As she felt helpless, her phone was pulled out of her grip from the back. Surprised, Cordelia turned back to see Marcus’ glowering face.

He said into the phone in a deep tone, “I don’t care who you are. Show some respect when you speak to my wife!

“If I hear filth like what you said just now again, you might want to think about the consequences you can bear!”

The savageness in his tone was well-expressed through each word he listening to him was enough to send shudders down one’s spine.

The line went quiet all of a sudden. Yelena had been probably scared into muting herself.

Marcus hung up and gave Cordelia’s phone back to her before he went back outside to punch the punching bag with a straight face.

It took Cordelia a moment, but she was moved. No one had protected her like that before—Marcus was the first.

Marcus took off his boxing gloves and tossed them aside after punching the bag a few times at the front of the house, breathing harshly with a scowl.

A while later, Josiah received a text from him. [What did you tell William Jenner?]

Josiah thought over his words as he replied with caution, [I did what you said, Z. You said to pressure him, right?]

As soon as the reply was sent, Marcus called him with a voice cold as ice.

“I asked you to pressure him. Did I ask you to talk about the wedding gift too? Hmm?”

“Z, but…”

He wanted to vent on his wife’s behalf. What was Josiah supposed to say if he did not mention the wedding gift?

“Josiah Bayer!” Marcus ground the words through his teeth. “It’s nice having a brain, but yours still isn’t f*cking fully developed!”

The man hung up after saying that, leaving a confused Josiah alone. Lucky for him, he had Fredric Constable, who had also just come from Centrolis, with him.

As his childhood friend, Fredric guffawed after listening to Josiah recount the scenario.

You don’t have a

a fist at

side, no? What happens now? Even the Jenner heiress thinks that you have something going on with Cordelia. And you think Z’d

failed to react in

only could they afford to pay the medical bills now, but

naïve smile. “Alright, I’ll stop here. I need to go

yeah, don’t forget about my reference book money. I’m the only one in class who hasn’t paid

the whole situation even

conscience? Did William still hold on to

she had gone back to visit, she’d had no hope

back to the bedroom and carefully put the bangle back

over the gold jewelry in the box and talked to herself. “I’ll take good care of you in the future.

adorableness. He smiled and felt a gush of

text contained a single

bad. Reward

always been stingy with words and only replied when he was in a good mood. This was the first time

home while Marcus practiced with the punching bag at

close to obsessed with this violent activity and insisted on training every day, she had never stopped him.

was about to go into the kitchen to cook after cleaning up when her phone rang. Yelena’s shrill, enraged voice exploded the moment

Hooking up with Mr. Bayer… The apple really doesn’t fall

you

Bayers hadn’t intervened, how could dad possibly have lost that plot of land? Do you know what Mr. Bayer told dad? He said that he wondered how dad’s going to scrimp on the business partner when he was so stingy

we lost that piece of

put into this project? Its estimated value was $150,000,000! Months of effort gone just like this! You sl*t! It’s

“What…” Cordelia was confused.

Bayer and what

mind? You went to the hospital and gave the diamond necklace to my brother, and you’re denying it now and even making

sl*t who seduces men! You must’ve slept with countless men in secret, haven’t you? Marcus is so lucky he married a cheap wh*re like

not mean she was cowardly. She had taken so much of Yelena’s provocations and insults that she went from taking it in

she didn’t even know where to start. Yelena was simply not making

she felt helpless, her phone was pulled out of her grip from the back. Surprised, Cordelia turned back to see Marcus’

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