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.

had done such hacking jobs for years, from accessing enterprise data centers to exploiting the Federal Intelligence Agency’s system.

At midnight, she found a vulnerability and implanted a monitoring code into the target system

text message on her

[Carl is alive.]

a beat at seeing the name. She calmed herself

anonymous sender replied, [Beetle

will go

was still alive. This made Nicole, who had always been calm, almost lost control

care of him. Don’t go abroad

for a long while before she could meet Carl. But she was still too

common to her. So, she still went for

Riddle family car. Her frosty look could not hide her beauty.

photos of her. Nicole looked back at the boy coldly, as if she had eyes on her back. The boy was intimidated by her

people became more behaved, and Nicole hurried to Class B. Bradley had arrived. His grades were mediocre, but he was very hardworking,

were not in the

have to waste

nodded, signaling Bradley that she got

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