Chapter 218

So it’s ‘bro’ now, is it?
Theodore sent Penelope upstairs to rest while he went to help Timothy, quickly scanning his program and pointing out the errors. Penelope watched for a while, but finding it utterly boring, she went up to bed.
She slept until the sun was high in the sky. Yawning, she made her way downstairs and found Timothy still furiously typing away at his keyboard.
“Are you planning to code yourself to death?” she asked, exasperated.
Timothy shot her a glare. “Can you not curse me first thing in the morning?”
“Where’s your brother-in-law?”
“What brother-in-law? I don’t acknowledge him!”
Penelope scoffed. Yesterday he’d been calling him ‘bro’ so affectionately, and now he was completely disowning him?
Timothy stopped typing and swiveled in his chair to face her, his expression
serious. “Go wash your face, clear your head, and come back down when you’re fully awake. I need to talk to you about something important.”
The nerve of this kid…
“You’ve still got sleep in your eyes!” she retorted.
“Really?”
Penelope immediately rubbed at her eyes and hurried back upstairs. She didn’t find anything, but since she was already up there, she figured she might as well get ready for the day.
After she had showered and dressed, she was surprised to find breakfast laid out on the second-floor dining table. As she stood there wondering, a woman emerged from the elevator carrying a tureen of porridge.
“Good morning, ma’am. You’re awake.”
“And you are?”
“You can call me Cindy. I’m the cook. There are other staff for cleaning, housekeeping, and gardening. The master prefers his privacy, so we all live in the villa across the way.”
So that was it. She’d always wondered how such a large house was kept so immaculately clean without ever seeing any staff. It wasn’t as if Theodore was doing it himself.
“You can let me know your preferences, ma’am. From now on, whenever you’re here, I’ll prepare your meals just the way you like them.”
“Oh, uh, I probably won’t be here that often.”
“Very well. Please enjoy your meal. I’ll be heading down now.”
Penelope
alled out to Timothy, but
when he didn’t comeup,
two plates of breakfast
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“Are you trying to turn yourself into a mummy? Eat something first.”
She placed a plate beside him, but he was still clattering away at his code.
“I’m almost done.”
“Are you?”
It was all just a dense block of text to her; she couldn’t make heads or tails of it.
“I’ve been keeping an eye on Start Tech.,” he said. “When I heard their new boss was the heir to the Stapleton family, I figured he
just some spoiled rich kid wi wamet
no
real talent. I never expected him to be this brilliant. And he personally led the development of their latest interactive android fsk, tsk The guy’s a genius, professionally speaking, but his character is
another story.”
Penelope was just about to put a spoonful of porridge in her mouth when his words made her pause. She looked over at him.
“What do you mean, ‘another story’? Explain yourself.”
Timothy typed out two more lines and finally finished. He stretched his arms, then turned to face Penelope.
“Natalie Taylor, the famous actress. You know who she is, right?”
Penelope’s eyes darted sideways. She had a sinking feeling she knew where this was going.
“You’ve been digging into Theodore?”
“I hacked his computer.”
“Timothy!”
“Don’t you want to know his secrets?”
“No!” Penelope shot to her feet. “What you did was completely and utterly out of line-”
“He’s in love with that woman!”
“He’s just a fan of Natalie’s.”
“No, he loves her. He even tried to kill himself over her!”
“What?”
Theodore tried to kill himself over Natalie Taylor?