Ch. 56..60: My Wife Is A Hacker Chapter 56-60
Chapter 56
Spencer quickly shot a look at Norah and whispered, “Since Nicole likes grilled fish, we just thought of taking her to the best place to eat.”
Nicole could also hear it, although his voice was not loud. She did not expect these two brothers to treat her so well. Their action was so heart-warming. She was slow to warm up, but she had gradually accepted their kindness.
“Thank you, Samuel, Spencer. This meal will be on me.” She was the one who wanted to eat grilled fish, after all.
“No.” Samuel immediately straightened his back.
“How can we ask our younger sister to pay for it? Your job today is to eat. It is on me.”
“Since this is the case, thank you so much.” Nicole could not help but chuckle. She could not bring herself to refuse the kindness of her two brothers, no matter what.
“It is very expensive here. I guess you could not afford it, Nicole.” Norah taunted.
“Don’t worry, Norah. I have my brothers here.” Nicole smiled. Not bothering to talk to Norah more, she hit her where it hurt the most.
Norah’s expression changed. It was her brother’s attention that she cared most about. But now Nicole had taken all that away. Norah could not describe how miserable she felt. She looked at Nicole, and her gaze turned darker and darker.
While waiting for the food to be served, Samuel smiled at Nicole.
“Spencer and I heard you were going to take the Olympiad exams. So we decided to invite you to a good meal as encouragement.”
When Norah heard Nicole was taking part in the Maths Olympiad, she could not help but ask, ” You want to take part in the Maths Olympiad? It is a tough competition. Are your results up to par?”
Their class – Class A – had a few selected top students take part in the exam. Even Norah herself did not get a chance. Yet a country girl like Nicole was taking part? Did she even know what the Maths Olympiad was when she signed up for it? It was unbelievable.
Samuel did not get Norah’s sarcasm. He proudly held his head high and said, “Why not? Don’t forget that my sister is the daughter of the Riddle family, good enough to take part in the Maths Olympiad exam.”
While they talked, the waitstaff served food to the table. While Samuel talked, Spencer thoughtfully fetched a slice of the grilled fish to Nicole.
“Try it. This part tastes great.”
“Thank you, Spencer.” Nicole had never been treated so attentively. She took the plate and felt touched.
Norah saw that the treatment she had used to receive was now given to Nicole. The two brothers looked at her but did not give her the same treatment, as if they were mindful of
their relationship. The jealousy exploded inside Norah. She wished she could just smash her cutlery on the table and leave. But then she saw someone walk in.
‘Is she not from the Holmes family?’
Norah did not go to Class B, but she had heard about what happened in the morning. She did not expect to see Snow’s buddy while having a meal here. It looked like God was on her side.
With this thought in mind, she called out to Nicole.
“This dish also tastes good. Try it.”
Sure enough, her voice successfully caught the attention of Ashley, who looked startled.
She breathed a sigh of relief only after she saw Nicole was not looking at her. Her parents saw she in a bad mood and brought her out to dinner. She did not expect to see Nicole here.
‘What a small world!Just when she wished she could leave, the sight of Samuel and Spencer surprised her. She wondered why a country girl like Nicole could afford to dine at such a place. Not only that, Nicole was surrounded by two famous twin handsome men. Watching the two of them attend to Nicole, treating her like a princess, struck her dumb.
A sense of jealousy and indignation flashed in Ashley’s eyes. This whore had not only successfully seduced Austin but also the two handsome guys from the music class and basketball team.
Watching Samuel smile at Nicole, Ashley was convinced that Nicole was seducing the two guys.
‘A transfer student takes advantage of her beauty to behave so appropriately. She is absolutely shameless!’
Ashley felt depressed when the thought of what Nicole had done to her in the morning came to mind.
While waiting for her parents to park the car, she took out her mobile phone and found an angle to take a photo of Spencer and Samuel cozying up to Nicole and then posted it to the school forum. Keenly sensing that someone was watching her, Nicole looked back and, sure enough, she saw Ashley Ashley looked as if she had done something wrong and quickly put away the phone, pretending not to see Nicole and hurrying away. But Nicole kept staring at her. Her years of experience told her that Ashley must have just photographed something.
