All Chapters of After Rebirth, I Married His Billionaire Uncle : Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

Speak of the devil, the moment Sophie finished venting about Richard and Vivian, the two of them wandered up from a distance.Spotting Nora, Vivian smiled instantly. “What a coincidence, Nora! Saw Sophie and figured you’d be nearby.”Nora pressed her lips together, uninterested in engaging.She’d assumed that even if Vivian and Richard knew they were vacationing at the same coast, basic etiquette would kick in once they spotted the group, a wave, maybe, then a graceful exit. Apparently not.“What’s with that face? Vivian came all this way specifically to see you, and you’re still unhappy?”Right as Richard said it, Vivian tugged his sleeve and handed over the bag she was carrying.The makeup remover. Same brand, same bottle as the one she’d broken.“Told you I’d replace it. Came out here just to hand this off in person, nothing else.”Sophie blinked, genuinely thrown.She was finding it harder and harder to figure Vivian out.“Thanks. I’ll take it.”Nora accepted it easily enough.“We

Nora spent three full days at the beach with Sophie before heading back to the office.Richard and Vivian, surprisingly, showed sense, after that first afternoon run-in, neither of them resurfaced. Or maybe it was just that Path to Ascension’s next feature launch left them no time to make more trouble.Regardless of whatever timeline Richard’s team was scrambling under, Godbreaker’s casual gameplay had always been scheduled for two weeks post-beta, and Nora wasn’t budging that date for anyone.Items obtained through sea fishing carried special tags exempting them from the eventual data wipe, inheritable straight into launch. No reason to worry about players skipping it out of caution.The one genuine curveball: a meeting request from Louise Reyes.Nora wasn’t particularly familiar with the name at first, until she placed it, her sister-in-law, technically. Richard’s mother. Wife to Edward’s older brother.She’d asked to meet at a restaurant, citing something she wanted to discuss.Nor

“There’s a glow!”Nathaniel’s voice snapped Nora back to attention. She checked the screen. Blue light.Blue, grade 3 a beggar’s cudgel. An upgrade from a Wooden Stick, technically usable, if you didn’t mind wielding the weapon of an NPC panhandler.Night_: is he stuck on a wooden stick loop or somethingHeeHeeHeeHee: at least it’s blue now, took me like ten casts total to get mineFishbones: I’ve got a whole pile of beggar’s cudgels in my junk stack, don’t ask whyCutieSweet: isn’t the beggar’s cudgel literally the worst blue offensive item in the game right nowNora wasn’t fully across every weapon’s stats herself, but even the name alone told her that item was garbage. She patted Nathaniel’s shoulder, dead serious. “Keep going, champ.”Nathaniel pressed his lips together and returned to his ongoing war with the ocean.Through sheer stubbornness, he’d crossed 50 XP, leveled up to 3, unlocking a bunch of new options.Unfortunately, he couldn’t afford a single one of them.Godbreaker

Path to Ascension announced it would release its underlying data publicly, offering top-tier salaries to hire anyone technically capable enough to actually decode it and patch the mess. A hundred thousand a month, plus a million-dollar bonus for the fix, before commissions and benefits.On paper, an aggressive talent-recruitment move. Sophie was already furious.Because nobody understood better than she did that Path to Ascension wasn’t just derivative, its entire underlying architecture was Godbreaker’s data, stolen wholesale.Publishing that foundation didn’t just expose Ascension, it directly compromised Godbreaker’s security posture too. Same idea as your house’s front door lock recipe getting leaked publicly. Even with an extra deadbolt installed, you’d still be losing half your protection.Nobody understood the stakes here better than Sophie herself.Except maybe Nora, she understood them just as well.The second the announcement dropped, Sophie went straight to find her.Nora d

Back at the office, Nora pulled out her laptop and powered it on fast. Sure enough, alerts everywhere.They were attacking hard again. Fortunately she’d stayed careful, defenses already properly layered her security had never stopped running, even mid-conversation with Alex.Alex would never have guessed the woman he’d just been talking to was simultaneously fending off his own team’s intrusion attempt.Even so, Nora spent a few minutes reinforcing the firewall further, then mentally noted how to build a fresh hidden-storage system on her personal machine once she got home.Gathering the Technology floor for the tour that part she could hand straight to Sophie.By 1 p.m., every terminal on the Technology floor was powered down. Everyone had straightened their outfits and sat at their stations, presentable.An unusual sight for Sinclair-Whitfield’s gaming division all in honor of Alex’s visit.Ground floor, Nora personally played host, stepping forward the moment Alex’s car pulled up.