Wife by Day, Boss by Night by Thalia Quillspeak

Chapter 196

She hesitated for a few seconds before responding. “Wasn’t Reid poking his nose into FireWing’s business lately? Of course, I’m in the loop.”

“Fair point.” Brian chuckled. “I thought you were a gamer and might dabble in some hacker forums, too.”

“Playing games and hacking are two different ball games.” Natalie retorted.

Pondering for a moment, she asked him, “What’s up? Why the sudden call about this?”

Brian chuckled again. “I’ve got my eye on poaching her.”

“Well, that’s beyond me, but I could hit up some contacts in the gaming world to see if anyone’s familiar with her,” Natalie replied nonchalantly.

At that moment, Rosie walked over to Natalie and asked, “Where’s your script? Have you seen it? The writer might want to make some changes.”

Overhearing Rosie, Brian whispered, “Go handle that. I’ll catch you later. With that, he hung up.

pocketed her phone and stood up to fetch the script for Rosie, only then noticing her heart was

suspicious of her and hadn’t let

handed the script to Rosie, her fingers brushed Natalie’s, prompting

replied with

up again. It was a text from Uriah. [Both of you need to cool off. One wants out of the relationship, the other out of the hacking scene. I don’t think it’s the right move. I’ll talk some sense into him. Give it a few days, and he might come

typed back before swiftly deleting the message.

some truth to Uriah’s advice. Approaching

to let things simmer

the evening, Gavin showed up at the

dinner out?” Gavin proposed over the phone, “My car’s

have caught wind of the

me a moment to change,” Natalie responded quietly.

booked a private dining room at a tranquil, stylish restaurant with a river

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for a private talk with Natalie. They sat in silence,

sure you want