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.

retrospect, it was more than natural. He wouldn’t have left and disappeared without saying goodbye two

could finally get off work. She didn’t want to stay in the office for one more second, so she grabbed

suddenly saw her

to Mr. Martin’s office for me, will you? And make a brief

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

performed as well as the EIC next door. And when she heard Betty’s refusal, her face suddenly fell. “Betty White, you only did one hit

woman. Betty went from white to pale and did not say anything but, “You’re

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

Knock, knock

have taken up all her

“Come in.”

voice. Betty

office was not as luxurious as Kerwin’s, but

at his desk, flipping through the issue that

mouth, trying to make her voice sound as calm as it could be. “Mrs. Green has asked me to give you a brief report on the interview with

but a simple yeah without even raising his

her report, and Betty could not take it

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

around to go out

had reached the door handle,

fell upon the ring on

look him in the eye. She

stared at her ring with fixed

broke into a

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

“But it makes absolute sense. A woman who would sell her body for money would basically do anything for a man who would spend

his words. Her face went as

what happened two years ago?”

Betty’s first reaction was not denial, Jeffrey felt this dull pain in his

reason.

it two years ago. Honestly, Betty, I should really thank you. Nothing would have driven me into the decision to study

last blood drain out of his

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

now, she finally

was for the

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