A Replacement Bride

Chapter 205

"You really don't want me to go with you, Grandma? It's too dangerous for you to go alone." Katherine handed Jennifer the offerings she had prepared while looking helplessly at the obstinate elder.

"You really don't want me to go with you, Grandma? It's too dangerous for you to go alone." Katherine handed Jennifer the offerings she had prepared while looking helplessly at the obstinate elder.

At that, Jennifer shot her a glare and sassed, "Yea, sure, I look like an immobile ninety-year-old. I can go alone. Don't worry about me; just arrange for someone to take me there. Don't you dare stalk me! I haven't talked to your grandfather for ages, and I don't want you kids to hear me." Text © 2024 NôvelDrama.Org.

"Alright, be careful then. Call me if you need anything, okay?" Katherine sighed with feigned helplessness and pretended to agree reluctantly. Later, the chauffeur took Jennifer away from Soulin International after she entered the vehicle with the offerings.

It wasn't until the elder had left that Katherine turned grim, watching the car disappear from her sight for a long time before withdrawing her gaze.

"A tracker's been planted in the car. I suppose your grandmother isn't going to the cemetery your grandfather is buried in, but if we follow them now, we might risk exposing ourselves," concluded Joaquin as he came out of the apartment and stood next to Katherine, who said nothing, becoming grimmer by the second.

She had hacked into Jennifer's phone the night before and gotten her phone records. Thus, she naturally heard the phone recording as well. No matter whether what the other said was trustable, it was still vile of them to use a deceased old man's skeleton as a threat, even more so when it was the grandfather whom she respected deeply. This definitely isn't something I would let slide.

"No matter. I'll join them in their game," Katherine sneered, then entered the apartment.

Joaquin, on the other hand, stood silently at the door for some time before following her inside.

Katherine was behaving more and more like her true self nowadays. Perhaps it was out of her trust for Joaquin or the fact that far too many of her aliases had been uncovered before him that she was used to it and had no intention of hiding them from him anymore.

He watched as she disassembled the wristwatch that she wore into a tablet within seconds. Then, as she operated the device, Joaquin sat down and finally mumbled after taking a gander at her, "Soulin International. Is it under your name?"

Katherine paused her dancing fingers abruptly at that. She turned to glance at Joaquin, pursed her lips, and finally withdrew her gaze after a long while as she returned to operating on the device. "So?"

"You didn't have to leave for Fontan when you already had Soulin International five years ago. So, why?" Joaquin glanced at the computer screen and found a series of codes. He could guess it was for tracking, but as for who she was tracking, he couldn't tell.

"Grandma wasn't doing great back then. Staying would only affect her recovery," she replied without ever looking up.

"And this time? You didn't return just to agree to Jorge's demand and your grandmother's request to marry me, did you?" Joaquin felt somewhat helpless.

Katherine finally glanced at Joaquin after pressing the final character. "You're right. I didn't come back for you. Professor Muller and I already had a project together at the time, and to work on the drug for brain cell revival this time, I had to come back and monitor their experiment myself. Getting engaged and even marrying you was just to help me cover up my identity. If I knew you had such a tricky identity, I wouldn't have said yes."

The young woman explained the matter so matter-of-factly that Joaquin didn't know what to say for a moment.

Meanwhile, the program she had written ran for a round and a city map with multicolored dots appeared on the screen within seconds.

Joaquin thought something didn't look right as he looked at the dots. "This is—"

"A map of Hovington. The dots represent the various forces and also hunters that have entered the city while the black dots represent the hunters. The red dots are the bunch of people targeting Grandma. The blue ones… I'm not too sure what they're here for yet, but the red ones are coming for me," Katherine explained in detail.

Meanwhile, the guys in the IT department of Area Seven Security Center were on the verge of breaking down as Area Seven's security system was facing an unprecedented attack. In fact, the entire system had collapsed, and something like this hadn't happened since the time Katherine reinforced the system for them.

The guys were overwhelmed at this point, and to make things worse, Jeremy and the others weren't around on that day, of all days. So, they couldn't get to them even if they wanted to.

Alas, desperate times called for desperate measures and they ended up calling Joaquin.

Just as Joaquin thought things were becoming increasingly suspicious as he watched Katherine operate the tablet, his phone rang. When he realized that it was from Area Seven, he answered it reflexively.

"We've met with a dire situation here, Sir! Our security system has been damaged. The attacker had infiltrated the entire city's surveillance system, and now we've lost control over Hovington! We don't

know what the attacker is after just yet, just that they now have control over the city's surveillance system. If they have any ill intentions, Hovington will be in danger! Can you please ask Miss Cornell to come over and fix the system for us?" The technician looked to be on the verge of tears.

Meanwhile, Joaquin took a silent glance at Katherine. The 'attacker' you're talking about is the same person you're asking to fix the system. However, he didn't mention any of it in the end but only rubbed his nose in helplessness. "Don't worry. Just ignore it. The system will return to normal by itself later."

With that, he hung up and looked speechlessly at Katherine. This girl can really do anything for the sake of her grandmother.

Right then, sirens were going off in various locations within Hovington because for an entire surveillance system to be hacked was no minor issue. It wasn't just Area Seven; the alarms in Hovington's traffic, police, and fire department, as well as the Department of State, had all gone off as well. In fact, it was the highest level of Code Black.

The entire city fell into chaos for a moment, and all parties gathered to capture the attacker as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, the 'attacker' had gotten Jennifer's location. With that, she zoomed in on the map, pin- pointed all the graveyards within a hundred-mile radius, and finally locked her target on Balmoral Cemetery.

It was the closest graveyard to where Darren was buried, and there were no surveillance cameras around—the perfect place to commit a crime.

After getting a lock on the location, she reassembled the computer into a watch, wore it on her wrist, and headed out with a grim face.