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 slightly like a

a ball of

gaze as she blushed and panted. She could feel his unusually warm chest, powerful heartbeats, and the oozing manliness… She felt like melting. Before

“I still have

glint flashing in

was soft and weak. It was a challenge for her to utter that one word as

couch tonight. It’s

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

right after dinner. He usually took only ten minutes to take a shower, but he had spent nearly an

not

she sat by the bed anxiously, she had no idea where to

to do to her later? He was tall and muscular, so

giggled but hung her head in shame when she felt that her thoughts were too

was then the running water in the bathroom stopped. She jolted and clutched the edge of her

could be heard

thumped with intertwined feet as she

used to look forward to these pleasant

her wedding night, it would be her first time with

of her lips. She hoped that everything would be like what the novels said and she could

urgent knock rang at

stood outside with a busted face and looked horrible, crying the

into the house. “Did you get

reddened eyes and kept

that she snapped back to reality and slowly turned around to

currently Yelena, and the latter had no younger

forced a smile and discreetly

of them was the man his

said softly,

away. He looked at the man timidly, getting an inexplicable