Chapter 159 - 159: Not Worried At All
When Nathan finished preparing for everything he needed, the walkie-talkie beeped and then Kim Eunji's voice could be heard.
"Hubby are you there?" Kim Eunji said from the other line.
"Yes wifey, I am." He responded.
"I miss you." Kim Eunji said in a voice full of longing.
"I miss you, too wifey. So much!" Nathan responded.
"Sorry if I ruined this honeymoon vacation." She honestly said.
Had she not been suffering from morning sickness, they should have been enjoying walking by the beach while holding each other's hands letting the waters reach their feet and the likes.
"No wifey. Don't say that. You didn't ruin it. In fact, you and our baby made this vacation more meaningful." He said while trying to comfort her.
Then Nathan heard a faint sob from the other line.
"Are you crying?" Nathan asked her which Kim Eunji immediately denied by saying, "No, I'm not crying. A bug happened to fly by in my nose and I happened to accidentally inhaled it."
"Really? Must have hurt." Nathan said.
A faint yeah came from her mouth.
"Hubby, what are you doing right now?" Kim Eunji asked him.
"Ahm..." Nathan was torn whether he should tell her that he's leaving or not. He's sure that she won't believe him if he'd say it's for a business trip since he should have cleared all of his work schedule prior to this honeymoon.
"Hubby, are you okay?" Kim Eunji asked in a worried tone.
"Ye-yeah! I'm fine. Don't worry wifey...okay?"
"Something's bothering you. What is it?" Nathan was already like an opened book for Kim Eunji. Or was it because her pregnancy instinct?
They said pregnant women had sharp instincts than the non-pregnant women.
"Ahm, the thing is..."
"Nathan!" Kim Eunji demanded on the other line.
"I have to fly to the US tonight." There he said it. Now it was up to Kim Eunji how she would react upon hearing the news.
"Why?" Kim Eunji asked him.
"I have a hunch that whoever was behind that doctor is someone from the Johnson Family." He half-lied.
Nathan thought that he was not lying at all as this was part of his agenda, too.
To confront those people who had been praying to see him fall from the top and hit the rock bottom one day.
"Really? Did that doctor already confess?" Kim Eunji asked him.
"He kind of did. At least we now have a lead."
"I'm sorry that I could not accompany you on your trip there." Kim Eunji said with regret evident in her voice.
"No...don't say sorry to me. It's not your fault." Nathan tried to coax her.
"But I want to be with you when you face them...when you confront them. I want to be there every step of the way!" Kim Eunji whined desperately.
"You are already doing that. The thought of wanting to be there with me is enough wifey. And besides, I don't think you should come with me. Those old gazers didn't deserve even seeing a strand of your hair, or be in the same room as you."
"Tsk! I'll kill them. Those who tried to hurt you, I'll kill them!"
"Wifey! Calm down." Nathan was taken aback by this outburst.
"How can I calm down when you're in danger and I could not even protect you."
"Relax! I'll be fine. I'm a wild grass and wild grasses don't easily weathered and die."
"Just behave while I am away, okay? Listen to Manang Ines and to An Qi. They'll be by your side to take care of you. Eat...even just a little, okay? I'll be back before you knew it." Nathan told her.
"I love you, wifey." He said as he walked out of the room.
"I love you, too." Kim Eunji was trying to hold back a tear which was about to drop from her eyes.
She had to be strong. She knew he was having a hard time given with the scandal that Net International was facing at the moment.
Yes, she knew about it. She had immediately received an email notification when the news broke out.
She wanted to tell him that she knew about it but she had chosen not to.
He had his reasons why he chose not to tell her about this.
He was worried about her more than himself. Thus if he knew that she knew, he'll get worried even more.
'You should worry on yourself more than worrying me.' She wanted to say that to him over the radio.
"Come back safely okay?" She faintly said.
"Of course, I will!" Nathan confidently said.
***
Ever since Nathan left, Kim Eunji had locked herself inside their room.
She hadn't eaten lunch, dinner and breakfast and then lunch. Now, it's almost dinner time and she hadn't eaten anything yet.
This made everyone to be greatly worried for her.
"Eunji! Stop being stubborn and open the door!" An Qi heavily knocked on the door.
