Filed To Story: Snatched a Billionaire to be My Husband Book (Cora & Byron)
“I won’t believe what you say in bed.”
“We’re on the sofa now.”
Cora was speechless.
Byron kissed her again.
That night, the two had passionate sex.
But soon Cora did something to test whether Byron meant what he said.
One day, Arnold sent a message: [Wednesday is the wedding anniversary of my second son and daughter-in-law. They will hold a small party at home to celebrate it. Join us. Your senior brothers will also come. Bring your work with you. I will check it.]
[Okay.]
Cora knew that Arnold’s second son and daughter-in-law were William and Sara, the two she disliked the most.
But for some plans, she agreed.
Although she was a little ashamed of the motivation for agreeing to attend the party, she was very concerned about the work assigned by Arnold.
Soon, it was Wednesday.
Although Arnold said that this was just a small party to celebrate the wedding anniversary of his second son and daughter-in-law, there were quite a few people. The Yoris family had been doing quite well in these two years. Moreover, Jane was Byron’s fianc?e, and Byron was very wealthy in New York, so many people wanted to attach themselves to the Yoris family.
Sara wore a lavender dress, and her hair was put up elegantly and intellectually.
She stood aside, but many people came to chat with her. They praised her clothes, jewelry, makeup, and the love between her and William.
Sara felt these people were hypocritical. After all, she and William didn’t love each other.
However, she wouldn’t expose her shortcomings in front of them, so she responded with a false smile on her face.
Just then, she saw William, who was entertaining male guests, smiling and leading Cora toward the room where Arnold was.
She followed immediately and stopped them before William was about to bring Cora into the room.
“What are you doing here?”
Cora looked at Sara’s defensive look with smiling eyes. It seemed that her warning had worked.
“I came to attend the party.”
Compared with her aggressiveness in the coffee shop, Cora’s tone today was much softer.
Especially, she was weak and well-behaved, so the elders liked her.
But Sara felt that Cora was scheming.
As a guest, Cora was well-behaved. She didn’t show off her figure but wore a plain and elegant dress.
In addition, her tone was not as sharp as before. If Sara hadn’t confronted her before, Sara would have thought that she was a good girl.
But Sara had confronted Cora before and knew that Cora was scheming, so she reminded coldly,
“But I didn’t invite you!”
The more Sara looked at Cora, the more strangely familiar she felt.
Sara felt that it must be because of that bitch Flora.
Because of Flora, Sara doubted Cora’s motives for appearing in the Yoris Mansion, and she could not tolerate Cora staying here.
But William soon noticed that Sara was being rude, so he explained,
“Sara, Cora was invited by Dad.”
“Why are you so eager to make excuses for her? Is it because she looks like that woman and reminds you of the past? You couldn’t be with her mother, so you want to be with her, right?”
Sara lowered her voice, but it was not difficult to see that she was out of control.
She and William seemed to be in love, but because of Flora, they didn’t, so she easily lost control of herself when it came to Flora.
“Sara, if you think it is necessary to continue this party, just shut up.”
William didn’t bother to explain. He just threatened Sara directly.
Apparently, Sara had made a fuss about this countless times over the years, and William felt that explaining it was a waste of time.
But Cora felt it was necessary to explain it.
“Mrs. Sara Yoris, you are a representative of the noble ladies in New York. Don’t always say something stupid, okay? Since you are married, your reputation is not so important. But I am single. I can’t let you wrong me in this way. If you continue to ruin my reputation like this, I can only resort to the law to defend my legal rights.”
Cora was neither humble nor overbearing, and she didn’t say any dirty words, but it made Sara feel worse than being insulted!
But seeing William’s disgusted expression, Sara realized that she had fallen into Cora’s trap.
“I just doubt your motive for appearing in our house. You don’t know Dad well. How could he invite you?”
Sara did not forget that the last time in the coffee shop, Cora said that she would make Sara pay the price for hurting her with wine glasses.
“Looks like your daughter hasn’t told you that she and I were apprenticed to her grandpa at the same time.”
Cora smiled shallowly, showing no emotion.
“Apprentice?”
Sara was taken aback. She went on vacation with several other noble ladies these days, so she didn’t have time to talk about it with Jane.
Just then, Arnold came out of the room.
“Cora, here you are. I received your message and planned to wait for you outside!”
Same as before, Arnold greeted Cora with a smile.
Cora greeted sweetly,
“Sir Yoris.”
She looked sidelong at Sara.
The realization hit Sara like a thunderbolt.
“Did you bring your work? Show me now.”
Arnold didn’t know what happened between Cora and Sara. He just wanted to see Cora’s learning results in the past few days as soon as possible.
Since learning from Arnold, Cora took the time to visit him a few times and learned some skills from him.
She used his unfinished carvings to demonstrate the skills she had learned.
Arnold had not seen Cora’s first work under his guidance so far, so he was very curious.
“Here it is.”
Cora saw that Sara was furious, so she followed Arnold into the room and showed her achievement over the past few days to the senior brothers and many friends of Arnold.
It was a small lifelike lion.
But it was not exactly the same as the design drawing Arnold gave her.
The small lion on the design drawing given by Arnold was lying and resting, which looked a little gentler, but the one carved by Cora arched its back and was about to attack.
It was difficult to show posture and expression.
But Cora had done a good job. Especially, she used the skills Arnold had taught her before.
“Why not follow the drawing?”
Arnold asked after seeing the work.
“Compared with a lazy and dozing lion, I prefer its attacking posture, because at this time it needs to be resourceful and brave to defeat the enemy.”
Cora was talking about the lion and herself, so she didn’t say
“target the prey”, but
“defeat the enemy”.
“Good,”
Arnold said. The more he looked at the attacking lion, the more he liked it.
Just then, Jane also entered the room and showed her achievement over the past few days.
Arnold gave her a drawing of an eagle with spread wings, and she carved exactly the same eagle.
Similarly, she also applied the skills taught by Arnold. Although she was not as skillful as Cora in the application of those skills, she had put in a lot of effort.
Compared with Cora’s free rein, Jane’s eagle seemed mediocre and constrained.
But Jane was Arnold’s granddaughter, so he didn’t praise Cora’s work in front of her. He just said,
“It seems that you will defeat our opponents.”
Although Arnold didn’t point out whose work was better, his apprentices had sharp eyes.
They discussed this among themselves after leaving the room.
“I think Cora’s work is more vivid.”
“Yes. The small lion wants to attack, but it also defends itself. It is like those who make a living in hard times.”
“Do you think our master doesn’t know Cora’s work is better? When he saw it, his eyes lit up! But he didn’t make comments because he didn’t want to embarrass his granddaughter!”
“If our master is partial to his granddaughter, he can just teach all the skills to her privately.”
They were trying to defend Cora. It was understandable. They thought that Cora’s work was better, so she deserved more praise and would have a brighter future.
Arnold seemed to be good to Cora, but in fact, he was partial to Jane. Even if Cora had excellent work in the future, it would be difficult for her to stand out. This was the reason why they tried to defend
Cora.
But Jane heard what they said.
She didn’t feel that her work was much worse than Cora’s. She just felt that she hadn’t had much exposure to woodcarving before. Her work was not as good as Cora’s, because Cora had carved a few small objects before, but she would catch up one day.
With that said, Jane targeted Cora again.
But she didn’t know that Cora was being dragged to a remote corner of the garden by Sara and warned,
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