Wife by Day, Boss by Night by Thalia Quillspeak

Chapter 55

Actually, it had been ages since she’d had a bowl of tomato soup. This was probably the first one she’d had since moving abroad.

Nobody knew her taste in food, so she’d long become accustomed to making do.

[Mission start.] Chowing down on her meal with one hand, she shot a message to King’s butler with the other. [Get ready.]

Brian had just finished tucking Nate Into bed after his bath and came out to find Natalie’s fingers dancing across her laptop keyboard at lightning speed. The screen was angled away from him, its light reflecting off her face.

Minutes later, Natalie snapped the laptop shut and got up to clear the dishes.

He stood in the doorway, watching her turn and head to the kitchen.

After a few seconds, he walked over to Natalie’s laptop, flipped it open, and took a peek.

He knew her password, a string of complex numbers. Sure enough, the laptop sprung to life.

What he saw was the game page she hadn’t logged out of.

a banner scrolled, “BackOffMyBabe‘,

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been for years. Back when she didn’t have her laptop, she’d always curl up in his armchair, sneakily playing

used to it and an unspoken rule was established in the house. No one

and exited the game. The desktop was

glanced at it, then, out of some mixture of concern and

had said Natalie seemed off.

but wonder about her. But her computer was

on the sixth floor was a

at the kitchen doorway, holding a plate of neatly sliced

didn’t bother her in

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was in the shower, Natalie switched to her FireWing account and messaged the client who had offered her a job with a hefty starting

back. My boss is not in the

second later, she heard Brian’s phone buzz from the

his silhouette behind the frosted glass as he picked up his phone.