The Contracted Ever After (Cordelia and Ronan)

Chapter 36

Cordelia had some sweet reveries about Ronan, but she wasn't pinning high hopes on the marriage.

Being kicked out, she didn't feel the sting of loss or gain.

She even shot Adrian a message: [Look what you've done. You threatened Ronan and he threw me out

straight away. How much space you reckon I occupy in his heart? He throws me a dime when he's in a

good mood and I don't even dare to take it, yet you thought it was a good idea to blackmail him!]

The whole point of this was to get Adrian to drop the idea of blackmailing Ronan, to alert him that

Ronan was no pushover.

Adrian, seeing the message, got even more pissed off. He too realized that Ronan was no easy mark,

let alone someone to be trifled with.

"Heartless! Cold-blooded!" Adrian muttered bitterly.

"Who are you talking about?" Jamie asked.

Adrian was the Colby family's driver, tasked with taking Jamie to the accounting firm today. Jamie had

his own firm.

"Ronan, he kicked Cordelia out!" Adrian said.

"Why?" Jamie asked.

"I don't know. Maybe he did it to mock and trample on the dignity of us poor folks. Who knows what his

real motive was?" Adrian replied with a dark chuckle.

As expected, Jamie furrowed his brows.

After a while, Adrian went on, "Also, when I last visited Ronan, he said that his marriage with Cordelia

was just a formality. Apparently, Ronan's grandfather is sick and he needed to get married to show him

how happy he is, just to put the old man's mind at ease. That's why he picked Cordelia."

That was Adrian's well-considered conclusion.

During his last visit to Ronan's place, the maid had whispered to him that Barney was ill and sleeping,

asking him to keep his voice down. Adrian also noticed the medical supplies and loads of medications

around Ronan's house.

Later, Adrian found out that Ronan's grandfather had only recently moved in, most likely because his

condition had worsened. Ronan was probably putting on a show, clandestinely getting married to cheer

up his grandfather and then quietly divorcing, with Barney being the only one in the dark.

Ronan kicking Cordelia out really did make it seem like there were no feelings between them. No

wonder he showed her no sympathy.

So, Adrian figured that the key to the whole marriage situation was Barney. Barney was the key!

Adrian felt that he needed to handle both Cordelia and Ronan, while also keeping up relations with

Jamie. He had always been trying to push Jamie and Cordelia together.

"No wonder Ronan treats Cordelia so badly." Jamie exclaimed angrily, "How dare he treat Della like

this! He's going too far!"

Upon hearing this, Adrian thought to himself, “There's hope yet! The Colby family turned out to be more

reliable.”

He didn't bring up Cordelia and Logan, fearing that Jamie might have doubts and reservations if he

knew about Cordelia's first love.

"I hope they get divorced soon so that Ronan won't mistreat my sister anymore. It's just a marriage of

convenience after all!" Adrian said with a righteous expression, looking every bit the protective older

brother.

"How do you know they'll get divorced?" Jamie asked.

"Well, isn't it obvious? A loveless marriage is bound to have an expiration date. Do you really think

Ronan will never marry someone he loves? He's loaded, why would he put up with this?" Adrian

argued as if it was a given.

Jamie found Adrian's words very convincing. After his training course ended, he had initially thought

that Cordelia was already married and he had planned to quietly quit, to let go of his hopes. But Exclusive content © by Nô(v)el/Dr/ama.Org.

Adrian's words reignited the flame of hope in Jamie's heart.

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Things weren't going so smoothly for Cordelia lately. If she had remained a regular employee, no one

would have been pointing fingers at her. If she had married Ronan, she would have been surrounded

by praises. But her situation was rather unique. From an obscure employee, she had shot to stardom

and crash back down.

It seemed like people enjoyed watching her rise and then fall hard. The sounds of mocking and ridicule

kept ringing in her ears.

Jordan often made Cordelia work overtime and assigned her the heaviest tasks, under the pretext that

young people needed to toughen up.

Cordelia didn't complain; she just quietly got on with her work. She knew Jordan was deliberately

making things difficult for her, but she didn't hold it against him. After all, power came with

responsibility. She did rely on Ronan to get out of her financial woes, so she was okay with facing a bit

of backlash now.

One day, Cordelia didn't finish work until five in the morning. As she packed her bag, she stared at the

umbrella inside and fell into deep thought. She wanted to see Ronan again, but never got the chance.

As Cordelia was in the elevator yawning and clutching her bag, a man appeared before her. Thinking

she was seeing things due to fatigue, she rubbed her eyes.

"Haven't you seen me before?" Ronan’s cold voice came through.

"Mr. Evans? Why are you here so early?" Cordelia was pleasantly surprised.

She had been longing to see him but never got the chance. Maybe her prayers had been answered.

And now, here he was, standing right in front of her.