Married a Secret Billionaire

“I think Seth’s alright. And I can see that he really likes you.”

After a while, Linda’s voice came from the dark weakly. “Cordelia, let’s not talk about him, okay?”

“I don’t understand.” Cordelia turned around and propped herself up to look at Linda. “You both match each other in every aspect! Seth’s seriously courting you too. Why aren’t you giving him a chance?”

“I… I don’t think I’m a good match for him.”

“You’ll only know if you give it a try, right?”

“No need to try it out. There’s no way!”

Linda’s tone was anxious, as if she was troubled.

There was a long pause before Cordelia asked softly, “Linda, is there… something I don’t know about?”

Silence followed her question. She chuckled and lay back down. “It’s okay. You don’t have to talk about it if you don’t want to. Heh, it’s getting late. We should sleep!”

“Cordelia…”

“Hmm?”

Linda bit her lips and said with much difficulty, “I… had someone memorable in the past.”

Cordelia paused. It felt like something was stuck in her throat as she wanted to say something but could not.

“That person’s like a childhood friend,” Linda said slowly. “We grew up together. He lived just next door. Like all the other boys, he liked bullying me since we were young, and I hated him at first… But the more things were like that, the closer we grew. When we were 18, we…”

“What happened?”

“We separated and never met again.”

Cordelia did not expect an ending like this. She wanted to ask why. Why had they separated, and why had they never met again? However, she heard Linda’s suppressed sobs in the dark.

With the moonlight that spilled in, she saw Linda’s jerking shoulders. Cordelia was shocked. From the first day she knew Linda, she had never seen the latter cry like this.

The reason they separated… Was it life and death?

“Linda…” Cordelia rested a hand on Linda’s shoulder, wanting to console her.

The group sat around the round table. The dishes were aromatic and looked exquisite. Every dish was placed in delicate porcelain, looking incredibly extravagant.

Seth could care less if the food was drugged. He impatiently helped himself with the dishes.

him. “Not scared of the restaurant pulling your bank password out of

in his mouth. “It’s not like I have much in my account. Probably can’t even afford this meal! I

Stafford’s a wise

bad either!” Seth chuckled. “You ate more

hit his head with her

each other lovingly

served.” The manager led the servers to serve some

available in the river of Splendor Mountain. Its meat is

them took off

aroma wafted into the room. The fish was braised well with a hint of

eye to Marcus out of

fish. When it was served, she would give the eyes to her and Carter. Her mother said that fish eyes were good

most precious part should be shared with the most

she

in envy. “Aww, someone’s doting on her husband like precious fish eyes. What a match made in heaven! Ugh, you make me so

Seth teased her. “You have a fish too! Pick the eyes yourself if you want

the same as them being given

and

smiled, having never felt as triumphant

eyes in his bowl

“You—”

at her gently. “Now

head lowered, but a smile bloomed from the corner of her

…

booked three rooms. She had thought that she would rest in the room with Marcus after dinner, but Linda tugged

it. Linda and Seth were not official yet, so maybe they did not feel comfortable spending time alone. Even if they got along well, what if they impulsively entered

lips twitched. She asked Marcus to go ahead while she stayed back to chat with Linda. Hence, she accompanied

was only then Linda heaved a sigh of relief and

you have to be so nervous?” Cordelia teased her. “Dr. Stafford’s a gentleman.

“I just didn’t want to come back to my room alone and asked you to keep me company. But to

into the bed pulling the sheets away. “Let’s have a sleepover

do if

for the sake of it as she snuck into the

things to talk about. They shared a

were not talking about boys, they would just like now—Linda “ambushed”

and curled herself up before she smacked the hand that groped her, causing

each other, and it only ended when Cordelia mercilessly pinned Linda into begging