“Dr. Sanford, the boss asked me to pass this to you.” The bodyguard handed a check to Zoe.
Zoe accepted the cheque and glanced at the number written on it, before snorting.
“How generous of him! We slept together for one night and he is giving me five million.” She set the cheque on the table with a bitter smile. “Apart from this cheque, did he tell you anything else?”
The bodyguard shook his head.
Zoe’s heart ached as she thought to herself, “Who exactly does Elyette think I am?! A prostitute? He just pays me off after sleeping with me! I suppose the only difference is that I’ m getting paid way more than a prostitute would!”
Zoe gritted her teeth and threw a medical book on the ground. “Does he know what it means to respect someone?”
“Dr. Sanford, he already gives you enough respect. Otherwise, you wouldn‘t even get a penny out of this,” the bodyguard said expressionlessly. “That‘s just because I am still useful to him!” she shouted, red–eyed.
“If it wasn‘t for that, he would have chased you out long ago,” said the bodyguard. He was simply informing her of the truth of the matter. “Miss Tate never asked for money from the boss, and she is exceptionally obedient.”
“So you are saying that I‘m asking for too much?!”
“You might as well spend more time fawning over Madam Rosalie,” said the bodyguard before leaving the room.
Zoe felt like she just had an epiphany. She realized that she had made Elyette dislike her the moment she asked him to be her boyfriend.
The bodyguard was right, she should not push him too far, and she should approach the
Back in the hospital, Averie felt much better once her fever came down. She woke up from her slumber and looked around the strange environment that was her ward before turning her attention warily to her bedside.
Elyette sat there wordlessly as he watched her.
“Why is he here? Why am I in a hospital?” she thought.
“I—” She opened her mouth to speak but her voice was hoarse, and her throat felt as if
someone had ripped it apart.
Elyette poured some warm water into a glass before he helped her up and pressed the glass to her lips.
As she drank the water, memories of last night flooded her mind.
“Do you want more?” he asked.
Averie shook her head and pulled her blanket higher. “Why are you here? Who sent me to the hospital?”
They were the only two people in the room. Elyette might have been the person who had taken her to the hospital, but she could not remember what had happened.
“Mike is outside.” Elyette‘s heart twitched in pain at the wariness on her face. “Averie, I came looking for you to ask you something.”
“Oh? What is it?” She observed him calmly with nothing but clarity and coldness in her eyes.
“Did you come looking for me last night?” He stared intently at her face, not allowing the most minute changes in her expression to escape his notice. “I remember you coming to me
“No.” She interrupted him decisively. “I had too much to drink last night and haven‘t been feeling well since. How could I possibly go looking for you?”
“Really?” he swallowed as he muttered sorrowfully. “But I remember that you came to me saying that Shea was crying,”
“If you remember it so clearly, why bother asking me? This just proves that you have a bad memory,” said Averie, calmly denying his delusion.
Elyette rose from the chair. All the confusion and sorrow drained from his face.
“If that‘s the case, I’m sorry for the trouble!” he said in a voice even colder than hers.
Averie’s heart ached, but she did not dare to let it show on her face.
“Did something important happen last night for you to come all the way here to ask this question?” She looked at him curiously while trying to keep up her carefree charade.
She had thought that he would leave in frustration, but he did not; instead, he looked directly at her and said, “I slept with Zoe. Is that something important?”
Averie’s eyes darted away for a brief moment, but then, she started chuckling, “Is this the first time you two slept together? It has been a long time since you went public with your relationship. How innocent.”
Elyette‘s expression darkened. “Speaking as if you have plenty of experience. Have you slept with any other men besides me?”
She beamed at him, “Of course!”
Hayden was a “man” too, after all.
The composure on Elyette‘s face faded.
“Averie Tate! I will be damned if I come looking for you again!” he said through gritted teeth before storming out of the room.
Averie watched as he disappeared, and the smile on her smile collapsed.
It was good that he would not come looking for her again. That way, they could both live their separate lives, but why did she not feel happy about it at all?
She held onto the blanket and took a deep breath. It still smelt like him.
The door swung open, and Mike strode in.
“Averie, did Elyette do anything to you? Damn that guy! I was supposed to send you to the hospital, but he beat me to it!” Mike walked toward the bed and sat down before reaching over to touch her forehead. Her skin was cool to the touch, which meant that the fever had broken.
“He was the one who sent me here?” Stunned, Averie‘s lashes shivered.
“Yeah! He went looking for you at your house, and Hayden soaked him in water. He was drenched from head to toe, so I took him inside to change. That was when we discovered that you had a fever,” explained Mike. “What did he say to you just now? He looked so angry when he left!”
Averie could not be bothered and simply said, “He didn‘t say much. Why is my blanket here as well?”
“Elyette carried it over! He‘s strong! I couldn‘t even catch up to him while he was carrying you.”
Averie did not want to hear any more of Elyette and glanced at the IV bag on the side. “There’s still one bag left. I will sleep for a bit.”
“Sleep!” Mike helped tuck her in.
Three days later, the sales department of Tate Industries received an order for drones.
“Sterling Group wants to buy our drones!” The manager of the sales department checked the order over and over again and reported it immediately after making sure that there was no mistake.
Mike took the information about the order and went directly to Averie.
“Sterling Group‘s purchasing department has ordered five thousand Storm series drones from us,” Mike exclaimed. “What do they plan to do with so many drones?”
Averie took the order form from his hand and had a look.
“Our Storm series drone‘s selling price is set at nineteen thousand nine hundred and ninety nine per unit. Five thousand units will cost them ninety–nine million nine hundred and ninety –five thousand dollars!” Mike took a deep breath and said, “Why don‘t we upcharge them? If we charge them twenty thousand dollars per unit, we will earn more than one billion dollars from this order alone.”
Averie thought that she heard him wrong. She had originally thought that they ought to give discounts to clients with such big purchases.
“You can‘t be thinking about giving him a discount, can you? Averie, do you think that Elyette Foster would care about that money? Aren‘t you underestimating his wealth?” Mike took the order form back and said, “It‘s a big order; I need to check with Chad.”
Averie watched as Mike left, and her brain started to run at high speeds. Elyette must know that his company was about to make a purchase worth a billion dollars. Furthermore, it was a bulk order.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
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