Chapter 8
I told Jack everything I knew.
He frowned as he listened. “Am I some big shot in this world?”
I teased him, “Maybe! You could be the main character, which is why the transmigrator is so obsessed with you.”
Jack was stunned for a Moment, then wrapped his
arms around me.
He said, “So by your logic, you’re supposed to be my female lead, or else she wouldn’t be so hung up on
you.”
I had actually thought about that before, so I laughed and said, “Who knows, maybe.”
The detective Jack hired turned out to be pretty solid and quickly dug up Ryan’s background.
All the personal info Ryan gave was fake, even the name he used.
Based on his connections, Jack and I zeroed in on a woman who seemed like the trans Migrator.
Turns out Ryan’s cousin Olivia got into a nasty car wreck half a year ago.
Her injuries were so severe that anyone else would’ve been a goner.
But she made it, and bounced back as if nothing happened. Talk about a Miracle!
Turned out Jack knew Olivia.
Her folks owned a small diner just outside Jack’s worksite.
Jack ate there all the time, so he ended up getting to know Olivia, who helped out at the place.
The night Jack got wasted, and someone picked up his phone, Olivia was on shift.
Suddenly, it all made sense.
But according to Jack, whenever he went to the diner, Olivia never went out of her way to get close to him. She always kept things polite and distant.
There was zero sign she was trying to make a Move on him, so Jack never thought twice about it.
Maybe Olivia was keeping her distance on purpose, so she wouldn’t come off as someone chasing after a
Married Man.
She might’ve been planning to wait until Jack got divorced, then start acting all caring and snatch him up while he was vulnerable.
Or Maybe Jack was just so oblivious that he never picked up on any of her signals.
Once we had our target locked in, Jack and I weren’t so anxious anymore.
We quietly shifted from being the prey to becoming the hunters.
Ryan was always trying to hit on me, coming up with all sorts of excuses just to get close.
Following Jack’s plan, I kept him on the hook, never too cold, never too warm.
I made sure he thought I was interested, but never actually crossed the line into cheating.
Ryan was getting frustrated, but he didn’t have the guts to push things, so he just kept trying to win me over every single day.
What really Made My skin crawl was how he was seriously into me in that way, constantly making suggestive COMмents about wanting something to happen between us.
I kept up with my prenatal checkups, but sometimes I wouldn’t actually go, and I saw a different doctor every single time.
I wasn’t about to give Olivia even the tiniest opening to pull anything.
It wasn’t until my final prenatal checkup, right before My due date, that we finally settled on the doctor who’d be handling my delivery.
When the big day came, we switched things up and went to a different hospital at the last minute.
Our son was born without a hitch.
The day I got out of the hospital, Jack and I had just stepped out of the car right outside our building when a car suddenly went out of control and sped straight toward me while I was holding our baby.
Jack dropped our bags and yanked me out of the way just in time.
The driver rushed over, apologizing over and over, saying he’d accidentally slammed the gas instead of the brakes.
Jack didn’t hesitate. He called the police right away and handed over all the evidence the detective had
dug up.
The driver was a total nervous wreck and spilled everything in no time.
With the driver’s confession, the cops quickly zeroed in on Olivia.
When the cops came to take her away, she was still yelling stuff like, “I’m a trans Migrator. I’ve got a cheat system. I’m the real heroine of this world!” She
sounded totally delusional.
She wasn’t insane at all, so she ended up getting
sentenced to life behind bars.
Our son forgot everything before he was born, so when he came into the world, he was just like any other baby.
By the time our son turned three, Jack had paid off all his old debts. When our boy was five, Jack started his second business.
This time, he launched a tech company.
Things went smoothly from there. Less than ten years later, he was already an industry leader.
As for me, with Jack backing me up, I started my own new media company, and it ended up thriving, too.
Guess this was the kind of luck only the main
characters get.