Ch. 516..520: My Wife Is A Hacker Chapter 516-520
Chapter 516
Lloyd's expression instantly stiffened.He had known Nicole for so many years now, yet he did not know her real name.
At this moment, his expression instantly solidified into hoarfrost as he looked at Jared with a look of indifference.
"A name, or a codename, is just a symbol, a symbol to call her and to define her." He looked at Jared, the killing intent in his eyes palpable.
"I don't need to know."
Claus almost wanted to laugh as he looked at Lloyd, gritting his head and thought to himself.
"Bro, if you don't need to know, why are you so mad then?! Jared looked at Lloyd.The latter's words caused his rage to dissipate almost instantly, leaving only a little bemusement.He gently squeezed Nicole's hand and slightly raised his eyebrow.
"It's good if you have that conviction in you."
He then walked away from Nicole, and as he walked before Lloyd, he did not stop and kept walking.
The moment he passed the latter by, he left a sentence in Lloyd's ears.
"She is mine."
Lloyd let out an imperceptible frown as he held his hand out, wanting to catch Nicole, who was passing him by.
Nicole did not look at him and simply just shifted sideways to dodge his grasp.Her gaze was indifferent, with scant emotions in her eyes.She gently nodded at Lloyd and did not look at him again.
When Harvey saw this, a smile finally appeared in his eyes.
‘‘Just look, no one can catch Nicole"
‘‘Even if that damned immaculate Lloyd is the same"
Lloyd pulled his hand back as he looked in the direction of the girl.
No one knew what he thought as he quickly followed after her.
Nachelle had seen what her son did.She frowned a little but soon noticed that her son was walking toward her.
A look of joy flashed across her eyes.
Although the girl had not agreed to her son's request, her existence, after all, made this banquet far more meaningful.
She had promised Lloyd to look for her, and now that he had found her, then Lloyd will need to come back to inherit the family business.
The reason she became a director was because of her son, but this nonsense should come to an end.He should now return to the business and help take her career to another level.
After all, the Johnston family was secretly getting stronger and stronger, while her family was still staying stagnant.
Recalling White, who had failed, a cold glint appeared in Nachelle's eyes as she looked extremely icily at Jared for an instant.
‘'Why did he attend this banquet then?’’ Jared did not look back, but Claus glanced thoughtfully at Nachelle with a slightly puzzled look in his eyes.
"What's the manner, Madam? You don't seem very happy to see Mr.Johnston here."
"Weren't you the one who sent us the invitation, and now that we're here, you're feeling displeased?"
Nicole gave Nachelle a faint look of indifference as a thought crossed her mind.
The direction of Warbler's code was indeed toward the Holder family, but she had no idea what sort of entanglement they had with Jared, so much so that even White was deployed to attack these G-grade drugs.
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When Nachelle heard Claus' words, the expression on her face immediately turned genial as she gently looked at Jared and smiled at him.
"Of course not.Mr.Johnston's attendance is an honor to the Holder family." As she said that, she lifted the glass in her hand and slightly raised it toward Jared, her movement extremely gentle.
"Mr.Johnston, please have a seat."
Jared gave her an impassive look before looking at Lloyd, who was now standing by her side, as some kind of emotion flashed across his face.He casually grabbed a glass of wine from the waiter beside him and gave Nachelle a distant cheer.
He then swirled the glass, and, like Nachelle, he did not even drink the liquid.
They had been so used to maintaining this superficial peace.
It would not come apart so suddenly.
When Harvey saw what was going on, a warm smile appeared on his face, yet the emotions in his eyes were indiscernible.
He watched as Jared took Nicole to sit at the first table at the center, and he went back to his own table.
Instantly, the tables were filled, leaving only the two master seats empty.
There were, however, no signs of the Rogers family members at the first table.
Alberto obviously noticed this as he was a little surprised to see that after Nachelle and Lloyd took their seats, the table was filled, yet his second brother was not among them.
He then slowly realized that something was wrong.
No matter how useless he was, everyone would still offer him a smile on the grace of the Rogers family's name.
There was nothing like today where he was outright ignored, making it difficult for him to make any moves.
What was even weirder was that his two nephews were not here either, or even that Shawn, the favorite son of Christo was nowhere to be found.
‘What was going on?'
At this very moment, Chloe was clenching her fists tightly as she looked at Nicole sitting between Jared and Lloyd.
The look in her eyes was as if she wanted to flay Nicole alive.
‘Those two men should've been MINE!' She walked toward Nicole almost uncontrollably.
Alberto frowned as he was pondering what was going on and did not notice her movements.
By the time he realized it, Chloe had already made her way to Jared and Lloyd's side as she stretched her hand out to pull Nicole.
It was already too late for Alberto to stop her as he could only look at the granddaughter he had always been proud of, scaring him witless.
Nicole had already noticed Chloe's movements long ago.
She calmly turned around and dodged Chloe's outstretched hand.
Her eyes immediately turned icy as she grabbed the latter's arm.
