Married a Secret Billionaire novel Chapter 22

Josiah was actually befuddled.

The Bayers were quite influential in Jangasas, but not to the extent that they could dig through small companies. Besides, it would attract attention if he did so by using his status. If it turned out that he had pressured William Jenner and caused a certain someone to misunderstand him again…

Josiah coughed and chuckled awkwardly. “Z, there’s no problem, but let me make it clear now that if someone makes things up in the meantime and claims I’m having some kind of affair with your darling dearest and whatnot, you can’t buy it—Ow!”

Fredric hit his head before he could finish.

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Cordelia worked harder during her second month at work. She now had a basic understanding of some workforce survival rules and knew how to avoid Karine picking on her. She also knew how to protect herself from both Jesse’s direct and implicit harassment by avoiding interacting with him in the office.

Unfortunately, this drained her energy so much that she was exhausted every day.

When Cordelia threw herself on the couch after removing her heels at home, she would sometimes sleep until the middle of the night out of fatigue. When she woke up and discovered that she had a thin blanket over her, Marcus was sleeping by using his arm as a pillow on the floor next to her.

She might have occupied the couch that the man slept on, but he would not use her bed in the bedroom. Cordelia chuckled, feeling bad but also getting some sense of warmth.

Marcus had once told her, “You might as well quit if this job’s so hard.”

“No way,” Cordelia had replied, glancing at him. “Where will we get the money to feed ourselves and pay rent if I don’t work?”

“You actually care about petty money like this?”

“Petty money?” Cordelia had chuckled after her initial surprise. “Aren’t you rich? You don’t know how expensive groceries are because you don’t buy them. My salary is barely enough to sustain us… Sigh, if I don’t close more sales and get the bonus, bad days will be ahead of us soon!”

She had somehow begun to refer to them as “we” now when she talked.