“No, thank you. Go back to what you were doing and just ignore that I’m here.”
The smile on Chad remained. “I don’t have anything to do, so I can wait here with you!”
Averie reached for the glass and took a sip of water.
“Averie, I heard what happened yesterday as soon as Mr. Foster hit Tammy, so allow me to explain something to you first! Mr. Foster didn’t raise his hand on Tammy for Chelsea’s sake, it was because Tammy had made a few inappropriate comments. She called him a dirtbag and said that he deserves getting dumped by you…”
Averie stared at Chad coldly.
Chad panicked and blurted out, “um… Mr. Foster had already explained this to Jun.”
“The more you try to explain, the more I resent him.” Averie set her glass down.
Chad quieted down and said, “I’ll wait outside.”
He sighed a long breath after exiting the office. Shortly after, Elyette stepped out of the elevator and walked towards his office.
Chad went up to him and whispered, “she is really angry, Mr. Foster, so be careful. Also, her belly has grown a bit bigger, so you must refrain even if she pisses you off…” Elyette swallowed hard and strode into the office.
When Averie saw him walking in, she immediately took the contract out of the folder.
“This is the tripartite agreement we signed before,” she drawled in a calm voice, “the cooperation between my company and the Border Security Force doesn’t need your involvement disguised as charity work”
“Disguised as charity work?” Elyette scowled.
“You only decided to donate the money because you were pursuing me, not because you believe in the cause,” Averie lifted an eyebrow and continued, “I’m terminating this tripartite agreement. This is not to be negotiated, I’m only here to inform you about it.”
Elyette looked at her coldly. “You are here for Tammy Lynch.”
“So what if I am?”
“I hit her, and you hate me for it.”
“So what if I hate you for it?”
“Is terminating one contract enough to settle the grudge?” He walked towards her and took her hand, before placing it onto his face. “Here. Slap me across the face and avenge your best friend!”
Averie pursed her lips and tried to pull her hand back, but he wouldn’t budge.
“Come on!” His eyes reddened as he gritted out fiercely, “other than your best friend, there’s also your son! Have you forgotten that I came close to strangling your son to death?! I’m the devil! I will harm anyone who crosses me! It doesn’t matter if it’s your best friend, or your son, I won’t show them any mercy!”
She could feel his burning breath on her face and she somehow seemed to have caught his evilness from it.
Averie raised her hand and struck at Elyette’s handsome-looking face. The deafening sound wa like a whip to her heart. Her palm went numb from the pain, along with her heart.
‘I hit him,’ she thought, ‘he provoked me into hitting him!’
Just then, the office door was pushed open and Chelsea hurried inside in heels.
“Averie Tate! Who gave you permission to raise your hand at him? Do you have a death wish?!’ Chelsea saw the palm print on Elyette’s cheek and threw herself at Averie hysterically.
Elyette grabbed her by the arm and gritted out, “I was the one who told her to do it! Don’t evei try to lay your hands on her, Chelsea Tierney!”
Chelsea didn’t expect for Elyette to still protect Averie under such circumstances. Feeling wronged and bitter, her tears started scrolling down her face uncontrollably.
Chad hurried inside and dragged Averie out from where she was seated.
“I don’t know why Chelsea showed up out of the blue,” he explained seriously, “let me send you down first!”
“It’s fine.” She pushed Chad’s hand away and strode towards the elevator.
She was overwhelmed by emotions at the moment. Indeed, she had come to confront Elyette for what happened with Tammy, but she had not expected for herself to actually struck him. Though he was the one who forced her to do so, it did not change the fact that she had hit him.
Elyette was hot-tempered and would often get into arguments with her, but he had never raised his hand at her.
After exiting the elevator, she walked towards the parking lot and got into her car, before driving back to her company.
Along the way, she received a call from Tammy.
“Averie, I heard that you hit Elyette for my sake… Didn’t I told you not to go looking for him?” Tammy was so stunned by the news that even her cheek had stopped hurting. “How can you be so brave? Aren’t you scared that he might hit you back?”
To Tammy, any man who would raise their hands at women or children knew no limits.
“I went to him for work,” Averie lied and said.
“What kind of work? Now that you’ve hit him, how are you two going to face one another from now on?” Tammy felt that she could just suffocate by imagining the situation.
“I don’t have to see him,” Averie said calmly, “take care of yourself and remember not to eat anything spicy…”
“Pftt! Averie, I feel much better now that you’ve taken revenge for me. I feel great,” Tammy said while chuckling, “I’ll treat you a big meal once my face recovers.”
“Sure.”
After ending the call, Averie drove towards the office.
There was an old saying that said “Good news goes unnoticed, while bad news travels fast’.
Within half an hour, the entire office had learned that Averie slapped Elyette across the face. As
soon as she entered the office, she could sense that the receptionist was giving her an odd look and when she arrived into her office, Mike immediately appeared before her.
“Does your hand hurt, Averie?” Mike propped his arms against Averie’s office table and stared at her face with his blue eyes. “Chad said that you gave his boss a palm print on the face! Elyette couldn’t stay in the office anymore and went home right away.”
Averie scowled. “Do you have to be so happy about it?”
“Haha! I just think you did the right thing! Some men deserve a good spanking! Tammy might be a bit dramatic, but she is on our side and we can’t just let others bully our people, right?” He said.
Wanting to be alone for a while, Averie said, “get out.”
“Chad assumes that his boss would probably leave you alone from now on, because Elyette has never been so humiliated! So I guess you are on your own with raising the new baby.”
Averie’s eyelids felt heavy. “I said get out!”
“Oh… I’ll leave now… But why did you have to terminate the contract…? We don’t have to give up on the money, either. That’s a million-worth order!”
Averie felt as though her head was about to explode. “Scram!”
Mike immediately left out of concern that her frustration might affect her baby.
Once the office returned to silence, Averie reached her right hand out. Her hand was still numb and slightly red, which was proof of how hard she struck.
Averie thought from a different angle. If Elyette was the one that slapped her that day, she would resent him for life. She would even go to the hospital to have an abortion in a fit of rage.
At that thought, she secretly felt that he was most probably never going to look for her anymore.
A week later, in one of the most high-end restaurants in the city.
The bruises on Tammy’s face have almost recovered fully. She asked Averie out to dinner, wanting to buy her a meal.
Initially, Tammy got Averie to bring the two children along as well, but Wesley brought them and Shea out to play.
“Averie, Elyette did not look for you for the past few days, right?” Tammy said worriedly.
“Hmm.” Averie ordered a few dishes and passed the menu to her.
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