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.

disappeared without saying goodbye two years ago

stay in the office for one

unfortunately, her editor-in-chief suddenly saw her and

Betty. Send this report to Mr. Martin’s office for me, will you?

embarrassed look. “Mrs.

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

from white to pale and did not say anything

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

Knock, knock

to have taken up all

“Come in.”

voice.

luxurious as Kerwin’s, but it was

flipping through the issue

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

more but a simple yeah without even raising his

kept silent after her report, and Betty could not

hide the faint trembling in her voice. “Mr. Martin, if you don’t have anything else, I’ll go

around to go

hand had reached the door handle, a

gaze fell upon

him in the eye. She just looked away

her ring with fixed eyes, in

into a mocking

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

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

his words. Her face went as

happened two years ago?” Betty managed a

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

reason.

I knew 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

last blood drain out

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

now, she

for

that incident became like a big deal. Could it be