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.

the page, a banner scrolled, “BackOffMyBabe‘, Congratulations to you on a five–game

invincible!!!” The comments section was

just like she had been for years. Back when she didn’t have her laptop, she’d always

it and an unspoken rule was established in the house. No one but her could enter

game. The

it, then, out of some mixture of concern and curiosity, he relaunched the game.

Natalie seemed

her. But her computer was clean, nothing out of the ordinary.

hacker who lived on the sixth floor was a more

was standing at the kitchen doorway,

some fruit?” Natalie asked him calmly, as if it didn’t bother her in the

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

boss is not in the condition

Brian’s phone buzz

the frosted glass as he picked up