“And how are you going to do that?” she teased sarcastically. “You are either behind your brother’s crime, or you condoned it at the very least. After all, you spent quite a lot of the money your brother stole from us! How dare you call me?”
“You got my daughter Cassandra killed! I haven’t even made you pay for that!”
“Oh… Who else died in your family? Why don’t you just blame it all on me as well?” mocked Averie. “Do you think that I‘m still the girl that you can bully? Wanda, you’ve lost your last chance when you failed to kill me five years ago!”
Averie’s voice was cold and vicious. She sounded completely different from how she did five years ago.
Wanda furiously hung up. She did not intend on letting it slide and booked a ticket back to Aryadelle immediately.
The headlines for the afternoon news read: (Tate Industries to obtain an extra three hundred million dollar boost? Mr. Worsley, the previous finance director, had been arrested this morning at the airport after five years on the run!)
When Mike saw the news, he stormed into Averie‘s office.
“How can you not tell me about something this huge?” he said in excitement. “Our company is getting three hundred million!”
Averie picked up the glass of water to take a sip. “You should believe everything you see on the news. Do you think he would come back if he hadn‘t spent all the money he stole?”
“Averie, you lost three hundred million, and you are here drinking tea?”
“My dad lost three hundred million, not me.” She corrected him. “People always need to pay for the mistakes they made, and that was the price my dad paid for marrying Wanda.”
“Let’s go celebrate tonight?” Mike proposed.
“Sure!” Averie‘s lips curled into a smile. “You organize it.”
“Okay!” Mike picked up a strand of her hair and asked shyly, “Can I invite Chad?”
The smile froze on Averie‘s face. “You two…”
Could the two of them be in a relationship?
“We made peace and are now on good terms!” Mike confessed. “I will only invite Chad, not your ex, okay?”
“What do you mean you are on good terms?” Averie could not help but imagine what Mike could mean. “Did you two.”
“Averie, do you prefer that Chad and I fight every time we see each other?” he interrupted her and said, “Get your mind out of the gutter, okay?”
“Oh, invite him then!” Averie studied Mike’s flushed face and instinctively felt that things were not as innocent as Mike claimed. Regardless, she did not intend to stop the two from developing a relationship.
Once Mike went out, Averie called Wesley and invited him to go out with them.
Wesley agreed and asked, “Are you free this afternoon? Can you make a trip to the hospital?”
“Yeah, sure,” she said.
After lunch, Averie drove to Elizabeth Hospital, and Wesley went to pick her up at the entrance, before taking her to the ward.
“Averie, I have good news. Eric is getting better” Wesley said. “As expected of Professor Hough’s best student!”
Averie beamed at him. “Is he awake?”
Eric Santos was the first patient she had treated since her return.
“Yeah! He regained consciousness,” Wesley said. “All the famous doctors in this country had pretty much announced that Eric was pretty much dead back then. Who knew that you would save him?”
“He has just regained consciousness. It‘s far from a full recovery,” Averie said modestly.
“I believe in you. You will definitely help him back on his feet!”
Averie wanted to help Eric back on his feet as well. Before he had become a vegetable, he had
been one of the country‘s most famous male idols. Even after fading out of the entertainment | industry for two years due to a certain accident, he was still within the listed top ten most
popular idols. After performing the first surgery on him, Averie had gone and watched all his shows.
Eric was born for the stage Whenever he was on stage, he could move the hearts of many without doing anything.
That evening, Averie drove Wesley to the gathering venue Mike had told her about.
The two got out of the car when they arrived at the hotel.
“Wesley, everyone here tonight is either a friend of mine or a friend of Mike’s, so don’t hold back,” said Averie with a smile. “We are mainly celebrating the fact that James got arrested. It’s something that’s been on my mind for some time now.”
“I know. I heard you mention it before.” Wesley smiled while looking at her. “I can see that you are in an exceptionally good mood today.”
The two went to the event hall that Mike told her to go to. As soon as they entered the hall, the smile faded from Averie’s face.
“What the heck? Why are there so many strangers? Did we walk into the wrong place? But – I can see Mike’s golden hair from here,” she thought.
When Mike spotted Averie, he walked up to her. “Averie, here you are! Welcome, Wesley!”
Averie dragged Mike outside and asked him what happened.
“Well… When I invited Chad, he said that they are having a company gathering tonight in a big event hall. He said that we can just come join them… That way we can save the money for gathering, right?” Mike‘s eyes shone in a calculative manner.
Averie’s eyes filled with anger as she thought, “I‘m in such a good mood, and he thinks that I want to skimp on food?!”
“Relax, Elyette usually doesn‘t show up to gatherings for the Sterling Group,” Mike explained.” Their company has a gathering every fortnight, so he couldn‘t possibly show up every time. According to Chad, Elyette only shows his face during special occasions… and tonight‘s not an occasion, so he won’t be here! I swear it!”
Mike placed his hand on his chest and swore.
Just then, they heard the distinct sound of leather shoes hitting the floor. Averie looked in the direction of the sound and saw Elyette walking toward them. He was dressed in black.
Averie instantly smacked Mike’s hand.
Mike took a deep breath awkward breath and whispered, “What do we do? The people I invited are already inside… I can‘t just ask them to get out.”
Elyette walked toward them. His dark, brooding eyes focused on Averie’s face as he said,” Congratulations.”
Averie scowled.
“… On getting three hundred million,” he added.
Averie lifted an eyebrow. “Oh… Don‘t you usually stay out of company gatherings?”
“I come when I want to. Nothing is fixed,” he said casually, before teasing her, “Are you drinking tonight?”
“I drink when I want to. Nothing is fixed,” she retorted stubbornly.
Elyette pursed his lips and gave her a look, before looking away and stepping into the event hall.
Mike dragged Averie along and followed Elyette closely.
“We are already here. If we leave now, he is going to think that we are afraid of him!” Mike tried to brainwash her by saying, “Not only are we going to eat more, but we are also going to order a few bottles of good wine! He‘s paying, anyway.”
Averie glared at him. “Don‘t you ever feel embarrassed?”
Mike gave her a charming smile. “He is not my ex–husband, so the only one who would feel embarrassed would be you.”
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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