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.

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

forever before Betty could finally get off work. She didn’t want to stay in the office for one

suddenly saw her and stopped

Martin’s office for me, will you? And

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

next door. And when she heard Betty’s refusal, her face suddenly fell. “Betty White, you only

not say anything but, “You’re making fun of me, Mrs. Green.

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

Knock, knock

to have taken up all

“Come in.”

voice.

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

flipping through the issue that had the

could be. “Mrs. Green has asked me to give you a

more but a simple yeah without even raising his head, so Betty had to bite the bullet and

still kept silent after her report, and Betty

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

to go out after

her hand had reached the door handle, a strong hand

fell upon

in the eye. She

at her ring with fixed

he broke into a

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

sense. A woman who would sell her body for money would basically do anything for

struck by his words. Her face went as pale as

what happened two years ago?” Betty managed a sentence with

Seeing Betty’s first reaction was not denial, Jeffrey felt

reason.

Betty’s wrist tightened and his voice got colder, “Yes, 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

last blood drain

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

now, she finally

was for the same

before that incident became like a big deal. Could it be that