The Enigmatic Return (Neera and Jean) novel Chapter 266

Neera was not suspicious at the moment. She greeted them with a smile.

The triplets stood up and ran toward her.

"Mommy, you’re back! Are you feeling okay? The surgery must be tiring!"

"Mommy, how did the surgery go? How is Auntie Zuniga’s husband doing now?"

"Mommy, it must have been a while since you last ate. Are you hungry now?"

The triplets bombarded her with questions, one after another.

She was very patient when she answered their questions, but she took a chance to ask them some questions too.

"Did you trouble Uncle Jean? I can assume that you three didn’t stir up any trouble, right?"

The triplets straightened their backs and replied, "We are so obedient that you won’t even believe it! You can ask Uncle Jean if you don’t believe us!"

Jean found their antics amusing. However, he simply nodded without saying anything to go along with them.

"They were fine. They did not stir up any trouble at all."

Neera felt relieved. She said with satisfaction, "That’s great to hear. Thank you so much for your help today, I will be leaving with the kids for now."

However, Jean had another idea. He said, "Aren’t you tired? After all, you’re just done with the surgery. What about leaving them in my care? You can come over and fetch them after you get some rest."

The triplets chimed in, "That’s right, Mom. You should go back and sleep first. We will wait for you to come get us later on."

Neera shook her head, saying, "It’s fine, I don’t feel like resting. I can just sleep earlier tonight. You guys shouldn’t continue troubling him."

As she said that, she poked their heads and continued saying, "Stop making trouble, you naughty ones. Come back with me."

Jean felt a little deflated, as he initially wanted to discuss more about his computer system protection with Sammy.

However, he respected Neera’s wish. He nodded to show that he would go along with Neera.

…

Neera brought the triplets home, and to her surprise, they were extra obedient and sweet. They were unusually quiet compared to how they normally were.

Neera knew that they must have committed some wrongdoing. That was how well she knew her children.

She narrowed her eyes and raised a finger at them.

"All of you, come here."

The triplets exchanged glances among themselves and straightened their backs. They walked over toward Neera stiffly and stood in a row.

"Mommy, what’s the matter?"

Sammy broke out the question. He sounded innocent.

Neera studied their expressions and began, "Tell me the truth. Did you guys make trouble at Uncle Jean’s place?"

The triplets immediately objected to that notion.

"Not at all, why did you ask that, Mommy? You know that we are good kids. We wouldn’t do anything like that."

Neera did not take their words at face value. She replied, "Stop trying to fool me. Your faces already gave away the fact that you’re guilty. Spill it. What did you do?"

Seeing that they could not just fool Neera, Sammy immediately came up with some make-believe explanation.

"Actually, it’s not a big deal. I happened to destroy one of his plants, but he’s very forgiving…"

"Is that true?"

"Yeah!"

The triplets replied in unison.

Neera continued to stare at them for quite some time and found no hint of trickery on their faces. She decided to believe them for now.

Then, she knocked on Sammy’s head and said, "You should have behaved properly in the first place. Even though he did not punish you or blame you, you shouldn’t get carried away! Don’t repeat the mistake again next time, alright?"

Sammy nodded earnestly. "Alright, I got it."

It was only when Neera disappeared into the kitchen that the triplets could let go of their bated breaths.

They were lucky to be able to fool their mother this time!

…

On the other hand, Jean forwarded the system that was provided by Sammy to the technical department of his company. He wanted them to test the system.

Ian voiced his concern.

"Sire, do you harbor suspicion toward this system? You don’t believe that this system is superior to the one installed in our company, do you?"

Jean replied faintly, "Not at all. I just want to test its ability to intercept malware and attacks by hackers."

As the top corporation in the nation, the Beauvort Group was always the prime target for competitors.

The internal system had to face countless attempts at hacking by hackers on a daily basis.

That was the reason Jean and the top management team held high standards when it came to installing a protection system on their computers.

The protection system given by Sammy was far superior compared to the existing technology in the company. That was what Jean was most concerned with!

"This system is really formidable. Once we activate it, the level of protection that it can provide to our sensitive data would improve by leaps and bounds. That’s the most important thing."

Upon hearing that, Ian nodded approvingly. He then said, "l will oversee this test and make sure they get it done as soon as possible!"

At the same time, he could not help but feel impressed by the triplets. Those kids were really something else!

It would be beyond lucky for anyone to have any one of those triplets, yet Neera had three of them!

One could only imagine how lucky Neera had to be to have three of the most talented and capable kids ever!