Lahat ng Kabanata ng My Wife is a Hacker: Kabanata 2871 - Kabanata 2880

"It's our turn now since you've given her your gift already," Lulu teased."Of course," Stanley said, not in the least surprised by how others had come to know about Tia's birthday.He felt that Nicole knew that today was Tia's birthday, and that she had seen her plan to surprise from a mile away. If his guess was correct, Nicole had informed others of the occasion and its purpose."You've all prepared gifts too?" Tia asked, her eyes widening in surprise.The last thing she had expected him to do was throw her a surprise party by inviting all of their close friends to celebrate her birthday this year. The only other thing she did not see coming was that they had shown up bearing gifts."Of course we did. Preparing gifts is a must for such an important occasion," Lulu replied, before handing her gift to Tia.After everyone had given the items they had prepared to Tia, Preston lowered his head awkwardly and apologized. "Sorry, I didn't prepare any.""Did no one tell you?" Samuel a

After receiving the bundle of roses, Tia wrapped her hand around Stanley's and helped him up.With his eyes still locked with Tia's, Stanley produced a velvet box from his pocket. After opening it, he took a diamond ring out and gently placed it on Tia's left ring finger."Oh my gosh, congratulations!""Finally, you've taken a load off everyone's mind."Everyone congratulated the couple with joy, though they did not forget to complain about how long they had waited for this day to arrive.Tia's cheeks reddened from the fanfare, while Stanley caressed her hair, smoothening them for her."I'm truly thankful we didn't slip past each other," he said.Stanley would often still cringe thinking about how foolish he was to put Tia at the sidelines. Fortunately, everything had played out the way they wanted now, and from this point onward, they were going to be together forever.With the proposal over with, the restaurant's ambient lights returned to normal, and Stanley led Tia back to

Nicole could not help but smile at how ridiculous yet valid his concern was. "Come on, dude. That's just an excuse I came up with to comfort Nolan and Lana."In reality, her marriage would concern nobody but herself and Jared. No one else would be able to exert any sort of meaningful influence on the wedding."That's great." Preston issued a sigh of relief.Everything would be fine as long as he did not have a hand to play on whether the wedding ceremony happened or not.Taking on a more serious look now, Nicole looked at Preston and added, "But, you should really start thinking about your own love life.""Yeah, I will." Preston replied.He did not want to suffer the torture of being the only single person in the room every time he hung out with them. Being around these love birds while they harped on the idea that he needed to find someone soon was agonizing to say the least.Nicole then smirked and shook her head. She thought it would be a good idea to just remind him about it

If Lawrence was truly the one behind all of this, her explanations about the puzzles thus far would make perfect sense.Lawrence had attained the Water Crest, but he had not been able to crack its failsafe and become its bearer, and due to him being unable to seek Nicole's help directly, he had turned to giving Nolan a modified version of the interface masked as a game as his last resort.After all, Lawrence knew Nicole and Nolan well enough to come up with a strategy that capitalized on their strengths. Lawrence had also probably thought that Nolan would forever keep his secrets, making it difficult, if not impossible for them to learn of his true intentions from the boy.If it was in the past, Lawrence would only have to ask a few simple questions to gain a full idea of their progress and the situation they were in, granting him relative ease with achieving his goals. But now that things did not go his way anymore, he had resorted to elaborate trickery.Little did Lawrence know t

With a smile on her face, Nicole replied, "Don't worry, we'll just go along with Stanley and Tia's arrangements."Hearing this, Gloria calmed down. "Alright, I just want to make sure that Tia doesn't feel as if she is lesser than us or anything. That's my only concern."Indeed, this was Gloria's only concern. Nothing else would be a problem for her."You should just relax and prepare for their wedding, I'm sure they won't be able to wait for too long." Nicole smiled and advised.Then, she held Jared's hand and walked out of the house with him.Though Gloria was stunned at first, she quickly came to her senses and beamed. "The wedding is happening really soon, right?""I guess so." Daniel returned her smile."Well, since Stanley and Tia will be staying with us, I think we should clean the house up, especially Stanley's room. We must renovate the couple's room and refurbish everything. Let's give them a new set of furniture and decorations." Gloria began to plan."If you're going