Filed To Story: Snatched a Billionaire to be My Husband Book (Cora & Byron)
“Is he really that busy? Too busy to even reply with a single word?”
Indeed, since leaving early on Christmas morning, Byron had disappeared without a trace. He hadn’t sent Cora any messages during his absence either.
And throughout this period, Cora had been waiting for him at home, except for her visits to the hospital to see Flora.
But this kind of waiting continued until the fifth day of the Christmas holiday, with no sign of him appearing or replying.
Her eager heart seemed to gradually lose its enthusiasm in this long wait.
So, on this evening, Cora sent another message to Byron.
[If you don’t want to help me, just say so. There’s no need to disappear.]
She could still send the message successfully, but as expected, it also sank into oblivion.
Cora couldn’t help feeling annoyed and thought,
“You won’t reply to my messages? Fine, I won’t bother you either. When you come back and want to make up with me, I will definitely ignore you!”
With such thoughts in mind, Cora returned to work at the hospital.
Starting from the sixth day of the holiday, the hospital was bustling again, and even the emergency room had more patients than usual.
While being swamped, Cora’s concern for Byron seemed to diminish.
However, when she returned to her empty apartment, loneliness pounced on her like a lurking beast, tearing apart her self-proclaimed facade of toughness into pieces.
She missed him so much.
So much that it was even suffocating!
She even set aside her pride and took the initiative to call him.
Yet, the person on the other end of the line still didn’t answer…
So, she couldn’t help but wonder if Byron was away on another business trip like before. Was he too busy to care about her feelings?
Truly, this was the first time love had tortured her like this.
Even during her passionate romance with Eason, she had never experienced such burning and lung-
scratching longing.
And so, in the end, she couldn’t control herself. On the eighth day of the holiday, which happened to be her day off, she dressed seductively and went to the Hansen Group building.
“I’d like to see Mr. Hansen,”
she politely greeted the receptionist.
“Did you make an appointment?”
The receptionist looked at her devilish figure outlined by the pink-blue knit dress and couldn’t help showing a tinge of disdain.
“No, but please tell Mr. Hansen that my last name is Lane.”
Cora didn’t dare to consider herself too important. She just thought that since she and Byron had made so many loving memories in bed, he would agree to see her.
“I’m sorry, but we receive many people like you every day. If we report every one of them to the upper management, we won’t be able to handle the workload.”
Cora frowned at her words. She asked,
“But I really need to meet Mr. Hansen. Can you please let him know?”
“Sorry. Please come back after you make an appointment.”
The receptionist’s refusal made Cora even more helpless.
But she didn’t want to make this trip in vain. So, she took out her phone and called Carter.
“Miss Lane?”
Carter sounded somewhat surprised when he received Cora’s call.
“Carter, I’m downstairs at the Hansen Building. Um…
could you do me a favor and take me up to see
Mr. Hansen?”
Cora felt a little embarrassed and inappropriate for showing up like this.
But she couldn’t stop missing Byron, so despite the awkwardness, she voiced her desire.
Carter hesitated for a moment before speaking,
“I’ll come right away.”
A few minutes later, Carter brought Cora to Byron’s office.
Byron was busy working, and except for a brief glance when they entered, his eyes remained focused on the computer screen, while his nimble fingers danced across the keyboard.
“Miss Lane, would you like coffee or tea?”
Carter glanced at Byron and asked Cora.
“Tea, thank you, Carter,”
Cora replied.
Carter nodded and left the office sensibly, leaving the two of them with privacy to talk.
Cora stood not far away, observing the busy man.
The office was heated, and Byron wore a black shirt and pants that perfectly outlined his broad shoulders and narrow waist.
His concentrated look was also captivating, exuding an aura of a mature man that could make a woman’s heart flutter.
After not seeing him for a few days, Cora hadn’t expected to feel somewhat absent-minded in his presence.
Only when a male voice brought her back did she regain her senses.
“What do you need?”
Once Cora snapped back to reality, she couldn’t help but frown.
The man’s tone was colder than before. Even his gaze lacked the usual gentleness.
But Cora attributed it to being too busy, unable to switch back from the attitude he had towards others.
So she approached him, lightly touched his shoulder, and even leaned in to peck his cheek, saying,
“Why haven’t you come to see me for such a long time?”
Her actions were full of coquettishness and flattering. Her words sounded like the complaints and grievances of a woman in love.
For a moment, Byron’s fingers froze on the keyboard, and a trace of daze flickered in his dark eyes.
“Is it because you’re too busy? Or do you think that I’m too proud and unapproachable? I can change, you know.”
During this time, she had indeed thought that if Byron continued to ignore her, she would also stop paying attention to him. And in the future, she would always keep a distance from him.
However, after Byron had disappeared for several days, Cora couldn’t stop missing him day and night.
In the end, she had to give in.
Even if he didn’t want to be with her, she was dying for even the slightest hint of his mercy.
So, even though these thoughts seemed like complaints and grievances, they also conveyed her helplessness and compromise.
Byron felt the soft and delicate arm resting on his shoulder, sensed the fragrance lingering from her body, and even replayed their passionate moments in bed from the past.
Especially after not being intimate with her for several days, but she still tempted him like this. He was truly going crazy and could barely restrain himself, wanting to pin her down on the office desk…
However, just as he was about to lose control, Carter knocked and entered the room.
Seeing them in such an intimate pose, a hint of surprise flashed across Carter’s poker face.
But soon, he reverted back to his indifferent expression.
“Miss Lane, here’s your tea!”
“Thank you.”
Cora hurriedly let go of Byron and went to take the tea.
After the familiar fragrance dissipated, Byron’s growing irritability intensified.
“Anything else?”
He raised his eyebrows, looking at Carter.
Carter knew Byron wanted him to leave them alone.
But before leaving, he added fuel to the fire,
“Yes. When will you announce the engagement between you and Miss Yoris?”
Cora was about to take a sip of the hot tea to tame her desire when she suddenly heard Carter’s question. Startled, her hand trembled, spilling the tea and scalding her hand…
“Miss Lane, are you okay?”
Carter approached Cora with concern as if he had no other matters to attend to.
“I…
I’m fine,”
Cora hastily put the teacup down, pretending to wipe the water droplets off the back of her hand. But deep down, she was shocked and flustered.
After tidying up, she said,
“The tea is great. Thank you, Carter. But I should be going now.”
With that, she left without even looking back or saying goodbye to Byron.
She left in such a hurry that it didn’t seem like she came specifically to see Byron but to ask Carter for a cup of tea.
Byron coldly watched Cora as she left until her figure completely disappeared from the door. Only then did his indifferent gaze turn towards Carter.
Carter remained calm as he met Byron’s eyes, enduring the icy gaze that could almost turn into sharp blades.
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