“Samuel, Spencer. Please excuse me. I am going to the ladies’ room for a while.”
“Okay.” Samuel agreed without even thinking about it.
Nicole stood up and walked in the direction where Ashley had disappeared. Leaving the VIP area with floor-to-ceiling windows, Nicole walked past a glass corridor and came to the ordinary dining area. Seeing that Ashley had sat down with her parents, Nicole walked over with a cold look in her eyes. Unaware that Nicole was coming, Ashley was looking down at her phone, reading the
comments of the photo, all of which suspected Nicole of seducing the handsome guys and behaving inappropriately.
Ashley felt triumphant reading those comments, proud of her photography skills. She took the photo in such a way that no matter who one looked at it, they would surely feel that Nicole was seducing men.
Feeling a chill on the back of her neck, she subconsciously looked up and found that Nicole had come in front of her without her knowing and was looking at her gravely.
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“Hand it over.” Nicole’s eyes were frosty and frightening. She could tolerate others targeting her, but she would never forgive them for implicating her family.
Ashley was quaking in her boots but still yelled back, “I don’t know what you are talking about!”
There was a look of impatience in Nicole’s eyes when she heard Ashley’s response.
“You know what I am talking about. Hand the phone over.” Ashley might be afraid of Nicole, but when the thought of the contents of the mobile phone came to mind, she gritted her teeth.
“The mobile phone is my personal belongings. What right do you have to demand that I hand over my phone?”
Nicole did not bother to continue talking to her. She pressed her hand on Ashley’s shoulder, forcing Ashley to loosen the hand behind her. Taking this opportunity, Nicole snatched the phone from her hand.
The screen was still displaying the post she had uploaded. The comments section was full of nasty replies saying that Nicole was shameless.
Nicole calmly exited the forum and opened the photo album. The first image she saw was a picture of her standing with her brothers. She swiped back, and what appeared in front of her was the picture of her ‘bullying’ Snow.
Further back were some saved screenshots of chats with Snow, telling Ashley about her requirement for the photos. Snow asked them to find a photo that could put Nicole in trouble. There was also a nude photo of Ashley with a middle-aged man. Ashley’s face turned pale when Nicole saw her nude photo.
Just then, a middle-aged man’s voice was heard coming from one side.
“Snow, is this your friend?”
“Dad…” Ashley was even more dumbfounded when she saw her adoptive father.
“Dad?” Nicole smiled. Ashley’s father had come just when she saw Ashley’s nude photo. She was not going to miss this opportunity, Ashley had been hanky-panky herself, yet she dared to take a candid photo of her. Since that was the case, Nicole was going to give Ashley a taste of her own medicine.
Nicole sneered, picked up the mobile phone, and said to the man and the middle-aged woman who accompanied him.
“You two must be Mr. and Mrs. Holmes. Take a look at what your daughter has done.” As she spoke, she held up the phone.
“No!” Ashley panicked and went to grab the phone.
But Mrs. Holmes had already spotted the naked photo. The two were seen lying on the bed in the photo. Anyone who looked at it could instantly tell what was happening. The smile of Mr. and Mrs. Holmes faded instantly, their faces sinking.
Mrs. Holmes looked surprised. Jess was her daughter, but only a stepdaughter. Ricky Holmes was her biological father. She could not care less about her image and questioned Ricky.
“What is going on?” Because she could not conceive, she tolerated Ricky taking his daughter home, hoping that in the future, when the two of them were old, they would still have children and grandchildren to depend on. She did not expect Ashley to be so humiliating. She was an embarrassment.
“Look at your good daughter! She is doing such a humiliating thing at such a young age!” Her voice was so loud that it immediately attracted attention. People in the restaurant looked over. Ashley felt like
dying, extremely humiliating. She wished the ground would swallow her up.
Mrs. Holmes could not hide her hatred and gritted her teeth as she looked at her adopted daughter, whom she had been carefully nurturing all this while.
“That is what you did to me? Don’t you feel sorry? Your dad and I have worked so hard to raise you, yet you are sleeping around with men! How could you do such a humiliating thing?”
