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

a

Jenner with the wedding gift and snatched the land from him. Makes it obvious that you’re taking Cordelia Jenner’s side, no? What happens now? Even the Jenner heiress thinks that you

failed to react

now, but the Jenners had upgraded their mother’s hospital ward to

a naïve

book money. I’m

Cordelia murmured, not understanding the whole situation even when Carter ended

conscience? Did William still hold on to his feelings for her

visit, she’d

to the bedroom and carefully put the bangle back in its box. It was

and talked to herself.

the girl’s adorableness. He smiled and felt a gush of warmth spill over his heart. He then

text contained

Reward

only replied when he was in a good mood. This was the first time Josiah received a wordy reply from

Marcus practiced with the punching

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 better than fighting

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

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

nonsense are you

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 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 with his daughter’s

lost that piece of land!

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 your

“What…” Cordelia was confused.

and

the diamond necklace to my brother, and you’re

act like you’re so pure and pitiful, but you’re a sl*t who seduces men! You must’ve slept with countless men in secret, haven’t you?

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

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

grip from the back.

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