The Doormat Wife’s Ultimate Glow-Up novel Chapter 129

The thought made her eyes flash with determination. Standing in the doorway of the lab, she pulled out her phone and fired off a text to an unfamiliar number.

[Reese is back with the research team. You said you could ruin her reputation and get her kicked out of BlackOak. What do you need me to do?]

Reese pushed open the door to the lab. The room was bathed in the harsh glow of red indicator lights, blinking from every piece of equipment. She paused, her brows drawing together.

“Is there an intruder?”

Matthew sat at the table, lazily spinning a pen between his fingers. He looked up, a relaxed smile playing at his lips.

“It’s nothing,” he said, nodding at another row of terminals where green lights glowed steadily. His voice was low and warm. “The red lights are bait. The real data’s stored on the green ones.”

“So it’s a sting operation?” Reese slid into the chair beside him. Her eyes flicked across the screens, and the tension in her shoulders began to fade.

“Alright, I’ll leave that to you,” she said, fingers finding the keyboard. “I’ll work on the compatibility issues.”

The crisp sound of her typing filled the lab.

Matthew kept watching her. His gaze lingered on her focused profile, then drifted down to her lips. He swallowed, shook his head, and tried to shake off thoughts he shouldn’t be having. Quietly, he slipped out of the lab.

Reese stayed glued to her work, completely missing Matthew’s strange mood. Her fingers flew over the keys.

By the time evening rolled around, she’d solved most of the compatibility problems. She let out a breath, stretched her neck, and reached for her water bottle—only to find it already full. There was a note underneath.

“Grandpa called us home for dinner. I’ll pick up Annie and meet you there.”

Reese took a sip—the water was just the right temperature—and smiled before turning back to her screen.

When she finally left the lab, it was already dark outside. She called Matthew to check where he was, then drove out to pick up him and Annie before heading to the family estate.

The white SUV pulled up to the old house and stopped in the courtyard. Reese immediately noticed a familiar car parked next to the big ginkgo tree.

Her brows tightened. After everything that had happened, she couldn’t believe her uncle still had the nerve to show up at the Ratcliff house.

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