My Wife is a Hacker (Nicole Riddle and Jared) novel Chapter 23

Chapter 23

“Anything else?” Nicole sounded cold, clearly wanting to drive her away. Norah felt embarrassed and could only quickly get down to business. 

“I know that you and Austin have a conflict. I was just worried that our family would get involved, so I said something that might have offended you. Please don’t mind. You may hit me if you are angry.” Norah said with an innocent look, as if Nicole would bully her.

Nicole sneered as she despised someone who liked to play the victim like Norah. 

“Since you know you shouldn’t have said something that shouldn’t be said, you should have corrected yourself instead of coming to me to pretend to apologize.” With that, Nicole slammed the door shut.

Norah felt insulted, as if she had been slapped, her face feeling a burning sensation. D*mn it.. How dare Nicole disparage her? Did Nicole really think she had the right to reprimand her because she came to apologize? 

“Let’s wait and see, Nicole.” She stomped her feet angrily before taking her things and went away.

Nicole had locked the door and now turned on the computer. After entering the dark web, she decided to start taking a job today.

A client wanted her to hack into a network company’s system and find loopholes in their accounts.

This was the most common and simplest type of hacking job she had always been doing.

She had done such hacking jobs for years, from accessing enterprise data centers to exploiting the Federal Intelligence Agency’s system. But she had her principles and would do nothing illegal.

Three hours flew by. At midnight, she found a vulnerability and implanted a monitoring code into the target system to monitor the target’s accounts. She then turned off the computer to prepare for sleep

She suddenly received an anonymous text message on her phone. 

[Carl is alive.]

Nicole’s heart skipped a beat at seeing the name. She calmed herself down and replied, [where is he?]

The anonymous sender replied, [Beetle Town, Lanningbourg.] 

[Great! I will go see him.] 

After the last mission, she thought her partner was dead, not expecting that he was still alive. This made Nicole, who had always been calm, almost lost control of her emotions.

[Not now. Someone is watching. We will take care of him. Don’t go abroad so your whereabouts won’t get exposed.]

Lulu looked at Nicole’s nonchalant look and became anxious. Austin was notorious for being a petty guy. Nicole had pissed him off yesterday, and he would surely take revenge on her.

“Austin must be here to get revenge on you. Go to the teacher’s office, and wait until the class starts before coming back. Just don’t let him find you.”

It was heartwarming to see Lulu was so concerned about her. Just when Nicole was about to say something, Jack’s vivacious voice came from behind.

 “She is supposed to be the one who should be worried, Lulu. Since Nicole doesn’t want to listen to you, why do you care?”

Jack remembered Nicole had rejected Gary’s offer yesterday. Knowing that Austin was coming after her now, he could not help but gloat over it. 

“Let’s see how arrogant you could still be when Austin arrives.” Nicole looked at him coldly, and Jack looked at her dark eyes, somehow feeling a chill running up his spine

. Just then, Austin had stormed into Class B with a few guys, his eyes searching around the rapie  classroom before spotting Nicole. He paused for a second before striding toward Nicole, who was sitting in the back of the classroom. The few guys behind Austin rubbed their hands eagerly and stared at Nicole maliciously. All eyes were on Nicole. Jack and Wayne were sitting in the back, waiting to see how Austin would fix Nicole. Even Gary, who was indifferent to such things, looked over.

Austin walked up to Nicole and suddenly bowed and said aloud, “I am sorry for yesterday, Nicole.”

For a moment, everyone’s jaw dropped to the ground. Austin had always been the school bully and no one, except the Finley brothers, dared to mess with him. Now he was apologizing to a girl who had hit him.