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Chapter 891
Avery was overjoyed at the compliments she received. Upon arriving at her office, she spotted a bouquet of red roses on her table and the smile on her face instantly froze.It was not an ordinary bouquet; it contained at least ninety-nine roses and had taken up the space of over half of her desk.Only a man would send a woman ninety-nine roses when he was trying to pursue her.She placed her purse on the table and ran her fingers through the petals to find a hand-written note, which said: 'you are forever my goddess'.Elliot's face instantly appeared in her mind when she saw the note.Who else would send her such an enormous bouquet along with such a cheesy note? She could tolerate him fawning over her in private, but doing so in her office would affect her mood to work.In Sterling Group, it was time for the weekly meeting on Monday.The managers entered the meeting room once Elliot arrived into the office.After having too much to drink the night before, ELliot woke up with a
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Elliot's heart sank as he stared at his phone after Avery hung up. It wasn't that he was upset over being scolded by Avery, but the fact that someone had sent her roses.If the bouquet was from Mike or Eric, they would have signed the card; so who was it? Who was trying to pursue Avery in secret?"The rest of you go on!" Elliot said, before storming out of the meeting room.He told the managers to carry on and leave, when the scheduled meetings on Monday were meant for the others to report to him; who else were they supposed to report to with Elliot gone?Elliot went straight into his office and closed the door behind him after exiting the meeting room.His secretary stood outside the door, red-eyed and terrified. It was the first time she had made such a horrible mistake for the years she had worked there. Though the coffee was not boiling hot, it had spilled all over her boss's phone, hand and clothes. Even if Elliot did not blame her for what happened yet, she felt like he woul
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Chad hung up and handed the phone back to Elliot." Avery's Vice-president got her the flowers."Elliot instantly calmed down."Go back and take a shower, Mr. Foster." Chad stared at the coffee stain on Elliot's clothes. "Your secretary wanted to apologize to you, but I sent her back to work seeing how pale she looked."Elliot didn't blame his secretary for what happened. He grabbed onto his phone and left the office.Meanwhile, in Tate Industries.When Avery found out that it was the vice-president who sent her the flowers, she shoved the card to his face and said, "if you are representing all employees when you got me the flowers, you should have written you are forever our goddess, not you are forever my goddess. Did you even pass your English test back in school?"Shaun lowered his head and apologized. "I just didn't see that big a difference between those two ways of saying it, President Tate. Everyone sees you as their goddess...""You are still arguing? Why didn't you tell
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"No way! I abandoned him!" Hayden glared at Daniel, before grabbing his plate to leave because he didn't want to have lunch with him any longer.Daniel immediately grabbed onto Hayden's jacket. "I'm sorry, Hayden. I- There's a little girl in my neighborhood and her father abandoned her, so now she stays with her mother."One could tell if someone had good or bad intentions from expressions alone; Daniel was insensitive, but not a bad person, so Hayden sat back down."I've made you mad again, Hayden." Daniel took the drumstick on his plate and placed it onto Hayden's. "I didn't do that on purpose. My dad is really nice to me, so I just wanted you to have a dad who takes care of you as well.""I don't need it!" Hayden stared at the chicken drumstick coldly."Why don't you need your dad? Isn't it a good thing to have one more person to look after you?" Daniel looked at him in confusion."I don't need your drumstick!" Hayden held onto his plate and moved it away. "It's insanitary!"
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Layla was in her pajamas and had her hair down as she leaped around the living, dancing like a bird that had been set free while humming some unknown tone.Mrs. Cooper held Robert and watched her performance; Robert stared unblinkingly and chuckled from time to time.Avery couldn't help but smile at the sight. She turned around and headed into the master bedroom and took new pajamas, before going into the bathroom.After a shower, she managed to wash out all the exhaustion she felt and what happened earlier that day came to mind.She had yet to apologize to Elliot for the misunderstanding concerning the roses. Though he had made other mistakes before, she had to set them apart.She unlocked her phone and saw a message Elliot sent ten minutes ago.'Are you going to Jun's wedding?'She remained thoughtful for a few moments, before replying, 'he didn't invite me.'Two minutes later, Jun called.Avery picked up and heard Jun's flustered voice coming from the phone. "Avery, are you
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Perhaps people do become more sentimental at night. Just as she was contemplating how she should reply to his message, his call came in.Seeing that she didn't reply, Elliot figured that there was a fifty percent chance she might pick up and went ahead to call.Avery's heart throbbed at his call; after struggling with the choice of either answering the call or leaving it, she picked up."Avery, Jun isn't as hateful as you think he is," Elliot said, hoping to keep her interested by leading with the matters concerning Jun. He knew that Avery felt like she owed Tammy and had taken an interest in Jun's wedding. "He just wants to give Tammy a push with the wedding."Avery immediately understood what he was trying to say. "But what if Tammy doesn't realize that's what he is trying to do?""That means it's really over for them," Elliot's voice was both calm and careful, "If you are set on marrying another man, I am definitely not going to let that wedding happen."Avery retorted furious
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Shea usually stayed out and would only return home on certain occasions.Elliot was happy to see his sister that day, but his father seemed to be in a bad mood. After having a few glasses to drink, his father suddenly started beating Shea.All the joy and fantasies were shattered at that very moment.The servants in the house ran off and Shea was wailing from being beaten; his mother was pulling his father back in an attempt to stop him, but his father shoved her aside forcefully. In the end, his elder brother helped his mother back into her room while his father dragged Shea outside.The moonlight shone through the night, but all Elliot saw was darkness. He wanted to end the misery and the source of it was his father. If he killed his father, his family would not suffer any longer.That night, he put an end to his father's life with his own hands."Avery, it's not what you think... Shea is my closest family, how could I..." Elliot tried to explain.Just then, the door to Avery'
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Avery woke up from the nightmare.It was dawn outside the window, and she sat up to switch on the lights.The room brightened instantly and the fear within her slowly faded as she looked around her familiar surroundings.She picked up her phone to check the time; it was half-past six in the morning.Her body felt like it was both freezing and burning at the same time, and when she raised her hand to touch her chin, she came into contact with a thick layer of sweat.Her heart was still throbbing from the dream and she knew that her phone conversation with Elliot triggered the nightmare. She had somehow filled in the blanks of what Elliot had not managed to finish.It was not a random dream; Charlie had indeed said something similar to her in the past. The only difference was that he had not gone into the details at the time because he had only heard rumors.In her dream, not only was Elliot a murderer, he was going after her life as well.Avery felt as though there was a stone p