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.

he looked into her eyes, they were clear like pools

ball of flame churning

feel his unusually warm chest, powerful heartbeats, and the oozing manliness… She felt like melting. Before

smiled embarrassedly. “I still have to

dark glint flashing in his

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

sleep on the couch tonight. It’s uncomfortable. Sleep in

bravest thing she could say. He held

ten minutes to take a shower,

not see the

face heated up, and she went to change into her pajamas. As she sat by the bed anxiously,

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

shame when she felt that her thoughts

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

be heard

thumped with intertwined feet as she was both nervous and

in novels in the past. She used to look forward to these pleasant scenes when she

wedding night, it

could not help herself as a blissful smile stretched the corners of her lips. She hoped that everything would be like what the novels

an urgent knock rang at

more so when she opened the door. Carter stood outside with a busted face and looked horrible, crying the moment he

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

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

back to reality and slowly turned around

the latter had no

She forced a smile and

jolted and immediately understood what his sister meant after a glance at Marcus. This man in front of them was the man his sister married in place of Yelena, so the man

softly, “Greet

at the man timidly, getting an inexplicable commanding presence from the