Ashley had foreseen that the cat could get out of the bag someday. But she never expected that it would be in front of so many people. She wished she could kill herself right now.
Looking sideways, she saw Nicole was watching what happened with schadenfreude.
“It is all because of you!” Ashley wished she could kill Nicole right now. But with Mrs. Holmes here, she could only hide behind Ricky.
To Ashley’s surprise, Ricky pushed her away and threw herself at the feet of Mrs. Holmes and pleaded, “It was my fault. I didn’t expect Jess to do such a thing outside. But please forgive her this time.”
Looking at Ricky, who was still defending his daughter, Mrs. Holmes could not hide her disappointment and pain, and finally let out an icy smile and gracefully took a glass of water from the table and splashed it on Ricky’s face. She then told him sternly, “If you still want her to stay in this family, then my lawyer will see you tomorrow-we will divorce.”
What she gave him all these years, she would take it all back without fail.
No way Ricky would dare to let her divorce him. Everything he now had was because he had married a wife with a wealthy background. If she divorced him, he would lose everything.
It did not matter if everything was taken away from him. But if her family knew about it, they would surely kill him. Thinking of this, he hugged Mrs. Holmes’s leg and wailed.
“Please don’t divorce me.” He turned back and pointed at his daughter ruthlessly. “I promise you that I will send her away tomorrow. Please give me another chance.”
With everything that happened in front of her eyes, Nicole had to turn on her phone and record what was going on. Ashley could no longer stand it when she heard her father was abandoning her. Her grievances of these years exploded instantly as she angrily scolded Ricky.
“You forsake your daughter for a woman – what a father you are?”
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When she finished, she cried and pounced on Ricky.
A murderous look flashed in Ricky’s eyes. He freed out a hand to grab her hair and threw her head against the wall. Ashley screamed and fainted.
“Bastard! How could you bite the hand that feeds you?” Ricky brushed off the dust on his sleeve, his eyes full of disgust.
Mrs. Holmes was frightened by what she saw and wanted to leave.
Seeing that she wanted to leave, Ricky’s eyes flashed with a murderous look again. He grabbed Mrs. Holmes’s dress and reached out to strangle her.
No matter how tough Mrs. Holmes was, she was still a woman. She was no match for Ricky. The man grabbed her neck with his rough hand and threatened her. “I will kill you now if you want to divorce me! Tell me-are you still going to divorce me?”
His killer-look eyes were bloodshot, and he looked as if he were crazy. Seeing that she did not speak, Ricky grinned and tightened his grip. The guests in the restaurant were so frightened that they gasped in trepidation. Someone had quietly called the police.
Strangled, Mrs. Holmes’s eyes rolled back in her head. Just then, a bitter voice shouted, “Is this how a man should be?”
Ricky was stunned for a second, almost forgetting about Nicole’s presence.
The moment he turned his head, Nicole performed a roundhouse kick, hitting the hand that he used to strangle Mrs. Holmes. She then grabbed his hands and twisted them behind his back. Following two crisp cracking sounds, both of Ricky’s arm joints were dislocated.
AAAAAH!
Ricky screamed in pain and tried to resist. Nicole followed with a knife hand strike on the back of his neck, and he dropped to the ground with a thud, motionless, Mrs. Holmes fell to the ground in horror. She only came out of her shock after Ricky was neutralized.
“Thank you. Thank you.” It was this girl who showed her the photo. And it was also this girl who came to her rescue. Mrs. Holmes felt she owed her a big favor.
“It was the least I could do.” Such a scumbag was condemnable by all.
Watching Ricky lie motionless, Mrs. Holmes slowly stood up.
“Now, what should I do?” Everything happened today so suddenly that she did not know what to do. Seeing that someone was making a phone call, Nicole explained to her concisely.
“He has an intention of killing, and you have evidence of his cheating. Divorce him and leave him with nothing, and then send him to prison for the rest of his life.”
As for Ashley, she would be kicked out of the family, which was what she deserved.
“Thank you. You just saved my life. If there is anything I could do for you, I will do everything I can for you.”
