’s no joking in any of this.” Jared fondled her hair, showing his sincerity and seriousness in the conversation.

A smile flashed across Nicole’s eyes, melting Jared’s heart at once. ‘She looks so cute!’

“How’s the company doing recently?” Jared looked down at Nicole and asked, changing the topic.

“It’s going well.” Nicole shrugged before looking at Jared.” Why are you asking this?”

“Just asking.” Jared maintained the solemn look on his face as he was not asking the question lightly and was truly concerned about her.

“By the way. The other Riddles are quite busy. Snow joined DillCorp just to get closer to Harvey and Harvey was having a deal going on with Everett. I’m just curious as to who will get to be paired up.” Nicole curled her lips into a smile as she enthused.

“You truly are something…” Jared shook his head playfully.

Taken aback by Jared’s response, she gave him a blank look. “I’m talking about them.”

Jared knew that all three of them were scheming and wanted control of everything.

“With you here, they can’t ever have things go their way,” he replied.

 

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Jared was very protective of Nicole. He knew that Nicole did not care about the Riddle family as a corporate entity, knowing that Sean would be the one to eventually inherit everything. However, it did not stop the public from gossiping about it.

Nicole flashed a dazed smile at Jared as she listened on to his cocky remarks. ‘How can he be so handsome? I love it when he’s like this.’

“They have no chance of winning.”

Though everything was going according to Nicole’s plan, she was curious as to how things would end up between Harvey, Snow, and Everett. On one hand, she had totally given up hoping that Everett and Snow would put up a good fight, but on the other, James Harlow was a walking, ticking time bomb.

Jared caressed Nicole’s hair as she was deep in thought,” Office hours are over. You might want to stop thinking about work.”

Though there were unsolved issues at work daily, Jared was a person who preferred to look at the end result than to ruminate over the trivial and unnecessary.

“Okay. I won’t think too much about it. Martin told me that I shouldn’t exert my brain too much.” Nicole nodded in agreement to Jared’s advice.

Jared looked at Nicole affectionately, though with a slight frown, “How’s the treatment going for you?”

Jared was aware that Nicole had been going to Martin for treatments, and during each time, he would be occupied and unable to leave work. As such, Jared felt guilty and apologetic that he could not be there with her.

“There’s not much progress lately. We’re focusing on the same treatment, but the good thing is, I don’t feel as much pain as I did before.” Nicole flashed him a faint smile.

‘Perhaps things are gradually getting better. I’ve gotten to build my pain tolerance too. Whatever the end result would be, I guess there are pros and cons,’ Nicole thought.

Jared’s forehead creased in distress as he heard Nicole tell him about her progress. He was aware of how much effort she had put in to endure the painful treatment just to get her memories back.

‘Til come with you in the future,” Jared said in a soft voice.

‘If she was in that much pain, why didn’t she let me come over to accompany her?’ Jared thought to herself.

“No. I think it’s best I go alone since you’re heavily involved with my memories. It might muddle up the lines between memory and reality if you’re there,” Nicole declined.

Nicole had seen some slight improvement in her treatment plans as she could now picture a few scenes out, though she was still unable to tell who was who. It was a major concern for Nicole that Jared would see her like that in that state.

Jared felt helpless as he envisioned Nicole being in pain and refusing his help.

Noticing that Jared was distraught, Nicole said, “How about we make a deal? You’ll be the first to know if I have recovered my memories. Cool?”

Jared gave Nicole an affectionate stare before he breathed a sigh of defeat. “Okay, we have a deal.”

Nicole let out a laugh in response. “Yay!”

Jared’s eyes finally softened up after seeing that Nicole was happy. Nicole too was glad that Jared was not distressed anymore. Then, she leaned onto his shoulder with a look of contentment.

Soon after, they reached the Riddle residence. Nolan and Lana had just arrived home mere minutes before them. They both immediately ran up to their parents who had also just arrived.

“Daddy! Mommy!”

Jared reached out and hoisted Lana up into his arms, before booping her tiny button nose. “Have you been a good girl today?”

“Yes!” Lana nodded.

“I know you’re a good girl.” Jared sauntered into the house with Lana in his arms.