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 he saw no

you understand the risk?” Martin said,

Nicole or

a shiny fruit knife from the coffee table and slashed a deep

you doing?!” Martin and Cindy

his wound, calmly asked, “Will you help me

and Cindy exchanged a look and finally agreed,

said, putting down the knife and sitting down

wound, Martin instructed Ellar to come here after work every

acknowledging Martin’s consent before

was about to leave, he paused at the door and turned back to Martin, emphasizing, “Not

out, she might give