Averie: [Can I just send you the forty-five thousand dollars and leave tomorrow? ]
The vice president: [Huh? Do you really not want to see him? Or is he giving you a hard time? Come back if it really is that hard for you to be there! You don’t need to pay me back.I’m so sorry!]
Averie gradually grew calm after she read the vice president’s reply.
Elyette was not giving her a hard time.
“Looks like he did not trick me into coming here, so why am I attacking him” thought Averie.
She took a deep breath and prepared herself to sink into the lecture when she caught sight of her pink suitcase next to him.
That suitcase instantly tossed her reason out the window.She really wanted to get her suitcase back.
“Is he not embarrassed to have the suitcase up there with him?” thought Averie.
At that moment, in one of the luxuriously decorated bedrooms in Villa de Sierra, the villa’s owner, Roger Goldstein’s phone rang.
Roger answered the call and heard the woman on the other end of the line say, “I heard that Elyette Foster and Averie Tate are at your place.”
“Ha ha! That’s right! What is it?”
Roger held his cigar and said casually, “I know you don’t get along with them, but Elyette is a friend of mine.”
“Ha ha! Mr.Goldstein, as a successful businessman yourself, you should know that there are no such things as lifelong friends and enemies, only lifelong profits!” the woman cackled menacingly.
“I have the perfect plan.Are you interested?” Roger’s smile faded.
Go ahead and tell me your plan.
I’ll be the one to judge whether I benefit from it.I’m not willing to risk anything, and so I will also only act if there is only a hundred percent success rate.”
“Don’t worry.As long as you do as I say, you will benefit greatly from this!”
That evening’s lecture came to an end an hour later.
Averie had been struggling to keep awake.
She had found herself nodding off twenty minutes into the lecture and had spent the next forty minutes texting Tammy, complaining about the situation.
Elyette walked over to her with her suitcase in his hand.She wanted to take it from him, but he did not let go.
“Was my lecture that boring? You looked like you were about to fall asleep,” he said with narrowed eyes and a disgruntled tone.
“You saw me nodding off.Why are you still asking me about it?”
Averie did not want to provoke him on purpose.
“You did well, I just didn’t quite understand it.”
When the hall was pretty much empty, he lowered his voice and asked, ”Are you leaving tomorrow, then?”
Averie glanced at him and said, “Are you kicking me out?”
“I’m just worried you won’t want to stay here any longer.It’s pretty boring up here, after all.””
Then, Elyette changed his tone and said, “Although, it won’t be as boring if you had someone keeping you company.Averie gazed at his handsome face which had turned slightly pink.
“Why are you going around the bush, Elyette? You were the one who tricked me into coming here, right? You worked with the vice president—” she said bluntly.
“I think we need some space away from each other,” interjected Elyette, then gazed at her with his deep- set eyes and asked hoarsely, “Are you really going to chase me thousands of miles away?”
“Can you not try and give me a bad name, Elyette?”
Averie was trying her best to remain clear-headed and not get dragged into Elyette’s tempo.
“If I really wanted to chase you a thousand miles away, I wouldn’t have let you come to the birthday party yesterday.” Elyette pursed his lips.
He wanted to say something but ended up keeping it to himself.
“I’ll take you to your room to get some rest.” He picked up her suitcase and walked toward the door.
“You know my room number?”
Averie watched as he led the way, then said, “Did you really bribe my vice president? Where do you find all your courage, Elyette?”
Elyette stood waiting at the doorway for her, then said, “It’s now what you think.Your vice president asked me for help at the hotel yesterday.His son really is sick.He wanted to get a refund on the enrollment fees, but the organizers didn’t allow it, so I helped him out with that.When I asked him to ask you to come here, he refused at first, but he changed his mind after seeing how well you and I got along yesterday.”
“Are you sure?”
Half of Averie’s anger subsided after hearing his explanation.
“You can call him right now.How do you trust him to be your company’s vice president if you won’t even trust him on this?” Elyette teased.
“Even if you have a reason, it still doesn’t change the fact that you’re a b*st*rd.”
Averie sneered, “Does the great president of Sterling Group really need to go to these tacky lengths just to chase after a woman?”
Seeing through her pretense, Elyette grinned and said, “How would you like me to chase after you, then? I can do anything.”
Averie strode over to him, snatched her suitcase back, then said, “‘ I’m going to my room by myself.
I don’t need you to lead me there! w Elyette followed her nonchalantly.
Averie pulled out the keycard to her room and checked her room number.
“your room’s right next to mine.I’ll take you there,”
Elyette said leisurely.
Then, he took Averie’s suitcase from her once again.
“If I’m really that tacky, Averie, I have plenty of ways to subdue you.Would I bother getting a separate room from you?”
Elyette dragged the suitcase over to the elevator doors.
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