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.

they were clear like pools of

a ball of

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

“I still

glint flashing in

It was a challenge for her to utter that one word as she blushed bright

sleep on the couch tonight. It’s uncomfortable.

He held back a chuckle and ran

minutes to take a shower, but he

television but still did not see the man coming up. There was only the occasional sound of water

she went to change into her pajamas. As she sat by the bed

going to do to her later? He was tall and muscular, so he must be stronger than the

her head in shame when she felt that her

the bathroom stopped. She jolted and clutched the edge

could be heard

as she was both nervous

were like in novels in the past. She used to look forward to these pleasant scenes when she was younger and to fantasize about marrying

was no longer her wedding night, it would

her lips. She hoped that everything would

an urgent knock rang at the

the door. Carter stood outside with a busted face and looked horrible, crying the moment he saw

him into the house. “Did you

with reddened eyes and kept sobbing, unable to speak

coughed that she snapped back to reality and slowly turned around to see a confused

the latter had no younger

forced a smile and discreetly gave Carter a

of them was the man his sister married in place of Yelena, so

said softly, “Greet your

greeted Marcus obediently and hid behind Cordelia right away. He looked at the man timidly, getting an inexplicable commanding presence from the latter.