Chapter 922



Nora didn’t hang up, but asked, “Who is it?”. Ian was quiet for a while. “I can’t tell you over the phone.”

This was because he feared someone might be tapping their phones. Even if Nora was Q, the best hacker in the world, there was no guarantee that no one was watching them. Besides, even if Nora could guarantee that her phone wouldn’t be hacked, could she guarantee the same for Ian?

Not only was he in another country, but the call was international long distance, could she guarantee that the international communication signal would not be hacked?

Nora could only nod and say, “Okay, I’ll pick you up in eight hours.”

“Okay.”

After hanging up the phone, Nora sank into contemplation for a long moment.

galnσν𝓮ℓs․cøm opens doors to new adventures At that moment, Queenie drunkenly came downstairs and asked, “How are things going with Barbarian?”

Brenda had completely taken over the task of stopping Barbarian. Queenie was still unable to accept the fact that he was a murderer, so she had chosen to keep quiet about it.

Nora sighed. “Barbarian lives up to his name of being the embodiment of human limits. Despite intense attempts to catch him, he managed to escape…now he’s nowhere to be found.”

Queenie nodded. Suddenly, she asked, “Did Ian Smith just call?”

Nora nodded, surprised at her perceptiveness. To keep people from overhearing her calls, the volume on her phone was set very low. Still, had she heard them?

Noticing her puzzled look, Queenie smiled and said, “You called him ‘Dad’.”

“…Really?”

Nora began to hesitate.

Since that easily exposed the other party’s identity, she rarely greeted someone by name immediately after answering the phone, unless she was in a very safe place and the other party’s identity was not sensitive.

However, Queenie didn’t plan to keep talking. Instead, she swirled the wine in her glass. Her delicate face was flushed and her cheeks were already red.

She said, “In that case, I’ll go upstairs and rest for now…”.

She had only taken a couple of steps when Cherry grabbed her. She said, “Great Aunt Queenie, are you going to drink again? Don’t drink anymore. Come and play with Cherry. It’s been a long time since we’ve played together.” Queenie raised her eyebrows. “Do you really remember your Great Aunt’s existence when your father, the one you’ve been thinking about all this time, is already here?”

Cherry smiled and pushed Justin toward Nora. “But I can’t hog Dad, he should be spending more time with Mom, too. Besides, they might have a lot to talk about!” After all, Pete had said they should let their parents bond with each other so they wouldn’t be separated in the future. That way, the triplets would be together forever.

Therefore, even though she really loved their father, it was better to leave him with their mother!

Disgust filled Queenie’s expression. “You’re only looking for me because your father is gone? I’m not going to be your plan B…”

Even as she said that, she followed Cherry aside.

Justin walked over to Nora and the two of them sat down on the couch.

Justin looked over at Queenie, who was holding Cherry’s hand. One was elegant and noble, while the other was charming and lovely. The two seemed very harmonious together.

Justin commented, “Looks like Aunt Queenie really likes Cherry, huh?”.

“…’Aunt Queenie’?”

A puzzled Nora asked as she heard the boy suddenly address her aunt differently.

Justin smiled and replied, “Since she’s your aunt, then that makes her my aunt, too, doesn’t it?”

The guy sure was flirting with her all the time.

Nora raised her eyebrows and said, “Yes, Aunt Queenie treats Cherry very well.”

“Tell me more?”

Justin insisted.

Because if he didn’t, Nora wouldn’t say more than that.

Nora smiled. “Sure.”

Back then, when she lost a lot of blood during childbirth and her life was at stake, her aunt had saved her and then taken her abroad. Later, she had also openly declared Nora an heiress of NTT.

During the announcement, his demeanor had been icy, he also treated her and Cherry coldly. But if the family servants scorned them even a little, Queenie would mete out immediate and decisive punishment.

She remembered that when Cherry was three or four months old, because of her frail constitution, the baby contracted a roseola infection and had a very high fever, which had to be physically cooled. On that occasion, when she called the doctor in the middle of the night because of the fever, he told her that it was best to avoid taking medication and to cool the baby’s temperature physically.

Her aunt had immediately complained, “Children are so troublesome.”

At the time, Nora didn’t know her very well.

So Nora told her to go back to rest while she took turns caring for Cherry with the nanny.

Although Cherry was now over three months old, Nora was still weak from blood loss during delivery. Unable to stay awake, she would fall asleep in the middle of the night.

But when she was half asleep, she saw Queenie shifting the cold towel on Cherry’s forehead….

She had always been someone with a cold exterior but a warm heart. Besides, Queenie was a determined person with a power attitude. She was elegant and attractive, many men courted her, but she rejected them all.

She said she didn’t like men and had never thought of getting married.

Thus, everything in NTT was hers and Cherry’s.

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