She leaned her ear on the door to hear any sound from the inside but they couldn't hear anything.
Inside, the room was and there was no source of light except from the light coming from the computer screen of her laptop that had been running since the time Nathan boarded that helicopter.
Her hands were dancing majestically on the keyboard as if they didn't touch on the keys while her eyes were so focused on the running rows of alphanumeric codes on the black screen.
"Just a little more, baby. Let's help daddy defeat the bad guys, okay?" Kim Eunji talked to the baby in her belly.
She hadn't eaten and hadn't sleep since then. Which was really not good for her.
She could not bear to let her man face this alone.
Since she could not be there beside him to personally give him the moral support, she decided to help him in a way that she knew best.
Especially now that the situation had become slightly not on their favor.
The enemy knew that Nathan was coming to the US to clear the name of Net International and they had taken advantage of that and released a video of Nathan beating the 'poor man' who was still wearing his prison uniform inside an abandoned warehouse.
From the looks of it, the video was real and unedited. And it was being taken just recently.
Reports claimed that Nathan had rushed to the US and dragged the guy out from prison to keep him quiet for good. 'The guy who was still serving for the crime he didn't commit to begin with.' And now the man was fighting for his life in the ICU while Nathan was probably sitting like a king on his luxurious couch.
This made the internet be in uproar once again.
The media really knew how to make the play even dirtier.
Kim Eunji could not help but commend whoever was behind this very delicate plan.
The plan that if successfully executed, Nathan would lose everything including his freedom.
Nathan would eventually be put behind bars.
However, they didn't see a major loophole in their plan.
And that loophole was Kim Eunji herself.
She could easily trace the source of the video and check it for herself.
There she found out that the video's original time stamp was taken on the day of their wedding.
Kim Eunji didn't know whether she should laugh or cry after she discovered that fact.
Then, she also hacked the CCTV server of the hospital where the guy was being confined to check on their patient database if he was really confined in there.
He was indeed confined in the hospital but not in the ICU. In fact, he was having the time of his life inside the VIP room.
After gathering the evidence that could clear Nathan's name, she then started hunting for the culprit or the culprits.
She started on who would benefit the most if Net International would go bankrupt.
The MegaTech.
On her initial trip to their system, she was impressed that they were clean but Kim Eunji knew better.
There's no such thing as clean company.
Everyone had their fair share of dirty laundries.
She was so excited to hack on their system as after all, this was one of the biggest tech companies in the world. Therefore she was expecting that their system was highly secured and heavily guarded against online hacking as well.
However to her disappointment, she passed through all of it in just seconds.
She was about to erase her footprints from their server when someone capable discovered her presence and started attacking her.
The excitement of battling a fellow hacker made her to be delighted.
Since then, she had been battling with this hacker on the other side.
For the last six hours, she had been playing around with that person.
She then found out on the sixth hour that the person was not from MegaTech. As she learned about this, she decided to stop playing around and end the hacker.
She also managed to successfully get some confidential information that could destroy MegaTech.
Now, she was plotting a wonderful plan to avenge her husband.
***
The public had been camping outside Net International with their placards and signage asking Nathan to turn himself over to the police voluntarily or else they would burn the entire building down to force him to go out.
But the question was, does Nathan really cared about that? He didn't! They were just wasting their time on making this plan to ruin him.
After all, the man in the video was not him.
From how the angle was taken, those who hadn't seen Nathan would be easily fooled and would believe that the guy was indeed Nathan.
Since Nathan's face had only been published once in the magazine and was rarely seen in public gatherings and occasions, they had used that on their advantage and hire someone to impersonate him.
"No matter what happened, don't hurt them. Instead, give them sandwiches to eat. A great show would be coming later. They'll need it." Nathan instructed.
"Master, how can you be so calm?" One of his assistant asked him.
"Why should I panic? None of those accusations were true."
He then turned his attention to Marco who was tapping the screen of his I-Pod.
"Any updates?"
"Our hacking team's on it Master."
Marco could not bear to admit that their best hacking team was being defeated by an anonymous hacker whose name was still unknown.
"Tell them to stop."
"But Master." Marco wanted to protest but decided not to especially when he saw Nathan's cold eyes.