Bring Your A Game

Bring Your A Game Mr Chapter 10

Be Grateful When Someone Gives You an Out

After getting back to the Griffith Residence, Elise breathed a sigh of relief. So much had happened today, and she still had trouble making sense of it all.

While she was in the car just now, she studied Alexander’s face closely through the rearview mirror, but it was so dark in the car that she didn’t get to see his expression clearly. She had thought a lot about ‌it on their way home, but she still couldn’t figure out why he would step in all of a sudden. It would have been more in character for him to just stand by and look on. Maybe he’s not one to judge people by their looks? An actual good guy perhaps?

Without giving it much thought, she went back to her room and changed out of the evening dress. After deliberately putting on a pair of old-fashioned pajamas, she walked into Alexander’s study; placed on the desk were a tall stack of documents and several photos scattered here and there. “Here’s your suit jacket. Thanks for helping me out just now.”

Alexander shot a glance at the woman standing in front of his desk. Then, he replied expressionlessly, “You don’t need to give it back to me.”

Elise replied, “If you think it’s dirty, I can send it to the dry-cleaner’s.”

to look at her. “I don’t

before she replied with a sneer, “You’re leaving this to me? Then I’ll throw it away.” With that, she threw the suit

snubbed. At first, she had wanted to wash the suit jacket, return it, and express her thanks, but it seemed that she had read too much into his act of kindness. She turned around to

to Elise when he saw the

by his strange question, Elise replied

a sudden. “As expected of a bumpkin from the countryside! Who are you to copy Ashlyn’s way of dressing? Hah! I almost laughed myself to death back there. Don’t you know yourself? Even the prettiest clothes wouldn’t

stand it when he kept calling her ‘bumpkin.’ She shoved Danny out of her way, took a checkbook out of her bedroom, and tore a check off it. Then, she handed the

the check and examined it over and over. “This check’s

Elise was utterly speechless.

gotten something on her, Danny said with a mischievous grin, “Since you’re from the countryside, I won’t force you to fork out the money. How about this? We’ll drop the matter

flung the check in their face right away. But now, she was only an ordinary person from the

“Be grateful when someone gives you an out,