Filed to story: Snatched a Billionaire to be My Husband Book (Cora & Byron)
Thus, she was starting to feel uncertain about the situation.
“I haven’t found the right clothes to match it.”
She made up an excuse, not wanting her parents to know the truth.
“True. That anklet doesn’t go with just any outfit, but it’s not that big a deal. We can go shopping together someday to find something suitable,”
Sara suggested.
Jane wanted to steer away from the topic of the anklet.
“Mom, you should go home if there’s nothing else you have to do. I have a few patients who I have to attend to.”
“Before you go, your grandfather is curious about the artist who made the little trinket. He wants the contact information of the artist.”
“Why does Grandpa need the artist’s contact information?”
Jane seemed rather furtive.
After she realized she hadn’t received the anklet from Byron, she unwrapped all the other presents to check if it was mistakenly placed.
So, she also opened the trinket that Cora gave her, which Cora claimed to have made herself.
However, Jane wasn’t much interested in it, so she left it in the living room.
She didn’t expect her grandfather to show interest in it.
“I think he might be looking for apprentices. You know how passionate he is about passing on his woodcarving skills.”
Sara was nonchalant about it.
“I’ll ask around, but I can’t promise if they’ll share their contact information,”
Jane replied.
She wasn’t planning to connect her grandfather to Cora, whom she disliked.
“Update your grandfather about it. I’ll head to the beauty salon now.”
Once Sara was gone, Jane forgot about the wood carving.
Meanwhile, Cora reached out to Byron on her own initiative that night…
In the dead of night, Cora found herself alone in bed, tossing and turning. Eventually, she grew disheartened and took out her phone.
As a means to stop her further descent into depravity, she had planned to cut off all contact with Byron if he didn’t reach out to her.
However, lying alone in LO apartment, she couldn’t shake off the troubles and fears that tormented her repeatedly.
It was awful to be all hyped up mentally despite her physical exhaustion.
Adding to her distress, she had promised Flora to introduce her to her boyfriend.
Cora tried to convince herself that she would willingly offer herself up if Byron helped her deal with
Flora.
Besides, she would get a good night’s sleep.
After making up her mind, she sent a message to Byron: [Mr. Hansen, what have you been up to lately?]
After a while, he sent her a brief reply: [Work.]
Suspecting that he might be avoiding a conversation, Cora quickly replied: [Isn’t it boring to work all day? Do you want to come and hang out?]
To that, Byron asked: [What are we going to do?]
Cora suspected he knew her intentions but chose to keep her hanging.
With a blush on her face, she replied: [We can do anything.]
[Including you?] Byron’s reply reminded her of when he would kiss her on her ankle while muttering sweet-nothings, only to revert to his usual stoic demeanor after getting out of bed.
He was a gentleman in the streets but a freak in the sheets.
Since she had a favor to ask of him, she ignored his teasing even though she knew he was messing with her.
[Well, that’s also an option.] she replied.
She expected him to quickly forget about their previous scuffle and come over to her apartment.
Surprisingly, he wrote: [I have something to do tonight. Perhaps another time.]
Cora interpreted that as him declining to hang out with her, seeing how much they had flirted with each other.
To be frank, it seemed like he no longer wanted to continue their relationship and was trying to end it.
Never someone to cry over spilled milk, Cora blocked Byron’s WhatsApp account and added his number to her blacklist.
Although she knew the fling wouldn’t last long, when it actually ended, she felt a pang of bitterness in her heart.
The inexplicable sorrow felt even worse than when she was with Eason.
She wondered how she came to that, even though her relationship with Byron hadn’t lasted that long at all.
“Could this be because he was the first guy I slept with? Not like it matters anymore, though,”
she thought.
If he wanted to end things, she wouldn’t cling to him either.
She had her pride, after all.
After drinking a few bottles of beer to bid farewell to the relationship, Cora eventually fell asleep on the living room sofa, bone-tired.
The next day, she visited Flora in the burns unit before heading to work in the emergency room.
As soon as Flora saw her, she looked behind Cora and asked,
“Where is he?”
“Who do you mean, Mom?”
“Where is your boyfriend? I thought you brought him along.”
Flora couldn’t hide her disappointment when she realized there was no one with Cora.
That reminded Cora of Byron’s rejection the previous night, and it stung quite a bit.
However, she kept up a cheerful front while with Flora.
“Oh, why the rush?”
“My operation is happening soon.”
Cora’s face paled as she clammed up.
Flora’s operation was scheduled for Friday.
She headed to the emergency room after chatting with Flora for a while. However, thoughts of having to introduce her boyfriend to Flora bugged her…
It was almost time to get off work, and Cora ran into Tyler outside the emergency room.
“Cora, Mrs. Flora Lane is going to have an operation, right?”
Tyler had been busy with work adjustments during this time, so he didn’t have any chance to ask Cora for a date.
However, when he met Matt today, he inadvertently talked about the skin grafting operation of Cora’s mother.
“Well, surgery is scheduled for Friday.”
Cora was fixed on bringing her boyfriend to meet Flora, and Tyler mentioned it again when they met, so she inevitably took a closer look at Tyler.
Honestly, Tyler was tall, leggy, and handsome, and his appearance was comparable to Byron’s.
The key was that his demeanor was that of a doctor’s calm and dignified, which was different from that of a businessman.
Perhaps, discuss it with Tyler and bring him to meet Flora.
According to how Tyler looked after her in the past, Cora felt that he would accept her.
“Friday? Then I’ll see if I can ask for leave to come and accompany you.”
Tyler didn’t know that Cora was planning to give him the title of
“boyfriend”
in her mind, and he was trying to recall his schedule on Friday.
He had a seminar to attend that day, and the people who were scheduled to come were all experts from various hospitals.
The hospital’s management very much hoped that he could participate in this seminar, and he himself also wanted to attend.
But when he thought about Cora didn’t even have any relatives around during her mother’s surgery, he felt that it was more important to stay by her side.
After all, there would definitely be opportunities for other seminars, but the opportunity to be with the girl he liked when she was helpless may not be there in the future.
“Tyler, it’s actually just a minor operation. It’s nothing.”
They were all surgeons and knew the success rate of this kind of operation.
Cora also told herself that. After all, she had worked in the hospital. Although she had not participated in this kind of operation, she had seen many of them. Basically, success can be found everywhere.
It was just that her closest relative would be having the surgery, and her mentality was not as relaxed as usual.
So her sleep for these few nights was worse than before.
“Although the operation is not major, after all, this is your close relative. Your brother can’t stay with you now. How can I be so cold-hearted to let you stay alone outside the operating room?”
Tyler’s words touched Cora’s heart.
“Tyler, thank you.”
Her eyes were slightly red.
“I said it before. We don’t need to thank each other. Be strong. The sunshine always comes after the storm.”
Tyler reached out and patted the top of Cora’s head.
“I still have patients over there. I go first.”