Filed To Story: Snatched a Billionaire to be My Husband Book (Cora & Byron)
“Just now, Mr. Hansen took the Hansen Group’s people and drove several bulldozers and excavators over there. They soon cleaned up the mud and rocks.”
Jane never expected the Hansen Group to provide support enthusiastically this time, especially with
Byron personally leading the team.
It made her suspect that Byron went there for Cora.
In this way, she didn’t want Cora to come back even more.
At this time, the rescue team leader said that Clamville urgently needed medicine for treating heart diseases, and several patients with heart diseases were at risk of stopping the medication. The leader hoped Jane could arrange for someone to send some over there.
But Jane said,
“There must be this medicine in Autown. You can arrange for Cora to get it tomorrow.”
“Autown? It’s been raining heavily over there now, and mudslides may occur on the road from Clamville to Autown at any time. I think it’s better to transfer the medicines from the First Hospital…”
But before he finished speaking, Jane interrupted him,
“It’s just a short distance. The hospital is short-
handed right now, so we can’t send men there. Just arrange for Cora to go there, and don’t mention me. Otherwise, you will never be promoted to be a director.”
The man finally sighed softly,
“I see.”
The moment the phone was hung up, Jane fiddled with her long hair hanging down her shoulders.
Then she fell asleep peacefully as usual, as if nothing had happened.
Early in the morning, it was still raining in Clamville, but it had been lighter than last night significantly.
Cora got up very early to clean the wounds and change the dressings of some injured residents.
Byron appeared in her tent at some time. When she found him, she could tell from his impatient look that he had obviously been standing there for a while.
“What do you want?”
Cora was stunned when seeing his slightly tensed jawline.
“Do you want to take a shower?”
Cora was speechless.
For some reason, she found flirtation in his words.
So she deliberately glanced at a certain part of Byron’s body.
Byron clearly caught her glance at him somewhere.
He couldn’t help teasing her,
“I just asked if you want to take a shower to wash off the sweat on your body. How can you think of that? Are you lonely spending the night alone?”
He wore a black raincoat, making him clammy and uncomfortable.
Fortunately, after communication, Byron found a place where he could shower.
He knew Cora always got herself thoroughly clean every time she showered. Now that she was in heavy rain last night, he supposed she should be eager to take a shower.
But he didn’t expect Cora to get any other ideas after asking her.
“I just thought you were thinking about it.”
Cora felt her face burning hot.
“I didn’t. But if you want, I can cooperate.”
Byron didn’t expect that he would have a reaction to her glance just now.
He was on edge. He took a cigarette and put it in his mouth.
But considering that he was in the tent, he didn’t light the cigarette.
“Who thought about it? It’s you who have dirty ideas. Don’t blame me.”
Cora was a little annoyed. She didn’t want to argue with him and wanted to leave the tent.
But Byron quickly pulled her into his arms.
“Yeah, I have dirty ideas. Then you cooperate with me!”
Cora had almost done treating the patients, and only she and Byron were in the tent.
Cora leaned in his arms, recalling that he appeared like a savior last night, feeling happy.
But his dirty words give her willies.
“I won’t go.”
Byron dragged her out, and Cora hurriedly refused.
“Why? Aren’t you uncomfortable being clammy?”
“Yes. But now is not the time to shower. I have to go to Autown later.”
“Autown? Why?”
“Several kinds of medicine for heart diseases are in short supply. I have to go over there to get some.”
“You can tell the hospital and ask them to deliver them. You don’t have to take risks now. The torrential rain in Autown starts last night and lasts until this morning.”
Byron obviously disapproved of her going to Autown.
“The hospital is temporarily short-handed. I’ll be back soon.”
Actually, Cora suspected that someone had deliberately arranged this. But seeing the uneasy expressions of several patients with heart diseases and their families, she finally compromised.
“What if you encounter a mudslide on the way?”
Byron suddenly asked her with a serious expression.
“I shouldn’t be that unlucky.”
But even though Cora said so, Byron still said,
“I’ll find someone to go for you.”
The people he transferred from the Hansen Group were all veterans with rich experience in avoiding danger. They were definitely more helpful than a rookie like Cora.
“No. This is my task.”
It wasn’t a hesitant act. Cora realized that she had begun to rely on Byron both physically and mentally.
If she didn’t control herself, what would she do if Byron married someone else and stopped helping her?
It was better to be independent from the beginning than to learn to be independent in sadness and despair.
Cora rejected his kindness. Although Byron had a calm look, his eyes were cold, as if there were icebergs that would freeze for a thousand years.
“Whatever.”
He suddenly let go of her hand and strode away from the tent.
Cora didn’t know if he had gotten used to the temperature of his palm, but his sudden withdrawal made
Cora feel quite uncomfortable. She stared at her wrist in a daze for a while…
Twenty minutes later, Cora was about to leave for Autown.
Derek, the support team leader, was telling Cora some precautions, and there was only an e-bike before them.
The conversation between Cora and Derek went quite smoothly. But when she saw the e-bike, her eyebrows were furrowed obviously.
“Sorry, Dr. Lane. Most of the vehicles in the village are soaked by water and can’t work. I borrowed this e-bike from a resident.”
Derek could see that Cora was very dissatisfied with the e-bike, so he could only explain it embarrassingly.
In fact, he could borrow a car, but Jane didn’t allow him to do so.
Derek didn’t understand how a down-to-earth young woman like Cora offended Jane. He thought it was unfair but dared not disobey Jane’s order.
“Dr. Lane, you know how to ride an e-bike, right?”
Derek asked when he saw Cora staring at the e-bike silently.
“Yes.”
Before she came to Clamville to support, Cora knew this support was actually a trap set for her by someone with ulterior motives.
After arriving in Clamville, she found the real situation was as she had expected. She was responsible for all the dirty and tiring work.
However, the previous ones were small tricks compared to riding an e-bike to Autown to get medicines.
But if she failed to get the medicine, they would probably give her a hard time in her rotation assessment.
After taking a deep breath, Cora finally put on the safety helmet and got on the e-bike.
Before leaving, she looked at Byron’s tent.
He hadn’t come out since the two quarreled just now.
Now that she was leaving, many people had come out to tell her to keep safe. She believed that Byron in the tent knew she was heading for Autown.
But he still refused to come out to see her.
Cora knew that he was probably angry that she had refused his help.
However, what she did was a means of self-protection. She was afraid she would be unable to adapt to his absence and more miserable if he left her one day.
Thinking that they would end up being strangers, and even if Byron came out to see her off at this time, they could never change their ending, Cora let it go.
Then, she started the e-bike and left.
It wasn’t raining much when she set off.
But after entering the Autown, it rained heavily.
Even though she wore a safety helmet and a raincoat, she could feel her clothes had been soaked.
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