Elyette’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 Elyette arrived into the office.
After having too much to drink the night before, Elyette woke up with a mild headache and told the secretary to get him a cup of coffee before heading to the meeting room. Once the meeting began, Elyette started to hear reports from all departments regarding performance in the prior week. Shortly after, the secretary came in with the coffee and just as she was about to deliver the cup to Elyette’s hand, the screen of his phone lit up with Averie’s name displayed on it.
His heart thumped at Averie’s call and accidently bumped his hand towards the cup of coffee his secretary was holding when he reached for the phone. “Snap!”
The cup fell and the coffee spilled all over his hand, the desk and his clothes. Terrified, the secretary frantically apologized. With no regards to the awkward state he was in, Elyette immediately took some tissue to wipe away the coffee on the screen of his phone and accidentally pressed on the button to accept the call on speakered phone.
Averie’s voice echoed around the meeting room. “Elyette Foster! Were you the one who sent me flowers? Do you take me for an eighteen years old teenage girl? Do you think that I would be grateful if you do this? Why are you so childish? Can’t you act like an adult? The issues between us cannot be resolved by a bouquet!” Averie’s throat felt dry from all the shouting and she picked up the glass of ater on her desk to take a sip. Elyette stared at his phone and scowled, feeling as though someone had pressed the pause button on him since he heard her voice in the meeting.
“What I’m saying is that I won’t forgive you even if you give me all the roses in the world! Stop doing such meaningless things, or I’ll come to look down on you!” She raised her voice once94 again. Elyette cursed under his breath and turned off the speaker mode; catching onto the key information in what she said, he asked, “Averie, someone sent you roses? Who?!”
Averie was taken by surprise.
‘It wasn’t him?’ She thought, ‘was I being unreasonable, then, for shouting so harshly at him? But I can’t make myself apologize to him. I need to calm down and decide what to do next after I find out who gave me the roses!’ She took a deep breath and hung up without a moment ofd3 hesitation. Inside the meeting room of Sterling Group, everyone was trying their best to suppress their laughter while they observed Elyette.
None of them had expected to hear Averie scold their all-mighty and respected boss for being childish and immature; what came as a bigger surprise was that Elyette did not get mad for being scolded like a small child.
Elyette’s heart sank as he stared at his phone after Averie hung up. It wasn’t that he was upset over being scolded by Averie, 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 Averie ind3 secret?
“The rest of you go on!” Elyette 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 Elyette gone? Elyette 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 Elyette did not blame her for what happened yet, she felt like he would punish her once he realized what happened.
“What’s wrong?” Chad walked past and asked when he spotted the expression on the secretary. The secretary explained everything that happened in the meeting room to Chad. “Mr. Foster hasn’t punished me yet because his mind is occupied by what Averie said to him.
Once he calms down and sees his dirty clothes, he will definitely punish me,” the secretary said guiltily, “I envy Miss. Tate. If she was the one who made the same mistake as I did, she might even blame Mr. Foster for causing the coffee to spill considering her temper.”
Chad couldn’t help but chuckle. “You don’t seem scared to me at all, since you are still brave enough to crack jokes about those two.” “I am in shock from what Miss. Tate did, okay? I didn’t expect her to be so dominating and rude when she was talking to Mr. Foster.” The secretary lowered her gaze. “Alright, get back to work! I will help you if Mr. Foster really tries to punish you later. You didn’t do it on purpose after all.”
“Thank you, Chad! I wish you luck on your romantic relationships. Don’t become as lowly as Mr. Foster in his relationship!” She said, before running back to the secretary’s office.
Chad shook his head and sighed.
Indeed, Elyette was acting lowly; but it was necessary considering how Averie held three advantages over him. If Elyette failed to make up with Averie, he wouldn’t be able to get close to the three children. Naturally, Chad believed that Elyette would still try his best to win Averie over even if she didn’t have those three children.
There were countless women in the world and plenty would be willing to grow old with Eliot, but the only one he wanted was Averie. Chad knocked on the door to the President’s office and went in to find Elyette on the phone.
“Call her and ask about it, or ask the vice-president in your firm.” Elyette turned around with the phone in his hand and handed his phone over once he spotted Chad.
Chad had already guessed who he was talking to and what they were talking about, so he accepted the phone and cleared his throat, before saying, “aren’t you working today?” Mike instantly woke up at Chad’s voice and said, “haven’t I told you already last night? Averie told me to rest at94 home.”
“I thought you were joking! Averie received a bouquet of roses today. Go find out who sent it and call me once you find something.” “There’s no need for that.
I saw the messages on our chat group,” Mike drawled lazily, “our vice-president sent it as a representative of all employees. I could just laugh myself to death. Did Elyette freak out? He sounded so bitter when he talked to me just now…”
Chad hung up and handed the phone back to Elyette.” Averie’s Vice-president got her the flowers.”
Elyette instantly calmed down.
“Go back and take a shower, Mr. Foster.” Chad stared at the coffee stain on Elyette’s clothes.” Your secretary wanted to apologize to you, but I sent her back to work seeing how pale she looked.”
Elyette didn’t blame his secretary for what happened. He grabbed onto his phone and left the office.
Meanwhile, in Tate Industries.
When Averie 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 me that you are getting me flowers? I called Elyette and scolded him because I thought that he was the one who sent these, do you know how humiliating that was?!”
Averie flushed and took her glass to take a sip of water, only to realize that it was empty.
Shaun immediately took her glass and filled it for her. “You are right, President Tate, you are absolutely right! Take this as a warning to him, then. We all remember to send you flowers, so how could he forget to do the same? A bouquet doesn’t cost much and considering how rich he is, if he wouldn’t even buy you flowers, it means that he doesn’t really care ab
Shaun handed the glass back to Averie respectfully. “You may go now! Thank you for the flowers.” Averie didn’t want to continue the topic. “Okay. Do you want to hold a meeting? This is the first day that you are back so you might not be that familiar with the current status in all departments. The others can report to you.” “Let’s do that in the afternoon! I need to be alone for now.” Averie had not made up her mind on how, or whether to apologize to Elyette.
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