Chapter 442 I Can’t Help
Nicole understood what Julia meant. Now that Richard and Christi were dating, the Zuniga Family wouldn’t tolerate Julia’s presence if they found out about the child in Julia’s belly. Julia had placed all of her hopes on her child, so taking her child away would be equivalent to ending her life.
“Why don’t I get the lady in my house to care for you? Ms. Alicia is a helper Zachary brought home from his time overseas. Her lips are sealed, and she wouldn’t expose anything,” Nicole suggested.
Nicole felt like Julia needed someone to care for her. “What about Hayden?” Julia asked.
“You don’t have to worry about Hayden. He can care for himself, and I’m at home most of the time. So it’s not an issue,” Nicole replied with a laugh.
When Nicole saw the hesitant look on Julia’s face, she continued speaking. “Furthermore, judging by the sight of you, it seems you’re not going to survive alone for much longer if no one cares for you.”
Julia was silent for a while. Nicole’s right. If I don’t get someone to care for me now, I’m afraid my baby’s health will be at risk.
“Okay. I’m afraid I’ll have to trouble you then, Nicole.” Julia finally agreed in the end. Nicole beamed and rested her arms on Julie’s shoulders. “It’s no trouble at all. I’ll get Ms. Alicia to come over and help with your daily chores,” Nicole offered. Julia nodded in response.
After that, Nicole headed home and explained the situation to Alicia before getting Alicia to pack up and move to Julia’s place. After discovering that Hayden was the famous hacker, Nick, Nicole no longer felt like she had to worry about her son.
When Hayden heard about Richard dumping Julia, he was so furious that he nearly went over to crash the Jenkins’ place. Fortunately, Nicole stopped him before he could do anything. “This wasn’t Richard’s fault, Hayden. The Jenkins simply can’t afford to mess with the Zuniga Family.”
When Hayden heard about Durobrivae’s Zuniga Family, the look on his face turned helpless and discouraged. He tapped his fingers on the keyboard for a while and researched before speaking.
“If we’re dealing with the Zuniga Family, I don’t have a lot of confidence in defeating them,” Hayden remarked. If they wanted to get revenge, Hayden could do some damage to the Zuniga Family’s finances.
However, if they did such a thing, it’d be equivalent to waging war with the whole of Durobrivae. Even though Hayden was confident with his hacking skills, he was still rather worried.
Nicole reached her hand out to ruffle Hayden’s hair. “It’s fine, Hayden. It’s great that you want to do something, but even Julia herself has given up on this. So, we shouldn’t worry about this,” she said.
Even though Hayden was still young, he had a nasty temper. He widened his round eyes and let out a scoff. The Zunigas are only scary because of their power!” he declared in a prideful tone.
With a bitter smile on her face, Nicole patted Hayden on his head. “We can’t do anything even if they use their power against us,” Nicole resignedly said. “But Miss Julia…” Hayden’s eyes were filled with disappointment. He had always thought that he had everything under control, but he felt utterly helpless in this situation.
“I know,” Nicole replied. “I’ll help with everything that I can, but there’s only so much I can do. Let’s just go with the flow,” Nicole said to comfort him. I don’t have anything that can allow me to win a fight against the Zuniga Family now.
The Zuniga Family has a lot of local sources of power, and they have a business that has been running for hundreds of years. They’re not going to collapse in one night. I might be able to think of some ideas if we were overseas.
Hayden was just as disappointed, but he knew there wasn’t much he could do. Even though the news about Julia and Richard’s relationship wasn’t entirely bad, Julia received good news from the research center.
The second round of clinical trials had been a success, and they were about to go into the third round of experiments. If everything went well, they could probably administer the vaccination shots in two weeks’ time. The success of this vaccination could save tons of citizens’ lives!
