Chapter 193
“Delbert, are you still working?” Harriet asked.
“Yes,” Delbert responded, his work momentarily paused as he answered the phone.
“When will you be home? I miss you,” Harriet said coyly.
Delbert felt a surge of happiness. “I’m about to go back now. Wait for me at home.”
The rush hour had passed, so the traffic was light. It would take him about forty minutes to drive from Carlson Group back to the island.
“Okay! I’ll wait for you,” Harriet said.
After ending the call, Harriet noticed that Q had won a battle.
She quickly connected with Q to express her gratitude. “Q, I’m grateful for your help today.”
Q’s voice was deep and raspy. It somehow made Harriet feel as if she had heard it somewhere before.
“No worries, Miss Munoz. The opponent must have been interrupted by something, so he stopped attacking the system. If he had continued, I might not have won. King has offended some powerful people this time,” Q said.
Q was the leader of an international hacker organization, and his statement meant that the adversary was extraordinary.
Harriet began to wonder who they had offended.
After thanking Q, Harriet shut down her computer, returned to the
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Deibert, still at Carlson Group, examined the firewalls set up by Q and had no intention of launching another attack.
He had never intended to single-handedly destroy an organization. This was merely a warning to Joe.
He didn’t want any other men around Harriet.
After shutting down his computer, Delbert left the company and drove back to the island.
The villa was dark, and the servants were resting. Delbert quietly entered the second-floor bedroom.
Opening the door, he saw Harriet sleeping on the bed, her breaths. even and steady.
An unprecedented sense of happiness rose in him.
People often said he was solitary and aloof, not fond of being close to others, but that was only because those people were not Harriet.
Where she was, there was peace.
To avoid waking Harriet, Delbert carefully retrieved his pajamas from the closet, freshened up in the bathroom, and then returned to lie down beside her, holding her in his arms as he drifted off to sleep.
“Good night, Yvonne,” he murmured.
Half a month quickly passed, and it was almost time for Harriet and Delbert’s wedding.
All the necessary arrangements had been made, and no more obstacles remained in the way.
At the largest seven-star hotel in Meawood City, the joyful and
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vulojue, and many
prominent figures were arriving one after another.
It was worth noting that Delbert, now the sole heir designated by Milton, had a net worth of over a billion dollars.
This wedding was undoubtedly the center of everyone’s attention.
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