Filed to story: Snatched a Billionaire to be My Husband Book (Cora & Byron)
She saw him driving with one hand, his dark eyes flickering under the light of the oncoming vehicles, making it difficult to discern his expression.
Cora squinted, feeling as though this man had already figured something out.
She wasn’t sure if he was testing her with this question or if he had another purpose in mind.
She shifted her gaze back to her phone and replied,
“Yes. So…
don’t make me hate you.”
After receiving her answer, Byron frowned for a while.
Then, neither of them said anything during the rest of the ride.
Gabe contacted Cora on the weekend, saying that he had returned to New York.
Cora messaged him back, arranging a time and place to meet.
At that moment, Byron was getting ready to leave the apartment.
“Let’s have lunch together and then go see your studio. What do you think?”
“No, I have plans with Sally for lunch.”
If Gabe hadn’t mentioned his findings, Cora had originally intended to officially introduce him to Gabe.
But now, she wasn’t sure what their future would be like, so she couldn’t bring him along and had to lie.
“In that case, let’s do it tomorrow,”
Byron smiled, not paying much attention to it.
However, before leaving, he said,
“Once I finish this busy period, let’s plan our wedding. I’ve already picked out a few venues for you to choose from.”
“Let’s talk about this later,”
Cora replied vaguely.
She wasn’t certain if they would even have a wedding, so she brushed it off.
Byron sensed her evasiveness but didn’t expose it.
“Alright, we’ll do it your way.”
He waved goodbye to Cora with a smile, but as he walked out the door, his smile disappeared as if it had never been on his face.
It hadn’t been a pleasant day. Discussing wedding plans with Cora hadn’t gone smoothly, and upon arriving at the office, Carter brought him some bad news.
“Lionel has been seen in New York.”
Lionel, Byron’s uncle, had gone bankrupt under the dual pressures of Byron and the Hansen family.
Originally, they had wanted to frame him with enough crimes to spend the rest of his life in prison.
However, he suddenly disappeared in Burcane. And when he showed up again, he opened a security company in New York.
Carter’s investigation revealed that this security company was involved in shady activities.
“He hired foreign mercenaries as his security staff,”
Carter informed.
Byron sneered,
“So, the security company is just a front. He wants my life, doesn’t he?”
Carter’s expression looked grim because everything Byron said hit the mark.
“Call our men back. And remember, send more of them to protect Cora.”
But Carter interrupted, saying,
“I think what Lionel wants most is your life.”
Both Cora and Byron were thorns on Lionel’s side, but if they were to be compared, Byron was the one who bothered Lionel the most.
After all, Byron not only represented the economic lifeline of the Hansen family but also held key positions as the domestic CEO of Sunda Group.
Taking his life would mean destroying half of the Hansen family’s power and destabilizing the economic lifeline of the country.
Despite this, Byron insisted stubbornly,
“Do as I said.”
Carter failed to persuade him and could only follow his orders.
On the other side, Cora met up with Gabe at a restaurant.
“Cora, do you really have nothing to do with Mr. Hansen? I’ve been hearing rumors lately…”
After meeting Cora, Gabe sensed that she was in a terrible state.
Therefore, he wasn’t sure if he should tell her about his findings.
“There’s nothing between us. Tell me about your discoveries,”
Cora insisted.
Even if she had something to do with Byron, it wouldn’t stop her from learning the truth behind the Lane family’s bankruptcy.
Seeing Cora’s determination, Gabe took out the information he had gathered.
“We went bankrupt because Sunda Group shorted the Lane Group…”
“Sunda Group shorted the Lane Group? Why?”
Cora didn’t notice it, and her hands trembled slightly.
“Sunda Group is a financial company. The most time-saving way for it to enter New York is to short a company and use it directly.”
Gabe analyzed.
After hearing Gabe’s words, Cora instinctively defended Byron.
She said,
“There are so many people in Sunda Group. Maybe it’s not Byron who did it.”
Gabe said,
“You know, Byron has such a great reputation in the country, not because of the Hansen family, but because he himself is frightening.
“When he was 20 years old, he participated in the short-selling of Belgon Country’s currency and forced it to be delisted. It was the first time in history that someone forced the official currency to be delisted, so Belgon Country named him Financial Butcher…”
Gabe knew that Cora didn’t study finance, so she might not understand something profound.
Therefore, he only briefly stated Byron’s previous deeds and then continued.
He said,
“Sunda Group’s method of shorting the Lane Group is exactly the same as his method of shorting Belgon Country’s currency. Except him, who else do you think could do it?”
Listening to Gabe’s analysis, Cora gradually became disappointed.
She had never had a showdown with Byron because she was still hoping that it was just a misunderstanding.
But now, she knew the truth.
It was him.
It was him who did it!
She thought that she would stay with him all the time, but now it seemed that their relationship had come to an end.
Being stimulated, Cora felt nauseous.
Ignoring what Gabe was saying, she hurried to the restroom of the restaurant.
After vomiting, her face was very pale.
“Cora, what’s wrong? Are you feeling unwell?”
Gabe asked.
He was waiting at the door of the bathroom. Seeing Cora coming out, he hurried forward with a worried tone.
Cora didn’t answer, and Gabe touched her forehead.
“You do not have a fever. What’s wrong? Let’s go to the hospital,”
Gabe said.
Only family members would show this kind of concern. Cora would feel warm in the past, but now she felt it like a shackle.
After learning the truth, she hoped that Gabe could treat her worse, or be as vicious as Flora so that she could stay with Byron.
However, Gabe always took good care of her, so she couldn’t ignore his feelings.
If Gabe knew that she was married to the murderer who ruined the Lane family, what would he think of her?
Cora felt desperate, as if it was the end of the world.
She tried to show a smile to comfort Gabe.
She said,
“I ate too much spicy food yesterday, and it irritated my stomach. I’ve already taken the medicine, and I’ll be fine when the medicine takes effect.”
Gabe said worriedly,
“How can you eat so much spicy food? You have had problems with your stomach since you were young. If you eat too much spicy food, you will have a stomachache.
“I can’t let you live alone. You can’t take care of yourself at all. When I finish dealing with the matters in the factory, I’ll go back to New York. I will rent a bigger house, and you…”
Cora knew that Gabe wanted to propose that Flora live with them.
But now she hated Flora, and she didn’t want to hear that name anymore.