When His Eyes Opened By Simple Silence

Chapter 42

Avery wondered if she would be his mistress if that woman was still alive.

If she was dead, then was she her replacement?

Either way, it made her heart ache and left a bad taste in her mouth.

While Avery was lost in thought, Elliot’s thoughts also wandered.

“Tell me, what exactly do you like about Cole?” he asked as he pulled out his cigarette box. His face was the epitome of an enigma.

“I don’t like him anymore,” Avery said coldly.

If they had not talked things out earlier, she might have continued to use Cole to anger him.

It was childish, but Elliot was always losing his temper over the smallest things.

If she did not retaliate, she would lose her mind.

“Is it because you realized he was nothing but a penniless loser?” Elliot asked as he held the unlit cigarette between his fingers.

was pursuing me, he would write me love letters every day.

load of superficial bullsh*t to me! It’s precisely because all he thinks about is getting into a woman’s pants that his business is

liked guys who were cute. When I was sixteen, I liked guys with good grades. At seventeen, I was into basketball players. I liked talented guys when I was eighteen… I loved Cole. It’s all in the past, and I might

cigarette in half; his eyes were cold.

lips

walked to the dining

to eat,

it were someone else and not her that had just

immediately prepared

dining table, pulled out her phone, and saw a

a little too soft for me. He didn’t seem to be that into me either, but said that we should go out for dinner next time, probably because of pressure from

[He said his parents don’t give him much spending money! How could he possibly have two hundred million? Did you

[l’m going to have dinner with him this weekend! I have to get to the bottom of this! Also, why

I’ll tell

Avery right away after receiving her

hand clenched

the living room and noticed

hear everything if she talked on the phone

text: [I can’t talk right now.

Elliot paced back and forth in