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.

He wouldn’t have left and disappeared without saying goodbye

taken forever before Betty could finally get off work. She didn’t want to stay in the office for one more second, so she grabbed her

editor-in-chief suddenly

Martin’s office

stiffened and turned around with an embarrassed look. “Mrs. Green, I kind

ED, was already in a bad mood today because she had not performed as well as the EIC next door. And when she heard Betty’s refusal, her face suddenly fell. “Betty White, you only did one hit interview and now you’re full of yourself, aren’t

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

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

Knock, knock

to have taken

“Come in.”

Jeffrey’s familiar voice.

Kerwin’s, but

flipping through the

Betty opened her mouth, trying to make her voice sound as calm as it could be. “Mrs. Green has

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

still kept silent after her report, and Betty could not

her voice. “Mr. Martin, if you don’t have anything else,

turned around to go out after

hand had reached the

gaze fell upon the ring on

courage to look him in the eye. She just

with fixed eyes, in which

into a mocking

the day, Betty, the man you’ve chosen so carefully

there was this obvious disgust in his eyes. “But it makes absolute sense. A woman who would sell her body for

his words. Her

years ago?” Betty managed a sentence

not denial, Jeffrey felt this dull pain in his heart for

reason.

you. Nothing would have driven me into the decision to study in America than the discovery that

last blood

he would suddenly have gone abroad to study two years ago when she was most vulnerable and needed

now, she

was for the

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