Chapter 654

Elsie’s pupils dilated in terror, her slender, delicate legs trembling violently beneath her skirt!

“Ever since our last visit to him, I couldn’t shake the feeling that his eyes were lingering all over you.”

Avery grabbed her chin forcefully, tilting her face upward with such strength it felt like her jaw might shatter, “This time, I’m certain, he’s taken a fancy to you. It seems he’s not as refined as I thought; if he can’t have the genuine article, then keeping a knock–off by his side for his viewing pleasure and to indulge his desires is a fine alternative.”

Elsie’s eyes brimmed with tears, her voice a broken whisper of desperate plea, “Mr. Chambers, please, don’t send me to Mr. Chad Abernathy! For all the years I’ve loyally served you. I beg you not to send me away, please!”

“Value? What value do you have left!”

Avery, who had been holding back a tempest of fury since his return, let it all out on Elsie, shoving her so violently in the chest that she stumbled backward and hit the wall with a thud, her back cold with pain.

“Harvey, pack her things. Send her off tomorrow!”

“No, please!”

her face lifted in supplication, hands clasped together, “I swear to serve you till death! I will never betray

genuine. But how much truth

rescuing her from a life of destitution and

taught her

Before returning to Elmsworth, Mr. Chambers had been her everything, the light she sought

now, she saw through him. From the day Avery had her face altered to resemble Evadne, she should have realized.

merely a tool to be used and discarded. Without her, there would be other girls. Saving her was just a

who gave her a new life, yet trampled her body

Chambers! Please, in your anger, remember to be rational

consider this: Ms. Archer has already made quite the impression on Elvis, even willing to share a room with her. Do you know how hard it’s been to get to this point? We’re just one

in Avery’s eyes

let Ms. Archer find another opportunity to get close to him. Once he’s completely off guard, caught in our honey trap, will we not have the perfect

heart ached unbearably, her tears now mingled with a

opened her palm, as if seeing in the reflection of her tear a vision of Elvis‘ brazen,

his eyes, appearing to take in the advice, and strode past the woman still kneeling

sighed at the sight of his boss’s retreating back and reached out to

on my own,” Elsie wiped

in such a mood, it’s best you stay out of his sight for the next few days. Hide if you

concern was not for Avery, but for her own safety, which

Chad Abernathy and came back with some news. Mr. Chad Abernathy had actually given the life–saving medićine Mr. Chambers couldn’t part with to the Ashbourne family! You know, despite Mr. Chambers and Ms. Ashbourne’s history, Mr.

it make Mr. Chambers, who’s been using the medicine to threaten Chairman Ashbourne, seem like a petty villain? Ms. Ashbourne will only hate him more, look down on him even more. Isn’t this just using Mr. Chambers as a stepping stone to elevate himself? No wonder Mr.

were odious. Avery had been carefully laying his plans, only for Chad’s interference to make him feel

not for Thaddeus‘ sake. He must have designs on Ms. Ashbourne.”

long suspected Mr. Chad Abernathy of having feelings for Ms. Ashbourne, and now it seems he’s ready

to offer her up like a sacrificial

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