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…

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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.

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

work. She didn’t want to stay in the office for one more second, so

her editor-in-chief suddenly saw her

report to Mr. Martin’s office for

embarrassed look. “Mrs. Green, I kind of have a family emergency today. Could

performed as well as the EIC next door. And when she heard Betty’s refusal, her face

had always been a blunt woman. Betty went from white to pale and did not say anything

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

Knock, knock

knocking seemed to have taken up all her

“Come in.”

door, it was Jeffrey’s familiar voice. Betty

Kerwin’s, but

flipping through the issue that had

it could be. “Mrs. Green has asked me to

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

kept silent after her report, and Betty could not

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

around to go out after

her hand had reached the door handle, a strong

narrow gaze fell

look him in the eye. She just looked away and

her ring with fixed eyes, in which

broke into a mocking

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

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 who would spend a little money

struck by his words. Her face went

happened two years ago?” Betty managed a

Jeffrey felt this

reason.

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 woman I had loved and endeared for three

last blood

he would suddenly have gone abroad to study two years ago when she was

she

was for the

before that incident became like a big deal.