Filed to story: Snatched a Billionaire to be My Husband Book (Cora & Byron)
If she never knew the answer, would she be able to stay with Byron forever?
However, she knew that escaping was never the solution.
In the end, she answered the phone.
On the other side of the phone, Gabe’s excited voice soon came.
He said,
“Cora, it’s done! We got Phoenix Project!”
When Cora heard the result, she felt her heart was dead.
Her voice became hoarse.
“Really? That’s great.”
Gabe said,
“Let’s go out to celebrate tonight…”
Gabe was too excited, and he didn’t notice that Cora was in a bad mood.
Cora said,
“I have something tonight, so I won’t go. Go celebrate and have fun.”
She had already been ready for a showdown with Byron at night.
Gabe said,
“Okay, I’ll take you to celebrate another day.”
He reminded Cora,
“Tell your friend who works in Sunda Group to be careful. When the result was announced today, the person in charge of Sunda Group was furious. I think he will investigate this matter.”
Cora said,
“Don’t worry, my friend resigned a long time ago and went abroad.”
She didn’t tell Gabe that she lied to him, so she could only continue to talk nonsense.
Gabe said,
“That’s good. I’ll hang up. I need to go through some procedures.”
“Okay,”
Nora said.
After finishing the phone call with Gabe, Cora’s stomach hurt so much that she was sweating.
However, she still finished her work calmly, and then went home, waiting for Byron to come back.
She thought that after such a serious accident, Byron would stay in the company to deal with it, and he couldn’t come back to have dinner with her as promised.
Unexpectedly, not long after she arrived home, Byron also came back.
What surprised her the most was that Byron gently rubbed her hair.
He said,
“Why don’t you change your clothes? We are going out to eat.”
His tone was as gentle as ever.
It seemed that the affairs of the company did not affect his interest at all.
Cora was slightly stunned, and she thought that he didn’t take his anger out on her because he hadn’t found out what she had done yet.
But this nervous feeling made her uncomfortable.
She couldn’t bear it, and she didn’t dare to shamelessly enjoy the tenderness he gave her, who was a betrayer.
Therefore, she took the initiative to admit what she had done.
She said,
“It’s me. I’m the one who leaked the price and plan of the Phoenix Project. You can call the police now and arrest me.”
As she spoke, she kept looking at her shoes, as if there was something reassuring.
After explaining the truth, she was waiting for Byron’s trial.
But after a long time, she didn’t hear his response.
It was so long that she wondered if he was still standing by her side.
When she looked up, she saw that Byron had been staring at her all the time.
However, there was no surprise on his face, let alone any anger.
It was as if there was a mask on his face.
Cora opened her mouth but didn’t know what to say.
Byron broke the silence and said,
“I knew. So, have you calmed down?”
Byron still had a gentle look. He didn’t even raise his voice, and he treated Cora gently as always.
His words made Cora push him away, and she asked,
“You knew? You always knew?”
Cora suddenly recalled that day when she begged him to take him to the company. She participated in the meeting related to Phoenix Project and secretly took pictures of the meeting materials. She felt nervous and hesitating all day.
But Byron had figured out her thoughts long ago.
He didn’t stop her but tried to help her so that she could help Gabe take the project away from him more smoothly.
In contrast, she had been nervous all the time, worried and afraid of the day when the truth would be revealed. She was like a joke.
Byron was pushed away, but he took the initiative to put his arms around her waist and pat her back to comfort her.
He said,
“Well, don’t be angry anymore. Let’s go to dinner. You have lost weight recently.”
He could see that she was very conflicted after learning the truth, so he tried to calm her down.
However, he didn’t know that his light reaction made Cora feel more guilty.
“Don’t touch me,”
Cora said.
She waved away Byron’s hand on her waist and asked him,
“Why did you ruin the Lane Group? My family has been doing business honestly. Why did you do that?”
Cora hoped that Byron would deny it.
As long as he said that the people who ruined the Lane Group were not ordered by him, Cora could find a reason to continue staying with him.
But Byron didn’t say what she wanted. He said,
“There are not so many reasons. Since it has happened, what do you want me to do? You caused me to lose money, and I don’t blame you.”
Worried that he would hurt her by talking too much, he changed his words.
“Let this matter go. I’ll settle the matter in New York first, and we will travel abroad after the wedding.”
To make her happy, he added,
“Don’t you want to go to Moratoy? We will go there for our honeymoon.
You can stay there as long as you want, and I will always be with you.”
However, Cora felt more disappointed as she listened to his coaxing.
She said,
“How can I let it go? Because you shorted the Lane Group, my family went bankrupt, my father died, and Gabe went to jail…”
Cora could feel that Byron was trying his best to remedy all this.
He helped Gabe out and treated Cora meticulously.
But what about her father?
He would never come back!
Cora smiled coldly and said,
“Byron, let’s get a divorce.”
Although Byron didn’t personally kill her father, to Cora, he was no different from a murderer.
She couldn’t continue to live with the murderer who killed her father.
Obviously, Byron did not expect that Cora would file for divorce.
His handsome face looked ugly.
He asked,
“Do you want to do this for their family?”
His voice was so cold that it made one’s scalp numb.
“It’s true that they have no blood relationship with me, but I only have them.”
Cora’s eyes were red.
Except for Flora, both Cora’s father and Gabe treated her very well.
It was impossible for her to continue living with Byron shamelessly because they had no blood relationship with her.