Filed To Story: Snatched a Billionaire to be My Husband Book (Cora & Byron)
However, Jason couldn’t help but feel a headache.
He knew Lucas had been obsessed with fitness recently, so doing a thousand push-ups shouldn’t be a problem for him.
But for Byron, who always appeared refined, Jason worried whether he could complete it.
“If Mr. Hansen couldn’t finish it and felt losing face, would my small game company be able to survive in
New York?”
He thought anxiously.
But no matter how much Jason worried, this passionate competition had already begun.
“One, two, three…”
As they each did push-ups in their respective territories, many girls spontaneously counted for them, making the atmosphere even more intense.
In a blink of an eye, both sides had completed eight hundred push-ups, and both of them were drenched in sweat.
“Eight hundred and one, eight hundred and two…”
“Lucas, have some water if you’re tired,”
Cora said.
Watching his dedicated efforts, she knew Lucas provoked Byron for her sake but didn’t know how to help him.
Intentionally or not, Lucas actually got up to take the water Cora handed to him.
Seeing this, Carter also handed Byron a bottle of water.
Byron got up as well.
However, while both were water, Lucas drank the one from Cora, and the one in his hand was from
Carter, which tasted quite different.
Moreover, while Lucas drank water, he kept talking to Cora, and the smiles on their faces made Byron even more annoyed.
Without thinking, he blurted out a sarcastic remark.
“Already tired so soon?”
Lucas raised an eyebrow and said casually,
“Not at all. It’s just too hot!”
Then he took off his T-shirt in front of everyone.
“Wow, I didn’t expect Mr. Quinn to have such well-defined abs under his refined appearance!”
“He truly has a good figure. How lucky his girlfriend is!”
Since many of the women present were married and had children, their words were naturally somewhat unrestrained, and their admiring gazes fell on Cora.
And Cora didn’t expect to witness Lucas taking off his shirt like this, showing his muscles. She couldn’t help but steal a few glances at his strong abs.
As she realized what others were envious of, her cheeks turned red with embarrassment.
Byron initially paid no attention to Lucas’ behavior when hearing the women’s teasing remarks, but then he unintentionally noticed the blush on Cora’s face.
He suddenly understood that Lucas wasn’t just showing off but was trying to attract Cora, much like a peacock displaying its feathers to attract a female peacock for mating!
Byron thought such behavior was simply despicable and vulgar.
But as he caught a glimpse of Cora’s shy look, he suddenly took off his shirt as well…
“Wow! Mr. Hansen also took off his shirt!”
“Oh my, I have never seen such beautiful abs before.”
“I wonder how it feels to be lifted by a man with such strong arms!”
Initially, Cora was shy and didn’t know how to react to Lucas suddenly taking off his shirt, revealing his well-built muscles.
But then, another group of women nearby let out a gasp, diverting her attention.
She saw Byron had also taken off his shirt, revealing his sweaty, muscular upper body…
Cora knew that Byron was the true embodiment of a good figure, with his body proportions possibly being even better. Plus, there was a scar on his right shoulder, adding a touch of masculinity to his smooth body.
However, having felt and observed countless times, Cora didn’t pay much attention to him since the novelty had worn off.
Byron stole glances at Cora several times and noticed that her eyes were fixed on Lucas, which made him feel increasingly frustrated and apprehensive.
He could do nothing but coldly urge,
“Let’s continue, or are you going to surrender?”
Lucas glanced at him and seemed to see through his frustration.
“Here we go,”
he said, lightly smiled, and resumed doing push-ups.
Byron followed suit.
Perhaps seeking redemption for his previous display of muscle flexing, Byron did the next hundred push-ups quite rapidly.
By the time he finished, Lucas still had fifty left to do.
Of course, Lucas persisted and completed the remaining fifty push-ups as well.
The competition ended, but Jason didn’t dare to send the employees and their families back to their rooms without instructions from Byron. He anxiously waited to see if Byron had further directives.
But barely sparing him a glance, Byron simply picked up his shirt on the grass and went back to his room.
Jason could only announce the end of the group activity and let everyone return to their rooms to rest.
“Cora, I’m going to take a shower.”
As there was no shower inside the stilt house, Lucas went to the men’s shower area outside.
Thinking that this would be the first time she spent the night in the same room with a man other than
Byron, Cora waited for his back with both expectancy and uneasiness.
While she was feeling anxious, someone knocked on the door.
“Who is it?”
Cora initially thought it might be Lucas’ colleague looking for him, but after several unanswered inquiries, she became frightened and dared not open the door.
Who knew if it was someone with ill intentions toward her?
When Lucas returned, she hurriedly told him about it.
A flicker of light appeared in his eyes, but he tried to comfort Cora.
“It’s probably a colleague who got drunk and couldn’t find his room.”
Cora was only partially convinced.
“Really?”
“Who else could it be? Our company booked the entire Rainforest Resort for today,”
Lucas replied while helping Cora set up her sleeping bag and lighting insect repellent incense.
“That makes sense.”
Cora finally relaxed a bit under his comforting words and got into bed.
“If you’re scared, we can sleep together,”
Lucas joked, tapping the sleeping bag twice as if inviting her.
Cora blushed.
“Dream on!”
Then she turned her back to Lucas.
After all, Lucas was a man. Seeing a woman he admired so close, it was hard for him not to have impure thoughts.
However, after a whole afternoon of activities and doing a thousand push-ups in the evening, he really didn’t have the energy for anything else.
So he said goodnight to Cora and quickly fell asleep.
Hearing the steady breathing from the adjacent bed, Cora finally relaxed.
Unexpectedly, her phone buzzed with a message from an unknown number.
[Come out!]
Cora could easily guess that the message was from that savage man who had forced himself on her in the afternoon and then managed to let Lucas do a thousand push-ups for fear that she might spend the night with him.
So she decided not to respond to the message or go out.
But soon, another message came.
[If you don’t come out, I’ll break in!]
Cora knew that this person could do whatever he said, so she responded in annoyance: [Mr. Hansen, do you really want everyone to know you’re planning to be the third party?]
[Never mind. I have confidence in defeating him.]
Cora was speechless.
She knew that facing someone shameless like him, no one could win.
All she could do was restrain her anger and reply: [You’re shameless, but I’m different. I still want a good marriage in the future. If you dare to break in, I’ll call the police!]
[If you don’t want me in, don’t sleep with him.]
Cora felt no concern from his messages, thinking all his words out of possessiveness.
[We are over, so it’s none of your business whether I sleep with him or not!]
Growing even more irritated, Cora didn’t wait for his reply and sent another message: [Since you try to stop me so hard, I’ll definitely sleep with him tonight. Moreover, we’ll try various postures. What can you do?]
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