Chapter 10

The living room instantly fell so silent that one could hear the sound of a beating heart.

 

 

Avery stormed back to her room and violently slammed the door shut.

 

The loud bang rumbled through the entire mansion.

 

This woman dared slam a door in Elliot Foster’s house. She must not fear death.

 

Everyone turned their gaze to evaluate Elliot’s reaction. He looked calm and composed as if he was not angry at all.

 

Normally, if anyone were to make a sound louder than 60 decibels in front of him, he would definitely frown.

 

The sound of Avery’s slamming door was at least 90 decibels, so why was he not upset?

 

More importantly, the bottle of wine that Avery had smashed was over thirty thousand dollars. They had not even had the chance to drink it yet.

 

She broke it without even batting an eyelid.

 

“D*mn, I heard that Miss Tate’s father passed away a few days ago. Seeing as she showed up in black, she must have just returned from the funeral!”

 

Someone had mustered up the courage to break the silence.

 

The woman in the white dress was a senior manager at Sterling Group’s PR department, Chelsea Tierney.

 

It was her birthday, so she had invited a few of Elliot’s friends to the house to also celebrate his recovery.

 

Her earlier altercation with Avery was a huge blow to her pride.

 

Chelsea noticed Elliot’s unbothered expression, but she knew him well enough to know that he could blow up at any moment.

 

She returned to his side and apologized cautiously, “I’m sorry, Elliot. I didn’t know her father had passed away.”

 

Elliot snuffed out his cigarette in the ashtray. He smoothly picked up his wine glass with his long, slender fingers and downed its contents in one swift gulp.

 

He placed the empty glass back on the table, then said in a low, sensual voice, “Happy birthday.”

 

Chelsea’s ears turned red as she responded, “Thank you.”

 

“Also, Avery Tate isn’t someone you can touch,” Elliot said as he adjusted the collar of his shirt. His voice carried a hint of warning. “Even if she were just a pet in the Foster household, I’m the only one who can push her around.”

 

Chelsea panicked.

 

“But you’re about to divorce her, so she would be even less than a pet by then!”

 

instantly

 

were something I no longer wanted, I still won’t watch as someone

 

walked in to clean up the shattered

 

filled up Elliot’s

 

didn’t mean to do that. She won’t actually lay her hand on Miss Tate,” the man sitting on the other side of Elliot said as he tried to lighten the

 

up and take three shots as punishment! You may be

 

up her glass and

 

his bodyguard who immediately walked over and helped

 

ahead!” Elliot said before he returned to his

 

as he left the room with reddened eyes. She gulped down three shots. She stomped

 

of the

 

Chelsea to give up, too. Otherwise, she’ll keep thinking she’ll become Mrs. Foster

 

up!

 

Tate, she’s quite beautiful, but she has a bad temper. How does Elliot put up

 

……

 

Avery held her knees in her arms as tears quietly streamed

 

held her tears for the past three days

 

father’s final apology before his death constantly echoed

 

that she had felt for him had vanished without a

 

sobbed until she fell into

 

up the next morning, her eyes were

 

a clean nightgown

 

had not eaten well the past few days,

 

at the entrance of the dining room, she saw Elliot’s

 

greeted her, “Breakfast is ready, Madam! Come over and have

 

Avery avoided Elliot like the plague. She was scared of

 

thought of him delaying the

 

seat furthest from him and sat down. Mrs. Cooper placed her

 

of wine last night costs thirty thousand

 

His voice was indifferent.

 

fork as her mind

 

for a

 

of wine was

 

her to pay

 

think she looked like she could

 

of pain in her stomach. Her back was drenched in a cold

 

is a warning. If you break something in my house again, you’ll pay for

 

stopped hurting upon hearing this, and

 

early stages of pregnancy,

 

from the occasional bout of nausea, Avery

 

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