Filed To Story: Snatched a Billionaire to be My Husband Book (Cora & Byron)
Then Cora turned off her phone and went to sleep.
The next morning, she was awakened by Lucas.
“Is it already dawn? Are we heading back so soon?”
Cora was confused as she watched Lucas packing her luggage.
“Yeah, there are a few bugs in the new project, and our programming department has to go back early.”
Lucas also knew that these sudden bugs were likely created by someone to sabotage his alone time with Cora.
He couldn’t ignore them, as the company would suffer a considerable loss if these bugs were not fixed.
Though upset, Lucas had no choice but to address the issue.
Still, he never expected someone to go to such lengths to disrupt his time with Cora.
“Well,”
Cora replied listlessly. She wasn’t sure if it was because she hadn’t slept well or didn’t have enough fun.
“We can come here next time,”
Lucas reassured her, patting her head gently.
The wound on Byron’s lip and his frequent attempts to provoke him last night told Lucas that there was still something between Cora and Byron.
But regardless of that, he was Cora’s boyfriend now, and he firmly believed that he could win her heart with more effort.
On the bus back, they sat in their original seats.
Back on the bus, they sat in their original seats. Surprisingly, Byron and Carter were also on the bus.
But Cora was too tired to bother with anything else and dozed off against the window.
When the bus arrived at the Moonware Games building, Lucas woke her up.
“Sleepyhead, we’re here!
Wake up!”
Cora opened her eyes and was surprised to find that she had been sleeping on Lucas’ shoulder.
She was sure she had leaned against the window before!
Though Cora wondered how she had ended up on Lucas’ shoulder, she didn’t have time to dwell on it.
Looking away from Lucas’ gentle gaze, she saw the icy sharp stare from the man behind them.
Byron stared coldly at Cora as if she had committed some unforgivable act.
Cora was puzzled, as all she did was lean on her current boyfriend’s shoulder and take a nap. She didn’t do anything inappropriate.
Even if she had done something with her current boyfriend, it had nothing to do with Byron, who wasn’t even her ex-boyfriend. Why did he look at her with a sullen face?
Ignoring Byron’s attitude, Cora sweetly smiled at Lucas and said,
“Let’s get off the bus. Call me when you’re done with work, and we can have dinner together tonight.”
“Okay, I’ll call you when I’m done.”
Lucas felt a little excited, as it was the first time since they started dating that Cora had actively asked him out.
Although he suspected it might be an intentional display of affection, he couldn’t resist the temptation and felt secretly pleased.
Later, they got off the bus with hands held and smiles.
During the process, Carter decisively looked out the window, not daring to look at Byron’s face.
After returning from the company team-building event with Lucas, Cora went back to work as usual.
Byron didn’t bother her anymore, but he sent her a new friend request every day.
Cora ignored him, and so did she today. Earlier this morning, she had run into him and the other members of the Hansen family at the hospital, where they were bringing Osborn for a routine checkup.
After a brief exchange of glances, they both avoided each other.
Mark was surprised to see them acting like strangers, his gaze flickering between them.
As Cora finished instructing the family members of the patients and left the lobby, Mark couldn’t help but tease,
“Is it really over?”
“She’s with someone else now,”
Byron replied indifferently, yet he recalled Cora wearing the freshwater pearl anklet just now.
She was undoubtedly the most suitable woman he had seen to wear an anklet. Her slender ankles looked even more delicate with the anklet’s adornment.
“Tsk, what a pity! I thought you two would last,”
Mark sighed and then went to help push Osborn’s wheelchair.
Despite having denied any connection, Byron sent Cora a friend request with a saucy message: [The freshwater pearl anklet suits you too.]
Cora returned to her office to get some water and saw the teasing on the friend request. Thinking for a moment, she rejected the request with a message attached: [Thank you for the compliment, but this is a gift from my boyfriend.]
Indeed, the anklet was a small gift from Lucas on their one-month anniversary. Since they had planned to have dinner together tonight, Cora decided to wear it.
She didn’t expect the man who had acted like a stranger just now to notice the anklet. To be honest, her reply was with the intention of discomforting him.
Soon she received another friend request: [I’ll find a more beautiful one for you.]
Cora rolled her eyes.
It seemed that her attempt to provoke him had failed!
At this moment, news came from the emergency room that there was a sudden mass poisoning.
Cora put aside her phone and hurriedly rushed to the emergency room.
After dealing with the emergency, it was almost time for her dinner appointment with Lucas. She quickly tidied up things and headed to the agreed-upon location.
When Cora arrived at the restaurant, she was already more than ten minutes late.
She had planned to explain that she was delayed due to a batch of patients coming in with mass poisoning at the hospital. However, the restaurant waiter informed her that Lucas hadn’t arrived yet.
“It’s okay. I’ll wait for him at the table,”
Cora said.
In fact, she was usually the one who arrived late for their dates, but Lucas would always wait for her patiently.
It was understandable for him to be late once in a while.
However, Cora didn’t expect to wait more than an hour and still not see Lucas.
She called him several times and sent messages, but he didn’t respond.
Just as Cora was worried that something might have happened to Lucas and was about to go find him,
Byron suddenly walked into the restaurant.
He was wearing a royal blue shirt with black trousers, the diamond on his cuffs reflecting the bright light, so luxurious that the waiters in the restaurant rushed up to greet him.
But he brushed them aside and walked straight toward Cora.
“What are you doing here?”
Cora was a bit stunned. This restaurant was not the kind of place Byron would frequent.
In response to her cautious expression, Byron just said coldly,
“He won’t come.”
“How do you know he won’t come?”
Cora felt her heart skip a beat.
However, Byron’s face remained calm, and his inscrutable black eyes didn’t offer the answers she sought. She could only question him,
“Did you do something to him?”
This man did have the power to manipulate situations in New York, and Cora was genuinely afraid that he might have done something unforgivable to Lucas.
As she asked, his face turned sullen instantly.
“I didn’t. I just wanted to tell you that Lucas isn’t as good as you think. He’s with another woman now, leaving you behind.”
But his frank explanation only fueled Cora’s conviction, and she shouted,
“Impossible! You must have done something to him!”
“In your eyes, am I such a person?”
Byron’s voice was chilling, sending shivers down her spine.
“Yes, you are! You keep harassing me, not because you like me, but simply due to your obsession and possessiveness!”
Cora had always been afraid of getting Lucas involved, and his current loss of contact only exacerbated her fear, causing her to speak impulsively.
“I’ve had enough of your incessant interference! Please, don’t appear in front of me again, and stop meddling with people around me!”
Byron seemed to read the hidden meaning in her words and asked in anger,
“So, in your eyes, anyone is better than me, right?”
He had just told her a fact, but she shifted all the blame onto him, which made him even more infuriated.
“Yes! Anyone is better than you! Where is Lucas? Tell me now!”
At least Lucas had promised her a future, saying he would take her to Kinton to meet his parents.
Even Eason had introduced her to his parents and had engaged with her.
They both promised her marriage and a future, but Byron didn’t.
He hadn’t even given her a proper relationship…
Listening to her accusations, Byron suddenly felt that there was no need to give away the precious pearl anklet he had collected at a high price.
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