When His Eyes Opened

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.

love letters every day. On the weekends, he would

a 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 a mess,” said Elliot, cutting her

basketball players. I liked talented guys when I was eighteen… I loved Cole. It’s all in the past, and I might hate him now, but I can’t

roared as he snapped his cigarette in half; his eyes were

pursed her lips and stood

did not return to her room but walked to the dining room because she

eat, Mrs. Cooper?”

and nonchalant as if it were someone else and not her that had just

prepared dinner

out her phone, and saw a

seem to be that into me either, but said that we should go out for

said his parents don’t give him much spending money! How could he possibly have

have to get to the bottom of this! Also, why did you have to

tell you once

Avery right away after receiving her

hand clenched her

room and

would hear everything if she

and sent Tammy a text: [I can’t talk right now. Let’s talk

shower that night, Elliot paced back and forth in his room