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.

left and disappeared without saying goodbye two years ago if she had had

could finally get off work. She didn’t want to stay in the office

unfortunately, her editor-in-chief suddenly

a minute, Betty. Send this report to Mr. Martin’s office

with an embarrassed look. “Mrs. Green, I kind of have a

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

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

hands, Betty walked to Jeffrey’s office door. She

Knock, knock

seemed to have taken up all her

“Come in.”

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

office was not as luxurious as Kerwin’s, but it

through the issue that had

calm as it could be. “Mrs. Green has asked me to give you a brief

his head, so Betty had to bite the bullet

report,

hide the faint trembling in her voice. “Mr. Martin, if

quickly turned around to

her hand had reached the door

fell upon the ring on

courage to look him in

with fixed

broke into a

the day, Betty, the man you’ve

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

his words. Her face

what happened two years ago?”

was not denial, Jeffrey felt this

reason.

Nothing would have driven me into the decision to study in America than the discovery that the woman I had loved and endeared

felt the last blood drain out of

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

now, she

for

also found it very strange. Jeffrey obviously had left the country before that incident became like a big deal. Could it be that he had already known everything