The CEO's Assistant is a Billionaire Hacker のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 71 - チャプター 80

Dean reached out for the cabbage on the shelf and then paused. As he watched the vegetable rack for a moment, he remembered Nadia’s expression when she ate a cabbage salad back in Blue Ridge.She was making a neutral expression but the way she held her fork tightly and sulked in between bites reminded him of himself back when Luke was eating his vegetables. It was subtle and no one would have noticed but Dean did because he was always watching her. Taking a step back, Dean made his way back to pick up some chicken. Now that his anger and fear had subsided, he was burdened by the guilt about what he did earlier that evening.He acted exactly as Nadia described, like a teenage bully who was ganging up on the unpopular girl. The way Nadia had glared at him as she talked earlier hit a nerve and he knew that what he did wasn’t something she tolerated.In fact, she seemed to take it quite personally.Maybe he should prepare her favorite fried chicken instead today. Her mood may improve en

Nadia watched carefully as the man sitting before Dean sweated bullets and looked around him like a caged animal. He was visibly trembling as if he was brought here against his will and if it wasn’t for his lawyer who was sitting right beside him, Nadia would have been worried about being accused of kidnapping and intimidation.It didn’t take the company long to track down the employee who left back when the project was being developed. Nadia expected weeks to go by but to their surprise, the man wasn’t really hiding. And when he was invited to a meeting with Dean, he had agreed requesting to bring in his lawyer.Of course, things wouldn’t be as simple, and he didn’t admit to stealing the information from the company. Which means that they were at an impasse.“I wasn’t the one who brought up the idea in the first place, I was only participating in brainstorming it with the team. That’s when rumors started spreading and I was forced to leave the company,” He explained as he looked arou

Nadia took a deep breath letting it out, her heart felt as if it was bruised by the contact of the shock. Suddenly her sensation was sharper and she could feel even the rustle of her clothes on her skin bothering her.Her heart was still racing with heavy thuding in her ears and the room seemed to be dimmed and cold, as if it was wrapped in grey fog separating her from Dean who stood only feet away from her.She wanted to speak but no words would come out of her mouth, all she could think about was that he knew. He knew what she did. How much did he know? How long?“Aren’t you going to answer me?” He asked softly as he stood up facing her.Nadia couldn’t look him in the eyes and kept staring at his lips as he spoke wondering where this went wrong. She was on top of the world just moments ago, and now she was plummeting into a bottomless pit with only one sentence from this man.“What do you want me to say?” She asked her voice seeming like a robot talking back to her.“Well, for start

“Hmm… it’s quite fitting if you look at it this way…” Dean mumbled against her as he watched the TV from behind her on the couch of his office.It was a weekend and they were at the company taking care of an urgent legal meeting to finalize the case details with the Talbots, then they turned the TV on to watch the news which was still talking about the Ruin of the Talbots.It turned into such a grand event that everyone was talking about them, which was her doing. Hers and Leilah’s…“What is?” She asked letting him nuzzle the side of her head.“I mean this end, look at them, panicking over the media. They couldn’t even handle the press conference,” He trailed off with a smile.He seemed quite pleased with watching them like this, probably more than she did. Which was a bit unexpected. When Nadia told him everything, she hadn’t expected his full support on this. He had taken her from the hospital back to the apartment taking care of her and even suggesting to help her with any leftove

Kate lifted her hand walking toward Nadia as she cursed her face red with anger and brittle coming out of her mouth. Nadia stared at her calmly then just as her hand was about to hit Nadia’s face, with her red-clawed nails, Nadia grabbed her hand stopping her midway.“Now now… Violence is a bit vulgar even for you, Kate… You found a new low to fall to,” Nadia said calmly as she smiled at her cousin.As she watched her retract her hand looking at her with wild eyes, Nadi’a’s ming evoked an image from the past. One with Kate smiling at her as she reached out taking her hand. Pulling her out of that room to play in the sunlight. For the longest time, she was her closest friend and her only family. “Sometimes, I wonder…” Nadia began looking at Kate as she glared at her with so much hatred that a shiver ran down her spine, “What I could have done to make you hate me this much if everything had been an act for you? But then I realized just how foolish these kinds of thoughts were. You wer