Never Too Far Novel

Chapter 158

“Didn’t you send someone in the afternoon to summon me to your office?” Anastasia asked the man on the sofa.

Frowning, Elliot replied, “I didn’t.”

Immediately, she remembered that it was Grace who came to relay the message. But where did she get the orders from? Obviously, this was planned to make the situation look like a coincidence.

Sneering deep down, Anastasia already knew that this was another one of Hayley’s ploys.

Still sitting on the sofa, Elliot asked with his seductive low voice, “Do you still need me to explain all to you again?”

Giving his phone back to him, Anastasia noticed that his pale skin was unnaturally flushed. Paired with a sweat-covered forehead, the usually stern looking Elliot looked a bit weak under the light.

“A-Are you alright?” Anastasia asked guiltily. Don’t tell me it’s because of the spicy food tonight!

his big hand, he then added strugglingly, “It’s fine, though. It’s

kneeled by the man in panic as she asked hurriedly, “Does it hurt a lot? Do you want to go to the hospital? If you have stomach

no longer think straight, as she blamed herself and him

front of him for a

that it was indeed her fault as she

we do now? Should we go to the

need. There’s a pharmacy at the entrance of the community, so just get me a box of stomach medicine from there.” After saying that, Elliot handed over the empty cup to her. “And I’ll have to trouble you for another cup of

water and passing it to him, Anastasia then rushed out

I shouldn’t have pranked him like this! How was I supposed to know that he had a

it, a workaholic like him having stomach problems was not out of the ordinary. However, it didn’t show because he took care of his body daily. It was due to the spiciness of the food tonight and the amount that she fed him that the ugly head of his stomach pains reared itself as a

the medicine as fast as possible! If it really doesn’t work, I can ask Rey to come and take him

she opened the door, she was met with the sight of Elliot clutching his stomach. He looked as if

out three pills before giving it to Elliot. “Just take it first! If it really doesn’t work out, I’ll call for Rey to come and take you

the sofa, he then said, “There’s no need for that. I just have to