Filed To Story: Snatched a Billionaire to be My Husband Book (Cora & Byron)
But Byron didn’t seem to have as many feelings as her. He didn’t even take the initiative to talk to her.
Harry always started a conversation.
“Jane, you just returned from further studies. You won’t leave again, will you?”
“Yeah. I’ve already joined the cardiac surgery department of the First Hospital,”
Jane said and quietly looked at Byron again.
She didn’t go, of course, it was because of Byron.
She and her family hoped that she could settle her marriage with Byron as soon as possible.
But she wasn’t sure if Byron understood her hint because when she quietly looked at Byron, she noticed that Byron glanced at her.
However, his eyes were like the deep sea in the night, making her unable to see to the bottom and touch the edge, and they seemed to be shrouded in a layer of hostility.
Although Jane was terrified, she was willing to be obsessed with him.
Mia and her other peers all preferred gentle and elegant men, but Jane felt that men like Byron, who looked alienated and difficult to handle, were fatally attractive.
So, even if she realized Byron had another woman, she would never let go.
After hesitating for a moment, she said,
“Byron…
My family will hold a charity dinner next week. My mother and father hope that you can make time for it.”
Actually, the charity dinner was just an excuse, and their real motive was to ask Byron to come to discuss the marriage.
Byron didn’t make a sound. He took a deep puff of the cigarette and nodded slightly.
Jane was naturally dissatisfied with his cruelly indifferent response.
But thinking that their marriage would soon be put on the agenda and Byron would belong to her, Jane didn’t show her dissatisfaction.
She said,
“I forgot to bring the invitation card. How about I bring it to your home tomorrow? It’s been a while since I saw your parents, brother, and sister. And I’d like to take this opportunity to visit them.”
Actually, it was not that she had forgotten to bring the invitation card, but she wanted to use this excuse to meet him and his family and avoid making an appointment with his assistant.
“It’s up to you.”
Byron lit another cigarette after finishing one.
He kept smoking, and everyone else could tell he was in a bad mood. Even though he didn’t do other things, people could feel full of oppression.
Harry was worried he would scare Jane, so he joked,
“Jane, you and Byron haven’t seen each other for a long time. Can you stop being like a subordinate reporting to your superiors? We won’t mind if you show your affection in front of us.”
“Harry, please don’t say that.”
Even though Jane said so, she looked at Byron and her shyness was palpable.
But Byron was still smoking and didn’t even take the drink Harry handed over.
He asked Harry in a cold voice,
“Didn’t you ask me to come to talk about that batch of equipment?”
Actually, from the moment Harry brought Jane into the box, he knew Harry didn’t ask him out to talk about equipment at all.
Harry felt wronged. He just wanted to create an opportunity for Byron and Jane to meet.
“I did plan to talk about it, but Jane is here. I don’t want to kill the mood.”
He found an excuse to end that topic, but Byron said,
“Okay then. I’m leaving.”
At the same time as he finished speaking, he stubbed out the cigarette butt, got up, and walked out.
“Byron!”
Harry hurriedly chased him out.
The two men left one after the other. Sensing Byron’s indifference and disregard for her, Jane was in a bad mood.
But fortunately, the people in the box were all worldly-wise.
Seeing that Jane was upset, they started talking and joking to divert Jane’s attention.
“Dr. Yoris, I haven’t been able to eat at home recently. What do you think is wrong with me?”
Before Jane could answer, someone diagnosed that person.
“If people can’t eat the food at home, they most likely have eaten out. Just beat them and warn them not to eat out again. If it doesn’t work, just beat them twice.”
Several people were talking and laughing, and Jane forced a smile.
Outside the box, Harry caught up with Byron.
“Byron, were you with Cora last night?”
Byron glanced at him coldly but didn’t respond.
But even if he didn’t answer, Harry knew the answer.
Although Byron and Cora didn’t interact much at the dinner last night, as a man, Harry could see that
Byron had been focused on Cora all night.
Harry didn’t want to intervene if Byron were just interested in Cora on a whim.
But Byron was obviously on the verge of losing control, so Harry had to keep an eye on him.
“Jane called me in the morning and kept making insinuations about whether you have been with another woman recently. I have been beaten the bush around, and I feel full of guilt.”
Jane had been Harry’s goddess since he was a child. Lying to her made him feel more guilty than murder and arson.
He even lied to her goddess to guard Byron’s relationship. So he thought Byron would listen to him more or less.
But Byron still said coldly,
“You can tell her.”
“Are you crazy? If I tell her, you two will break up.”
Perhaps because he felt his words were inappropriate, before Byron could speak, Harry went on to say,
“As your friend, I don’t want you to miss Jane. Jane is down-to-earth, hard-working, and modest. Such a girl is rare. Many men want a woman like her but can’t find…”
But Byron had heard these words too many times, and he didn’t have the patience to listen to Harry. So he strode away.
Looking at Byron’s resolute leaving back, Harry frowned and said to himself,
“He is really obsessed with Cora! Byron, how can I save you?”
Cora lay on the bed for a long time, conjuring up images of her father’s funeral, her mother lying in the intensive care unit with burns, and her brother’s arrest.
That scene suffocated her feel almost out of breath. Finally, her mind was completely exhausted from thinking about things. She was drifting off when she felt someone lift her quilt and touch her waist from behind.
She woke up immediately and quickly turned over to avoid the person behind her.
“Who is it?”
As Cora stepped back, she grabbed her phone, intending to call the police.
But at this moment, the black figure grabbed her ankle and pulled her into his arms.
Cora tried to fight back, but the man seemed to know her tricks. He was unharmed and even held her ankle firmly.
Unable to break free, Cora bit the man’s shoulder.
At this time, a familiar male voice reached her ear.
“It’s me.”
Cora froze.
She naturally recognized the male voice as cold and stern as a rock. It was Byron.
She hurriedly let go and turned on the bedside lamp.
Byron’s chiseled and charming facial features became clear as the warm yellow light illuminated the room.
He wore black shirt and trousers, looking at her with a half-smile.
Cora didn’t know if it was because of the light, but there was a little more tenderness in those deep and unpredictable eyes than usual.
“Are you that timid?”
He asked.
“Things like women living alone are murdered happen from time to time, so it’s always right to take precautions.”
She used to live either at home or in a school dormitory and never lived alone.
She still remembered she almost stayed up all night the first day she moved into the LO apartment.
Even now, if she heard something, she would wake up immediately.
Only during the few nights that Byron was here could she sleep peacefully until dawn.
This might also be the main reason why she compromised several times to let Byron stay overnight and wanted to try to develop a romantic relationship with Byron, as Sally suggested.
Cora truly hoped that she could have someone to accompany her, even without the purpose of uniting in matrimony.
“Are you a dog?”
Cora looked up and saw Byron pull off his collar, revealing the bruise she had just bitten.
“I didn’t know it was you.”
Feeling guilty after biting his noble body, Cora quickly changed the topic.
“How did you get in here?”
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