Filed To Story: Snatched a Billionaire to be My Husband Book (Cora & Byron)
Seeing Lucas’s joyful look, Cora suddenly couldn’t bear to say that she wanted to leave.
Later, she thought,
“I didn’t do anything harmful. Why should I avoid these people?”
So, in the end, she gave up the idea of leaving early. She stayed with Lucas and listened to the speech of the president of Moonware Games and the speech of Byron, the first party of the new project of
Moonware Games.
Then Lucas took her to meet his colleagues.
“Mr. Quinn, is this your girlfriend? She’s so pretty!”
“What a lovely couple. I have confidence in your relationship.”
“Mr. Quinn, when will the wedding be?”
Cora got several key pieces of information from the leader’s speech and these people’s conversations.
Lucas was the chief engineer of Moonware Games and a technical shareholder. His colleagues admired him and called him Mr. Quinn respectfully.
She also learned that the Hansen family and the Yoris family both invested in Moonware Games’s new project.
However, Cora put more of her attention on Lucas. After all, she and Byron had broken up.
Lucas’s colleagues were easy to get along with, and they said this was the first time he had introduced a woman. So they were enthusiastic.
Someone joked,
“We guessed what kind of girl Mr. Quinn would like. Most of them thought he would like the mature women, and some thought he would like the lovely ones. But we never expected him to like this type like Mr. Lane…”
“What type am I?”
Cora used to attend this kind of dinner party with her father, so she behaved extraordinarily elegantly.
Such a frank and straightforward question made Lucas’s colleague, who spoke just now, blush.
“You’re very seductive. Don’t get me wrong. It’s just men like us can’t refuse women like you.”
Everyone couldn’t help but be amused by his self-preservation.
Byron had just finished speaking on behalf of the first party when a sudden laughter came from not far away. Several people involuntarily looked over and saw Cora laughing among the crowd, shaking her shoulders.
Today, she wore a light pink dress with a one-neck collar, showing her charming collarbone and fair skin. Meanwhile, the irregular skirt made her long and straight legs particularly eye-catching.
But what caught Byron’s attention the most was her wearing the light pink lace-up stilettos.
This kind of shoes were demanding for a woman’s figure, usually suitable for a woman who had fair skin and was thin.
However, Cora always looked slender and delicate in that kind of shoes every time, making Byron feel like his throat was on fire. He could only take a few sips of red wine, intending to put out the fire.
Jane caught his absent-mindedness as soon as she looked at him. She hurriedly smiled and said,
“I heard Dr. Lane’s blind date had worked out. That man should be her fianc?. They look like a good match.”
Byron watched Cora so intently just now that Jane couldn’t help worrying that they would be back together. Therefore, she was anxious to separate them completely.
However, her words sounded harsh to Byron. He refuted her coldly,
“They just had a successful blind date. There is still a long way to go before the engagement and marriage. Did you call him her fianc??”
Cora had told him she had a successful blind date and would get married at the end of the year. But he thought Cora was still mad at him and deliberately said that. After all, they had only broken up not long ago, and it wasn’t easy to suddenly accept someone else.
He was more sure of his guess when she mentioned the wedding money to him and posted a photo on
Instagram.
But only when he heard this from Jane that he realize Cora wasn’t angry with him but that she really planned to draw a clean line with him.
As a result, his heart seemed to be on fire, and he wished to devour everything in the world, especially
Jane, who talked too much.
But Jane told him,
“They will get married at the end of the year, and words had spread in the hospital.”
Actually, Jane didn’t know whether the news had gotten around the hospital. But since Flora told her, she supposed it was true.
As a result, Byron’s rage grew.
“Don’t you have work in the hospital? Do you gossip about other people’s private lives all day long?”
“Byron, I just heard it from other people. I…”
Jane knew Byron was unhappy that Cora would get married, but she never expected him to be so merciless to her. Therefore, she felt a little wronged.
But Byron didn’t say anything to cheer her up. When the waiter passed by, he put the empty wine glass on the tray.
“I’m going to take a smoke.”
Byron turned around and left. Jane could only watch him leave in annoyance.
Cora didn’t know what had happened to Jane and Byron and was still talking and laughing with Lucas’s colleagues.
Someone passing by touched her accidentally and stained her clothes when she was eating dessert.
The man apologized repeatedly, and Cora smiled,
“Never mind. I’ll go to the restroom and clean it up.”
“I’ll come with you.”
Lucas hurriedly followed her.
“You’d better stay here, or your colleagues will wonder if I took you to make out,”
said Cora.
Lucas was slightly embarrassed.
Actually, his colleagues had implied it just now. But he didn’t expect Cora to get their idea.
“I’ll be back when I’m done. Don’t worry,”
said Cora.
“Then I’ll wait for you here. Call me if you need anything.”
Cora nodded and went to the restroom.
There was a flyover between the party hall and the restroom. To Cora’s surprise, she met Byron on the flyover.
He was smoking a cigarette with his back leaning against a guardrail. The black handmade custom suit made him look noble, elegant, and domineering.
Maybe it was because it was cold on the flyover. When Cora caught Byron’s gaze, she shivered involuntarily.
But she remembered they had broken up and remembered his indifference when they met in the hospital. Therefore, even though Cora felt a flutter in her stomach at the sight of Byron, she still tried to straighten her back, planning to pass him by.
A sad feeling weighed heavily on her mind as she walked, and every step almost exhausted her strength.
But she still walked forward without hesitation.
However, just when Cora thought she could be as indifferent as Byron was before and passed by him without distraction, she heard him ask in a terribly hoarse voice,
“Are you going to marry him?”
Cora wanted to ignore him and just walk past him.
But her body always went against her subjective will, making her stop involuntarily.
She was annoyed she was soft on Byron so soon, so she walked up to Byron suddenly and put her hand around his neck.
Looking at his deep and cold eyes, she smiled charmingly,
“Don’t you think I was joking before?”
Allowing Cora to put her arms around his neck, Byron didn’t push her away, nor did he hug her around her slender waist like before.
He looked at her with deep and cold eyes.
“No more waiting?”
“Waiting for what? Waiting for you to get married and have children or for me to get old and useless?”
She looked at him with a look of desolation and mockery.
Even though there was some nostalgia for her in Byron’s words, she knew he was saying something vague.
Maybe she would have him, and perhaps she would never have him. But no matter what, she would spend the best years of her life in hopeless waiting.
However, the last thing Cora wanted was that she would be proven to be the mistress while she was waiting for Byron.
She was torn between reason and love, feeling miserable.
The two just stared at each other. After a long time, Byron stubbed out his cigarette and asked,
“Have you really figured it out?”
Compared to the tone he used when they had an unpleasant conversation and broke up in the apartment, it was even calmer.
But Cora knew he proposed the breakup on his own initiative this time.
If she agreed, their relationship would be completely over.
But even though Cora was aware of that, the pain of parting made her almost desperate. She still nodded and said,
“Yeah. I’ve thought it over.”
She was tired and didn’t want to waste her enthusiasm for the rest of her life on waiting.
Furthermore, if she became a mistress, not only wouldn’t Flora spare her, but she would also look down on herself.
“Then…
send me the invitation card when you get married, and I will go to your wedding.”
Byron’s eyes were still deep, making it difficult to tell whether he was really sad.
Cora tried to figure out his emotion several times but finally gave up.
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