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!”

serve you till death! I will never betray you! Ask anything of me, just don’t cast

much truth lay in her words, even she

savior, rescuing her from a life of destitution and giving her a place to call home.

how he carried her on horseback, taught her to play the piano, to savor wine, to be cultured.

transformed her. Before returning to Elmsworth, Mr. Chambers had been her everything, the

saw through him. From the day Avery had her

tool to be used and discarded. Without her, there would be other girls. Saving

yet trampled her body and

your anger, remember to be

And consider this: Ms. Archer has already made quite the impression on Elvis, even willing to share

words, the icy malice in Avery’s eyes finally began to

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 chance to deal with him?”

unbearably, her tears now mingled with

in the reflection of her tear a vision of Elvis‘

and strode past the woman still kneeling on the

back and reached out to help Elsie to her

on my own,” Elsie wiped away her tears viciously, steadying

stay out of his sight for the next few

was not for Avery, but for her

Mr. Chad Abernathy and came back with some news. Mr. Chad Abernathy had actually given the life–saving medićine Mr. Chambers couldn’t

play the good Samaritan, doesn’t 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

odious. Avery had been carefully laying his plans, only for Chad’s

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

and now it seems he’s ready to make his

her up like a sacrificial lamb to that man

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