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 two years ago if she

in

editor-in-chief suddenly saw her and stopped

report to Mr. Martin’s office

“Mrs. Green, I kind of have a

And when she heard Betty’s refusal, her face suddenly fell. “Betty White, you only did one hit interview and now you’re

white to pale and did not say anything but, “You’re making fun of me, Mrs. Green. I’m

in her hands, Betty walked to Jeffrey’s office door. She took a couple of

Knock, knock

to have taken

“Come in.”

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

as luxurious as Kerwin’s, but it was still exquisitely

desk, flipping through the issue

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

more but a simple yeah without even raising his head, so Betty had to

silent after her report, and Betty could

trembling in her voice. “Mr. Martin, if

to go out after saying

her hand had reached the door handle, a

gaze fell upon the ring

didn’t have the courage to look him in the eye.

at her ring with fixed eyes, in which emotions

into a mocking

end of the day, Betty, the man you’ve chosen so

makes absolute sense. A woman who would sell her body for money would basically do anything for a man who would spend

his words. Her

ago?”

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

reason.

Betty, I should really thank you. Nothing would have driven me into the decision to study in America

the last blood drain

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

she

was for the same

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