Contract Marriage With The Disabled CEO

Chapter 17 How Have You Been For The Past Two Years

She remembered that face all too well. His features became more angular, with a trace of maturity in his brows now, compared to the young and delicate ones back in his school years.

But on that face, the gentleness she had missed was long gone. There was nothing but indifference

left.

He was listening to his men around him making reports, nodding from time to time, and giving a few simple instructions.

And with his eyes never set on her, he walked straight into the EIC Office surrounded by the crowd.

Betty paled a little bit.

Jeffrey Martin, how was he back here, and why…

VU

Why would he come back since he had left so resolutely back then, without even a single goodbye?

It had been two years. She had already let it go, more or less. But his reappearance still took and overwhelmed her just like that.

She was not even sure if he had recognized her at the first sight, just like she had as he walked past with a quick brush.

At the thought of that, Betty suddenly mocked herself with a faint smile.

Recognized her or not, what was the difference anyway?

He and she, were never going to be the same as before anymore…

Betty was anxious for an entire day, afraid that Jeffrey would recognize her.

But as it turned out, it had all been her wishful thinking.

Jeffrey took office and held a few meetings immediately to make some adjustments to personnel and the magazine’s positioning.

At the meeting, he listened intently to the reports made by every EIC, occasionally giving some simple instructions, and did not seem to notice Betty sitting at the end of the conference table from beginning to end.

It seemed he had forgotten about her.

than natural. He wouldn’t have left and disappeared without saying goodbye two years ago if she had had anything worth remembering to

in the office for one more second, so she grabbed her bag immediately and made to

unfortunately, her editor-in-chief suddenly saw her and stopped

minute, Betty. Send this report to Mr. Martin’s office for me, will you? And make a

look. “Mrs. Green,

she had not performed as well as the EIC next door. And when she heard Betty’s refusal,

went from white to pale and did not say anything but, “You’re making fun

in her hands, Betty walked to Jeffrey’s office door. She took a couple of more deep breaths before she

Knock, knock

have taken

“Come in.”

the door, it was Jeffrey’s familiar voice. Betty pushed the door

as Kerwin’s, but it was

his desk, flipping through the issue that had

trying to make her voice sound as calm as it could be. “Mrs. Green has asked me to give you a brief report on the

nothing more but a simple yeah without even raising his head, so Betty had to

after her report, and Betty could

faint trembling in her voice. “Mr. Martin, if you don’t have anything else, I’ll

quickly turned around to go out

had reached the

fell upon the ring on her

in the eye. She just

at her ring with fixed

into

day, Betty, the man you’ve chosen so carefully can only afford

in his eyes. “But it makes absolute sense. A woman who would sell her body for money would basically do anything for a man who would spend a little money

words. Her

ago?” Betty managed a sentence with

Betty’s first reaction was not denial, Jeffrey felt this dull pain in his heart for

reason.

I know. And I knew it two years ago. Honestly, Betty, I should really thank you. Nothing would have driven me into the decision to study in America than the discovery that the

blood drain out

countless times why he would suddenly have gone abroad to study two years ago when she was most vulnerable

now, she finally

for

strange. Jeffrey obviously had left the country before that incident became like a big deal. Could it be