Nicole saw Mrs. Holmes’s sincere look on her face and knew that she should be a nice person. She said with a smile, “It is alright. Hope we will meet again.”
With that, Nicole turned and was about to leave.
Mrs. Holmes thought for a moment. She then quickly took out a small pendant and put it in the palm of Nicole’s hand with a smile.
“Take this; you may find it useful someday. If you need help in the future, take this pendant to see me in Summerworth Residence. Remember, my last name is Bond.”
Without waiting for Nicole to decline, Mrs. Holmes quickly turned and looked for the security guards.
Nicole frowned slightly as she looked at the pendant in her hand. Not bothering to follow Mrs. Holmes, she put the pendant into her pocket and returned to her table.
Seeing her gone for so long, Samuel and Spencer could not help but ask, “Where have you been for so long?”
“I just bumped into an acquaintance, and I went to take care of a few things.” Norah frowned upon hearing that.
“Who was it? Your schoolmate?” Sensing that Norah might know something, Nicole narrowed her eyes.
“Yeah. it was Ashley.” Sure enough, Norah’s expression froze, and she asked awkwardly, “Oh, it was her… Isn’t she a good friend of Snow’s?”.
“You know her well?” Nicole raised an eyebrow, seemingly waiting for her answer.
Norah sensed something was wrong and quickly disassociated herself from Ashley.
“Nah, I just met her a few times when I was with Snow and Raine.”
“Oh, do you and Snow know Ashley is a courtesan?” Nicole stirred the juice for a moment, as if she was just mentioning it casually.
“What?” Norah was stunned.
Spencer frowned. “Really? I can’t believe she lives such a profligate life.”
“Absolutely. It is disgusting.” Samuel gave Norah a stern look.
“You had better stay away from Snow and Raine from now on. They mingled with Ashley. You can tell their characters by looking at their friends.” They and the other brothers had never liked the family of their second uncle
Nicole added fuel to the fire.
“That being said, I think you are a good buddy of Snow and Raine. You have recently been mingling with them after school. Am I right, Norah?”
At the mention of this, Norah wished she could cut off Nicole’s tongue. The reason she got close to Raine and Snow was all because of Nicole. If her parents found out that she blatantly targeted Nicole, she would be done for. So she was trying to use Snow and Raine to do the dirty job for her. But Nicole wanted to sabotage her now. No way she would allow that to happen. With that in mind, Norah smiled.
“The reason I mingle with Snow and Raine is that we care about you. Don’t let us down on this monthly exam. Otherwise, Uncle Dillon and others will gloat,”
Norah cleverly kicked the ball back to Nicole’s court.
“Since you know that, why do you still get so close to them?” Nicole asked.
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Norah’s expression stiffened as she realized he had dug a hole for herself.
Spencer had also sensed something, his face stern.
“Whatever the reason, Norah, you are to keep your distance from them from now on.”
“Absolutely.” Samuel also agreed. There was nothing Norah could do, and she could only reply reluctantly, “I got.”
‘D*mn Nicole! You shall see. Even if I stay away from them, I have a way to get Snow and Raine to target you!’
Nicole quietly sneered as she saw Norah’s indignation.
Snow, Raine, and their cohorts were targeting her for no reason – she knew there must be someone behind this. Norah was supposed to hate Uncle Dillon’s family, yet she got so close to them. It did not take a rocket scientist to figure out what Norah was
Half an hour later, they had finished their meals, and Spencer and Samuel went to make payment at the cashier.
Nicole and Norah went out first to get some fresh air. Norah had been sulking and was in a terrible mood to see Nicole. At this point, a drunken man came out behind her and slammed into Norah.
“Yikes!” Norah nearly fell from the bump. The drunken man looked up. Seeing Norah wearing a red dress, he leched after her.
“Wow, your moan is so alluring. Why not have fun together, eh?” The man let out an evil smile as he walked toward Norah. Three to five guys, who looked like rich kids and were also drunk, came out after the first drunken man.
Ordinary folks were too afraid to mess with them. So passersby were keeping their heads low, pretending not to see it.
