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. You don’t have a

waved a

him. Makes it obvious that you’re taking Cordelia Jenner’s side, no? What happens now? Even the Jenner heiress thinks that you have something going on

failed to

other end of the line and said that not only could they afford to pay the medical bills now, but the Jenners had upgraded their mother’s hospital ward to a VIP ward with a professional caretaker and the

said with a naïve

reference book money. I’m

whole situation even when Carter ended the

Did William still hold

when she had gone back to visit,

carefully put the bangle back in its box. It was

dainty fingers over the gold jewelry in the box and talked to herself. “I’ll take good care of you in the future. I won’t sell

smiled and felt a gush of warmth spill over his heart.

contained a

bad. Reward you

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

Marcus practiced with the punching bag at

she chortled. Although she did not get why the man was close to obsessed with this violent activity and insisted on training every day, she had never stopped him. Instead, she supported it. Punching sandbags at home was

cook after cleaning up when her

Bayer… The apple really doesn’t fall

kind of nonsense are you spewing this early in

“If the 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

we lost that

project? Its estimated value was $150,000,000! Months of

“What…” Cordelia was confused.

and

to my brother, and you’re denying it now and even making up some Mr. Bayer? I don’t even know

men! You must’ve slept with countless men

soft temperament, but that did not mean she was cowardly. She had taken so much of Yelena’s provocations and insults that she went from taking

didn’t even know where to start. Yelena was

helpless, her phone was pulled out of her grip from the back. Surprised, Cordelia turned

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