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

want to stay in the

her editor-in-chief suddenly saw her and

Martin’s office for me, will you?

suddenly stiffened and turned around with an embarrassed look. “Mrs. Green, I kind of have a family

she had not performed as well as the EIC next door. And when

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

door. She took a couple of

Knock, knock

to have taken

“Come in.”

familiar voice. Betty pushed

luxurious as Kerwin’s, but it was still exquisitely decorated. He

through the issue that

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

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

still kept silent after her report, and Betty could not

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

around to go

just as her hand had reached the

The man’s narrow gaze fell upon the ring

have the courage to look him in the eye. She just

at her ring with fixed eyes,

he broke into a

end of the day, Betty, the man you’ve chosen so carefully can only afford

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

words. Her face

know what happened two years ago?” Betty

reaction was not denial, Jeffrey felt this

reason.

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

felt the last blood drain out of

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

she finally

was for the same

obviously had left the country before that incident became like a big deal. Could it be that he had already known everything even before