“You-you all don’t come near me!” Norah was terrified and hid behind Nicole without having time to think.
The men saw Nicole-she was more beautiful than Norah-and their eyes lit up in an instant.
“She is pretty! Hey beauty, are you waiting for someone? Do you want me to accompany you?”
Nicole looked extremely disgusted, wondering why she kept encountering such disgusting men today. She glanced back at Norah behind her with the corner of her eyes, feeling like pushing her back out and letting her deal with the problem by herself.
But at this time, that man had already leaned over and leered at Nicole. This wasp’s waist and legs-Oh my God, you are absolutely stunning! Beauty, shall we go?” With that, he reached out and touched Nicole’s face.
Nicole tilted her head to avoid his hand. Just as she was about to make her move, Samuel’s angry voice came from behind.
“What are you going to do to my sister?”
“Samuel!” Norah spun around and ran up to Samuel for help and comfort. But Samuel and Spencer did not have time for Norah. They dashed over and shielded Nicole behind them. Norah at first wanted their protection, but now she ended up being outside their protective circle instead. It hurt her to see this.
Once upon a time, she was her brother’s favorite. But now that they were in danger, her brothers had only Nicole in their eyes. Even those lewd men had long forgotten her existence and leered at Nicole
with their eyes wide open. It was as if even the hooligans dismissed her.
“Boss… Let’s go.”
Seeing two guys shielding Nicole, a buddy of the first man said with his head bowed, “We all have one too many. We won’t get any advantage.” The first man muttered in frustration and could only let his buddies help him away. The man who had just spoken quickly apologized.
“It is all a misunderstanding. We just saw that our sister was so good-looking and wanted to talk to her.” Spencer and Samuel were exasperated and snapped in unison, “Did you just say your sister?”
The man was startled and quickly muttered, “Alright, alright. It is your sister. Okay?”
After those men left, Samuel breathed a sigh of relief. He then looked back at Nicole.
“Are you alright?”
Nicole looked at them. It was heart-warming to know that they were sincere in protecting her. She shook her head and said, “I am alright. They couldn’t do anything to me.”
Only then Samuel and Spencer remembered Nicole was practicing self-defense techniques. The two of them could not help but scratch their heads in embarrassment.
“I got so anxious when I saw the guys surrounding you, forgetting that you have learned self-defense techniques.”
The two looked guileless and cute. The three of them could not help but look at each other, almost oblivious to Norah’s existence.
Norah now knew that Nicole had stolen Samuel from him.
‘Damn Nicole, let’s see I will surely kick you out of the family!’
The Riddle siblings waved down a taxi and left the restaurant. Unbeknownst to them, a pair of piercing eyes had been watching them in a car from a distance. He was here to meet a customer, not expecting to see Nicole and a few kids dining together. He was upset, seemingly for no reason, when he saw their hearty laughter.
Watching Nicole and others disappear into the distance, he said to Max, “Find out who the twins are.”
‘Is it because she already has someone she liked and wanted to cancel the engagement?’ He did not know why his heart fluttered whenever he thought of this.
Max did not have to ask to know that Jared was referring to Nicole. But he wondered why Jared looked so upset as if he had been made a cuckold when he saw Nicole and the two boys together. His boss seemed to be a little too concerned about Nicole.
Thinking of this, Max narrowed his eyes thoughtfully.
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Nicole returned to her dorm room, handed her the meal she had brought for Lulu, and sat down to watch Lulu battle those keyboard warriors. Lulu saw Nicole was back and smiled at her.
“Hey, you are back!” Nicole nodded.
“Here you go. Eat it now, or it will get cold.”
Lulu looked over her shoulder, and her eyes lit up when she saw the takeaway packaging.
“ Nicole, how do you know that I have always wanted to try The Grove’s food? I tried many times but could not get a reservation. I didn’t expect it to be delivered today.”
The corner of Nicole’s lips upturned as she said, “Try it quickly if you like it.”
Lulu happily picked up a fork and tucked in while praising the chef, The Grove, for his cooking skills.
