Married a Secret Billionaire

Even when Marcus was being gentle, Carter was still pale and sweating from the pain.

“What happened? Who beat you up?” Cordelia cried, “Who did you offend?”

Carter kept his lips pursed without a word. It only distressed Cordelia even more, and she kept asking, but Carter said nothing, no matter how she interrogated him.

Marcus patted her shoulder with a look that asked her to relax before he helped Carter to the balcony. Cordelia watched the two of them close the door, and before long, Carter seemed to be talking to Marcus while wiping his tears.

When Marcus stepped out, Cordelia hurried to him and asked, “What’s wrong?”

“He’s being bullied at school.” Marcus’ expression was cold, with a hint of rage between his brows.

Cordelia felt her heart clench in pain, and the impulse to cry rushed up again.

“It’s a few seniors who think your cousin’s an easy target and encircle him before and after school to ask for money from him. If he doesn’t have any, he’ll get beaten up.” Marcus bit his lips. “They didn’t get any money from him just now, so they slammed his head against the wall, yanking his hair. That’s why the wound on his forehead is quite bad.”

Cordelia sucked in a cold breath. She wanted to check her brother out on the balcony but was stopped by Marcus.

“Don’t go yet,” he whispered in her ear. “Boys this age are prideful. He won’t want you to see him like this. Wait for him to calm down first.”

“Mm.” Cordelia nodded but was suddenly puzzled. Her own brother refused to tell her that he was bullied but was willing to tell his brother-in-law, whom he had only met?

Marcus seemed to read her mind and smiled. “There are things that only men would tell men.”

Cordelia shook her head. “He’s only 16. What kind of a man is that!?”

“Don’t underestimate him.” Marcus chuckled. “When I was 16, I had already—”

He swallowed his words back halfway through his sentence.

Cordelia looked up at him. “Already what?”

Marcus choked and pulled Cordelia into his arms. Her waist easily fitted in his hand, so he tilted her chin up with another hand.

into her eyes, they were clear like pools of spring. Her cherry lips parted

felt a ball of

she blushed and panted. She could feel his unusually warm chest, powerful heartbeats, and the

She smiled embarrassedly. “I still have to

stopped, a dark glint flashing

challenge for her to utter that one word as

on the couch tonight. It’s

could say. He held back a chuckle and ran his thumb over her red ear,

minutes to take a shower, but he had spent nearly an

television but still did not see the man coming up. There was only the

pajamas. As she sat by the bed

was tall

when she

the bathroom stopped. She jolted and clutched the edge of her

be heard

heart thumped with intertwined feet as she was

in novels in the past. She used to look forward to these pleasant scenes when she was younger and to fantasize about marrying the person she loved and having an

this was no longer her wedding night, it would be

stretched the corners of her lips. She hoped that everything would be like

it, an urgent knock

was surprised, even more so when she opened the door. Carter stood outside with a busted

pulled him into the house. “Did you get into a

with reddened eyes and kept sobbing, unable to speak a full

was until the latter coughed that she snapped back to reality and slowly turned around to see a confused frowning

Yelena, and the

cousin.” She forced a smile

man his sister married in place of Yelena, so the man still did not know his identity. He must not

said softly, “Greet your

He looked at the man timidly, getting an inexplicable commanding presence from the latter. Did his sister not feel pressured while living with someone like this every