“Just because your wife didn’t come back, you’re stopping me from finding a lovely wife. It’s so unfair!” GunGun wiped his tears and kicked his short legs in frustration.Rudra realized that all this fuss was about his sister-in-law. After Shivam left the bedroom, he went in and flicked GunGun’s forehead. “As your uncle, I want to help you, but you deserve to be punished! Why did you mention his wife?”
“Rudra, get out!” Shivam snapped from outside the bedroom.
Rudra was so scared that he rushed out immediately. “Brother, did GunGun ruin your meeting with my sister-in-law? He just wanted to see her. He looked so pitiful that I gave in, but I didn’t expect—”
“She had no idea that GunGun existed,” Shivam interrupted, giving him a hard kick.
Hearing that, Rudra froze. How could his sister-in-law not know about GunGun’s existence?
In that case, he had really made a huge mistake!
“Brother...” His knees began trembling in fear.
Seeing his brother walk into the study, he hurriedly followed him.
“Anything else?”
Rudra had put on a sad face. “Brother, it’s something very important. Otherwise, I wouldn’t disturb you like this.”
“Just spit it out.”
“You know that hackers have always been trying to attack our company’s systems. It’s normal. In the past decade, we’ve been dealing with an average of 30, 000 attacks every day. That’s the reason we hired our cybersecurity specialists. But over the past few days, there has been a particularly fierce hacker attacking us. Our engineers were almost unable to defend against it. Brother, you have to do something!”
Shivam unhurriedly turned on the computer and rolled up his sleeves. There was a calm expression on his face, and a faint smile hanging on his lips.
Seeing that, Rudra knew that his brother was going to bring out the big guns, so he threw his fist up excitedly and said, “Ha, you can’t escape! My brother is about to take out his sword of justice!”
In the bedroom, GunGun kept crying.
But after a while, his throat was dry and rough, so he went over to the table, grabbed his water bottle, and took a few sips of water.
A box on the table caught his attention. He picked it up and looked at it. There was nothing in it, but on the wrapping paper was a series of numbers.
After reading them one by one, he found two simple words written behind the numbers.
He recognized the two words as he spelled them out. “I-S-H-A S-H-A-R-M-A? Isha Sharma? Ishi? It’s Ishi’s number!”
He immediately smiled through tears, grabbed his smart watch, and dialed the number.
Sitting on the sofa, Isha was exceptionally depressed.
She had gone through too much in one day, and she was emotionally exhausted.
When she heard the phone ring, she hesitated for a while before answering it.
“Ishi!”
A sweet childish voice came through the phone.
It took a moment for her to recognize the voice. “GunGun, why are you calling me?”
“Ishi, it’s really you! I found your phone number on a box. I miss you so much... Daddy is a really bad guy. He didn’t allow me to stay with you!”
Isha burst into laughter. GunGun was such a cute little boy! Her own son, Abhay, was very sensible and mature for his age, so he had never cried or laughed wantonly as GunGun did.
“Your daddy is right. You can’t just blindly chase after every beautiful girl you see. What if she turns out to be a wolf in sheep’s clothing?”
GunGun giggled. “Ishi, you’re not a wolf. You’re a cute girl! Daddy’s wife is not cute, that’s why he doesn’t want me to marry a cute girl...”
Su Bei paused before asking, “GunGun, your daddy has a wife, right?”
“Of course!” GunGun replied without hesitation, tilting his head. The whole Pratap family knew that his father’s wife was studying abroad. “But she is not as lovely as you!”
Isha secretly gritted her teeth in anger. ‘Shivam, you bastard!’ It turned out that he really had a woman!
She really didn’t mind that he had a wife. After all, five years had passed. She had never expected him to wait for her, a woman that he didn’t even know.
However, he shouldn’t have lied to her.
At the same time, she knew that she had no right to get angry. She could just take it as his revenge against her for leaving without saying goodbye back then.
Now they could call it even!
Fortunately, she hadn’t told him about Abhay’s existence. Otherwise, things would have become really complicated.
“Ishi, will you come to see me?” GunGun asked eagerly, tilting his round head.
Isha let out a soft chuckle. “I’ll come if I get the chance. Be a good boy. Good night.”
After hanging up the phone, she sighed slightly. No matter what, it was shameless of Shivam to lie to her without any conscience, claiming that he had a son but no woman.
How could he have a son without a woman?
Even a child would be more honest than him!
Well, forget it. She could just call it even. They wouldn’t owe anything to each other anymore.
Then, she grabbed a cushion and sat on the sofa in a daze.
In the study of Shivam’s house, he finally stood up after defending against the powerful attack from the new hacker. He looked at his brother and said indifferently, “Ask this person to come to the company and report for duty.”
Rudra’s face broke out into a smile at once. “As long as you’re around, we can solve anything!”
Seeing that his brother seemed to be unhappy to hear that, he hurriedly flattered him even more. “You’re a king! You beat everyone! This hacker is the best one we’ve gotten. Should we offer him or her the highest salary?”
“It’s up to you.” After saying that, Shivam walked out of the study without looking back.
“No wonder hackers like attacking us. As long as they can cause great pressure on our defense system, they’ll be hired at our company with a high salary,” Rudra muttered to himself. “Well, let me see who you are! Come and show yourself!”
He sent a sincere job offer to the e-mail address that Shivam had given him.
A moment later, there was a ping on Abhay’s iPad telling him that he had received a new email.
When he was about to open it, Moni came over and threw a set of pajamas to him. “Abhay, enough of playing with that. Kids should go to bed early and get up early. It’s good for your health!”
Abhay turned the iPad over and clicked on the newly received e-mail. When he saw that the name of the sender was “Invincible Swordsman,” he couldn’t help shaking his head in disdain. The employees of the Pratap Group were so childish!
Shivam went to his son’s room. GunGun was sitting on the chair with his head on the desk. He had fallen asleep with tears on his face, looking pitiful.
Shivam picked him up and tucked him into the soft bed.
When he returned to his bedroom, he took out his phone and dialed the number that was written on the box, the one he had already memorized.
After a few rings, Isha’s sweet voice came from the other end of the line. “Hello, Isha here. Who is this?”
“It’s me.” A faint smile appeared at the corners of Shivam’s lips.
“Hello, Mr. Pratap.” Isha spoke in a chirpy, high-pitched voice, wanting to sound polite. But on the contrary, she sounded distant and alienating, as if she was talking to a stranger.
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