Snow followed Harvey over to sit there.She was looking both angrily and enviously at Nicole and, seeing Chloe's outstretched hand and secretly cheered for the latter.
‘Let's have Chloe deal with Nicole!'
When Lloyd saw what Chloe did, a tinge of anger appeared on his warm face.
Just as he wanted to say something, Nicole had already spoken, her tone rather icy.
"Chloe, do not piss me off again."
Snow could not hold it in any longer as she looked at the dignitaries at the table and spat, "Nicole, you're saying Chloe is pissing you off? You are the one with an attitude issue.Not only you are out there being a vixen, you even steal! Someone should've dealt with you long ago!"
As she said that, she thought that everyone would have a bad impression of Nicole as she waited triumphantly.
To her dismay, however, she found that no one believed her at all.
Every single one of them was looking at Nicole, as all of them ignored both Snow and Chloe.
Snow felt extremely embarrassed, and as she wanted to say something else in a fit of anger, Lloyd's impassive gave swept over.
As he looked at Snow spouting all that, he frowned.
‘Why would S do such a thing?! 'This woman is clearly bullshitting!"
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He spoke calmly, his eyes tranquil, yet there was a deep icy chill to it.
"Miss, please do not slander someone like that, or else I will have to ask you to leave."
Nachelle did not say anything.She had never refuted Lloyd's words.
Snow's eyes widened as she looked at Lloyd in disbelief, her eyes filled with the look of being wronged.
"How can you say that about me? Nicole is a thief that stole my things.Look at how she made you guys fall head over heels for her.Isn't she promiscuous?"
Not too far away, Gary, who had come with the Finley family, was looking at Nicole with a very complicated look.She was exceptionally beautiful today; it was impossible to avert his eyes.
But upon seeing Lloyd's actions, he was not sure what was his relationship with Nicole! Ryder, sitting by his side, noticed his little brother's dour mood.He gently prodded the latter and whispered.
"Isn't that the girl whose details I could not find no matter what I did? Didn't you say her signature matches your idol? Go and ask her then."
Gary shook his head as he clenched his fist tightly.
Thinking of how he had treated Nicole earlier, he dared not ask the question.
‘If she really is my idol, I really have no idea how to look at her in the eyes"
At this moment, Nicole looked at the defiant Snow, her expression impassive, yet her voice was cold.
"Snow, have a good look.What's this thing on Chloe's finger!"
Chloe listened to what Snow said triumphantly, and at the same time, she was furious at Lloyd for speaking up for Nicole.
Upon hearing what Nicole said, she was stunned.
‘Yeah, I was so angry just now I forgot I was still wearing this!' She had not had the time to take the ring off her finger!
Thinking of this, Chloe immediately wanted to take the ring off her finger.
However, Nicole's hand, while slender, was extremely powerful, and even with her face flushed in strain, she could not pull her hands out of Nicole's grasp! When Snow heard what Nicole said, she glanced suspiciously at Chloe's hand.
She immediately saw the ring on the latter's finger, and there was a huge diamond inlaid on the ring.
It was the diamond she could not be more familiar with! Snow looked at Chloe in disbelief, and Chloe, having known that she had been discovered, gave up struggling as she looked icily at Snow and spoke first.
"What? What's wrong with my hand?"
Snow's eyes widened.She did not expect Chloe to be able to say something so shameless.She immediately stood up straight as she hissed with furious anger, "You have the cheek to say that? The diamond on your ring is mine!"
"Chloe! Why did you steal my diamond!"
Chloe sneered as she subconsciously tried to pull her hand away, yet she still found her hand unmoving, and the expression on her face stiffened.The eyes of everyone around fell on her.
Nachelle looked at that familiar-looking pink diamond, and she raised her eyebrows gently as she looked at Harvey, whose expression remained unchanged.
Jared, who was looking at the scene, could not help but squint a little.
Thinking of how Chloe had coveted the diamond back in Nottingbrook, and what had happened now, he could have guessed it without even thinking.
He then looked at Chloe with a faint look of contempt.
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At this very moment, Nachelle's expression had changed.
‘Is Chloe really a thief?"
Thankfully she listened to Lloyd and kicked this woman out of the production crew early.
Otherwise, if she was to use such a stained actress as part of her final film
"Lukewarm," it may very well crash and burn by word of mouth alone.
As a person who had been extremely demanding of herself, how could Nachelle allow such a problem to occur? As Nachelle thought of this, her eyes looking at Chloe were so icy that frost could have formed.
Chloe did not sense Nachelle's disgust toward her.
She had already been so agitated by the scene earlier that her brain was overheating, forgetting that the reason she was here was to get Nachelle to change her opinion of her.
Chloe sneered as she looked at Snow.
She hissed mockingly, "I was the one who saw the diamond first.It should've been mine!"
Chloe was the one who saw it first during the auction of the pink diamond, so she thought that it should be hers.
However, after returning home, she did some investigation and found that Harvey had given the diamond to Snow.
After learning that the pink diamond was lost, she quickly searched all around for it.
