My Wife is a Hacker by Summer

Martin was speechless at Ellar’s calmness. Ellar understood the risks, but he was willing to take the same chance Martin did when he tested the medicine on himself.

Ellar reasoned, “You guys are here. Nicole told you about the antidote and what to do in an emergency, so you won’t let anything bad happen to me, right?” He hesitated a bit.

“What do you mean?” Martin asked, confused.

“If things get really bad, you’d call Nicole to save me,” Ellar said with a reluctant smile. “But I hope it won’t come to that. If Nicole has to step in, we’ll have to give up on this.”

Martin realized Ellar wanted to keep this from Nicole.

“If we tell Nicole, she’ll disagree,” Ellar shrugged.

“But if we hide this from Nicole and she finds out, she’ll be upset with us,” Cindy said, worried about the responsibility.

Ellar explained, “There are two outcomes: if it works, she won’t blame you, just me. She won’t stay mad forever. If it fails, she’ll scold me, but not forever. I don’t want to do this, but I want to help Patricia.”

knew Nicole would be angry and hurt, but

you understand the risk?” Martin said,

or the

Ellar suddenly grabbed a shiny fruit knife from

Martin

wound, calmly asked, “Will you

and Cindy exchanged a look and

said, putting down the knife

the wound, Martin instructed Ellar to come here

you,” Ellar said, acknowledging Martin’s consent

paused at the door and turned back to Martin, emphasizing, “Not just Nicole,

give up on her treatment, which was not what he