Filed to story: Snatched a Billionaire to be My Husband Book (Cora & Byron)
Byron knew he should refuse, but Cora was so charming that he couldn’t resist her at all.
The two spent three hours in the bathroom before coming out.
Cora had already fallen asleep. After putting her on the bed, Byron called Carter.
“Check what happened to her today.”
“Her?”
Carter had just finished the meeting and couldn’t figure out who he was talking about.
But soon, he realized it was Cora.
Carter seemed to have never seen Byron leaving business behind for anyone except for Cora.
Cora woke up with a cold.
But it was not surprising. She had been exposed to the cold wind all afternoon yesterday and had made out with Byron for too long. Her body was on the point of breaking down.
She rolled over and got out of bed. Stifling the dizziness in her head, she planned to go to a nearby pharmacy to buy medicine.
She had no one to rely on and had been forced to learn to care for herself.
As for Byron, she never thought he would stay and take care of her and didn’t dare to expect him to do so.
Unexpectedly, the bedroom door was pushed open as soon as she got out of bed.
“Are you awake?”
Byron walked in under her astonished gaze and went to her and took her temperature.
“The fever has come down. Drink some oatmeal before taking the medicine.”
He was tall. Standing in front of Cora, he almost blocked all the light.
Cora looked at his slightly tensed profile under the half-dark light, feeling a little dazed.
“Why haven’t you left yet? Don’t you have to go to work?”
“I’m working from home today.”
Cora wanted to ask if it was because she had a cold.
But on second thought, she denied her idea.
Cora knew how much Byron valued her.
Even if he had some affection for her, she didn’t think Byron, who was always proud, would leave his work behind just because she caught a cold.
Maybe it was because Cora remained silent for a long time. Byron felt a little awkward. He suddenly asked,
“What about you? Aren’t you going to the hospital today?”
His gaze was fixed on her little face as he asked as if he wanted to get some information from her face.
But Cora only said,
“It’s my day off.”
Apart from slightly furrowed eyebrows, she seemed to have no other expression.
“Are you sure?”
When Cora looked up at Byron again, she was sure she should have known what had happened in the hospital yesterday.
It made sense. He was Eason’s uncle, so this kind of thing naturally reached his ears quickly.
But he asked the question knowingly, making Cora feel angry. So she provoked him.
“How do you feel after knowing I beat your nephew’s fianc?e?”
To Cora’s surprise, Byron answered her seriously,
“Not bad. But I don’t advocate fighting to solve it.”
Cora’s lips twitched visibly.
“Is Eason your nephew?”
“Drink oatmeal, take the medicine, and then sleep.”
Cora didn’t know if Byron was too lazy to respond to her or what, but he walked downstairs after finishing speaking.
Cora was confused but followed him downstairs.
Then she saw a bowl of oatmeal on the low table in her small living room, and the logo of a well-known hotel was printed on the porcelain.
But what surprised her even more was that Byron was having a video conference on her couch with a laptop. And there were a lot of documents piled up beside him.
He seemed very busy, so Cora didn’t bother him. After eating the oatmeal and taking the medicine, she picked up the phone and saw an unread message from Sally.
[Give me a video call when you wake up!]
Cora hesitated for a moment but decided to make a video call to Sally to report her safety.
Sally must have known what happened yesterday. But it was not easy for her to endure it until now.
As soon as the video call was connected, Sally gritted her teeth and questioned,
“Cora, how could you do this? Why didn’t you tell me first when such a big thing happened? Did you treat me as a friend?”
Sally was in the andrology department with the patients yesterday. She didn’t know the news until she returned to the office at nine o’clock in the evening.
“I just don’t want to involve you. This is obviously a trap.”
“But if the hospital suspends you and issues a notice of criticism, your rotation assessment will be over.
What will you do in the future?”
Sally’s expression was very bad. She stayed up all night, thinking about
Cora’s matter.
Others didn’t know Cora’s obsession with being a doctor, but Sally did.
When they were in the same dormitory back then, she saw with her own eyes how Cora devoted herself to studying medicine tirelessly and even squeezed time out of her busy schedule to attend all the subjects arranged by her mother.
“There will be a way,”
Cora said.
“What way? I heard that an announcement will come out at noon tomorrow.”
In other words, Cora must come up with a countermeasure before noon tomorrow.
Looking at the blue sky, Cora sniffed.
“I’m unsure whether it will work, but you must not make trouble. I know you are not afraid of trouble. But the less trouble, the better.”
“Mr. Gray said the same thing yesterday. He also said the more I trouble Mia, the worse your situation will be.”
If Erik hadn’t persuaded Sally for so long yesterday, she would have rushed to Mia’s hospital bed and beaten her to kneel.
After persuading her, Erik was still worried she would still cause trouble. So he gave Sally a day off.
The two chatted for a while. Sally suddenly asked Cora mysteriously,
“Did Mr. Pope spend the night at your place yesterday?”
“Don’t deny it to me! When I called you last night, Carter told me you had a cold and needed rest and asked me to find you tomorrow.
“Have you got better from your cold? Seeing your appearance, you should be much better. Sure enough, love is the panacea for healing.”
Before Cora could speak, Sally continued meanly and sighed,
“Oh, Carter’s voice is so magnetic, like an electric current. It reached my ear and spread over my body. That was so alluring!”
Cora was so embarrassed that she wished for the ground to open and swallow her immediately.
Just now, she saw Byron standing at the door of the bedroom.
She didn’t know how much he heard when she discussed his voice with Sally just now.
“Sally, let’s talk about this later. I’ll hang up.”
Cora hurriedly wanted to end this embarrassing situation.
“It seems like Carter is still by your side! Alright, I know you well. You always put love before friendship.
See you!”
Sally joked with Cora again before hanging up the video call.
The bedroom returned to deathly silence.
When Cora was thinking about how to break the deadlock in a friendly and polite manner, Byron suddenly asked,
“Carter?”
Cora suddenly froze. Obviously, he had heard everything she had chatted with Sally just now.
After pondering for a while, Cora explained,
“When Mr. Pope and I signed the wine agreement, Sally bumped into us. She misunderstood my relationship with Mr. Pope.”
“Don’t you explain it to her?”
“I don’t think it’s necessary to explain.”
The relationship between her and Carter depended on Byron.
She and Byron might break up one day. Then, this misunderstanding would not continue.
Byron’s expression was indifferent, as if he had also acquiesced to this.
“Take the medicine and rest. I have a meeting later.”
Cora wanted to say,
“You are so busy that there is no need to stay here.”