Two days ago, she discovered someone had secretly put it up for sale online, and she bought it back at a very high price! So, it was impossible for her to give it back to Snow! "Moreover, you've lost the diamond, and I purchased it from someone else.It has nothing to do with you anymore!"
"Wh-What sort of logic is this?"
Snow did not expect Chloe to say that she had bought it.She immediately turned toward Harvey.
Yet, the latter did not even cast a glance her way and instead focused his eyes on the hand Nicole was grabbing.
Seeing that he refused to help her, she stomped her feet and yelled at Chloe.
"Chloe, I never thought that you were such a person! And here I was listening to you! You piss me off!" She thought, 'This woman purchased my stolen diamond and claimed it as hers.
She's totally shameless! Chloe's expression remained unchanged as she looked on sneeringly at Nicole.
Since she had already been found out, there was no need to hide anymore.
"I've noticed this diamond back in Nottingbrook! You should never have been its master.Look at your gaudy dress and that unstable gait as you walk with those high heels.How are you worthy of such a precious, beautiful diamond?"
When Snow was told off by Chloe like that, she was totally stunned.
She did not expect the getup that she was so proud of was so mercilessly ripped apart by Chloe.
Seemingly sensing the people around her looking at her in contempt, her eyes reddened in exasperation.
"Yet, before she could say anything else, Chloe mercilessly interrupted her.She looked on pitifully at Snow.
"Silly girl, look how Mr.Harvey can't even be bothered to help you, and you actually have the cheek to sit her? Shameless!"
Just as when she gleefully insulted Snow until the latter had no way to fight back, an extremely icy voice suddenly rang out behind her.
"When it comes to being shameless, you are no better."
Nicole clasped Chloe's hand with one hand, and with another, she pulled the diamond ring off Chloe's fingers and casually tossed it to Snow before letting the former go.
‘What's going on? Nicole is helping me?!' Snow looked at the scene unfolding before her in a daze and could not react to it at all for a good while.
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Yet, the shiny diamond in her hand told her that she had just been helped by the person she hated the most.
Nicole's speed was very fast, and by the time Chloe had reacted, the diamond ring had already flown into Snow's hand.
Chloe immediately screamed as she pounced at Nicole.
"B*tch, give me back my diamond!"
Everyone was watching the glamorous female star going berserk, and all had a look of shock in their eyes while Alberto almost fainted.
‘What the hell is wrong with Chloe today? Why is she doing all these stupid things?"
Damien and Miley standing at the back, saw their enraged daughter with a look of abject horror in their eyes.
In their hearts, their daughter was always delicate and noble.
She would never go berserk like this! Nicole looked at Chloe, who was like a possessed lunatic, and a look of irritability flashed across her eyes.
Yet, before she could even strike back, two arms stretched beside her, stopping Chloe in her tracks.
Lloyd looked at Jared, who had also stretched his hands out, but he did not look at him.
But instead, he cast his gaze onto Nicole.
His eyes were like a storm of ice and fire.
Chloe looked at Jared's eyes and finally calmed down.
She fearfully looked at everyone around her and saw almost everyone was looking at her with disgust.
Nachelle, sitting on the side, issued an ultimatum without any hesitation.
"This young lady here is my guest."
Nachelle looked at Nicole as she slowly spoke.
"And since you actually intend to do her harm, please leave this place on your own accord."
‘Since my son like this girl, I, of course, need to back her up"
When Chloe heard that, she almost wanted to collapse in despair.
She shook her head as she pleaded.
"No, you cannot do this to me! It was Nicole, she took the diamond away first! It's her fault! She's a shameless thief! You're being fooled by her! How can you take a country bumpkin as your guest?!"
Before Nachelle could say anything, Lloyd smirked softly as he slowly let go of Chloe's hand and dropped a bombshell.
"A thief? Chloe, I don't know what gave you the courage to accuse Interpol Agent S, a thief?!"
‘WHAT?!’
The eyes of everyone looking at Nicole changed, with a thick layer of fear in them.
‘The world-famous Interpol Agent S is actually this woman?’ Claus looked at Nicole.
A huge look of surprise was etched upon his face.
Back then, the boss had casually mentioned this person to him, yet he totally did not expect her to be right beside him.
This was almost like a fantasy.
Chloe's expression turned pale as she looked at Nicole and then back at Lloyd as she sneered.You got to be kidding.How can Nicole be S?"
There was no change in Lloyd's eyes as he very calmly took out that photo from his pocket.
Chloe had just casually glanced at it, but when she clearly saw what was in the photo, her expression froze.
It was actually quite a dated document, and Nicole in the photo was still very young, yet she had that indescribable coldness to her.
She was in casual clothes, with the only identification information on it was a simple codename - S.
Gary looked at S, and his expression instantly became very complicated, as if something was struggling inside him.
Yet Nicole's expression did not change at all.
She looked at that identification paper in Lloyd's hand, and a nostalgic look appeared in her eyes.
"I never thought that you actually kept this thing for me." Nicole said softly.
She then looked at Lloyd, her eyes deep yet cold at the same time.
"Unfortunately, I'm no longer S."