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.

about you. You don’t have

a

it obvious that you’re taking Cordelia Jenner’s side, no? What happens now? Even

to react

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

dad’s actually still pretty nice to mom,” Carter said with a naïve smile. “Alright, I’ll stop here. I need to go to

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

not understanding the whole situation even

Yelena finally grown a conscience? Did William still hold on

gone back to visit, she’d had no hope for the $40,000 wedding gift. It was

back in its box. It was lucky that

a smile, she ran her dainty fingers over the gold jewelry in the box and talked to herself. “I’ll take good care of you in the future. I

felt a gush of warmth spill over

contained a

Reward you

in a good mood. This was

at home while Marcus practiced with the punching bag at the front of

to obsessed with this violent activity and insisted on training every day, she had never stopped him. Instead, she supported it. Punching sandbags at

cook after cleaning up when her

you?! Hooking up with Mr. Bayer… The apple really doesn’t fall far from the

kind of nonsense are you spewing this early in the

at all to running into a rabid dog. She was about to hang up when she heard Yelena scowl. “If the Bayers hadn’t intervened, how could dad possibly have lost that plot of

we lost that

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

“What…” Cordelia was confused.

Bayer and what

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

and pitiful, but you’re a 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

was cowardly. She had taken so much of Yelena’s provocations and insults that she went from taking it in silence to being forced to fight

where to start. Yelena was simply not making

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

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