Filed To Story: Snatched a Billionaire to be My Husband Book (Cora & Byron)
“I didn’t mean to. How could she hit me like that? I’ve never been slapped since I was a child. It hurts so much…”
Behind Eason, Mia continued sobbing, trying to evoke his sympathy with her tears of helplessness.
Ever since Eason discovered them sleeping together earlier in the morning, he hadn’t looked at her directly and had been avoiding her, even leaving the ship without waiting for her.
However, halfway through Mia’s words, she noticed Byron coldly glaring at her with his suffocating eyes.
What was even more unbearable than his gaze were his cold words.
“Your parents failed to teach you properly when you were young, and she had to do it for them. Isn’t that nice?”
“Mr. Hansen, have I offended you? Why do you always take Cora’s side whenever we have a conflict?”
Mia felt wronged and was on the verge of asking outright if there was any personal relationship between him and Cora. After all, she was going to be Eason’s wife, his family!
But Mia’s blunt questioning made others uncomfortable.
Setting aside Eason, even Jane felt she was being stripped of her dignity.
“Why do I side with her and not with you? Then why don’t you reflect on yourself?”
Byron’s counter-question made Mia feel like she might have crossed a line, Byron’s bottom line.
“I…”
Mia wanted to say something more, but Jane hurriedly interrupted their conversation.
“Byron, actually, we are not directly involved in this matter, so we can’t be sure who is right or wrong.
Moreover, Dr. Lane has already slapped Mia just now, so no one has gained an advantage in this matter. Let’s just let it go for the sake of me.”
Although Mia’s words hurt her deeply, this matter had been a joint effort to get rid of the recording evidence from Cora’s hands and concerned their joint interests.
Byron squinted at Jane for a while, and just when Jane was about to doubt her own words, he spoke again,
“I can let this matter go, but from now on, you’d better have less contact with such a person.”
On the surface, it seemed like he agreed to put this matter behind, but in reality, he made it clear that
Mia was now on his blacklist.
In the future, no one in New York’s upper-class circles would dare to let Mia into any event where Byron was present.
To put it bluntly, Mia had completely lost access to various top-tier luxury events in New York, which was a significant blow to her.
Mia naturally understood the implications of this decision and urgently looked to Jane for help, but before she could say something, Jane glared at her and smiled at Byron.
“I understand. Byron, you can go rest in your room for now, and I will inform you when the party starts.”
Byron nodded slightly and left the beach.
Jane immediately started organizing people to search for Cora’s phone on the beach and asked the resort staff to lead everyone back to their rooms for a brief rest.
As for Mia, who had been trying to talk to Jane on the side, she became almost invisible.
Fed up with her, Jane said,
“Didn’t you see how chaotic the situation is right now? Can’t you wait until I handle all this?”
Mia could only give up.
Meanwhile, Cora went to take a shower after entering her room.
But halfway through, she saw Byron leaning against the bathroom door.
His tall frame made the not-so-spacious bathroom even more crowded.
What made Cora most uncomfortable was his aggressively roaming gaze all over her body.
Pretending to be calm, Cora reached for a towel from the shelf and wrapped it around her body.
Ready to leave the bathroom, she teased Byron,
“Mr. Hansen, you should be helping your fianc?e prepare for her birthday party instead of peeping here.”
Since Cora left with Carter first, ignorant that Byron had shut down Mia’s future with just a few words, she only felt that he had implicitly approved of Jane’s appeasement approach, which upset her.
But when she passed by Byron, he suddenly grabbed her and pulled her towel away.
“What are you doing?”
Annoyed, Cora tried to snatch the towel back from his hand
“I was accused of peeping. Don’t I need to confirm it myself?”
Byron teased, raising the towel just high enough to be out of Cora’s reach.
Byron narrowed his eyes and kept looking at her.
Cora was embarrassed and annoyed.
But Byron didn’t go too far. Seeing Cora’s face flushed, Byron put the bath towel on her but inevitably touched her skin a little.
“Why were you so angry just now?”
“Will you not be angry if you were pushed into the sea for no reason?”
Byron had a feeling that there was more reason for Cora’s anger, but he didn’t ask anymore since she didn’t want to say it.
“How about we do something that makes you happy?”
Byron’s words only alarmed Cora, and she took a step back.
“What do you mean? Wasn’t it last night that…”
Last night, they didn’t stop fooling around until it was almost dawn.
Although they both enjoyed it, Cora felt they would die if they kept doing it.
“I meant you should check the box outside. What were you thinking!”
Byron suddenly looked down at Cora. From his dazzling eyes, Cora could see her own reflection. It made her nervous, and she quickly ran out of the bathroom.
Soon, Cora saw the box Byron talked about. It was actually a suitcase of the largest size.
It was not locked with a password, so it opened as soon as she lifted the lid.
Lying inside was a piece of rosewood.
The color and texture were both quite good, and Cora couldn’t help but touch it.
“This is small-leaf rosewood, the best among all rosewood. And the hardness of this piece is definitely the best among small-leaf rosewood. Where did you get it?”
Cora sounded overjoyed.
Byron once said that he would give her a piece of rosewood. She thought it would only be big-leaf rosewood or some other ordinary kinds of rosewood.
Because it was hard to find small-leaf rosewood, and she was too ordinary for him to go through all the trouble.
But here it was, the best small-leaf rosewood. She had never expected it.
“It’s not important. The most important thing is…
Happy birthday!”
Byron’s words suddenly pulled all of Cora’s attention back from this piece of rosewood, and she turned back.
Not far away from her, Byron was standing tall. He wore a smoky blue shirt and casually left the top two buttons undone. The expression on his face was aloof, as usual.
But when Cora heard him say happy birthday, she was shocked to the core,
“How come you also know today is my birthday?”
She used to hold parties for her birthdays and invited countless friends in the circle.
But since her family business went bankrupt, these people seemed to have deleted her from their memories, and so had her ex-boyfriend Eason.
They came today to celebrate Jane’s birthday, forgetting that it was also Cora’s birthday.
But Byron remembered and said happy birthday to her…
At this moment, she suddenly understood why Byron had to wait until today to give her the rosewood.
She felt as if the emotions that had been hidden deep were about to overflow her heart.
“It’s not a secret.”
Byron answered casually.
But after he said this, Cora suddenly came over and tiptoed to kiss him.
“Don’t mess around, or we won’t be able to go out later.”
He didn’t kiss her back but held her slender waist with one hand.
Instead of backing off, Cora put her arms around his neck and called his name softly,
“Byron…”
Hearing this, Byron couldn’t hold back anymore.
“Jane, happy birthday.”
“Happy birthday. But where is Byron?”
On the beach, Jane’s birthday party had already kicked off.
Many celebrities from New York came to send birthday wishes and gifts to Jane, including Jane’s mother, Sara Yoris, and her father, William Yoris.
They held such a grand birthday party for Jane, mainly to help settle her marriage with Byron.
So after Sara and William arrived, the first person they wanted to see was Byron.
But they couldn’t find Byron anywhere on the beach.
“I don’t know either.”
Jane looked displeased. Besides Byron, she found that Cora was also absent while Carter was still on the beach…
“Shall we go to his room and see if he is there?”
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