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!”

feet, her face lifted in supplication, hands clasped together, “I swear to serve you till death! I will never betray you! Ask anything of me, just don’t cast me aside!”

tears and fear were genuine. But how much truth lay

life of

couldn’t forget how he carried her on horseback, taught her to play the piano, to savor wine, to

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

Avery had

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

who gave her a new life, yet trampled her body and dignity to shreds. Was

remember to

hands. Replacing her with just any girl might not guarantee the same talents and loyalty. And consider this: Ms. Archer

words, the icy malice in Avery’s eyes

he’s completely off guard, caught in our honey trap, will we

ached unbearably, her tears now mingled with

her palm, as if seeing in the reflection of

eyes, appearing to take in the advice, and strode past the woman still kneeling on the ground, leaving her behind.

of his boss’s retreating back and reached out to help Elsie

can stand on my own,” Elsie wiped away her tears viciously, steadying herself as

it’s best you stay out of his sight for the next few days.

was not for Avery, but for her own

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

such a critical moment, for him to step in and 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.

been carefully laying his plans, only for Chad’s interference to make him feel

for Thaddeus‘ sake. He must have designs on Ms. Ashbourne.”

for Ms. Ashbourne, and now it seems

his eagerness to offer her up like a sacrificial lamb to that man was to distract him from his own beloved.

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