Halfway through the meal, she slowed down and asked Nicole cautiously, “I know that Samuel and Spencer are your brothers, but rumor has it that they also have some connection with Snow and Raine. So you, Snow, and Raine are…”
Lulu already had almost guessed it. It was just that she wanted to confirm it.
Nicole said in a nonchalant tone of voice.
“They are my second uncle’s daughters.” Lulu’s eyes widened in astonishment.
“You guys are cousins?”
Nicole folded her arms, her eyes drifting into the distance.
“Well, we are relatives, but we don’t know each other very well.” Lulu looked at Nicole and was stunned. No wonder Nicole looked a little like Snow and Raine. But Nicole was still much better looking than them.
With Spencer and Samuel as her celebrity brothers and Snow and Raine – who were popular in school — as her cousins, Nicole had been low-key for so long. She never mentioned her family lineage
Those gurus on the campus had found no useful information. Yet they boldly claimed that Nicole was a nobody.
Lulu started to admire Nicole. But something came to mind, and she asked doubtfully, “Since Samuel is your brother, why don’t you tell everyone? Someone has posted a photo of you guys on the school forum. People say that you are dating two guys at the same time-“Lulu stopped abruptly. After all, she did not want Nicole to hear those nasty comments.
Nicole thought for a moment and threw the phone to Lulu.
“There is a video that you may find useful.”
At first, she had no intention of releasing the video clip. But now, she felt that kicking Ashley was too light of a punishment. Since it had implicated her brothers, she was not going to pursue the matter to the end.
“What is it about?” Lulu turned on the phone and was stunned to see the video of Ashley being angrily reprimanded by her stepmother.
“Oh my God! I didn’t expect that the bullying girl would do such a disgusting thing. Once this message goes out, no one will read my post.” With that, Nicole started to take off her coat.
“Why didn’t I think of that? Nicole, you are so smart!” She had been arguing with people for hours but to no avail. She did not expect Nicole to solve the crisis after going out for just a while.
“But don’t you really want to explain your relationship with Samuel and Spencer?” Lulu still hoped that she would tell the truth sooner so that her classmates would not look down on her.
Nicole lazily leaned back in her chair, picked up a strand of her hair, and gently fiddled with it.
“If they know I am from the Riddle family, they would definitely ask me to pass their love letters to my brothers. That is too much trouble. I can’t control what they say. They can say whatever they want as long as it doesn’t affect my life.” She would surely take action if it affected her life.
Lulu understood. The Riddle brothers were just as popular as Harvey and Gary at the Royal Creek Institute. With Nicole’s trouble-aversion personality, she surely did not want to become a tool for passing love letters.
“Then I will upload this video now, squeezing out your posts,” Lulu said with excitement. She held the phone in her hand like a righteous warrior holding the sword of victory, ready to keep on fighting It moved Nicole to see Lulu help her to clear her name. Just then, June had come back and pushed the door in.
When she saw Nicole, her face was filled with mixed feelings a she asked, “What is your relationship with Samuel?”
Nicole ignored her and went straight into the bathroom, ready to take a shower and then go to bed.
June did not pursue her question. She did not study at the desk like she usually did but lay on the bed and covered her head with a quilt. When Nicole came out of the shower, June simply turned off the lights.
While drying her hair, Nicole was surprised to see June had gone to bed so early. But she still said nothing. She leaned lazily against the headboard and took out her phone to reply to her brothers’ messages. She had just asked them to send her up to the school gate. They were sending her a message, asking if she had safely arrived.
Nicole glanced at June and replied to Samuel.
(Do you know June in our class?)
He replied almost instantaneously, (No.)
Nicole looked thoughtfully at June, who nestled in the quilt. She did not reply to the message again.
June left the bedroom alone the next morning. Nicole had noticed her red and swollen eyes, as if she had been crying.
Lulu had also noticed that June was avoiding her eyes. So she asked Nicole in puzzlement,“What is wrong with June? Her eyes are so red.”
Nicole looked on and said nothing as June left. Lulu did not ask again. She quickly went to follow up on yesterday’s post.
“Oh my God… Nicole! You have succeeded. As soon as the video clip of Ashley went online, the forum went crazy. No one is interested in your photo now.”